Comments on: Trial Tactic or True Tears?

By: I’ll Cry if I Want To « Heidi and Seek

I’ll Cry if I Want To « Heidi and Seek — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:09:08 +0000

[...] articles so much that I added the RSS feed to my iGoogle home page. The title of the new post “Trial Tactic or Tears” caught my attention. Women are always associated with tears. Is that a good thing or a bad [...]

By: Marilyn Ziemann, CPA

Marilyn Ziemann, CPA — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:50:44 +0000

All trial attorneys are actors. They rehearse their parts to perfection. I am not opining here-it’s true. Ask one!

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:05:30 +0000

I’ve wondered about this too especially since I have several severe personal injury cases (I represent the defense) pending. I once cried reading a deposition of a widow describing her 40 years of marriage to her husband and what she had lost. It’s a fine line to be sincere and feeling (because the jury may be crying or emotional) and another to be accused of faking it. I never want to get to the point where I’ve lost feeling though.