One Monday We Killed Them All
“The prosecutor had told Larry that our man was a little less than adequate, so Larry asked me to go check it out. He was a bright kid named Harold Brayger, who had done so well on plain-clothes duty as a patrolman, we had hustled him a promotion to Detective Second. The defense attorney was T. C. Hubbard, a very shrewd man.Brayger had been through my compulsory Testimony Clinic, and had signed the library sheet as having read the two assigned texts.I sat and watched him blow the prosecution cas...e, merely because he was unusually bright and articulate. But he wasn’t as bright as Hubbard. A big vocabulary can hurt an officer called to give testimony. If he describes the defendant, in answer to one question, as being “adamant,” and a little later as being “inflexible,” the shrewd defense attorney will focus on the different nuances of those two words, and, in front of a wondering jury, lead the witness off into a semantic jungle he could have avoided by merely saying “stubborn”MoreLess
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