Opinion ID: 669733
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Interjection of opinion during the examination of a witness

Text: 51 While cross-examining Kyle Taylor, a government witness, the defendant's attorney asked the following question relating to the prosecutor's prior interview of the witness: 52 Q. So you tried to tell the truth, but she [the prosecutor] didn't want to hear about it? 53 Responding to this direct attack, on re-direct examination, the prosecutor sought to elicit from the defendant that at no time did she intimate that she was not interested in the truth. The questions were as follows: 54 Q. And it was on [November 25th] that you told me that your story had changed from our earlier meeting of November 6, 1992, isn't that right. 55 A. ... yeah ... 56 Q. Well, we had another meeting at my office.... And that's when you told me you sort of thought about it, and you decided your earlier story wasn't exactly right? 57 A. Right. 58 Q. And maybe Mark Patterson didn't have a gun? 59 A. No. He didn't have one. 60