I make some notations in brackets that show where I think questions could have been sharpened and extended. (If only I’d written and read my own book beforehand!) It’s worth posting here because (1) the witness, William Lewinski, remains a frequent “expert” called to defend police shootings across the country, (2) his popularity as an expert witness for police officers who shoot citizens seems to remain undiminished despite strong questions about his credentials and his methods (the New York Times ran a long front-page takeout in 2015 on Lewinski headlined, “Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later”), and (3) the excerpt here shows some techniques that, in my self-evaluation, weren’t bad but could have been better. This is a cross-examination by me (Patrick Malone) done so long ago that I had forgotten about it until a friend reminded me just after my book The Fearless Cross-Examiner was published.
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