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Jun. 3rd, 2003 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzI got to conduct my first hearing last week. I’m embarrassed to say it was exciting! The first time I objected to a question "asked and answered" and was sustained I had a very tough time not grinning. I also had this whole room full of blue-collar witnesses who were tip-toeing around me like I was important or something. As expected, we kicked this guy’s ass, but the Judge didn’t let us make closing arguments. I think he was so sick of the loon that he didn’t want to give him another opening to babble in. Unfortunately, we don’t get a verdict for a month or two until after the hearing. Strange process, many controls built in. Sustained, biatch! By the end of the hearing, the Judge was making more objections than either agency representative. The thing I was proud of, because beating an unarmed opponent is not impressive, was that no questions were raised that I hadn't prepared our witnesses for.
Interesting point - I prep witnesses. I tell them only one thing - to tell the truth. I then barrage them with any and all questions that could possibly face under examination, so they are able to clarify what their testimony is before they face the stand. Law, the practice of law, is interesting and full of many interesting definitions of honesty.
The club night I had enjoyed in Knoxville had since shut down, oh well.
Sunday I went to see Nemo with a friend, but just to be REALLY SICK we had seafood before the movie. We asked the waiter if they served clown fish. Nemo was a good movie – I highly recommend it. Sad that the best written works on the screen are animated as of late. Ellen was a very fun blue-fish (one fish, two fish, red fish, Ellen) and her whale-speak sent me rolling around the isles. Do NOT watch this movie if you have a low child threshold, however. Cell phones have nothing on kids in a movie theatre. Me, I like kids the same way I do puppies...
Monday I was in Raleigh, NC, at about 9:30 AM picking up my luggage from the moving belt when my phone vibrated. It was the Judge, saying she had been out of town and wanted to catch me to tell me that she was postponing the hearing. She had ignored both the prior warnings we sent requesting that we be faxed documents due to the ongoing federal anthrax screening (all my mail comes in brown and crinkly from being radiated) and the blackout dates we listed as being unavailable later. Either the Judge screening process is weak, or they are very overworked. Or both.
Interesting point - I prep witnesses. I tell them only one thing - to tell the truth. I then barrage them with any and all questions that could possibly face under examination, so they are able to clarify what their testimony is before they face the stand. Law, the practice of law, is interesting and full of many interesting definitions of honesty.
The club night I had enjoyed in Knoxville had since shut down, oh well.
Sunday I went to see Nemo with a friend, but just to be REALLY SICK we had seafood before the movie. We asked the waiter if they served clown fish. Nemo was a good movie – I highly recommend it. Sad that the best written works on the screen are animated as of late. Ellen was a very fun blue-fish (one fish, two fish, red fish, Ellen) and her whale-speak sent me rolling around the isles. Do NOT watch this movie if you have a low child threshold, however. Cell phones have nothing on kids in a movie theatre. Me, I like kids the same way I do puppies...
Monday I was in Raleigh, NC, at about 9:30 AM picking up my luggage from the moving belt when my phone vibrated. It was the Judge, saying she had been out of town and wanted to catch me to tell me that she was postponing the hearing. She had ignored both the prior warnings we sent requesting that we be faxed documents due to the ongoing federal anthrax screening (all my mail comes in brown and crinkly from being radiated) and the blackout dates we listed as being unavailable later. Either the Judge screening process is weak, or they are very overworked. Or both.
