title: Testifying in Court: Guidelines and Maxims for the Expert Witness
author:  Stanley L. Brodsky 
description: Stanley L. Brodsky is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama, where he coordinates the psychology-law PhD concentration. His work specializes in the application of psychological knowledge to offenders, law, and legal issues. He is considered by many professionals and scholars to be the nation's leading expert on court testimony. In 2008, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology &amp; Law Award of the American Psychology-Law Society.
zlib_text: THE WITNESS
  
  _Eric Frank Russell_
  
  No court in history had drawn so much world attention. Six television cameras
  swivelled slowly as they followed red and black-robed legal lights parading
  solemnly to their seats. Ten microphones sent the creaking of shoes and
  rustling of papers over national networks in both hemispheres. Two hundred
  reporters and special correspondents filled a gallery reserved for them alone.
  Forty representatives of cultural or-ganizations stared across the court at
  twice their number of governmental and diplomatic officials sitting blank-
  faced and impassive.
  
  Tradition had gone by the board; procedure resembled nothing familiar to the
  average lawyer, for this was a special occasion devised to suit a special
  case.
  
  Technique had been adapted to cope with a new and extraordinary culprit, while
  the dignity of justice was upheld by means of stagy trim-mings.
  
  There were five judges and no jury, but a billion citizens were in their homes
  watching and listening, determi