A summary of criminal court debate skills
Persuasive skills
Persuade the court to adopt its own opinions and make a heavier or lighter punishment according to law. There are mainly the following persuasion methods: citing facts. In court debates, facts and laws are the most convincing. Arguments must list sufficient facts and evidence, and on this basis, analyze, demonstrate and clarify their views by citing relevant legal provisions and theories. Combining sense with reason, in order to make reasoning more comprehensive and convincing, in addition to citing facts to discuss the law, it is also necessary to cooperate with sense analysis and demonstration. The reasons include a wide range, that is, various scientific principles related to the case, various social life common sense and moral norms, man-made accidents and so on. , all belong to this category. Focusing on all-encompassing and general court debates will often reduce the strength and intensity of persuasion because of the dispersion of power. Step by step, the reasonable way is to go from shallow to deep, step by step, and guide the audience to think and analyze the case step by step according to their own thinking order. # Movies and TV
Debate strategy application
The court debate has a strong polemic color. Both the prosecution and the defense must have a tit-for-tat debate based on facts and laws, refute each other's mistakes and establish their own views. The following are several commonly used methods of debate. Generally speaking, in the court debate, the accusation speech is mainly based on argument, and the defense speech is mainly based on rebuttal. But this is not absolute. On the contrary, the proper use of refutation in argument and the combination of breaking and standing can make refutation more rigorous and powerful. Reduction to absurdity and extension are methods that assume that the other party's viewpoint is correct, then extend it and draw absurd conclusions, thus proving that the other party's viewpoint is wrong. Refutation by borrowing words is a method to refute an argument by borrowing the original words of the other party or the witness testimony accepted by the other party. Refusing stolen goods is a common debate method in defense speeches, that is, returning stolen goods one by one, acknowledging that the defendant's crime and the other party's accusation are reasonable, and then focusing on the reasons why the defendant can be given a lighter or lighter punishment. This method adopts the strategy of "first in, first out, step by step", which can make the defense speech more comprehensive, safe and reasonable.
Mature debating skills are more helpful for the balance of litigation to be biased towards one's own side. The application of skills is not mechanically applied, but flexible use of different methods according to the opponent's debate, and finally the court adopts the defense opinion. Criminal defense lawyers play a very important role in the court debate stage.