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Narratives produced in forensic settings are essentially multi-perspectival and multi-voiced. By the time a case reaches the courtroom, it has potentially been subject to a large number of retellings in a variety of contexts, including police interviews, grand jury and plea-bargaining sessions as well as pretrial indictment and arraignment hearings.
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Cotterill, J. (2002). ‘Just One More Time …’: Aspects of Intertextuality in the Trials of O. J. Simpson. In: Cotterill, J. (eds) Language in the Legal Process. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522770_9
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