Today I transcribed a Workers' Comp hearing where an attorney kept asking the same question and made some comment about "beating a dead horse." The Judge responded by whipping out a horse puppet to convince the attorney to shut up.
I'm a transcriptionist not the Attorney General.
NY Giants owner John Mara spoke at my graduation (he is a fellow Fordham Law Alum).he said the first job he had out of law skool was representing people in arbitration claims for wrongful firings.So one guy was fired cuz he reportedly offered a co-worker $100 for sex. The guy only spoke Spanish, so they had an interpreter. When he spoke to the guy before the hearing, he asked "is it true that you offered her $100 for sex?" the guy says "no." so Mara said, "I will put you on the stand and you will say the truth, you have nothing to be afraid of."Mara puts him on the stand during the hearing. He asks, (through the interpreter), "did you offer this lady $100 for sex?" The guy says, "No." Then Mara hears him mutter, in Spanish, "i only offered her $50"Mara: "NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, YOUR HONOR!"p.s. he won the caseThe law is an ass.
I call bogus on that story. There's no way you put someone on the stand and not know what he's going to say. You find out what it is the guy needs to say and then you rehearse, rehearse, rehearse until there is only one way things can go. Real courtrooms are not theaters. The only surprises come from juries.