It's Halloween weekend, full of fright and dark night.
What's the scariest thing that ever happened to you in Court?
An alert reader sent us this:
We will start:
We were crossing examining a tragic young man who had flipped in a murder case. He pled to life and was the shooter in a store robbery. Our client was not the shooter, but because this was northern Florida, and we were from Miami, they flipped the shooter against our client and ....were seeking death....when such things were allowed.
In the beginning of our cross, to set the stage, we started with questioning on the fact that he had pled to first degree murder and there were two possible penalties- life with a 25 year min man (which was the law back then) or death. This was as much to show the jury what would happen to our client if they convicted him, as anything.
We asked a few simple questions about this, looked down at some notes, and heard a commotion and looked up and the witness was not in the witness chair.
He had fainted dead away and was on the floor. The scene was so surreal and we had not seen the witness go down, that it gave us a start when we looked up from our notes. Not the scariest of stories, but a start.
Post script: Jury hung and we pled to second and 17 which were the guidelines back then.
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