ABSTRACT
The first paper by Greg Matoesian provides a good example of how ethnomethodological research can provide an alternative perspective on current debates about gender in the criminal justice process. Drawing upon analytic resources from conversation analysis, linguistics, and membership categorization analysis, Matoesian looks in detail at a technique, known by attorneys as "detailing-to-death", which was used in an episode of crossexamination during the Kennedy Smith rape trial. This is, in some ways, the most technical and demanding paper in this collection, but it is again worth noting that it is about what anyone can see in court: a devastating piece of cross-examination that seriously undermined the credibility of the prosecution case.
