THINGS PEOPLE SAID IN COURT - WORD FOR WORD

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July fifteenth.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.

Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

Q: All your answers must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.

Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?

Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you’ve forgotten?

Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty eight or thirty five, I can’t remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty five years.

Q: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

Q: The youngest son, the twenty year old, how old is he?

Q: You say the stairs went down to the basement?
A: Yes.
Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?

Q: She had three children right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?

Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice that I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

Courtesy of the The Courterly, an employees' newsletter of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania