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Great video! Question, how can I ask a witness a question.?

Do I object during other party testimony or during cross examination?

After saying "I read that correctly" do I just continue or let it sit or what

Are you planning to finish off this series with eyewitnesses?

Thank you very much for taking your time making this video

your opening statement videos are great! this really helped me for my upcoming tournaments, kudos to you :).

21:58 I specialize in character witnesses and this is my exact goal. It was to the point where my back and face would hurt from slouching over and scowling during two-hour trials lol. Glad to hear it as advice and not a “this is taking it too far” xD

Hi Luke! I love your witness videos. Do you think you could make one on portraying very young/very old witnesses? This year it looks like I’m going to be playing a witness who is a freshman in college (and was a high school junior when they witnessed the crime), and I’m not sure how to remain polite and professional while standing out from all of the other witnesses who are 35+ (since, of course, all of us are actually around the same age). Any advice would be appreciated!

Still another month until MT starts back up in my state, but I can’t wait for one last year to go for quadruple-10s!

I have been a trial lawyer for many years. Of course, I think the defendant’s lawyer, Ella, is much better than I. She is a great story teller. Fortunately, law is much more than argument style at closing, but she is incredible.

Question, what program were you using to annotate your case packet? Thanks!

Very helpful.. Thank you!

Could you please do a guide on how to direct a lay witness 🙏

What in the official kindergarten is going on here

As someone who currently is victim to ongoing fraud on the court, we really, really, really, really, really need to have all party attorneys to take the #attorneyoath as to close the ability to "plantiffs" lawyer's to engage in #maliciousprosecution by allowing those corrupt attorneys to run amok and shield actual opposing party statements (1st exemption discussed FRE). Each case I was victim-defendant I raised and insisted the opposing party attorneys take the oath, and of course was denied and later found out the court was using illegal referees or the attorney-arb judge was insolvent and illegally allowed to take case with my rights of appeal denied by my state's supreme court (Minnesota)

Keep it coming

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Haha, "helping judge out" not to take a bribe and get away with that😂

Showing this to my witness friends

Dude I once knew who was in and out of traffic court, would say to propositions put to him - 'I don't know anything about that', cross examiner found this very frustrating.

I thought she seemed to be winning. Showing him on paper that the bank specified he was behind. The excuse that the bank was wrong seemed very lame to me.

Can you make A video giving tips for Pretrial in California since it works differently here and is scored

awful video nasty music

Very helpful. Thank you so much 🙏

Now try this in Claude and be amazed.

Hi thx for the video I just had a question - an witnesses also be cross examined by exhibits that are already stipulated into evidence but might not have personal knowledge on (not familiar with the exhibit)?

Hey, can you make a video on reviewing a witness statement for direct/cross material? Like, talking about what to look for and how to read them. My team is prepping for our fall comp, and this would help a lot with our prep!

Great video!

Hello. Do both parties know what evidences will be presented before trial?

Anyway we can turn the background audio down? It’s super loud and you are getting drowned out.

Great video and excellent breakdown of the common objections. I can see this being so useful for so many newer mock trialers.

Thanks for making this!

This is a perfect video. Such great points for really scoring well as an attorney.

Very strong tips, thanks!

Ugh I WISH I'd watched this before being cross-examined (in real court, not mock trial) because "I can explain" would have been really nice to have in my toolkit! Keeping that for later in case I ever end up there again.

Hey U sir are legit. Thank u for this video. 👏 👏 👍 💯

Great explanation

What is the difference between relevance and ' sine qua non '

Great video, Luke! Greatly appreciated. Please keep them coming!

Hi, I’m currently preparing for my own mock trial in highschool! I really do enjoy your videos, they are very informative. A little unrelated to the video but I was wondering how someone can incorporate or weave their theory into an opening statement as the prosecution without just making it seem like I’m claiming something?

I'm directing an expert witness this summer and part of their testimony strongly points towards a conclusion that doesn't agree with what we are arguing, so I'm going to do part of the direct and then declare the witness as hostile just to ask questions about that part😂

My team does this all the time, and it works really well for us (just finished up my best scoring year yet as a _very_ problematic eyewitness so I would know lol). We call it “exploding our own bombs”

Really helpful!

Could you make a video on the difference between a necessary and a reasonable inference of fact on direct examination?

Hey, im trying to impeach a witness for personal bias. Their sworn affidavit makes it clear they have a bias to only see the defendant be prosecuted, instead of providing their expert knowledge of their field. Under United States v James, it says an expert witness can be impeached if shown bias or untruthfullness. Is this something i can use?

I've been really enjoying your videos lately, and since I'm going to have alot of free time over the summer, I was wondering if you had any tips on how to practice speaking skills/improv skills/objection battles over a break?

What about presence sense expression? For example a child say, daddy my step dad grabbed my face on my cheeks, and you see that there are bruises on his face, would that hearsay be admitted?

Hey Luke! I was wondering about how one can handle rounds that have bad or unfavorable judges (mainly bad). By 'bad' I mean judges that will rule on objections with limited knowledge of the case or nature of the objection. For example, I had a judge that, in one breath, told the objecting team that their objection was flawed, then said that the correct objection was speculation and then sustained his own objection, without opposing counsel having to say a word. Or, a judge that will allow the asking attorney to respond to an objection, but not the objecting attorney to explain their objection. Is there a solution to judges like that? Keep making these videos!