Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180927:09:33:00
Truth, building up a witness or chopping down a witness's credibility, questions take time. you have to build foundation. if you're cross examining someone, you ask establishing questions to shut off escape hatches until you get to the mission. with cross examination or direct examination, the lawyer always has a mission, either to destroy the witness or build that witness up and get facts into evidence. rarely is it the case that the questioning is simply to find out the truth. really where prosecutor dos that is earlier in the process where they're meeting with victims and trying to find out...
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