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My name is Michael Waddington and I’m a criminal defense attorney and what I want to do today is open up and reveal my new book kick-ass closings a guide to giving the best closing argument of your life I got the book in from Amazon today and I just want to show you the book and talk a little bit about what the book is so you have a better understanding as to whether or not it’s something that you might be able to benefit from in your practice

So here’s the book kickass closings and as you can see the book is pretty thick I mean I’m a I’m six foot one a pretty big guy the book is is a large substantial book and as you flip through it you’ll see that it’s it’s packed with about 500 pages of information so the book has several parts the first part is a template it’s a template that I use into something that I’ve used over the past eighteen years in doing criminal defense and it’s also something

That I noticed that a lot of the great closing attorneys use the template allows you to deliver a concise closing argument that avoids rambling and it hits all the main parts that you may need to argue in front of a jury bulk of the book is 310 closing argument snippets these are snippets from actual closing arguments giving by some very high quality trial lawyers in real trials some of the trials are famous trials like the OJ Simpson case the Michael Jackson case the Zimmerman case the

Casey Anthony case as well as many other cases that might not have made major headlines but were cases of great consequence what I did was I combed through dozens and dozens of transcripts and picked out the best nuggets the best arguments and then broke them down by theme and topic so for example under law enforcement there is a section and there uncorrupt cops how to deal with biased investigators incomplete investigations incompetent investigators dishonest investigators you name it there’s something in there that can talk about aspect

Of your case have been involved cops investigators or corruption another section deals with physical forensic evidence in lab errors and other section deals and this is my favorite deals with liars and credibility there are dozens and dozens of ways to attack the prosecution’s witnesses and their credibility based on these snippets from prior cases there are some great examples in excellent parables that can be used to describe pretty much any witness whether it’s a snitch whether it’s a witness that can’t remember on cross-examination a witness that

Says I can’t recall every time you ask them a question but remembered everything the prosecution said biased witnesses drunk witnesses you name it it’s in there and these are arguments you can take and modify and apply to your pending trial for example for reasonable doubt we have over a dozen ways to describe reasonable doubt to the jury from various different attorneys the book has a combined amount of trial experience of over 500 years so you have 500 years of wisdom of trial lawyers combined into one

Book with an easy-to-use table of contents where you can quickly find and utilize the arguments that were given by other great attorneys and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel in addition to the section on closing arguments snippets we also have a section of over 120 quotes and these are quotes that are designed to be used in trial to drive a point home and for example for Liars there are a few in there that I love there’s one that I use all the time if it’s

Appropriate and it’s this physical forensic and scientific evidence doesn’t lie people do or false in one false at all or one lie begets another and those are just some of the snippets and quotes that are in there that if you if you see them and use them and practice them they’ll come out like that and you can throw them into your closing argument and deliver world-class closing arguments with much less time than it would normally take you another section in there is one on charts and

Diagrams and these are charts and diagrams that I use in my trials for example one Chardin there is the stairway of proof and it’s just a stairway that has different standards of proof and we use that to visually demonstrate to the jury how high proof beyond a reasonable doubt is you can get a free preview of the book in the first couple chapters if you go to amazon.com and click look inside and take a look at the contents the details of the table of contents and

And review the first couple of chapters and I think you’re gonna be impressed with the depth and breadth of kickass closings you.