| Lawyer: |
What is your date of birth? |
| Witness: |
July fifteenth. |
| Lawyer: |
What year? |
| Witness: |
Every year. |
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| Lawyer: |
What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? |
| Witness: |
Gucci sweats and Reeboks. |
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| Lawyer: |
This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? |
| Witness: |
Yes. |
| Lawyer: |
And in what ways does it affect your memory? |
| Witness: |
I forget. |
| Lawyer: |
You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've
forgotten? |
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| Lawyer: |
How old is your son, the one living with you? |
| Witness: |
Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. |
| Lawyer: |
How long has he lived with you? |
| Witness: |
Forty-five years. |
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| Lawyer: |
What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke that
morning? |
| Witness: |
He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" |
| Lawyer: |
And why did that upset you? |
| Witness: |
My name is Susan. |
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| Lawyer: |
And where was the location of the accident? |
| Witness: |
Approximately milepost 499. |
| Lawyer: |
And where is milepost 499? |
| Witness: |
Probably between milepost 498 and 500. |
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| Lawyer: |
Sir, what is your IQ? |
| Witness: |
Well, I can see pretty well, I think. |
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| Lawyer: |
Did you blow your horn or anything? |
| Witness: |
After the accident? |
| Lawyer: |
Before the accident. |
| Witness: |
Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it. |
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| Lawyer: |
Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the
occult? |
| Witness: |
We both do. |
| Lawyer: |
Voodoo? |
| Witness: |
We do. |
| Lawyer: |
You do? |
| Witness: |
Yes, voodoo. |
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| Lawyer: |
The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he? |
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| Lawyer: |
So the date of conception (of the baby) was August tenth? |
| Witness: |
Yes. |
| Lawyer: |
And what were you doing at that time? |
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| Lawyer: |
She had three children, right? |
| Witness: |
Yes. |
| Lawyer: |
How many were boys? |
| Witness: |
None. |
| Lawyer: |
Were there any girls? |
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| Lawyer: |
You say the stairs went down to the basement? |
| Witness: |
Yes. |
| Lawyer: |
And these stairs, did they go up also? |
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| Lawyer: |
How was your first marriage terminated? |
| Witness: |
By death. |
| Lawyer: |
And by whose death was it terminated? |
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| Lawyer: |
Can you describe the individual?
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| Witness: |
He was about medium height and had a beard. |
| Lawyer: |
Was this a male, or a female? |
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| Lawyer: |
Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? |
| Witness: |
All my autopsies are performed on dead people. |
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| Lawyer: |
All our responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to? |
| Witness: |
Oral. |
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| Lawyer: |
Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
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| Witness: |
The autopsy started around 8:30 pm |
| Lawyer: |
And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time? |
| Witness: |
No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy. |
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| Lawyer: |
Are you qualified to give a urine sample? |
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| Lawyer: |
Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? |
| Witness: |
No. |
| Lawyer: |
Did you check for blood pressure? |
| Witness: |
No. |
| Lawyer: |
Did you check for breathing? |
| Witness: |
No. |
| Lawyer: |
So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy? |
| Witness: |
No. |
| Lawyer: |
How can you be so sure, Doctor? |
| Witness: |
Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. |
| Lawyer: |
But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless? |
| Witness:
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Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and
practising law
somewhere.
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