[blindLaw] Introducing Evidence in Court

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Tue Nov 29 02:38:21 UTC 2022


Absolutely agree!

Sincerely,

Shannon Brady Geihsler

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All of these are good suggestions. It is important to be prepared and really know your evidence so you can maintain control in the examination. Having an assistant, paralegal, or co-counsel physically hand the witness the document or other evidence is fine, but you still want to be in charge in crafting the line of questioning. That includes, as Julie describes, having the text of the document available to you in some accessible form. It is better that you read the key text into the record than the witness. I will add that in addition to reading the text aloud, you also often enter the document as an exhibit and indicate to the judge that you would want to publish it to the jury. For exhibit entry and publication, the physical handoff is not as important as the ground work you do in authenticating the evidence.

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I just took a trial advocacy class. Here's what I did.

I read the evidence myself and made sure I knew exactly what it said.
If it was something I needed to read from myself, then I had the text ready to go on my Braille Note. If it was a picture, I had a detailed description in my trial notes. In my class, I had my teammates prepare the evidence, and they would hand over what I needed to give to the witness. But if you're on your own with this, you can prepare the evidence yourself if you know Braille. You can separate what you need into folders and Braille label each folder. If you don't know Braille, I would imagine you could get an accommodation so that someone on your team could make sure you are handing the witness the right document.

I also made sure I knew the room well ahead of time so I could travel to the witness stand and hand over the evidence. We used a very small room, so I ended up leaving my cane at counsel table, but in most settings, I would have brought my cane along. I would say in general, it's probably good practice to scope out the room ahead of time so you know where the jury, judge, etc will be seated. I think that was recommended for everyone in our trial advocacy class.

Full disclosure though, I'm still a student and haven't actually practiced for real yet, but this is what's worked for me in my class.

Hope you enjoy your mock trial competition,

Julie


On 11/27/22, sbg sbgaal.com via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I have my assistant, take it to the witness, and I questioned the 
> witness about it
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> Shannon Brady Geihsler
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> Hello fellow legal beagles!
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> My college is starting to gear up for putting on our annual mock trial 
> again and I did not have my vision loss I do now back then but having 
> that as something to account for, brings up an interesting question: 
> How do you introduce evidence in court? Like, do you try handing it 
> over to the bailiff to give to the judge and/or juru? Do you have an 
> assistant of some kind come with you to trial to hand it over for you?
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> Let me know how you have attempted to solve this!
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