Leveraging Impeachment To Damage Your Opponent's Credibility (Video)

Impeachment is a valuable tool during cross-examination, yet it is underutilized and often mishandled. In this video, Proskauer partner Colin Cabral discusses how he effectively employs impeachment to control witnesses and secure victories in high-stakes trials.

Transcript

Colin Cabral: Impeachment can turn a good examination into a great one, and it can turn a great examination into a game changer. So I use impeachment for control ─ to control a witness and to control the courtroom during a cross-examination.

"Impeach early and send a clear message that you have the receipts."

Colin Cabral, Partner, Litigation

When you impeach a witness early in an examination, and if you do it multiple times, you are sending a message to that witness that you have the receipts and that they cannot just get up there on the stand and say whatever it is they want to say.