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Although best\u2010practice protocols for interviewing children suggest that interviewers ask open\u2010ended questions to elicit detailed responses from children, during in\u2010court testimony, attorneys tend to rely on closed\u2010ended questions that elicit simple (often \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d) responses (e.g., Andrews, Lamb, &amp; Lyon, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"#bsl2214-bib-0001\"\/>; Klemfuss, Quas, &amp; Lyon, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"#bsl2214-bib-0012\"\/>). How then are jurors making decisions about children's credibility and ultimately the case outcome? The present study examined the effect of two attorney\u2010specific factors (e.g., temporal structure and questioning phase) on mock jurors' perceptions of attorney performance, child witness credibility, storyline clarity, and defendant guilt. Participants were randomly assigned to read a trial excerpt from one of eight conditions and were then asked to evaluate the attorney, child witness, and the case. Selected excerpts were from criminal court case transcripts and contained either high attorney temporal structure (e.g., use of temporal markers) or low temporal structure (e.g., frequent topic switching), involved direct or cross\u2010examination, and represented cases resulting in a conviction or acquittal. Child responses were kept consistent across all excerpts. Results showed that participants perceived the attorney's performance and child's credibility more favorably and thought the storyline was clearer when attorneys provided high rather than low temporal structure and when the excerpt contained direct rather than cross\u2010examination. Participants who read a direct rather than cross\u2010examination excerpt were also more likely to think the defendant was guilty. 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