Anatomy of Cross-examination
Author: Leonard Davies



    This book is a manual for the trial lawyer in the art of cross-examination.  It  identifies principles of the art and sets them forth as rules.  The trial is divided into various stages and each stage is then detailed by first stating the rule, then giving an analysis, and finally providing an historical example the rule from various sources.  These sources  are a varied as the bible, Greek plays, and actual trial transcripts.

    The table of contents is a condensed version of the rules that can be used as a ready reference for the trial lawyer.  The lay person will find the book useful as a history of cross-examination and an insight into the workings of the the legal mind in what many consider the most important element of our justice system:  Cross-examination.

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Alfred Curran is a lawyer and the heir to a vast agricultural empire in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.  On a business trip to the country of Mexico he is attacked and left for dead.  He is found by farmers and taken to a clinic financed by a drug lord and operated by a surgeon. The surgeon,  Don Francisco, saves Alfred's life and repairs his badly disfigured face,  but there is no evidence of who he is or where he comes from.  Alfred has suffered amnesia and is of no help.

    The clinic is raided by federal police and both men are arrested.  Papers found at the clinic lead the police to believe that Alfred is really a member of a large drug cartel.  He and Don Francisco are sent to prison where Alfred is subjected to torture by the prison warden in an attempt to extort money.

    Alfred eventually recovers his memory, escapes from the prison and returns to the United States, only to find out that he has been framed for the murder of a labor organizer, his father has died, his wife has inherited the wealth and married the local district attorney.

    If Alfred discloses who he is he will have to stand trial in a court where everything will be stacked against him. He decides to assume a new identity, and with his new appearance that resulted from the extensive plastic surgery performed to restore his badly disfigured face, he returns to the family empire to find a way to prove his innocence.
  
    How he does it leads him on a journey of self-illumination and discovery of a world he never imagined.  The criminal trial that ends his quest is based on actual events in the author’s life as a civil rights lawyer.