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Subject: Re: MOD: Tone it down please...this post is not admissible as evidence.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:16:53 12/17/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 13:34:02, Dennis Lothspeich wrote:

>On December 17, 1999 at 12:20:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 1999 at 06:04:27, robert michelena wrote:
>>
>>>Jerome, as a third year law student, I was only pointing out what to me is self
>>>evident; these assertions that the player on the other end of the internet
>>>connection used brain power to defeat a program would not be admissible in any
>>>court of law as valid evidence.  We call it hearsay.
>>
>>BTW, if you continue to use that definition of hearsay, you won't pass your
>>BAR.  If you ask _me_ on a witness stand whether _I_ have beaten a commercial
>>program at 40/2, and I say "yes" that is _not_ hearsay.  That is direct
>>testimony.  Hearsy would be if I responded "I haven't, but my friend told me
>>that he had."
>>
>
>I can confirm, as an attorney who has passed the Bar and been practicing for
>many years, that Dr. Hyatt is correct.  :-)


As a lawyer, you would appreciate something I heard on Paul Harvey the other
day.  Seems that a new attorney was doing lots of advertising explaining that
she was a family-law attorney.  The reason she was advertising so much as that
in the local Bell Yellow Pages, her attorney name/number was listed under
"reptiles".  :)

This was somewhere in California, maybe San Francisco, etc.



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