Publications And Papers

2007   "Archetypes & How to Use Them.  This document is about my theories of the use of Archtypes. Las Vegas Attorney, Tami Cowden has done considerable work in this area. Read the full document of Tami's and my theories on this subject.

Listed below are links to various Archetype publications.
2007   "Building a Better Bombshell"  Submitted for Publication, February 2007

2004   "Telling your Client's Story in a Persuasive Way through Opening: A Primer" The Advocate, Vol. 26, No. 4, (July, 2004); [First presented at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association Trial Advocacy Program in Dayton, Ohio, June 2004.]

2002   "Politicizing the Kentucky Rules of Evidence:" A Position Paper by the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in Opposition to the Kentucky Supreme Court's Proposal to Add Evidence Rules 413, 414 and 415." [Presented to the Kentucky Supreme Court on June 12, 2002 at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Bar Association.]

1999   "False Positives: Medical Findings Not Pathognomonic for Abuse;" [Presented at the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy's 18th Litigation Persuasion Institute, October 6, 1999, Faubush, Kentucky.]

1999   "Crime Me a River: Strategies for Defending the Inebriated," [Prepared for and presented at North Kentucky Bar Association DUI Seminar, May 14, 1999.]

1998   "An Express Train for Child Sex Abuse Cases: What All Defenders Should Have Read and Know," The Advocate, Vol. 21, No. 5, (September, 1999); [Presented at Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy's 18th Litigation Persuasion Institute, October 5, 1999, Faubush, Kentucky.]

1998   "Taint Hearings: Looking for Reliability Amidst Incompetence while Searching for the Truth," The Advocate, Vol. 20, No. 3, (May 1998)

1998   "From Myths to Fact: Discovery as an Agent of Change in Child Sex Abuse Cases" National Legal Aid and Defender Association Indigent Defense, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1998, pp. 3-5

1994   "Innovative Discovery vs Assumptions: The dual process of effecting systemic change while building a defense in a child sex abuse case," [Prepared for and presented at National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center, 3rd Annual Conference Cleveland, Ohio, 1994 (Paper updated in 1997)]


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