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MN lawyer ordered to apologize to x-examined cop

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defense lawyer defies judge's unusual order to apologize to cop | Lawyer David McCormick let the deadline pass Tuesday without apologizing; the next step is unclear: When criminal defense lawyers cross-exam police officers on the witness stand in court, it's not unusual for the questioning to becomes aggressive and testy. But in Washington County earlier this month, District Court Judge Gregory Galler decided that defense attorney David McCormick went too far when his questions suggested an officer was being less than truthful. Galler ordered McCormick to write an apology to the police officer for "impugning the officer's integrity," according to court documents. . . . Joe Friedberg, an outspoken criminal defense lawyer for 45 years, said, "If a judge ordered me to do that, I would tell him to go have intercourse with himself...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).