Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Randall B. Wilhite of Houston (Looper, Reed, etc.), this excerpt is from his direct examination of his client, the wife who "was requesting an unequal division of community property based on her husband being physically abusive toward her during the marriage."

Q. In April of 1993, did you and your husband have another altercation?

A. Yes.

Q. Describe to the court what happened.

A. He was trying to get into the computer where I had kept old records of our checking account for the company because he wanted to change them, and he couldn't - because I had it passworded.

Q. Did he ask you for the password?

A. Yes, but I said I wouldn't give it to him.

Q. What did he say?

A. He said that if I didn't give him the password, he was going to beat me.

Q. What did you say?

A. I told him, "Go to hell."

Q. What happened next?

A. He beat me.

Q. Why did you say a thing like that to him?

A. That was the password.

Q. What was the password?

A. Gotohell.

Q. Oh, that was the password?

A. Yes, that was the password.

Q. I see.

Full post as published by Say What! on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).