You have not been able to obtain a copy of the conviction. As you approach this area of your cross examination, you put down the notebook you have been using, cross over to counsel table, and pick up a file folder containing a single sheet of paper with some printing on it. It looks like some kind of form. In fact it is a mockup of a criminal conviction form prepared by your paralegal with the details of the offense filled in. The dog attacked me first.
Several jurors look at the witness with disgust and loathing.
For the last 5 years you have been working for a firm which represents the Atlantic Bank in much of its real estate lending activities. In March of this year you leave this firm to join 3 other young lawyers who have founded a litigation-oriented boutique. Shortly after your arrival at the new firm, a community group in your city approaches the firm about bringing a class action against the Atlantic Bank and the other bank in town based on discriminatory home mortgage lending practices. Jack contracts a deadly ailment. Shortly before his death he reveals to you in a confidential conversation that he is the person who broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and made off with the priceless art treasures there.