Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
This research addresses the interactional work by which lawyers interrogate witnesses at trial. In particular, the study examines some videotaped segments of interrogation interchange in the first Menendez brothers' murder trial and analyzes lawyer's work in attempting the impeachment of an adverse witness. The paper finds a lived orderliness of the courtroom that resides in the locally organized material detail of real-time interrogation interchange and practices.
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Burns, Stacy Lee "Lawyers' work in the Menendez brothers' murder trial", Issues in Applied Linguistics, vol. 7, no. 1, 1996, pp. 19–32.