golfmom
Former Member
Stanley's Sidelights from the trial ....
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/opinions/702694,4_4_1_JO19_COMMENT_S1.article
But since the case has gone to the jury, it's time to dip into the bonus features and look at the dialogue and stage directions from some deleted scenes.
1. Defense attorney Robert Smith asks a police officer about his canine unit.
Smith: And what is the name of the dog?
Witness: Scanner. S-C-A-N-N-E-R.
Judge John Darrah: Are you going to call the dog, Mr. Smith?
Smith: I might. (to the witness) Is Scanner still with us?
Witness: No, he's not.
Smith: That's why I'm not calling him.
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5. Plaintiff's attorney Doug Johnson questions Deputy Chief Nick Ficarello about the food he brought for investigators on the night of Fox's interview.
Johnson: You got 20 to 30 hamburgers because you knew it was going to be all night, didn't you?
Ficarello: Some of us were hungry ... Everybody knows police like doughnuts and police like hamburgers. (Jurors snicker, but Darrah glares at a reporter in the audience who has burst out laughing. In the interest of fairness, we won't describe the reporter.)
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/opinions/702694,4_4_1_JO19_COMMENT_S1.article
But since the case has gone to the jury, it's time to dip into the bonus features and look at the dialogue and stage directions from some deleted scenes.
1. Defense attorney Robert Smith asks a police officer about his canine unit.
Smith: And what is the name of the dog?
Witness: Scanner. S-C-A-N-N-E-R.
Judge John Darrah: Are you going to call the dog, Mr. Smith?
Smith: I might. (to the witness) Is Scanner still with us?
Witness: No, he's not.
Smith: That's why I'm not calling him.
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5. Plaintiff's attorney Doug Johnson questions Deputy Chief Nick Ficarello about the food he brought for investigators on the night of Fox's interview.
Johnson: You got 20 to 30 hamburgers because you knew it was going to be all night, didn't you?
Ficarello: Some of us were hungry ... Everybody knows police like doughnuts and police like hamburgers. (Jurors snicker, but Darrah glares at a reporter in the audience who has burst out laughing. In the interest of fairness, we won't describe the reporter.)