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How Lawyers Tell If Your’re Lying

Name: How Lawyers Tell If Your’re Lying
Uploaded: 2024-12-12T14:00:23+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this instructional monologue, a legal practitioner explains several observable behaviors that can indicate a witness is being deceptive during…

12 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this instructional monologue, a legal practitioner explains several observable behaviors that can indicate a witness is being deceptive during cross‑examination. The speaker highlights three primary cues: (1) voice inflection patterns, where a rising pitch at the end of a denial often signals dishonesty; (2) the tendency of a witness to repeat the question before answering, which serves as a delay tactic to buy time for a fabricated response; and (3) subtle eyebrow movements that betray uncertainty when a witness hesitates. The speaker also cautions that eye contact is not a reliable lie detector, as it can reflect many unrelated factors. The overall message is that these non‑verbal and verbal signals, while not foolproof, can help lawyers assess credibility, especially when the lawyer knows the individual’s typical behavior.

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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.