Winning as the jurors' trustworthy & entertaining tourguide- Donald Ramsell

Send us Fan Mail Jurors and others do not get persuaded by brute force, badgering nor begging. Often a criminal defense or other trial lawyer obtains traction by putting themselves in the shoes of the thirteenth juror. When my teacher Gerry Spence was on his road to obtaining an acquittal for Geoffrey Fieger, he reportedly one day walked along the jury rail sweeping his palm alongside its top, as if erasing the barrier between him and the jurors. Fairfax criminal lawyer Jon Katz's gues...