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Questions from Court (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Know your audience. You'd think attorneys were better at that, but I guess witnesses don't decide whether someone gets made attorney or not.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's a funny meeting of worlds thing. Like the kinda of people who can afford law school are generally not the kinds who grew up in an every day setting

Colloquial speech vs professional jargon

[–] noodles@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago

Also a lot of what (good) trial lawyers do is cover all the small loopholes, so questions that seem silly are because Dr X-acto got off on murder by claiming it was an autopsy in 1798 or whatever. Or it's a bad trial lawyer and it is silly.