Jury Charges And Oral Argument | David Keltner

We're back with our second episode with David Keltner. We're going to dig into a little bit more substance. We talked about the history of David and Appellate Law in Texas. We're going to talk some more nuts and bolts stuff. One of the things I want to start with is the court's charge because, as you alluded to in the last episode, there are probably few people in Texas that know more about how to submit a jury charge than you do.

One of the things that struck me when I first started doing appeals because I started doing them with you was anytime you got a new case in from a jury trial, the first thing you did was take the charge and the charge conference. You got multiple colored markers and multiple colored pins and marked it up. I had no idea what you were doing. Why don't you explain what that process is, and then maybe we can talk about why the charge is so important? I started doing litigation. The charge was something you did the night before it was due and