A most unwelcome reality for Trump’s defense against E. Jean Carroll has begun to emerge.
, these seemingly disparate professions have much in common. First, it takes years to develop and hone the skills necessary to make people laugh or to effectively try cases. Second, the results of your work are immediate and clear—people either laugh at your jokes or not, and the emotional impact of a summation or cross-examination is felt immediately by all those present in a courtroom.
Both of these outcomes seriously limit a lawyer’s effectiveness and credibility.The cross of Carroll was inherently loaded with land mines. First, she is an elderly woman whose direct testimony over the past two days on direct seems to have been effective. Her lawyer Mike Ferrara, not only took her and the jury through the painful detains of the assault itself, but very effectively had her address potential weaknesses in her story and explain them directly.
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