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Courtroom questions

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  • 19-12-2007 9:34am
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    Hagar
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    A defense attorney was cross-examining a police officer during a felony trial:

    Q: Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene?
    A: No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender running several blocks away.

    Q: Officer, who provided this description?
    A: The officer, who responded to the alarm.

    Q: A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?
    A: Yes sir, with my life.

    Q: With your life? Let me ask you this then officer - do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?
    A: Yes sir.

    Q: And do you have a locker in that room?
    A: Yes sir, I do.

    Q: And do you have a lock on your locker?
    A: Yes sir.

    Q: Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with those same officers?
    A: You see, sir, we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.


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