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- Disorder in the Court: a Collection of 'Transquips'
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- Q. Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?
- A. By death.
- Q. And by whose death was it terminated?
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- Q. What is your name?
- A. Ernestine McDowell.
- Q. And what is your marital status?
- A. Fair.
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- Q. Are you married?
- A. No, I'm divorced.
- Q. And what did your husband do before you divorced him?
- A. A lot of things I didn't know about.
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- Q. Do you know how far pregnant you are right now?
- A. I will be three months November 8th.
- Q. Apparently then, the date of conception was August 8th?
- A. Yes.
- Q. What were you and your husband doing at that time?
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- Q. Doctor, how many autopsies have you peformed on dead people?
- A. All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.
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- Q. What happened then?
- A. He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because you can identify me."
- Q. Did he kill you?
- A. No.
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- THE COURT: Now, as we begin, I must ask you to banish all present
- information and prejudice from your minds, if you have any.
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- Q. You say you had three men punching at you, kicking you, raping you,
- and you didn't scream?
- A. No ma'am.
- Q. Does that mean you consented?
- A. No, ma'am. That means I was unconscious.
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- Q. Did he pick the dog up by the ears?
- A. No.
- Q. What was he doing with the dog's ears?
- A. Picking them up in the air.
- Q. Where was the dog at this time?
- A. Attached to the ears.
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- Q. When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were
- able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not
- to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she,
- with him to the station?
- MR. BROOKS: Objection. That question should be taken out and shot.
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