Early in my career, I had a non-English-speaking client having a very bad time on the stand, giving some terrible testimony through the translator. Apparently I didn’t have much of a poker face, because I spoke to a couple jurors afterwards and they mentioned how frustrated I looked.
That was a pretty valuable lesson. Since then, I’ve learned to look like I am falling asleep myself during the other guy’s questioning. Funny enough, that was another lawyer’s case that was referred to me to re-try after a mistrial.
Back in the early 1990s, when I was a few years out of law school, I got to serve on a jury in a murder trial. It surprised the hell out of me that neither side struck me. It was the best CLE I have ever had.