i don't think like anyone else, thank god
working on my objections, which is uneccessary since i am slam bang, up buttoning my suit jacket and entering long discourse on the law supporting my objection and the logic behind it, before the question hangs in the air long enough for the witness to hear it. but i was thinking about objections to leading questions, which is an objection i rarely make. if you are obviously trying to get a witness to say something damaging about my patient, ok, but otherwise i never object to leading questions, because like all trial attorneys i have learned that people will say anything. anything.
most witnesses seem to have their own agenda and it allows them to interpret all questions in a manner whereby they can say what they came to say. this is a sidebar but LEOs are particularly funny in doing this as they will stoically feign complete ignorance and act like a fool rather than say something they are not there to say.
it is interesting to watch, although it usually makes me cringe, but like a compulsion people just spew random, ignorant, embarrassing, irrelevant, personal, scary things when in a courtroom. the sex offender who told the judge he wanted to live next door to him to show him he wouldnt hurt his daughters. let me tell you the judge does not want a sex offender, caught with handcuffs, badges, guns, mentioning his daughters. much less living next door to them.
but the things they say, it becomes obvious that criminals in general are of the lower intelligence class. making excuses for homicides, blaming two year olds for coming on to them, explaining that the wife had to be hit for flirting, fighting the idea that it is wrong for 2 year olds to wander on their own--people who just either dont get it or pretend not to--not to be able to tell the difference between logic and a string of semi articulate half baked ideas, self serving ideas, or completely insane ideas.
i guess to continue to live like don quixote i will petend this was all leading to one inevitable point: when people talk i listen like i read--i catch the fist few words, assume the rest and zone out on my own thoughts, but when i do listen i usually think objection! and usually it is leading
most witnesses seem to have their own agenda and it allows them to interpret all questions in a manner whereby they can say what they came to say. this is a sidebar but LEOs are particularly funny in doing this as they will stoically feign complete ignorance and act like a fool rather than say something they are not there to say.
it is interesting to watch, although it usually makes me cringe, but like a compulsion people just spew random, ignorant, embarrassing, irrelevant, personal, scary things when in a courtroom. the sex offender who told the judge he wanted to live next door to him to show him he wouldnt hurt his daughters. let me tell you the judge does not want a sex offender, caught with handcuffs, badges, guns, mentioning his daughters. much less living next door to them.
but the things they say, it becomes obvious that criminals in general are of the lower intelligence class. making excuses for homicides, blaming two year olds for coming on to them, explaining that the wife had to be hit for flirting, fighting the idea that it is wrong for 2 year olds to wander on their own--people who just either dont get it or pretend not to--not to be able to tell the difference between logic and a string of semi articulate half baked ideas, self serving ideas, or completely insane ideas.
i guess to continue to live like don quixote i will petend this was all leading to one inevitable point: when people talk i listen like i read--i catch the fist few words, assume the rest and zone out on my own thoughts, but when i do listen i usually think objection! and usually it is leading
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