IN SUMMATION

    Put your fears aside and be the real and only you.  Life is too short to fear any of it to the degree you hold yourself back from giving 100% of who you really are.  Do not fear showing your emotions.  Indeed, strive to do just the opposite by exposing all your heart and feelings.

Always remember the jury is hard wired for a personal story and wants to hear one.  This story must be told in ordinary words and have a beginning, a middle,  and one undeniable conclusion.  Your job is to tell the jury their story and make them a part of it.  It must be told in the present tense where you deposit into their laps and consciousness the responsibility for providing the one and only ending, that is, that Billy Bob is not guilty.  In doing so, your personal story must be one that does not belong only to you, but rather, to the client, to the jury and to you where you equally and simultaneously experience it together.  Finally, the personal and passionate story must be told from your heart in words painted in the rainbow of colors from your true feelings.  In the end, it is a story that to be effectively told must be free of fear and come from your soul.