JCD cranky? Ha! Not after you learn about this guy. You have to read the article to get the full insanity of the back and forth on this. You’d swear this was a Monty Python skit.
What is a photocopier?
That seems like such a simple question. But last year, a lawyer in a public-records case being heard by the Ohio Supreme Court had a hard time getting a $64,000-a-year Cuyahoga County worker to say whether the county recorder’s office had a photocopier.
The effort consumes nearly 10 pages of a court transcript.
The overall case is about whether deeds and other records at the county recorder’s office — records that were collected and are maintained with your taxes — should be readily available at reasonable cost. The lawyers involved in the case say the question about the photocopier is technical, getting at an arcane point of law.
You be the judge.
Dicken‘s was right when he wrote “Oliver Twist, and said: “The law is an ass“.
And, it seems, so are all those who attempt it.
Once I had to go to court, I watched a lawyer try to argue that water flowed uphill due to gravity.
This witness did look like a jack ass. Imagine how that would play to a jury.
That being said – yes, it was totally a strategy by counsel. The witness was completely coached. Of course, he ends up looking coached, but that’s just ’cause he’s not a professional witness.
Police officers on the other hand, got that shit down *pat*, yo.
This was a good read. Real Abbott & Costello material. But, back in real life, I’ve been deposed three times and I’ll tell you this – it ain’t no fun. Because there is no judge to rule on relevance, the lawyers can ask you almost anything and demand an answer on the record.
Words count. Specially in court.
This is my all time favorite: “It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.”
Who remembers where this came from??
#25 Ah_yea : I believe that was uttered by the same man who claimed a blow job was not sex…