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The Most Challenging Cross Examination

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Oh, I think Westmoreland. I think Westmoreland. As they say, he was a very sympathetic witness, a very admirable person in many respects, somebody who I think the jury instinctively recognized as an American patriot. And the necessity was not to extract a admission of some substance, it was to make the just believe that this was a liar. That this was someone who had misled the American people.

So, not only was he an extremely difficult person to cross-examine generally, but he was extraordinarily difficult person given his character and appearance to make the jury believe that this person would have lied to the American people.

New York Litigation attorney, David Boies, reflects on the person who was the most challenging for him to cross-examine.

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