I recall when I worked for city hall and had to testify in a case for the
city. The public works director had me examine water records for a
particular area of the city to see if anything indicated an unusual amount
of water useage. The defence lawyer asked me if I could of been mistaken in
my observations.
I said OF COURSE!!
Lawer sat down in a hurry!
City won that one in short order.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVID HELLER" <dtx@verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Electric safety
>I really enjoyed that part. Of course my fee was a bit higher for days
> spent in court (very enjoyable!) and I like to dictate the questions to
> the
> opposing lawyer for his cross - and most would fall for it. The best
> invariably was a cross question not quite related to the case at hand
> which
> was so easy to answer: "Sorry, that's out of my expertise and I'm not
> qualified to answer." And the judge breaking in telling him to stop
> wasting
> time and keep it relevant. What's nicer than having his honor on your
> side!
>
> The best I ever had was actually right close to home on an amateur radio
> antenna/zoning case (no charge of course) with K3DSF vs U.S.Steel. Two of
> us were :Pete's expert witnesses, myself and K3BNS, now W3BE, who
> subsequently became FCC's head of personal (Amateur and CB) in DC, and
> until recently QCWA president. Story is fairly long - maybe another time
> here. But the case - l963 +/- is well known to ARRL, and I don't know why
> it hasn't set a precedent for the covenant restriction crap. But I'm no
> lawyer, so what do I know. Dave, K3TX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carter" <k8vt@ameritech.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Electric safety
>
>
>> DAVID HELLER wrote:
>>
>>> The real fun came from the cases where some lawyer thought he could
>>> show me up on cross-examination. Not once did the lawyer win.
>>
>> Been there, done that!
>>
>> I was the forensic expert for a large telcom and spent my share of time
>> in court...and no, not once did the opposing lawyer win. They all mostly
>> seem to have forgotten the lawyer's Golden Rule of never asking a
>> question to which they don't know the answer. :-)
>>
>> Carter K8VT
>>
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