My Experience Being a Lawyer

My experience with being a lawyer was that it was a bit challenging. The only thing that made it challenging was that I had no idea what the prosecution was going to ask our witnesses. Not only that, but it was difficult to find information that we thought would be more convincing than the prosecution. When the prosecution handed me the the paper that had all the sources they used, I knew that they were going to pull up some amazing points. This changed our wording on some of the questions and answers that we were going to ask. Unfortunately, that didn't go as well as we thought in some cases. Also, the prosecution added some facts that I forgot to inform a witness about which put a them in trouble. I take fault in that happening because they didn't know it was coming. The experience, I thought, was fun and exciting.

Examining our witnesses was one of the easy parts. The only thing that made it a challenge was when the witness did not say what was planned. This caused a moment where where we had to make up questions on the fly which confused our witnesses. Examining the prosecutions witnesses was one of the hardest things I thought. It was the hardest because we had no idea what they were going to say. Which caused some questions to be invalid. This caused a bit of a problem because we couldn't get the other witnesses to say what we would have hoped. So we had to make up questions to try to get the prosecution witnesses to prove our point. Overall, I thought that all of the witnesses did an amazing job as well as the lawyers.

The closing statement had to be one of our strongest areas, I thought, in the whole entire trial. During the second day of questioning, our side hit a little bump which probably made the jury favor the prosecution. Since we were told that the closing statement could be everything that we didn't get a chance to prove, we had to make sure that it had all the right points. It was also nerve wrecking because we had no idea what the prosecution was going to put into their closing statement. So our thought was to try and make it the most convincing that we could. In the prosecutions opening statement, they probably had the jury on their side already. So we thought that we would make our closing just as good as their opening to see if we can change the jury's mind. Thankfully the closing statement saved our side.