Abstract
This study is the first to examine the efficacy of this tactic, both theoretically and empirically, contributing to the growing literature on the impact of various trial-advocacy techniques on decision-makers' perceptions and trial outcomes. Given the primacy of the work, the authors draw on existing literature on a related courtroom technique commonly known as "stealing thunder," which is -- in a sense -- the mirror image of the tactic under scrutiny.
Citation
Ronen Perry & Dana Weimann-Saks,
Stealing Sunshine,
74 Law and Contemporary Problems
33-46
(Spring 2011)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol74/iss2/3