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
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