Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:
Ever been kicked?
Might have been.
Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs?
Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
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To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair …
Charles DickensTags: courtroom
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.
Howard ZinnTags: injustice power elite domination courtroom commandeering concentration-of-power
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.
Sergio de la PavaTags: politics lawyering speaking artifice courtroom
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