So, if you would lie to God, why should we believe you now?

Sample Cross Examination Technique
by Glen R. Graham, Attorney at Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma
http://www.glenrgraham.com

I found an interesting brochure that gave a sample cross examination to prepare a witness for ligation (possibly a deposition or lie detector or the like) which said something like this:

(I have rewritten it and changed the characters to make it more interesting)~~~

Defense attorney/police officer/lie detector administrator: Mr. X have you in the last ten years been put in a position where you told someone a lie even a white lie, such as saying someone looks good even though they did not or that the meal they prepared was good even though it was not or said something that was not true?

Witness: Yes

Defense attorney/police officer/lie detector adminstrator: Mr. X in the last ten years, have you even once taken anything even a paper-clip or maybe borrowed a pen without returning it or maybe some other thing that you "borrowed" and you kept without returning it?

Witness: Yes

Defense attorney/police officer/lie detector administrator: So, Mr. X, by your own admission when you do these things what does it make you?

If they were being helpful --- they might say: Mr. X, would you agree that just because you made an isolated mistake it doesn't make you a liar and a thief but instead it makes you HUMAN !!!

Witness: Yes.

Of course, I am adding and changing the dialog and re-writing it. But, this idea kind of is like what some lie detector administrators do when they want to trip the guy up...... so you have stolen before and so you have lied before..... and you cheated on your wife --- you took an oath to God not to do that ..... so if you would lie to God ...... why should I believe you now ..... etc.

3rd degree .... to the 10th power.

One of many reasons not to take a lie detector test or to agree to be cross-examined by police officers.

Without knowing what kind of questions are going to be asked you have no control over the out-come of either a lie detector test or cross examination.

Police officers may even attempt to withhold the suspect's sleep or water -food or cigarettes to attempt to obtain an advantage while cross-examining the suspect and attempting to obtain a "confession" even if it is a false confession.

Yours in the Defense of Fellow Human Beings,

Glen R. Graham, Attorney for the Accused, Tulsa, Oklahoma http://www.tulsacriminaldefenses.com