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![]() ![]() They'd obviously had it work before or they wouldn't have tried it. You can lead he witness, ask more direct question, etc. When you are being questioned by opposing counsel, opposing counsel is given more control over the questions. All of this was obviously coached from her sleazebag lawyers however. As a general rule, when you are being questioned by the attorney which brought you to the dance you have to ask open-ended questions. It didn't work and just pissed me off as a juror. What offended me the most was her attempted use of the Bible as a prop to try and elicit sympathy from the jury. The whole thing was a farce and we didn't give her any money. The trial consisted of her various other kids by random men being trotted up to the witness stand to testify how Jerome's death was going to scar them and their momma forever and they'd all need professional counseling plus lots of money to cope with it. She was a terrible actress however, she wasn't going to win an academy award. She sat there flipping through a Bible through the entire trial pretending to be uninterested in what was going while she intently studied the Bible, only stopping to sob loudly every once in a while. The witness may have given misleading information or the witness may have simply changed his mind. The woman was a typical Mississippi welfare queen, kids by different men, no fathers around, never married, etc. I sat on a jury once where a woman was suing a couple because her 14 year old son had hopped on the couple's son's ATV and promptly ran it into a ditch killing himself. It's pretty amazing what they'll pull and how gullible they think the average juror is. I find it very insulting that he/they think that I am going to be won over by his/their dramatic presentations. When I have served on juries, I have had to really keep on myself to look at the facts of the case and not allow myself to base my decision on which side's lawyer(s) piss me off the most by trying to get me to decide the case not on the facts, but on his/their consumate theatrical skill. ![]()
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