Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Jane Starnes of Houston (Jane is an assistant district attorney for Harris County), this "hysterical" excerpt from a possession of cocaine case she tried last year.

Q. Now, you've admitted that you were pretty hysterical out there?

A. Calm.

Q. Oh, I thought a little while ago you said you were hysterical?

A. By my being hysterical meant being calm. I wasn't rowdy or anything like that.

Q. Hysterical means calm, to you?

A. Yes, it does.

Q. You weren't upset by seeing your mother sitting in the police car?

A. Yes, I was.

Q. And you weren't upset by seeing your brother being kept in the front yard there?

A. Yes, I was.

Q. But you are saying you were calm?

A. Yes, I was.

Q. Which is the same thing as hysterical, to you?

A. Uh-huh.

Full post as published by Say What! on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).