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In case anyone needs to know, Spanish for "to commit a robbery" is "ascer un robo."
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I learned a new word today! I was snickering at the ADA when he came out with "withinside" but I looked it up, and it is indeed a word!
Will wonders never cease!
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I'm starting to think that law schools are failing in their training of new litigation attorneys. These new attorneys seem to have watched way too much "Perry Mason." The point of cross-examination is not to testify at a witness but to have THEM testify. Also, hostility toward a witness for no relevant reason does not make your case better.
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I'm starting to think that law schools are failing in their training of new litigation attorneys. These new attorneys seem to have watched way too much "Perry Mason." The point of cross-examination is not to testify at a witness but to have THEM testify. Also, hostility toward a witness for no relevant reason does not make your case better.
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I'm starting to think that law schools are failing in their training of new litigation attorneys. These new attorneys seem to have watched way too much "Perry Mason." The point of cross-examination is not to testify at a witness but to have THEM testify. Also, hostility toward a witness for no relevant reason does not make your case better.
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I'm starting to think that law schools are failing in their training of new litigation attorneys. These new attorneys seem to have watched way too much "Perry Mason." The point of cross-examination is not to testify at a witness but to have THEM testify. Also, hostility toward a witness for no relevant reason does not make your case better.
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I'm starting to think that law schools are failing in their training of new litigation attorneys. These new attorneys seem to have watched way too much "Perry Mason." The point of cross-examination is not to testify at a witness but to have THEM testify. Also, hostility toward a witness for no relevant reason does not make your case better.
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"Q Now, there was an issue between you and Eric's mother as well. Is that fair to say?
A Only once there was an issue.
Q And what was that issue?
A When her brother died in my camper of an overdose.
Q And she blamed you, right?
A Yes, she did.
Q And that kind of was the biggest issue between the family, was that individual dying of an overdose in your camper.
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"A grand jury is not a trial jury like yourselves. Its function is quite different. A grand jury does not find facts or decide whether a person is guilty or not guilty. A grand jury's function is merely to accuse. The accusation that the grand jury returns is the indictment, and the indictment starts the process that leads to trial by jury."
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Q The landlord testified that that was for the sump pump.
A The sub pump was a separate issue. With Carl. Two different companies.
Q All right.
A We just went over that.
Q Yep. And that's -- that's not -- that was not the testimony of the landlord.HOW IS IT THAT THIS DID NOT RESULT IN A FUCKING OBJECTION FROM OPPOSING COUNSEL?
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"The presumption of innocence is not an idle theory to be cast aside, discarded or disposed of by the jury by whim, passion or prejudice. The Defendant is not to be found guilty based on suspicion or conjecture but only based upon evidence produced before you in this courtroom."
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"Our law says a person is presumed to be innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt."
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"So there were at least 94 sharp-force injuries to Ms. X's head."
In total, Ms. X was stabbed 219 times. And then her body was dumped in a marsh next to a highway. All because she told her boyfriend she didn't want to see him any more.
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During a jury empanelment, the judge reads a series of questions to the venire. If a juror's answer is in the affirmative, they raise their card for the court officers to announce their number. They do so by saying, for instance, "Juror 50, five zero." This is my second day with this empanelment, and I cannot believe that whoever was Juror 67 on either day didn't raise their card just to make the court officer say "six seven."
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I'm going to predict that this potential juror will NOT be seated. He's 73 years old and sounds like he's 100. He's giving insane, rambling answers to simple questions. He worked in accounting at Bradlees! They've been out of business for 25 years. He had a second career with the City of Boston calculating childcare costs split between poors and the Commonwealth.
Then the ADA made the mistake of asking what his wife had done before retiring.
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A Massachusetts judge to potential jurors:
"I want to implore you [to] think about a couple of things. First off, that our country and our judicial branch -- one of three, obviously -- our judicial branch has come under siege, like all other branches of government over the course of the last few years. We have survived over the course of almost 300 years now, and it's been a very effective tool for our democracy. And it only works if you come here and you participate."
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Defense Attorney during closing argument:
"You heard that many items were in the vehicle beyond these knives and this gun, such as cigarettes, bread, empty cans, clothing, phone chargers -- typical of what any person might have in a vehicle."
Who among us hasn't stored bread in their vehicle?
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@jik I only go to linked in to confirm/get info for #LegalTranscription. Will it do this if not logged in?
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I'm sorry, but I have to take a minute here.
I'm transcribing oral testimony in a federal case attempting to claw back PPP money, and the US Attorney just asked the witness about "profit and lost."
This is going to be a long day.
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Murder isn't funny but sometimes it makes me LOL.
"Q All right. Now, among other items that were seized that day, was there a can of soup that was recovered?
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I've never had this come up before when transcribing a legal matter - an attorney of indeterminate gender. I have to identify speakers - typically, "Mr. Smith" or "Ms. Smith." But how does one identify someone who's indeterminate?
I want to be respectful but I'm at a loss what to do.
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I am transcribing a civil bench trial where a wife is seeking an annulment. She speaks Russian, he speaks Turkish. There are five people speaking at once most of the time - the judge, the wife, her interpreter, the husband, and his interpreter. It was really fun when the wife's witness made an appearance - via telephone. She speaks Azerbi.
It's like being caught in this Abbott and Costello skit. For hours and hours. Three days, in fact.
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Never seen this before in the almost four decades I've been transcribing legal proceedings. A judge has ordered transcripts in at least six different civil cases filed by one lunatic in state court within the last year. He's also filed a bunch in federal court during the same time period.
I had previously transcribed one of the matters and now I get to do another! Apparently the judges are NOT HAPPY with this lunatic taking up their time with ridiculous complaints.
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I learned a new Spanish phrase today!
"Yo no como mierda."
#LegalTranscription can be very educational.
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This guy has been in prison since he was 20 years old, 44 years. From his parole hearing, after which his parole was denied. He's breaking my heart.
PETITIONER: Well, when I came in I didn't see so much -- so much hate. I see so much hate in this world, and -- and the racist stuff in the -- and -- you know, and with this president now -- this is absurd. So, yeah, it's scary. But I still say to myself, there's a lot of good out there still though. You know?
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THE COURT: And those experiences, including that one you made reference to here, would that affect your ability to serve on our jury?
JUROR 16: Like I said, I think I could do it -- you know, listen to it. I watch Matlock, I watch all the court shows --
THE COURT: Yeah.
JUROR 16: I'm in on it.How some of these people manage to not choke on their own saliva is baffling.
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ATTORNEY: "I don't smirk and I don't make faces and jump around when I respond. Perhaps she could afford the Court the same courtesy."
This attorney has twice said "you're pathetic" to his his pro-se opponent during this hilarious but nightmarish probate court bench trial.
I can well imagine that he is sick to death of this woman and her insanity but ...
He's also had to be told several times to stand up when addressing the Court.
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This is from a trial to determine whether the petitioner remains a sexually dangerous person.
The opinion of all the qualified examiners in this case is that, yes, the petitioner does so remain and should continue to be held at the Massachusetts Treatment Center.
This petitioner's attitude is exactly that of #DonaldTrump - that he has a right to "grab them by the pussy" and that they should feel complimented by his attention.
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"Q What did you make of that explanation, if anything at all?
A In my view, that shows -- at the time that he was committing the offense -- his understanding of it to be distorted as far as sexually touching a woman as a means of showing interest and hoping that they would act in kind. So that certainly was a concern of mine in terms of that explanation."2/3
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"Q So with respect to the offense against [redacted], what did he tell you?
A He told me that at that point in time he had grabbed at her crotch. He was hoping that she would see that as an indicator that he liked her and that he was attracted to her."1/3
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BY DEFENSE ATTORNEY:
Q So the last time that you saw those photos was in the grand jury?
A Yes.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Okay. That's all.
THE COURT: Okay. Anything else?
PROSECUTOR: Yeah. Very briefly --
THE WITNESS: Jesus Christ.
PROSECUTOR: -- though, Judge.Same, Witness, same.
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CIVIL DEFENSE ATTY: -- be allowed to argue or not? Because I'm happy to do it either way. You've now interrupted me five times in a row on the same argument. You get to tell me "don't argue." But I do have the right under the rules to do my argument.
THE COURT: Absolutely. And I apologize. Go ahead.
CIVIL DEFENSE ATTY: Sure.2/2
My mouth is still on the floor. You can't hear the attorney's tone of voice but it was unbelievably hostile.
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CIVIL DEFENSE ATTY: The Court appears to be saying that if a landlord tricks a tenant into moving out without filing --
THE COURT: Don't put words in the Court's mouth. That's not what the Court said. That's not what the Court said, Civil Defense Attorney.
CIVIL DEFENSE ATTY: Your Honor, am I going to --
THE COURT: So do not put --(Edited to remove attorney's name from the Court's mouth, although ...)
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Have I mentioned recently HOW MUCH I FUCKING HATE CIVIL LITIGATION ATTORNEYS?
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"Standing alone, the belief that the criminal justice system is systemically unfair to blacks is not a basis to disqualify a juror."
#LegalTranscription #CriminalJustice #Discrimination #CivilRights
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The defense attorney doesn't know when to stop.
"Typically, in murders, people are murdered with a weapon of some kind. So here it's some sort of ligature. It's sort of arbitrary and capricious whether a particular court is going to say this is extreme and atrocious because it was a ligature. Another court might say, well, she got choked, it's a -- it's a non-per se dangerous weapon, maybe it's a regular murder. The whole exercise here is offensive to justice."