BEST CROSS-EXAMINATION QUESTION

By |December 24th, 2010|Francis Wellman, Lincoln, Perception, Question Not Asked|5 Comments

Sometimes the best question is the one you don’t askAbraham Lincoln’s cross examination of Charles Allen in the Almanac Trial is perhaps one of the most famous cross examinations in American legal history. In our Cross Examination Handbook, we reproduce a transcript of that cross as reported by Francis Wellman in his seminal work, The [...]