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Trump trial live: Hush money was 'pure' election fraud, prosecution says - BBC News | Trump trial live: Hush money was 'pure' election fraud, prosecution says - BBC News |
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The stakes of today's opening statements were very high, according to Harvard Law professor Ronald S Sullivan Jr. | |
"Opening statements often frame the entire rest of the trial," he told the BBC earlier this morning. | |
"Some studies suggest up to 80% of jurors make up their minds at the end of openings, and most of them - the overwhelming majority - retain that same opinion throughout the trial and vote in that way during deliberations." | |
Those findings are backed by what Sullivan says are the concepts of primacy and recency. It means that people remember best what they hear first and what they hear last. | |
As a result, he said, lawyers must "start with a bang" so as to capture the attention and imagination of each juror. | |
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