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State v. Harris, Second Edition

In this adaptation of NITA's civil case file, Fordyce v. Harris and Felson, defendant Gerald Harris is charged with first degree assault with a deadly weapon. On the night of March 2, Henry Fordyce and his friend Eva Long were having drinks at Gus' Bar & Grill in Nita City. Fordyce claims Gerald Harris and Edward Felson were also at the bar and spent much of their time harassing Fordyce and Long while they drank at the bar and then later beat him outside the bar--Felson with his boots and Harris with both a broom and his boots. There are five witnesses for the plaintiff and four witnesses for the defendant.

• >> TABLE OF CONTENTS
  CONTENTS
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE AS A FULL TRIAL
  
  STIPULATIONS
  
  INDICTMENT
  
  STATEMENT OF EDWARD FELSON
  
  GRAND JURY TESTIMONY
  
  EVA MARIE LONG
  
  GERALD HARRIS
  
  PETER LOGAN
  
  GLENDA BARKAN
  
  MELISSA ANGEL
  
  HENRY FORDYCE
  
  EDWARD FELSON
  
  DOCUMENTS
  
  EXHIBITS A-D FORDYCE MEDICAL BILLS
  
  EXHIBIT 1 HOSPITAL REPORT OF HENRY FORDYCE
  
  EXHIBIT 2 DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR LETTER
  
  EXHIBIT 3 DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR INTERNAL MEMO
  
  EXHIBIT 4 POLICE REPORT OF INCIDENT
  
  EXHIBIT 5 HARRIS ARREST REPORT WITH STREET DIAGRAM
  
  EXHIBIT 6 FELSON ARREST REPORT
  
  EXHIBIT 7 FLOOR LAYOUT OF GUS' BAR & GRILL
  
  EXHIBIT 8 NITA CITY STREETS
  
  EXHIBIT 9 FORDYCE ARREST AND DISPOSITION RECORD
  
  EXHIBIT 10 LONG ARREST AND DISPOSITION RECORD
  
  EXHIBIT 11 HARRIS ARREST AND DISPOSITION RECORD
  
  EXHIBIT 12 FELSON ARREST AND DISPOSITION RECORD
  
  EXHIBIT 13 HOSPITAL REPORT OF EVA MARIE LONG
  
  CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO STATE'S ATTORNEY
  
  STATEMENT OF BEN SANDERS
  
  JURY INSTRUCTIONS
  
  JURY VERDICT

• >> AUTHOR
  
  
  • Laurence M. Rose
    
    
    • Laurence M. (Lonny) Rose was the president and chief executive officer of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). He is an adjunct professor at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver and also is an emeritus professor of law and former director of the Litigation Skills Program at the University of Miami School of Law. After serving as a law clerk to Chief Judge James S. Holden of the U.S. District Court of Vermont, Rose was in private practice in Burlington, Vermont, executive director of the Douglas County (KS) Legal Aid Society and has served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in Florida. Rose began his law teaching career at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1976 and moved to the University of Miami in 1990. He is admitted as an attorney in Vermont and Kansas and currently serves in leadership within the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation. Selected for the 1998 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy by the Roscoe Pound Foundation, in 2001 Rose was named an Academic Fellow by the International Society of Barristers. He has taught in more than three hundred trial advocacy programs throughout the world and is the author of more than a hundred books, articles and other legal publications.