Narratively Speaking
When analogizing cases, one should provide ___ facts to fairly represent the case and avoid criticism of ___.
What are "sufficient" facts and "cherry-picking"?
Derek Jancart served this long in the National Guard.
What is 6 years?
SC DNR’s Crustacean Manager's first name was:
A. Steve
B. Don
C. Jeff
D. Kevin
What is "Jeff"?
Hannah Jacobson gave these sneakers to Toby Stevens.
Officer Kerl’s first name (correctly spelled).
What is Wende?
We should take this approach to "story" and "data" in our legal writing.
What is "lead with the story, not the data."
Morgan Lloyd-Morgan read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and this third book.
What is Schindler's List?
Red knots prey on this clam in the Kiawah and Seabrook Islands.
What is the Coquina clam?
The number of views that Professor Kim's pepperoni pizza got on Google Reviews.
What is 180,000.
Deputies in this case never gave commands before firing on a father holding a shotgun.
What is Hensley v. Price?
This is an example of what technique:
Professor Kim returned the shirt she'd bought from Zara at FedEx. Nationally, the number of retail returns has skyrocketed from an average of 30% of purchases in 2021 to 57% of purchases in 2024. The reasons for returns range from impulse buys to poor consumer understanding. Kim said, "I accidentally bought two identical shirts because I wasn't paying enough attention."
What is a "narrative sandwich"?
Jancart left the Capitol through this exit: A. Northeast exit; B. Northwest exit; C. Southeast exit; D. Southwest exit.
What is the Southeast exit?
What is Limulus amebocyte lysate?
Also acceptable: Amebocyte lysate.
The kind of berries that Shane in Held v. Montana picked with his children.
What are chokecherries?
Officer Deal parked his car behind Grier’s Honda at this angle.
What is 45 degrees?
One reason why the Intro to Journalism folks recommend using a direct quote rather than a paraphrase.
What is to convey emotions?
What is to convey opinions?
What is to convey personal experiences?
What is to exemplify or elaborate on a fact?
Matthew Buckler was the captain of this athletic team in high school.
What is the soccer team?
Approximately ___ to ___ percent of all red knots stop over in Delaware Bay.
What is 50-80%?
Details in narrative legal writing should be, per Professor Kim, concrete, relevant, and ____.
What is "significant"?
The deputy in Howard v. Harris used this technique to cuff the plaintiff.
What is double cuffing?
This paragraph from the Franklin complaint demonstrates which narrative speed: "Kerl now yelled "gun" as Franklin moved the gun away from him and from Kerl toward his right knee and then towards the ground, trying to put the gun down as ordered."
A. Gap
B. Summary
C. Scene
D. Dilation
E. Pause
What is "D - Dilation"?
At what time did Jancart post to Facebook this comment: “Just so all of you know, the people who stormed the capitol were NORMAL everyday people. There were old ladies and people in business suits. Don’t believe the LYING media"?
A. January 6, 2021 at 4:54 pm
B. January 6, 2021 at 5:24 pm
C. January 6, 2021 at 5:44 pm
D. January 6, 2021 at 6:14 pm
What is B - 5:24 pm?
Per 2023 DNR permits, horseshoe crabs must be returned to the water no more than this many hours after being harvested.
What is 36 hours?
One way in which you can argue Trouble as a defendant.
Is the trouble as bad as plaintiff says?
Who really caused the trouble?
Did someone or something else play an equally culpable or bigger role in the trouble?
Would the trouble have happened even without the defendant’s actions?
The Shooting Review Board cited this as Officer Kerl’s sole violation.
What is improper use of her bulletproof vest?