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CHAPTER 1: Court Hearing Quick Reference Guidelines |
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Introduction |
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Practice |
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Organize |
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Tips and Reminders for Your Hearing Day |
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| CHAPTER 2: General Information |
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What Happens Before a Court Hearing? |
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What Happens at a Court Hearing? |
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| CHAPTER 3: Opening Statements |
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What is an Opening Statement? |
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Who Makes the First Opening Statement? |
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Do I have to Make an Opening Statement? |
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| CHAPTER 4 - Telling Your Side of the Story |
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When May I Talk at a Hearing and How Do I Tell My Side of the Story? |
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Before Anyone May tell the Court Information He/She Must Swear to Tell the Truth |
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What if I Do Not Remember Something While I am Telling the Judicial Officer My Side of the Story? |
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Will the Judicial Officer Listen to Everything I Want to Say or Look at Everything I Want to Show? |
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How Do I Go About Showing the Court Something Such as a Paper? |
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When I Finish Telling My Side of the Story, May I Go Back to My Seat? |
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May I Have Other People Tell Things to the Court? |
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If I Want the Court to Look at a Paper or a Photograph, How Many Copies of the Paper or How Many Original Photographs Must I Bring to the Hearing? |
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What Happens When I am FInished Asking the Person Questions? |
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What Do I Do if I Want More Than One Person to Talk To the Court? |
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What Do I Do after I Have Had Everyone Speak that I Want to Speak at the Hearing? |
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| CHAPTER 5: The Other Party's Case |
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What Do I Do When the Other Side or a Different Party Gets to Tell His/Her Side of the Story? |
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What Do I Do if I Do Not Agree with What the Other Side is Saying? |
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What Happens if the Other Side or Another Party Has Other People to Help Prove His/Her Case? |
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| CHAPTER 6 - Closing Arguments |
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What is a Closing Argument? |
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| CHAPTER 7: The Court's Decision |
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The Court's Decision |
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| CHAPTER 8: Flowcharts |
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Court Procedure Flowchart |
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Telling Your Side of the Story |
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Other People giving Information to the Court (Witness Testimony) |
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| CHAPTER 9: Glossary of Legal Terms |
