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- Avoiding Pitfalls in Closing Arguments – The Florida Bar
With these principles in mind, the purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the legal limitations involved in the final argument in jury trials, and to provide practical examples, from both the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s perspective, of common pitfalls in closing arguments
- golden rule argument | Wex | US Law - LII Legal Information Institute
Golden rule argument is an argument made by a lawyer during a jury trial to ask the jurors to put themselves in the place of the victim or the injured person and deliver the verdict that they would wish to receive if they were in that person's position
- PRIMER FOR CLOSING ARGUMENTS DO’S - United States Courts
• invoke the “Golden Rule” • comment on privilege • exceed the scope of rebuttal by bringing up new theories of the case, sandbagging • use legalese • read the closing argument • object during closing unless it’s really, really objectionable • wait until the last minute to write your closing argument
- The Golden Rule - Advocate Magazine
A “Golden Rule” argument is forbidden It was described in Beagle v Vasold (1966) 65 Cal 2d 166, 182, fn 11, as “argument, by which counsel asks the jurors to place themselves in the plaintiff’s shoes and to award such damages as they would ‘charge’ to undergo equivalent pain and suffering ”
- OPENING STATEMENT AND CLOSING ARGUMENT BENCH GUIDE - Florida Courts
OPENING STATEMENT AND CLOSING ARGUMENT BENCH GUIDE I Opening Statement Fla Std Jury Inst (Civil) 202 2 provides the standard, attorneys are allowed to give the jury their “views about what the evidence will be in the trial and what [the jury is] likely to see and hear in the testimony ”
- Improper Golden Rule Argument - American Bar Association
A “golden rule” argument is one that, regardless of the nomenclature used, asks the jurors to place themselves in a victim’s position We have repeatedly held that a golden rule argument is improper, and we conclude that the State violated this prohibition in its closing argument
- Golden Rule, The | Ervin A. Gonzalez
During closing argument, the attorney for the plaintiff may not ask the jury to place themselves in the place of the plaintiff when deciding how much the plaintiff should be awarded as compensation for the legal wrong in question
- A Clever Rhetorical Device Closing Argument Avoided a “Golden Rule . . .
The plaintiff’s closing argument, as you can imagine, sought to hit some emotional notes, and this drew a “golden rule” objection from the defense counsel In effect, the jury heard counsel reference memories of “your” mother being killed 16 different times, and to consider what that would be like
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