A young female athlete girl breaks her leg playing soccer. After treating the fracture the doctor sees the potential of a more serious condition and calls her back. While he is doing the tests she begins to study the diagnosis, treatment and outcome of the treatment and in doing so she encounters something disturbing. Are all the surgeries being done for this condition necessary?
“I did that? How?”
“I am not sure how you knew how to answer but you did.”
She looked up and smiled. “I didn’t do it. I prayed going to the stand that I would help the case. Then I just told the truth. The bible says the truth will make you free. I was scared going up. After he asked the first question I wasn’t scared any more.”
“The first answer was good but I never expected it.”
“My parents taught me to call people Mr. and Mrs. to be proper. This was a proper setting and I didn’t think he knew me well enough to call me Laura.”
Sam laughed.
“But he is a lawyer. He should know English. He used “can” instead of “may”. It was wrong grammar. I had been looking at him like some great man, someone I was not worthy to talk to and he did that. I lost respect for him. He was just a person like me. Then he kept changing his mind, I think he was trying to confuse me into saying something that wasn’t true. That is why I refused to respond to the statements. I wanted time to be sure my answer was right.”
“That is always good, to be sure you are answering the question right.”
“And he wanted me to answer a question about the law. He is a lawyer. I am not. I answered it the way I did because I am sure he wanted to trap me.”
As Sam walked away he shook his head. She had seen the traps and avoided them. And he knew why they thought he had coached her, but he also knew he could never have done that well. A commitment to truth, good teaching both at home and school, and Sam was sure some help from her prayer had set a tone for the trial.
If anyone thought the expert’s direct testimony was dry the cross examination topped it. Sam had moved it along with some humor and banter, keeping the jurors attention. With the cross jurors nodded, not a good sign for the examining lawyer. The cross examination extended beyond lunch. At two thirty Goldstine finally said, “I have no more questions.”
Sam asked two questions on re-cross and the witness was excused.
The testimony from other witnesses went on for two more days.
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