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9 Berkeley J. Ent. & Sports L. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/bjesl9 and id is 1 raw text is: An Unusual Suspect? Unreliable Narrators in Fiction and Law Cathren Page' In tro d u ctio n .................................................................................................... . . 2 I. Self-Undermining Unreliable Narrators ........................................................ 4 II.Traits of U nreliable N arrators ..................................................................... 5 IIIPrimary Examples of Unreliable Narrators............................................... 6 A. Keir Sarafian in Inexcusable by Chris Lynch.............................. 6 B. Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects (Spoilers Warning).............. 6 C. Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye ................................ 7 D . Ted B undy Litigation ................................................................... 7 E. Brett Kavanaugh Senate Hearing ................................................. 8 F. Former Congressman James Traficant's Trials and Congressional Expulsion Hearing for Racketeering, Extortion, Bribery, and Tax Evasion............................................................. 9 IV.Common Traits of Self-Serving Unreliable Narrators................................ 9 A . In accuracy ................................................................................ . . 10 1. In F iction ............................................................................ . . 10 2. In Law ......................................................................................10 B . M isdirection ............................................................................... . 11 1. C oncrete D etails................................................................... 12 2. Irrelevant B abble................................................................... 14 3. A ppeal to Prejudice ............................................................... 15 4. Reliance on Straw M en........................................................ 16 5. Indignant Body Language, Tone, and Expressions.............. 17 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38BV79W30 t Tenured Associate Professor of Law, Barry University School of Law. Thank you to our dean, Leticia Diaz, for her continued scholarship support, to librarians Louis Rosen and Jason Murray for all of their help, to my research assistants, Tyrese Cruise and Madison Howeller who not only poured through thousands of pages of transcripts but also had excellent style suggestions and questions, to the Applied Legal Storytelling conference and all of its organizers and participants for helping me to vet these ideas, to the faculty of Mercer University School of Law for their questions, comments, and insights on the article, to Professor Michael Murray for his continued feedback and suggestions, to Professor Sherri Keene for her research suggestions, to Professor Gary Simson for his example suggestions, to Professors Chris Rideout, Jane Cross, Helena Whalen-Bridge, and Teri McMurty Chubb for their feedback during a presentation of this article, and to writer Hillora Lang for pointing out some excellent fiction examples on rape narratives. 1

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