Lawyers Share "OH SH**" Moments In Court (r/AskReddit)

lawyers of Reddit what was your oh Sh moment in court satting on a personal injury case where the plaintiff broke their leg in an accident and had a doctor on the stand as an expert the woman's lawyer begins questioning the doctor about their experience with leg injuries he was a well-known orthopedic surgeon in the area she asks if he's ever treated a tubular fracture the leg bones are tibia and fibula to which he only answers no then she starts grilling him with questions about the tibula after about 6-7 questions she asks how did you get a medical license and have been able to practice medicine this long if you've never treated a tabular fracture and begins the small rant about going after his credentials and those that gave it to him to which he simply responds there is no bone named the tabular the lawyer became beat right and everyone in the room tried their best to keep from laughing including the judge I was representing a plaintiff in a hit and run case plaintiff is testifying in these despite me preparing them for several hours the previous day an absolutely terrible witness for her own case like she couldn't even identify the street she was crossing when she was hit by the car it was a major highway and we had gone through the sequence of events countless times the day before the hearing the ocean came during cross-examination defense counsel pulls out a picture of my client dressed up and ready to hit the club which was posted to Facebook the day after the alleged accident I thinking quickly object because the timestamp refers to when it was posted not when it was taken defense counsel's show the picture to my client and asked her when the picture was taken sure enough they say it was taken the day after the accident when she was supposedly an unbearable pain oh when I was in college I was a bailiff guy is on trial for murder first witness testified that she saw the defendant shoot the victim second witness states the same police officer testimony is that he arrived at the scene and defendant was there holding the gun coroner testimony is that the first bullet hit the victim in the arm the second bullet hit the victim in the torso and the third bullet hit the victim in the heart which was the fatal shot defendant yells out see that proves that I didn't kill him I only shot the mother affair twice I think this qualifies though it wasn't me that was the lawyer got called for jury duty was at the jury selection phase and they asked if anyone here thinks they should not bla bla defendant was in the room I raised my hand the defending lawyer looked at me like oh this ought to be good and asked me to explain I suggested I tell them in private he insisted I tell the courtroom I said okay I probably shouldn't be on this jury because I was on a previous jury for this man which returned a guilty verdict lawyers face went Oh sh commotion and a wait while they looked up records yet verified whole jury was now tainted everyone goes home and they start over I was involved in a pretty messy custody case the other party was a mess and had kept the child from my client for a few weeks Opie was playing lots of stupid games and kept requesting continuances I requested a drug test which the judge ordered however the opie didn't show up for it to clarify he did show up he just stood in front of the toilet for literally two hours and claimed he couldn't pee I was representing the plaintiffs so the burden was on me I called multiple witnesses that testified to the defendants drug use so opposing counsel decides to call their client for direct examination and asks you don't use heroine and crack right that is for the non-lawyers a very stupid question for many reasons especially considering his client didn't show up for his drug test however I fully expected the defendant to just lie and say he was clean after the question was asked there was a really long pause of the defendant said yes I do both of those drugs my head almost exploded I didn't ask any questions on cross-examination because I didn't want to muddy the waters I won and the child is doing great not mine but my bosses won she had to defend a small-time delinquent as duty solicitor before going to court he asked her what he should do she explained to him if he was cooperative and truthful his sentence would be milder after hearing the case the judge asked him if he wanted to AB something he got up and explained to the judge my counsel told me to be truthful so I wanted to tell you that I not only did the robbery I'm being heard for but also several others in the region he continued to admit to several robberies that had been unsolved yet and everyone even the state attorney were faster perming literally the first thing I ever did was just a law student intern guy has alleged defense on a drug-possession case drugs found in a jacket guy wasn't wearing jacket they were going to have a very difficult time proving the jacket belonged to my guy had a long meeting with client explained everything client was excited day of the preliminary hearing guy shows up and sits down directly in front of the officer who arrested him input error number one while wearing the jacket in question the exact same jacket we were going to say they couldn't prove belong to him not in court but at a tribunal and also I was plaintiff suing for wrongful termination my rap say you terminated him because he was ill employer yes mr and he was ill because he's disabled employer yes mr so you fired someone for being disabled employer yes was in court for a directions hearing the judge was already in a bad mood and asked why we were here for such a seemingly pointless litigation without giving details he was right the barrister starts to make our case and I am taking notes about areas we need to further explore when I hear excuse any why were you so rule allude to any the client who had been told to not come had come to court that day and was evidently incensed by the judge questioning the merit of their case they belated the judge for about three minutes with me and my co-counsel first stunned and then trying to shut them up before he adjourned the hearing the case did not go very well to my clients surprise and fury big sigh not me but my former law partner she was in court representing a client I think in a hearing for a restraining order against her soon-to-be ex-husband our client was telling the judge that when they met to exchange the children for visitation the ex had kicked her he immediately angrily shouted she can't prove it I didn't leave mark thanks buddy two moments in a DUI trial one passenger is testifying for drivers sobriety when the DA asks her you keep saying he was sober but are you even tipped certified a course for bartenders so they can recognize drunk patrons she was to the head of the County's blood lab accidentally admitted he cranked the sensitivity of his machines way up because he was experimenting probably the funniest one I ever came across happened to a colleague we were prosecutors then 18 year-old defendant applying for bail he needed a residential address and got his dad to show up at court to confirm that the family home was available to him defense lawyer gets old dad to confirm that son can stay at family home dad says yes my fellow prosecutor gets up and asks dad do you really want him home dad goes off the deep end Jesus the grief he's brought me and his mother out all hours taking drugs hiding stolen property and the garage all night parties I'm on antidepressants and the wife's had a nervous breakdown dad goes off on one for five solid minutes as the defendant gets taken back to the cells he calls out thanks dad I owe you one person I was representing was on trial for assault in the third degree in DUI in my state a three means you've assaulted an aid worker or police officer and is a felony the allegations are that he was very verbally abusive to the officers and at one point kicked one in the face we're sitting at the defendants table and the officer is testifying about the statements my guy made to him including some pretty horrific name-calling out of nowhere my client screams you're a fine liar fu you son of a B we lost that trial another time the judge asked a client whether anyone had coerced him into pleading guilty and he said yeah my attorney I abouts my pants but he laughed and said I'm joking no obligatory I know but in a pre mediation meeting once for an uninsured motorist claim uninsured had alleged that she couldn't walk without the aid of a cane and had a pronounced limp after an accident due to low back injury and a shooting pain in her right leg the doctor notes didn't support anything but a subjective and jury after a few weeks but she was still treating two years later and going to new physicians so we had her followed covered lis to see if she was really using the cane and had a limb etc we got footage of her carrying like four grocery bags in each arm to her car in a Walmart parking lot walking perfectly fine when she got to her car she even opened the trunk of her SUV without putting any backs down and lifted the gate with any partway her elderly mother was with her using a particularly decorative purple cane with a flower pattern on it they followed her to a doctor appointment an hour later and she's on video using her mother's cane and walking with a limp that would give Forrest Gump a run for his money never did follow up on how that played in the mediation but I can only imagine it gave some attorney in a sh moment not a lawyer but a defendant as a teenager I got busted with a couple of buddies throwing eggs at cars we were only actually in the courtroom for our sentencing there was no trial the judge called each of us up individually to ask us if we had anything to say one of my friends tells the judge that he is a good kid who doesn't normally do things like this ly we used to do it all the time and that I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time I wish there was a video of my friend and I sitting in the benches watching this happen we simultaneously dropped our heads into our hands because we couldn't believe that it he had just said that the judge was not pleased and she took the opportunity to remind him that going to a store buying eggs going to another location across town and then throwing those eggs at cars was not just being in the wrong place at the wrong time I'm not a lawyer but I was the character witness for my childhood dog in a civil trial between our neighbors and my parents opposing counsel was questioning me I wasn't even out of elementary school at the time and he asked if our dog was aggressive she was a Rottweiler and very loving and incredibly protective of me and my siblings his final question to me as one I will never forget he asked did your father tell you what to say before you came into court today I responded yes then he asked what did he tell you to say I said the truth now I was too young to remember the courtroom reaction but according to my father the judge audibly guffawed of the opposing counsel lost all the wind out of his sails [Music]

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Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Thu May 23 2019