Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
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\u27 murder trial and analyzes lawyer\u27s 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
