24 Aug, 2024 Lawyers May Be Eliciting Inaccurate Testimony from Children By Debbie Ausburn A recent research article looked at how lawyers in court questioned children about timing issues. Prior research has shown that...
21 Mar, 2022 Do We Have a Right to Depose a Child? By Debbie Ausburn One dilemma that lawyers confront is when and how to depose children. Sometimes, those children are the professed victims in litigation;...
10 Jan, 2022 Open-Ended Questions Elicit More Information from Children By Debbie Ausburn For lawyers, deposing a child can be a frightening prospect, especially a child who might have been the victim of a crime. We can learn a...
28 Mar, 2021 Reliability of Children’s Memories By Debbie Ausburn I ran across an outstanding article that describes a common dilemma for lawyers working with child witnesses, which is figuring out much...
19 Feb, 2021 Colorado Allows Therapy Dog During Child’s Testimony By Debbie Ausburn Colorado this week joined a long line of states approving the presence of a therapy dog during a child’s testimony. In this case, a...