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A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact, often the jury, in a court case. A closing argument occurs after the presentation of evidence. A closing argument may not contain any new information and may only use evidence introduced at ...
The defense closing argument highlighted the shortcomings of the prosecution, including last-minute inquiries by prosecutors to points brought up in the defense. At one point, a defense witness ...
The prosecution and defense will deliver their closing arguments Monday morning in the murder trial of Charlie Adelson, who's accused of arranging the 2014 murder-for-hire killing of Dan Markel ...
Defense attorneys will make their closing arguments Tuesday in a trial that started Oct. 14. Prosecutors will then have a chance to respond to the defense’s closing.
Acceptance of a defense by the court completely exonerates the defendant and not merely mitigates the liability. The defense phase of a trial occurs after the prosecution phase, that is, after the prosecution "rests". Other parts of the defense include the opening and closing arguments and the cross-examination during the prosecution phase.
Starting Tuesday morning, prosecutors and defense lawyers will have their final opportunity to address the jury in closing arguments expected to last for much of the day, if not all of it.
Brian Brown, defense attorney for defendant Michael Jackson-Bolanos, shows the jury a photo during his closing argument in front of Judge Margaret Van Houten at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in ...
The Associated Press obituary for Cochran mentioned the Chewbacca defense parody as one of the ways in which the attorney had entered pop culture. [8] Criminologist Thomas O'Connor says that when DNA evidence shows "inclusion", that is, does not exonerate a client by exclusion from the DNA sample provided, "About the only thing you can do is attack the lab for its (lack of) quality assurance ...