1. Cross-exams without a deposition are not much fun for the questioner. We're taught to never ask a question on cross you don't know the answer to and can prove the witness is lying if they give you a different answer. With no depo it would be tough to cross.
2. A lot of my trial training came from my late brother who once got a white police officer to break down when he was being questioned about killing a black citizen. He did it by being empathetic, not confrontational. And because I was the youngest in a family where the father
3. had died, my life after 9 was often being the target of my brother's withering cross-exams. In this case, I think I would focus on the victims. Ask him questions that elicit if he knows anything about the lives he ended. "Did you know that . . .?
4. Put him in a state of psychological vulnerability. Get him to cry real tears to show the early performance was theater and that he knows what he did was wrong. Then sit down and let the judge stop to give him time to really collect himself. #KyleRittenhouseTrial
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