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Opening Statement
Direct Examination
Cross Examination
Closing Argument
Objections
100
This is the speech given at the beginning of the trial
What is opening statement
100
One should never ask this type of question during direct examination
What is a leading/close ended question
100
One should never ask this type of question during cross examination
What is an open ended question
100
This is an argumentative speech that attorneys give at the end of trial
What is a closing argument
100

When an attorney asks a question and the witness answers and then the attorney asks the same question again

What is asked and answered

200
Mrs. Johnson is from this city
What is Boston
200
All of your direct examination questions should be...
What is open ended
200
This person is the star of the cross examination
Who is the attorney
200

The decision made by a jury at the end of the trial.

Verdict

200
On direct examination the attorney asks a closed ended question
What is leading
300
This person won the name game we played yesterday
Who is Benjamin
300
This person is the star of the direct examination
Who is the whitness
300
All of your cross examination questions should be...
What is close ended/ leading
300
Today is..
What is Tuesday
300
When the attorney asks a question that has nothing to do with the case
What is relevance
400
You ask permission to enter this before you speak
What is the well
400

Someone who is called to testify before a court of law.

What is a witness?

400

Not important, pertinent to the matter at hand or to any issue before the court.

Irrelevant

400
When you are an attorney and you are speaking, you always...
What is stand up
400
When a whitness tries to talk about what they were told or what someone else has said
What is hearsay
500
This comes before the opening statements in a trial
What are pre-trial matters
500
Ali and his/her family have spent this amount on medical bills
What is $20,000
500

A lawyer’s protest about the legal propriety of a question which has been asked of a witness by the opposing attorney, with the purpose of making the trial judge decide if the question can be asked.

What is an objection?

500
This comes after the closing arguments in a trial
What is the rebuttal
500

When a whitness tries to testify about what someone else is thinking

What is speculation