Audiobook - Pozner's Red Book on Cross: Lessons in Advanced Cross-Examination
Total Runtime: 3 hours, 47 minutes.
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This audiobook edition of Pozner's Red Book on Cross: Lessons in Advanced Cross-Examination, brings together over 20 of Larry Pozner’s most powerful cross-examination training articles—now delivered in a fully narrated format in Larry Pozner's voice. The result is a listening experience that captures the cadence, emphasis, and teaching style that have trained thousands of defense lawyers.
Spanning core principles like constructive and asymmetrical cross-examination to advanced strategies for witness control, impeachment, chaptering, and framing reasonable doubt, every section is practical, tactical, and ready for use in court. This is not theory—it’s a resource for lawyers in the fight, now accessible wherever you are.
Each lesson delivers scripting examples, real-world case scenarios, and strategic insight to make every technique actionable. You’ll learn when to drop a weak impeachment, avoid the trap of “winning” points that don’t serve your theory, and keep your cross disciplined so it moves the case—not your ego—forward. Pozner shows you when to press a witness, when to pivot, and how to ensure every question drives your theme home.
The audiobook format allows you to absorb these strategies while commuting, preparing for trial, or reviewing your approach between court sessions. Whether you're cross-examining a hostile eyewitness, dismantling an officer’s version of events, or exposing gaps in the prosecution’s investigation, Pozner’s Red Book on Cross delivers the tools, techniques, and strategies you need to win in real courtrooms.
Pozner Articles Included:
INTRODUCTION (1:23)
CHAPTER 1 - Core Techniques of Cross-Examination (7:02)
- The Philosophy of Cross-Examination (7:08)
- Constructive Cross-Examination (14:20)
- Asymmetrical Cross-Examination (20:40)
- Why Script Chapters? (27:09)
- Flipping the Script (33:22)
- Chunking Information: Using a Number as a Framework for Related Facts (40:03)
- Cross-Examination Gone Meh (46:00)
- Lessons Learned: Bad Advice Edition (51:36)
CHAPTER 2 - Impeachment Strategies (58:59)
- Impeachment by Prior Inconsistent Statement: Mistaken Witness vs. Lying Witness (59:04)
- Impeachment by Violation of Training (1:05:16)
- Impeachment by Behavior Inconsistent With Witness’s Story (2:15:57)
CHAPTER 3 - Handling Witnesses During Cross (2:23:13)
- Helping a Witness to Duck (2:23:20)
- You Don’t Understand This Question (2:29:58)
- Countering the Evasive Witness: Three Techniques That Demand a Specific Admission (2:36:59)
- You Should Have Been Told (2:43:33)
- Noncompliance with a Subpoena Duces Tecum as a Subject of Cross (2:49:49)
- Delivering a Tightly Scripted Cross to Avoid Opening the Door to Excluded Evidence (2:55:17)
CHAPTER 4 - Logical & Emotional Framing Techniques (3:02:44)
- Neural Coupling: How Chapters Allow Jurors to Experience the Emotion of the Defense (3:02:52)
- ‘But’ – The Creator of Doubt (3:09:30)
- Wheeling the Factual Assertion (3:16:00)
- Unpacking the Many Deceptions Inside a Single Lie (3:22:47)
- Requiring Rulings on Sex Consent-Related Testimony by Listing Specific Questions (3:28:23)
AFTERWORD - Reflections on Enduring Trial Strategies (3:34:54)
- Lessons Learned Every Criminal Defense Lawyer Should Know (3:34:60)
- Confront Hopeless Cases Head-on and Build a Lighthouse (3:41:45)
Whether you're a public defender, private defense attorney, or trial advocacy instructor, this audiobook will raise your game. Use it to prepare chapters, train your team, or reset your own approach to one of the most powerful tools in criminal defense. Stop improvising. Start scripting. And win—not by being the loudest in the courtroom, but by showing the jury exactly what’s missing.
Larry Pozner has taught thousands of lawyers across the country. This is the audiobook they’ll keep coming back to.
It is rare that we can honestly say someone “wrote the book” on a subject. It is astonishing that a single book can change a profession. In this program, both are true. Larry Pozner has long been recognized as America’s authority on modern cross-examination. Pozner’s book “Cross Examination: Science and Techniques” (Lexis 3rd Edition, 2018, Pozner and Dodd) and his resulting seminar “Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method”, columns revolutionized our profession’s view of the purposes and methods of modern cross. “Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method”, is an innovative and highly entertaining program that teaches the most efficient method to draft and deliver winning cross-examinations. This ever-evolving seminar remains America’s best attended trial techniques program. “Pozner on Cross: The Chapter Method”, adds principles of neuroscience and behavioral psychology to the most advanced techniques of cross. The program uses a great many examples of the step-by-step techniques to win through cross-examination. Larry is a former Colorado Public Defender and Past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has long been recognized in Best Lawyers in America in Criminal Law – both white collar and non-white collar, and civil “Bet the Company” litigation. Pozner was trial counsel for many years for the Denver Broncos franchise and won the trial that preserved Bat Bowlen’s ownership of the Broncos. He used these techniques to win and recover $110,000 judgment against a national bank.
