About Grant Rost

In the time-bending blockbuster Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character devises an elaborate method of mental manipulation: implanting an idea in another person’s head so that the recipient actually believes the idea is his own.[1]  The reality of implanted ideas is nearly as strange as this movie.  I would guess that lawyers are generally suspicious of witnesses’

In every basic trial advocacy class I teach, I always read my students a snippet of jury selection advice from the renowned Clarence Darrow.  At the time he authored this advice, it was “state-of-the-art.”  However, as soon as I start reading it to them, my students will scoff, laugh, or gape in shock. Says Darrow,