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Jackpine Radical

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5. The hell they're not.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 05:53 PM

Jun 2013

Ya got yer posing, primping & pontificating prosecutors, ya got your dancing, deflecting and distracting defense attorneys, ya got yer enigmatic experts, ya got yer bombast from the bench, ya got yer witlesses--I mean witnesses--every one playing out a role for the 12-member audience…

I been on the stand in a lot of courtrooms, and I can tell you they are plays.

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Trials aren't plays [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2013 OP

Yes, but they are dramatic. elleng Jun 2013 #1

Well, yeah, but folks are critiquing the witnesses like they are actresses and actors DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2013 #2

Right and that is a mistake, elleng Jun 2013 #3

Very succinctly stated. Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #4

The hell they're not. Jackpine Radical Jun 2013 #5