These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually đã đưa ý kiến in court, word for word, taken down and now published bởi court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
Q: Are bạn sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
Q: What is your ngày of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
Q: What gear were bạn in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: bạn forget? Can bạn give us an example of something that you've forgotten?
Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight hoặc thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
Q: What was the first thing your husband đã đưa ý kiến to bạn when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
Q: Do bạn know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo hoặc the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: bạn do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the tiếp theo morning?
A: Did bạn actually pass the bar exam?
Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
Q: Were bạn present when your picture was taken?
Q: So the ngày of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were bạn doing at that time?
Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: bởi death.
Q: And bởi whose death was it terminated?
Q: Can bạn describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, hoặc a female?
Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have bạn performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK?
Q: What school did bạn go to?
A: Oral.
Q: Do bạn recall the time that bạn examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the bàn wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him.
Q: Are bạn qualified to give a urine sample?
Q: Doctor, before bạn performed the autopsy, did bạn check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did bạn check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did bạn check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when bạn began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can bạn be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my bàn in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.
