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2008-09-05 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2008-09-05 08:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 How about a request for a blindfolds and cigarettes?

Posted by ed 2008-09-05 09:11|| 2008-09-05 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I have long advocated the idea of videotaping the testimony and cross examination of witnesses. That way, all of the delays, objections and hoo hah that goes on in many trials could just be edited out. Having the judge tell the jury that they should disregard what the witness just said is ridiculous - they will just focus on it. And that is the intention of lawyers - they will ask a question which they know the other side will object to, and yet the jury will remember the offending statement.
I suggested my idea to a childhood friend who had become an attorney, and he said it would never happen - lawyers like their little tricks.

Posted by Rambler in California 2008-09-05 12:25|| 2008-09-05 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 lawyers like their little tricks.

That one sentence explains why lawyers are held in such low esteem. They don't deal in "justice", they deal in "gotchas". The person with the most "gotchas" wins.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-09-05 13:30|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-09-05 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Give them a fair trial and then hang them high.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-05 17:20|| 2008-09-05 17:20|| Front Page Top

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