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When The Smoke Clears: Cross Examining the Defense Expert’s Attack on a Forensic Interview

Course Description

Many defense attorneys attempt to deflect juror attention away from a child’s allegations of abuse by attacking the manner in which the child was interviewed. The implicit or explicit claim is that the interviewer purposefully or unwittingly planted the allegation of abuse in the child’s mind. Fearful of the anticipated attack on the investigative interview, some prosecutors decline to file charges in cases involving only eyewitness testimony of a young child. In this workshop students will learn how to successfully defend the investigative interview.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn common defense critiques on the forensic interview.

2. Learn ten concrete strategies for cross-examining the defense expert.

3. Learn how the direct examination of the forensic interview sets up the potential cross-examination of the defense expert.
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