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Get the Government to Approve Your Closing Argument - Then You Can Make It

By Tom Lincoln

Why does the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico spend thousands of dollars on seminars to get CJA panel attorneys to use technology in the Courtroom, and then foreclose counsel from making a closing argument using PowerPoint unless defense counsel first showed it to the prosecutor? I hope this is not the understanding of any other members of the federal bench here, but it was certainly disappointing to learn that even one judge thought this was necessary. And it had to be done before the prosecutor closed! See this post at TrialPrep.

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on April 19, 2005 (boomark / email).