A new sport!

Q Did you play any sports in high school?
A I played hooky.


Submitted by: Julie Thomas - scopist

Sharp as a tack!

The attorney is questioning the State's chief medical examiner, who performs hundreds of autopsies per year:

Q. Is it fair to say that the patients that you see in your professional line of work have no blood pressure?

A. If they have no blood pressure when I start, they certainly have none when I'm done.

Incredibly, the attorney continued with that line of questioning:

Q. That's right. And is it fair to say that in your professional line of work that you do not monitor a patient's blood pressure?

A. Well, correct. I don't.



Submitted by: J. Colter, Scopist

This attorney earned his money

Q. How about after April 1, 2006, but unrelated to this
accident, were you ever seen in an emergency room of a hospital?
A. Don't remember.
Q. Have you ever been diagnosed with having any type of short-term or long-term

memory problems?
A. No.


Q. After April 1, 2006, that's the date of the accident for which we're here today, have

you ever left the State of New Jersey for any reason?
A. After that, yes. I went to Florida for vacation.
Q. When did you go to Florida?
A. It was before the accident.
Q. How about after the accident? I'm talking about after the accident.
A. No.
Q. You haven't left the state of New Jersey for any reason after
this accident?
A. I went to North Carolina two months ago.
Q. That was after the accident?
A. Yes.
Q. And North Carolina was not in the state of New Jersey, right?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you drive to North Carolina?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you drive with yourself or with somebody else?
A. By myself.
Q. Where was your daughter during that time?
A. With me.
Q. She went with you?
A. Yes.
Q. So you drove the car, and your daughter was a passenger?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you recall the accident that happened on April 1, 2006?
(Pause)
Do you recall that accident that you were in on April 1, 2006? Do you remember

the accident?
A. Yes.
Q. Help me here; come on.
Was the driver on a cell phone at all?
A. Your client?
Q. No, your client.
A. No.
Q. I mean your friend.
A. We were talking.


Q. Any complaints, anything bother you today?
A. It's below my bra. It's a pain, and it goes to my
shoulders, to my neck and my head. I feel like my head is heavy.
Q. You have a heavy head?
A. I think so. Yes.
Q. Anything to do with those earrings?
A. No.

Submitted by: Lisa Urso, scopist

Spirits calling?

Q. Okay. And, like, you know that Larry died, right?
A. Yes, I do.
Q. Had y'all talked since this happened much?
A. Since he died?

Submitted by: Cathy, scopist

Aw, come on, use the acronym!

The following comes from the testimony of a state trooper, and my client actually inserted the comment in parens into the rough draft for my proofreading amusement. :)

Q Give us a summary of your expertise in accident reconstruction.

A In addition to the basic training required of all state troopers, I received additional training in reconstruction at the Georgia Police Academy over a period of a year or so back in 2005.

Q Is that what's now called a SCRT unit?

A That's correct.

Q What was it called then?

A (Wonder why they didn't use the acronym for this:) It was the fatal accident reconstruction team.

Submitted by: Julie Thomas, scopist

Can you follow directions?

Q. And it's important that you answer, just like you did now, out loud or
verbally so that the court reporter can record your response rather try to
discern whether you're shaking your head up and down or to the side. Is that
fair?

A. (Nods head up and down.)

Submitted by: Dolly Hall, scopist

Everyone pile on!

Q. Okay. Did you strike the car in front of you?
A. No, I did not. I was able, there was a gap in those big pile-ons,
those --
MR. JACOVINA: Dividers.
THE WITNESS: Yeah, the big construction concrete things. There was a
gap in it, so when he hit me, I swerved off into like a construction lane,
in between those medians.