or there are so many bottom feeding lawyers now the slower ones have given up chasing ambulances. They plan to stalk people with a modicum of common sense.
And yes, they still have to be provided with instructions. Oy!
Lawyers explain how to cross-examine coronavirus deniers
“I generally don’t like to ask open-ended questions,” says Bazelon. “But with crazy people I sometimes do, because whichever answer I get is going to be good.” In the case of the coronavirus, Bazelon suspects answers would fall into two categories: total ignorance or defiance of conventionally accepted knowledge (neither a good look).
“You can push somebody out on the limb and make them look even more silly, because the position they’re taking has so little support so that nobody else, your jury, would want to follow them out on that limb,” says Pahlke. “You get to persuasion not by virtue of directly persuading your witness, but by isolating them in this world that’s not real. And pointing out how unreal this world they’re living in is, so others wouldn’t tread there.”
The target, on the other hand, can just hand the shyster a print out of the latest CDC mortality update and tell the lawyer to shove his ignorance where the sun don’t shine.