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To: alanrs who wrote (206933)6/12/2009 11:39:04 AM
From: pstuartbRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
Re Haines in "lawyer mode"

Lawyers in court generally don't attack and interrupt the way many broadcasters do these days.

Lawyers can get away with that kind behavior in TV shows, but not in actual court.

Any judge worth his salt would shut a lawyer down in a second if the lawyer interrupted a witness the way Haines bulldozed over Frank. Frank is a dork in many ways, but Haines didn't need to yell over Frank the way he did.

I've been a lawyer for 20 years. If Haines was dumb enough to pull that kind of pit bull crap in court, opposing counsel would jump up and object, the judge would admonish Haines, and it wouldn't happen again unless Haines didn't mind being held in contempt. If that exchange had taken place in court the judge probably would have admonished Frank for refusing to directly answer a question, too.

Haines was displaying broadcaster rudeness, not lawyer rudeness.
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