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How Lawyers Tell if You’re Lying #shorts

Name: How Lawyers Tell if You’re Lying #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-12-18T20:00:00+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short video, a lawyer explains practical, observable cues that can indicate a witness is being deceptive during cross‑examination. He highlights…

18 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short video, a lawyer explains practical, observable cues that can indicate a witness is being deceptive during cross‑examination. He highlights four main signals: (1) vocal inflection that rises at the end of a denial, creating a "sing‑song" pattern; (2) the witness repeating the question before answering, which suggests they are buying time to fabricate a response; (3) subtle eyebrow movements that betray uncertainty when a witness says "I don’t know"; and (4) the unreliability of eye contact as a lie detector, noting it can reflect many other factors. The speaker emphasizes that these cues are not universal and depend on familiarity with the individual, but they serve as useful heuristics for lawyers assessing credibility.

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How lawyers can tell if you're lying to them. When I'm cross-examining somebody, one of the dead giveaways I get with a witness is typically their inflection. That's like the sing-song of their voice, and I kind of see a check mark in my mind of it going down and then going up. So like if you hear, "Nuh-uh, I didn't do that," it's, "I didn't do that, nuh-uh," and, uh, the inflection starts to rise. Another one is if they repeat the question back to me. So if I say, "You didn't see the red car that day, did you?" they might reply with, I didn't see the red car. It's pretty much a dead giveaway that they're delaying so that they can think of a better response than the truth. And this one's kind of fun. It's the eyebrows for me. So if I ask them a question, they might say, I don't know, did I? And their eyebrows give it away. Again, this is not for everybody. It just depends on the individual, especially if you know them. I mean, to me, eye contact, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're lying. It can mean all kinds of things, like you just don't want to look at the person. Follow me.