FHA and Investor Specialist

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are
things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now
published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while
these exchanges  were actually taking place.


ATTORNEY:  What is your date of birth?
WITNESS:     July 18th.
ATTORNEY:  What year?
WITNESS:     Every year.
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ATTORNEY:  What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS:    Gucci sweats and Reeboks
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ATTORNEY:     This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS:      Yes.
ATTORNEY:   And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS:      I forget
ATTORNEY:   You forget? Can you give us an example of something you
forgot?
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ATTORNEY:   How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS:     Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY:   How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS:     Forty-five years.
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ATTORNEY:   Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in
voodoo?
WITNESS:     We both do.
ATTORNEY:  Voodoo?
WITNESS:     We do
ATTORNEY:  You do?
WITNESS:     Yes, voodoo.
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ATTORNEY:  Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his
sleep, he doesn't  know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS:      Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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ATTORNEY:  The youngest son, the twenty-one-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS:     Uh, he's twenty-one.
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ATTORNEY:  Were you present when your picture was  taken?
WITNESS:     Would you repeat the question?
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ATTORNEY:   So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS:     Yes.
ATTORNEY:  And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS:     Uh....
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ATTORNEY:   She had three children, right?
WITNESS:      Yes.
ATTORNEY:   How many were boys?
WITNESS:      None.
ATTORNEY:   Were there any girls?
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ATTORNEY:   How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS:      By death.
ATTORNEY:   And by whose death was it terminated?
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ATTORNEY:  Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS:     He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY:  Was this a male or a female?
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ATTORNEY:   Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on
dead people?
WITNESS:      All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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ATTORNEY:   ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go
to?
WITNESS:     Oral.
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ATTORNEY:   Do you recall the time that you examined  the  body?
WITNESS:     The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY:  And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS:     No, he was sitting on the tablewondering why I was doing an
autopsy on him!
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And the best for last

ATTORNEY:   Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for
a pulse?
WITNESS:      No.
ATTORNEY:   Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS:      No.
ATTORNEY:   Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS:      No.
ATTORNEY:  So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
WITNESS:     No.
ATTORNEY:   How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS:     Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY:  But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS:     Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and
practicing law.