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I found these somewhere…

These are from a book called Disorder in the
American Courts, taken down by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually
taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect
your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your
memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example
of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband
said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?”
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a
person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it
until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the
twenty-one-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he’s twenty-one.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was
taken?
WITNESS: Are you shittin’ me?
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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby)
was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh…. I was getting laid!
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated
it?
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a
beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have
you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead
people. Would you like to rephrase that?
____________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK?
What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the
autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient
was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk
in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still
been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have
been alive and practicing law

tags: funny
23 June, 12:50 PM
  1. ba DUMP bah!!!

    i am skeptical only because that sounds pretty damn close to stuff found in my grandparents’ Milton Berle joke collection (ca. 1940) but hey, i guess we all get our material somewhere…

    wonder how many of those witnesses were charged with contempt of court.


    belledame222    Jun 24, 08:06 AM    #
  2. per the Morford: bwah ha ha ha. ha. tell him to get a Star on his belly in indelible ink; that’ll larn ‘em.


    belledame222    Jun 24, 08:09 AM    #
  3. Could be from depositions, too. I know I was told sternly and under no uncertain terms that it was illegal and wrong to tell the truth at the beginning of a deposition. I think all I responded with was “What?”


    Veronica    Jun 24, 11:02 AM    #
  4. There is a reason that we call it “practicing law”.


    alex cloherty    Jul 4, 02:20 PM    #

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