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Like A Glass Slipper On A Stepsister: How The One Ring Rules Them All At Trial, Cathren Page Jan 2013

Like A Glass Slipper On A Stepsister: How The One Ring Rules Them All At Trial, Cathren Page

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Trial attorneys can learn techniques that fiction writers have been using successfully for centuries and endow a single object to “rule them all.” In fact, there is a growing field of legal scholarship, known as Applied Legal Storytelling, which involves applying story telling concepts to legal concepts, and some evidence suggests that juries are responsive to narrative framework. Thus trial attorneys can use the literary concept of endowed objects to identify a key piece of physical evidence that weaves a thread of narrative continuity through the case and resonates in the mind of the judge or juror. ...

Endowed objects …