Setting the Scene with Cyndy Short
About this episode
Cyndy Short discusses mitigation as storytelling and shares techniques for effective sentencing advocacy.
On this episode of the Trial Lawyers College podcast, Andy Delaney and Amanda Harber sit down with sentencing advocacy expert Cyndy Short to explore mitigation as storytelling. Cyndy explains how to build persuasive sentencing narratives, shares concrete courtroom techniques (role-reversal, setting the scene, humanizing clients), and offers practical tips for advocates handling high-stakes capital and non-capital matters. A must-listen for trial lawyers who want to make sentencing advocacy more humane, strategic, and effective.
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Hosts: Andy Delaney, Amanda Harber
Guest: Cyndy Short
Topics covered
- sentencing advocacy
- storytelling
- courtroom techniques
- mitigation
- trial law
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