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"Although the lawyer's range of choice is circumscribed by the evidence, by the substantive law, by procedural rules, and by the stock scripts that shape everybody's notions of what a closing argument should look like, lawyers nonetheless retain the pwoer to construct widely diverse tales beneath a superficial semblance of sameness and conventionality." [Anthony G. Amsterdam & Randy Hertz, An Analysis of Closing Arguments to a Jury, 37 N.Y. L.Sch. L. Rev. 55, 58 (1992)] Philip N. Meyer, Making the Narrative Move: Observations Based upon Reading Gerry Spence's Closing Argument in the Estate of Karen Silkwood v. Kerr-Mcgee, Inc., 9 Clinical L. Rev. 229 (2002) Drew Findling, Closing Argument: Tapping the Human Experience, 42 Mercer L. Rev. 659 (1991) Closing Argument: Other Views
How to Deliver Closing Arguments Closing Arguments What Is Closing Argument? Use of Metaphors in Closing Arguments
Defense closing argument :: pt2 :: pt3
Prosecution closing argument :: pt.2 :: pt.3 :: pt.4 :: pt.5 :: pt.6 :: pt.7 :: pt.8 :: pt.9 :: pt.10 :: pt.11 :: pt.12 :: pt.13 :: pt.14 :: pt.15 Defense closing argument :: pt.2 :: pt.3 :: pt.4 :: pt.5 :: pt.6 :: pt.7 :: pt.8 :: pt.9 Prosecution rebuttal argument :: pt.2 :: pt.3 Trial Judge's Instructions to the Jury
Defense closing argument :: pt.2 :: pt.3 :: pt.4 :: pt.5 :: pt.6 :: pt.7 :: pt.8 :: pt.9 Prosecution closing argument :: pt.2
Closing
Remarks of Defense Attorney "Buck" Davis Interview with Catherine Wilkerson [8:29 mins.] :: [pt.2] [7:33 mins.] :: [pt.3] [7:41 mins.] :: [pt.4] [8:33 mins.]
Eastern Michigan University Murder Trial: Defense Closing Argument :: [pt.2] :: [pt.3] :: [pt.4] :: [pt.5] :: [Mistrial] [Defense Lawyer Talks About the Mistrial] [Juror Speaks About Her Vote to Acquit] [Jury Votes to Convict] Prosecution's Closing Argument in the EMU Case :: [pt.2] :: [pt.3 (fiber testimony)] :: [pt.4] :: [pt.5] Taped Interview with the Police (3rd day of the trial)
New Development In John Kenney Murder Case Jury Selection Starts for the John Kenney Murder Trial Kenney Trial Jurors Visit Crime Scene Day Two of the John Kenny Trial Kenney Defense Portrays Victim As 'Aggressive' Kenney Defends Actions To Jurors Jury Begins Deliberations In Kenney Trial Kenney Jurors Revisit Shooting Scene Kenney Sentenced To Life Without Parole [Search Warrant] [Motion for Change of Venue]
Defense Gains Ground on Cross-Examination Of Witnesses Teacher: Julie Jensen Said She Feared Husband Judge: Jury Will See Dead Woman's Letter Pornographic Pictures at Center Of Jensen Trial Bank Robber Testifies in Jensen Trial [snitch testimony] Phone Recordings Take Center Stage at Jensen Trial Jensen's Defense Questions Accuracy of Lead Investigator Jensen Trial: Family Doctor Testifies Judge Delivers Mark Jensen His Sentence Jensen's Attorney Reads Letter to Judge From Sons For Jury, Decision Didn't Come Easily Jensen Family Reacts to Verdict Motion For Appeal Filed in Wife Poisoning Trial
Audio of State's Closing Argument
Opening Argument: Lester Street Murder Trial Lester Trial Verdict Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" [alt. source]
Philip N. Meyer, "Desperate for Love": Cinematic Influences Upon a Defendant's Closing Argument to a Jury, 18 Vt. L. Rev. 721 (1994) ____________, "Desperate for Love II": Further Reflections on the Interpenetration of Legal and Popular Storytelling in Closing Arguments to a Jury in a Complex Criminal Case, 30 U.S.F. L. Rev. 931 (1996) ____________, "Desperate for Love III": Rethinking Closing Arguments as Stories, 50 S.C. L. Rev. 725 (1999)
Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell & Benjamin Bycel, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law (New York: Scribner, 1998) Michael S. Lief & H. Mitchell Caldwell, The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law (New York: Scribner, 2006)
Joel J. Seidemann, In The Interest of Justice: Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100 Year (New York: Regan Books, 2004)
H. Mitchell Caldwell et.al., The Art and Architecture of Closing Argument, 76 Tul. L. Rev. 961 (2002) Charles L. Cantrell, Prosecutorial Misconduct: Recognizing Errors in Closing Argument, 26 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 535 (2003) J. Allison DeFoor, II, Prosecutorial Misconduct in Closing Argument, 7 Nova L.J. 443 (1983) Stephen A.Saltzburg, Closing Argument Vouching: Crossing the Line,
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Gerry Spence & the Art of Advocacy
"The only cases that can be won in the final argument are those that have not been previously lost. On the other hand a good case can be lost in those fatal, final moments." [Spence, Win Your Case, at 224] 
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