Comments on: Show, Don’t Tell, During Closing Argument http://www.trialtheater.com/wordpress/closing-argument/show-dont-tell-during-closing-argument/ Trial lawyers, discover how to persuade jurors and win your next jury trial. You will learn valuable tips for improving your jury selection, opening statement, direct examination, cross-examination, and closing arguments. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Winning Trial Advocacy Techniqueshttp://www.trialtheater.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/dailyedition/dailyedition/images/rss-image.jpghttp://www.trialtheater.com/wordpress144144Learn how to persuade jurors and win jury trials with these proven trial advocacy tips. By: Kalpin Shah http://www.trialtheater.com/wordpress/closing-argument/show-dont-tell-during-closing-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-12036 Kalpin Shah Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:55:39 +0000 http://www.trialtheater.com/wordpress/?p=91#comment-12036 I get what your saying Elliot... its the age old advice of not getting ahead of the jury during the witness examination where you want the jury to connect their own dots . . . but the closing can be where you tie the ribbon on the top. So do you tie the ribbon and tell them in conclusive terms what they saw over the trial or do you re-state the facts that came out during the trial & let them tie their own ribbon. I kind of like the latter approach. . . in the closing, we can SHOW them our story [without any interruptions] and let them come up with the moral & the ending. I get what your saying Elliot… its the age old advice of not getting ahead of the jury during the witness examination where you want the jury to connect their own dots . . . but the closing can be where you tie the ribbon on the top. So do you tie the ribbon and tell them in conclusive terms what they saw over the trial or do you re-state the facts that came out during the trial & let them tie their own ribbon.

I kind of like the latter approach. . . in the closing, we can SHOW them our story [without any interruptions] and let them come up with the moral & the ending.

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It can be hard to strike a balance between leaving enough unsaid that they “fill in the blanks” themselves telling the jury exactly what you want and why.

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