What’s it gonna be, boy, yes or no?

Posted on August 18, 2004 by Charles Kuffner

You know how on Law and Order a witness will try to give a complicated, nuanced, occasionally evasive answer to a yes/no question, and the lawyer asking the question, whether McCoy or a hotshot defense attorney, interrupts to emphasize that “yes” or “no” are the only valid answers? Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of them cross-examine whoever is reponsible for this?

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2 Responses to What’s it gonna be, boy, yes or no?

  1. TP says:
    August 18, 2004 at 5:17 pm

    For the record, that “yes or no” stuff is total garbage. A witness is permitted to answer the question in the manner they wish, so long as they actually respond to the question.

  2. blurker gone bad says:
    August 19, 2004 at 9:24 am

    In which case I would say that the comparison is still valid. Those questions were not answered.

    (Although I personally heard a resounding “No.”)

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