The work of a trial lawyer is uniquely difficult. Every line of work has its difficulties, each requires developing certain skills. Most businesses require persuading others about the merit of a product or a service. But trial lawyers have a much higher bar to reach, as Judges are no ordinary people. They are highly educated, experienced and perceptive. And for jury trials, your arguments will need to be understood and accepted by twelve (or fourteen) people at once. You will need to prepare for this task like you have never prepared before.
The Importance of Strategy in a Criminal Trial
Covid jab mandates are unethical, unconstitutional, and highly dangerous
Editor’s Note: Patrick Ducharme’s first ever Youtube video went viral and stirred up a firestorm of debate across Canada. The story was published in newspapers nationwide. Hundreds of people wrote comments below the article on the newspapers’ Web sites. The comments were overwhelmingly positive in supporting our view, that the official rhetoric is dangerous and unlawful. Oddly, the Windsor Star has cherry-picked two letters, both extremely ignorant and negative, to publish in its printed editorial section. We sent the following letter to the editor of the Windsor Star:
Evidence shows jabs are more dangerous than Covid.
Forcing anyone to take the jab is unethical, unconstitutional, and highly dangerous. The side effects of taking the jab are often significantly worse than what the jab seeks to ameliorate.
Continue reading “Covid jab mandates are unethical, unconstitutional, and highly dangerous”
The Art of the In-Trial Objection
Objections Generally
No great art is achieved without sacrifice. The best actors, writers and painters labour over their materials, honing and refining them day after day, until they seem “natural” or “spontaneous”. The work of the artist is the work of the trial lawyer. Good advocacy is acquired when the lawyer has the persistence, the patience and the humility to practice and re-practice until the skill she exhibits at trial seems as if it were naturally imparted.
The Art and Plan of Cross-Examination
Cross-examination is a treacherous process, loaded with danger, as so many others have already eloquently stated.2 Indeed, we hear, read and see so much about what decisive effect cross-examination can have in a borderline case that perhaps we create, quite unintentionally, a most undesirable effect: the paralyzing fear of failure. I hope you will humour me a while today; I want to try to alleviate the fear.
Continue reading “The Art and Plan of Cross-Examination”