You can interrupt her witnesses,
you can even ignore what she says or refuse what she may request.
But always let her have her say. We can't have her complaining that
she didn't get a fair hearing." Henry remembered how he had laughed
at the simplicity of that strategy.
Concerning what she was saying now, Henry wasn't about to pay
any attention. The objections Trenchant was making were important,
having to do with the evidence. The writing used as standards
were still not authenticated. The copies of microfiche files
were almost unreadable due to their being covered with dots and black lines.
In contention were the extra standards that this analyst had requested
since he could not be sure of the authorship of the `suspect' SmurFFs
using the same standards provided to the first analyst.
"You are not following any rules of evidence here,"
Trenchant was continuing. "You are just submitting things
on a whim. You have given this examiner copies--very bad copies--
of material supposedly from my personnel file covering a period
of over twenty years. Even if authentic, these documents contain
the handwriting or printing of at least seven other people,
posibly more, and I see nothing that delineates which of all these
different writings is supposed to be the standard," she argued.
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