Jules Epstein
The following essay is from a compilation of cross-examination techniques and tools that will be published later this spring. It is this author’s contribution, describing a technique that may be appropriate only occasionally or on idiosyncratic cases but one that in those instances is an effective if not powerful one.
“Sure” connotes certainty. It is a condition “marked by or given to feelings of confident certainty,” one “admitting of no doubt.” The below two examinations used the single word, in differing circumstances and with different emphases, to undercut credibility and establish extreme uncertainty.
