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one of the things that i learned through
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my
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years both as a district attorney and in
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civil litigation
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is i’ve spent a lot of time in the
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courtroom and a lot of time presenting
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trials
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sort of lost count over the years but
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have done well over 70 trials
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and once you have had that experience
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you know the rules well enough
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that then you’re not thinking about what
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the rules are you’re thinking about how
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you can best use them to present
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your case and where are the most
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effective places to stand
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you know sometimes if you have a child
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who’s the witness
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you may want to sit very close to them
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to make them feel more comfortable
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if it’s my witness whether even if it’s
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an adult a lot of times i’ll stand
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between the jury and the witness and
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just have a conversation and that way
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you don’t have to talk really loudly
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it’s easier for the jurors to follow
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sometimes i choose to stand on the
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complete opposite end of the courtroom
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and there’s different different ways to
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use your presence in the courtroom to
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help you
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for example we had a case one time where
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a
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defense expert was claiming that a
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huge palette of soda falling on
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someone’s head was not likely to cause
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a brain injury and you know we used an
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example
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of this large book that i happen to have
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and i
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asked the expert to hold it up above his
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head
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and didn’t tell him to take it down and
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after about five minutes he was
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commenting about how heavy it was
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and i think it was apparent to the jury
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that
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you know something like that were to
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fall on someone’s head it’s going to
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hurt them
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so there’s different ways you can you
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can use props in the courtroom
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and use your presence to make your point

Denver, CO personal injury attorney Zach Elsner shares some tactics that have been helpful to him in the courtroom.

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