Fall 2025
Professor(s):
David Crump (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 10:30a-12:00p MW Location: 3rd Floor Conference
Course Outline: This course will have a background book called How to Try a Jury Trial, by the Professor, consisting mostly of descriptive advice about how to do it, from the Professor’s own experience. The course will cover preparation for trial, voir dire, opening statements, presentation of evidence, motions for directed verdict and judgment as a matter of law, jury instructions and verdict forms, and final arguments. Each student will turn in a research paper covering one of these topics. In some instances, more than one student may be assigned to the same topic.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
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This course will have:
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Conditional Availability (not for required credits)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Crump, David - How to Try a Jury Trial
