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Judges, Repulsive Evidence And The Ability To Respond, Thomas L. Shaffer

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This is a sequel to Bullets, Bad Florins and Old Boots, which reported the attitudes of Indiana trial judges toward the trial lawyer's "arsenal of gadgetry." The opportunity presented in 1963 was the Indiana Trial Judges Seminar and a series of sessions within it on demonstrative evidence. The opportunity this year was a series of sessions on "The Court's Control Over Demonstrative Evidence" at the 1967 Indiana Judicial Conference. There were four of these sessions, all of them conducted by Judge Creighton R. Coleman of the 37th Judicial District of Michigan (Calhoun County). Each session was attended by a group …