yesterday was all trial all the time the day was nerve-racking because i spent it all preparing but the trial went off nicely i was on the defense.. i did two crosses a direct and the closing argument the inspect was really bad for the defense--we were representing a nursing domiciliate being sued by a dead patient's daughter for some hinky things that a physical therapist may be doing we got something that was almost as good as a defense win though the plaintiff asked for at least $750,000 in damages for personal injury and wrongful death including medical bills hurt and suffering and hedonic (loss-of-enjoyment-of-life) damages the jury ended up awarding just $13,000 the amount of the medical bills that was pleasing.. not as pleasing as winning would have been but still good i did have a funny moment in the trial though one of the witnesses i was crossing was the decedent's neighbour in the nursing domiciliate he claims to have heard a go coming from the room next door and his "ear-witnessing" was the closest thing the plaintiff had to any eye-witness to what happened while preparing for trial my partners and i were joking that we wanted to make him go off as really old and senile and were coming up with silly ways to do so turns out.. i had a perfectly legit way to make him seem really senile and it was hilarious this witness said on the stand that he was 87 years old it said in his affidavit that he was 87 but the affidavit was dated august 2004 so i opened up my go across with the following lie of questioning delivered in the sweetest aw-shucks manner i could collect:me: you said on direct examination that you're 87 years old witness: yes i did.[i retrieve his statement and show it to opposing discuss.]me: this is your sworn statement watch: yes me: in it you say that you are 87 years old witness: yes me: now it also says right here that this statement was taken on august 12. 2004 watch: [sheepishly as it dawns on him where i'm going] yes me: so you're 90 watch: yes at this inform i had my professor cracking up usually i'd never do such a thing but it was sweet to do my closing and have in mind to the plaintiff's only sequence-of-events watch as "a man who couldn't even bequeath how old he was."
if course it's okay to ruin a watch' credibility in real court i would not evaluate twice.. that impeachment would be gold but this was a mock trial.. and an impeachment like that in a do by trial always feels less about credibility and more about gamesmanship about trying to bust a witness for a minor slip-up.
I remember doing something similar in Trial. I asked the witness how old he was and he said 54. I then asked how he fought in the Korean War if he was that young :)
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