WITNESSES

The only reason people don't believe witnesses is because the attorney, whose witnesses they are, does not well handle them on the stand or ask the right questions—and does not back up any of their testimony with documentation.

I believe what you are encountering is bad attorneys who do not drill their witnesses, and also, choose witnesses whose TRs are for the birds.

It is incorrect to believe that witnesses who look unemotional are not believed. Unemotional witnesses impress audiences, emotional ones don't.

Attorneys don't do their homework and don't put the witnesses backed up documents that prove their testimony. If you were to give a witness on the stand and depend just on his empty statement, one might have a failure and might have a jury not believe the witness. A correct procedure is to have the witness's testimony with any documentation possible. The documents would back up to be presented at the same time that the witness presented the testimony, preferably immediately afterwards under the guise of having the witness verify that this was the right document. This would have impact. The documents would have to prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that the witness's testimony was true. Then juries would believe them.

From this you could draw up a scenario of what a witness should do and act and what the attorney should do. There is no substitute for pre-briefing. There is no substitute for pre-acquisition of written and display-type evidence that back up the witness's testimony. And there is no substitute for good TRs.