FIRST ASSIGNMENT - INTERVIEWING
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CRIMINAL TRIAL ADVOCACY - SECTION A  

Course Materials. Starting August 10, 2009, you may pick up your personal copy of the coursebook - Assignments in Criminal Trial Advocacy - from the faculty secretary in Room 620. Your name is on the spine of your book. The returnable 625-page Assignments book contains the simulated litigation exercises that you will perform during the first ten weeks of the semester. See Syllabus. Cost of the returnable book is $25.00, payable when you pick it up.

It's said that the secret to getting ahead is to get started. So, here we go! For the first class on Monday, August 17, 2009, the following students should prepare to role-play the prospective client/witness or lawyer roles, as indicated, in the three interviewing problems in Assignment Number One of the Assignments in Criminal Trial Advocacy book.

   
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SUMMARY OF ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST TEN WEEKS
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Only those students who have been assigned a client or witness role for a particular problem should read the Special Instructions to the Client or Witness in that problem.

  DRESS: A Chinese proverb tells us, "Talent counts thirty percent. Appearance counts seventy percent." About dress (1), you are the image you present to the world. This course is not a meticulous grooming or beauty contest, but to a jury, you are, in part, what you wear. Now is a good time to decide how you wish to present yourself as a practitioner. Students performing the lawyer role in a simulated litigation problem should dress for the court/office, i.e., wear clothes you would wear if appearing in court or receiving a client in your office. As Oscar Wilde said,"It's only the shallow people who do not judge by appearance."

  VIDEOTAPING: Each of your performances during the semester, including all simulated litigation problems, the pretrial conference, and the mini-trial, will be videotaped and available by password on STCL streaming video from any computer within a day. At the end of the course, provide Instructional Technology on the 2nd Floor with a blank DVD, and they will place your mini-trial and first ten weeks of performances on your DVD. As unpleasant as it may seem, try to read the critiques and then look at your taped performances on streaming video regularly during the first ten weeks. You will be amazed at the mistakes you can cure when they are pointed out to you and when you see yourself making them. You will be required to review your entire taped performances as part of your end-of-course self-evaluation.

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ASSIGNMENT ONE:  INTERVIEWING - ROLE-PLAYERS
Problem #           Client/Witness Roles                                  Lawyer Roles
ONE:                     Michael Galligan                           Craig Bloom & Alison Stine
TWO:                   Kristin Kuykendall                   Taniya Henderson & Alejandro Perez     
THREE:                    Denise Smith                         Marisa Faraldo &  Larry McDougal

Everyone, please consult the Syllabus for the outside reading in preparation for Assignment One, e.g, the CCJA web pages on Interviewing and Counseling Clients, Interviewing and Preparing Witnesses. and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. In each problem, I ask that the first lawyer do the lion's share of the questioning of the client/witness and the other lawyer take responsibility for taking notes for the case file and for posting those notes to our CTAforum Discussion Group.
                                                 
LOOK AT THIS FOR ASSIGNMENT ONE
YOUR WITNESS ROLES DURING FIRST TEN WEEKS
PROFESSOR MOSES' PERSPECTIVE ON TRIAL ADVOCACY
I didn't ask if you were guilty. I asked if you had $10,000.
OUR CLASS E-DISCUSSION GROUP
I didn't ask if you are guilty or innocent. I asked if you have $5000.
I didn't ask if you are guilty or innocent. I asked if you have $5000.I didn't ask if you are guilty or innocent. I asked if you have $5000.I didn't ask if you are guilty or innocent. I asked if you have $5000.
I didn't ask if you are guilty or innocent. I asked if you have $5000.
EXPLANATION OF OUR TRIAL ADVOCACY COURSE
TIPS FOR CLIENT INTERVIEWING
TRIAL PRACTICE HOW-TO-DO-IT
VIEW YOUR COURTROOM PERFORMANCES
END OF COURSE MINI-TRIAL SCHEDULE
WEEKLY LITIGATION PROBLEMS FOR FIRST TEN WEEKS
PREPARING AND DELIVERING JURY ARGUMENTS
CRIMES AND DEFNSES EXPLAINED
TRAINING IN OPENING AND CLOSING