Showing posts with label Are You Kidding?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Are You Kidding?. Show all posts

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Are You Kidding?

I know this is small, but it is worth squinting for. I tried to enlarge it as much as possible while keeping enough detail so that it is still readable. If you click on each letter, you will see a larger version.

Here's the background:

A lawyer submitted his eighth motion in limine. A motion in limine is a request submitted to the court before trial in an attempt to exclude evidence from the proceedings. A motion in limine is usually made by a party when simply the mention of the evidence would prejudice the jury against that party, even if the judge later instructed the jury to disregard the evidence. For example, if a defendant in a criminal trial were questioned and confessed to the crime without having been read his Miranda rights, his lawyer would file a motion in limine to keep evidence of the confession out of the trial.

And what is this all important eighth motion in limine for? The attorney is planning to use a demonstrative piece of evidence (probably a chart or graph or something of that nature) and doesn't want the other attorney to touch it.






























Here is the lawyer's reply: