Valuable Witness

Valuable Witness: Excerpts from "Disorder in the American Courts"
Actual excerpts from the records of court stenographers:
Lawyer: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
Witness: Oral.
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Lawyer: What is your date of birth?
Witness: July 15.
Lawyer: What year?
Witness: Every year.
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Lawyer: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
Witness: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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Lawyer: How old is your son, the one living with you?
Witness: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Lawyer: How long has he lived with you?
Witness: Forty-five years.
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Lawyer: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
Witness: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Lawyer: And why did that upset you?
Witness: My name is Susan.
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Lawyer: Are you sexually active?
Witness: No, I just lie there.
Actual excerpts from the records of court stenographers:
Lawyer: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
Witness: Oral.
______________________________________
Lawyer: What is your date of birth?
Witness: July 15.
Lawyer: What year?
Witness: Every year.
______________________________________
Lawyer: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
Witness: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
______________________________________
Lawyer: How old is your son, the one living with you?
Witness: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Lawyer: How long has he lived with you?
Witness: Forty-five years.
______________________________________
Lawyer: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
Witness: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Lawyer: And why did that upset you?
Witness: My name is Susan.
_______________________________
Lawyer: Are you sexually active?
Witness: No, I just lie there.