There have been many studies done on lie detection and the results are often disheartening. Most of us, including police officers, fare no better than chance at detecting a liar. When it comes to your voir dire, this can be troublesome.

In one of my previous posts, a reader asked about a new theory called Argumentative Theory or Argumentative Reasoning. I thought it would be helpful and enlightening for some if I posted the basics of this theory.

In my years of studying jurors, I have come to find attorneys just as intriguing. Attorneys know their cases extremely well. So well, in fact, that it hampers their ability to predict the case outcome, which ironically is precisely the thing that they study the case so intently for.