Closing Arguments for the Defence

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (1097) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Timothy Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Closing Arguments

Making Attributions to the Physician following Closing Arguments of a Simulated Medical Malpractice Suit: Jurors' Sex, Health Locus of Control, and Locus of Authority

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra L. Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Medical Malpractice ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Closing Arguments ◽  
Simulated Trial ◽  
Malpractice Suit ◽  
Primary Finding ◽  
Control Locus

This study examined jurors' health locus of control, locus of authority, sex, and attribution assigned to the physician in a simulated trial by subject-jurors. Subjects viewed videotaped closing arguments of a fictionalized medical malpractice case and assigned fault to each party in the case. The primary finding was that women tended to assign greater responsibility (57.00%) to the physician than did men (37.92%).

The social consequences of language ideologies in courtroom cross-examination

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Eades
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Closing Arguments ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Investigative Interview ◽  
The Social

AbstractInvestigations of inequality within the courtroom have mostly examined ways in which discourse structure and rules of use constrain witnesses. This article goes beyond interactional practices to deal with four central language ideologies, which both facilitate these practices and impact on the interpretation and understanding of what people say in evidence. The article further shows that language ideologies can have much wider consequences beyond the courtroom. Focusing on language ideologies involved in storytelling and retelling in cross-examination, and using an Australian example, the article traces the recontextualization of part of a witness's story from an initial investigative interview to cross-examination, then to its evaluation in closing arguments and the judicial decision, as well as its (mis)representation in the print media. The analysis reveals the role of these language ideologies in the perpetuation of neocolonial control over Australian Aboriginal people. (Language ideologies, courtroom talk, cross-examination, decontextualization, recontextualization, neocolonial control, Australia)*

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