https://law.temple.edu/wp-content/uploads/Opening-Statements-Articles_NITA-10-2018.pdf
Opening statement is the first time a lawyer gets to lay their case out to the jury. It is the first impression you make, and the first impression the jury takes about your case. You want the jury to believe you, to understand you, to be moved by you such that when the introduction of evidence begins as the witnesses are called, they understand what the case is about and are, at least ...