Timeline for What remedies can a witness use to satisfy the "all the truth" portion of their oath?
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| Dec 21, 2024 at 17:37 | comment | added | Barmar | Isn't "nothing but the truth" the phrase that means you won't commit perjury? | |
| Apr 13, 2023 at 20:07 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @DarrelHoffman Allowing judges to ask their own questions is allowed in some jurisdictions but it is a minority position. | |
| Apr 13, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Can judges not ask their own questions in most jurisdictions? I can understand not letting the jury ask questions, but my impression is that the judge has a bit more freedom to run their court how they see fit, including asking questions of the witness... | |
| Apr 12, 2023 at 16:27 | comment | added | supercat | What should happen if the witness says he saw a ___, using some obscure idiom which sounds similar to a common English word or phrase which means something completely different [e.g. saying someone had the perceptive ability of a bat might mean the person was blind, or that the person had excellent perceptive abilities even in conditions of darkness]. If, while watching the procedings, the witness can tell that an idiom has been misunderstood by all concerned, is there any manner in which the witness can ask the court's indulgence to clarify what was meant? | |
| Apr 12, 2023 at 15:53 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @vsz Competent lawyers learn what key witnesses will say before they are on the stand in trial and know when to follow up due to circumstances like this one. | |
| Apr 12, 2023 at 7:53 | comment | added | Trish | ...and wholly ineffective in inquisitorial systems, where the main querent is the Judge and not the lawyers of either side. | |
| Apr 12, 2023 at 4:37 | comment | added | vsz | @Mattman944 : the problem here is a hypothetical case where the response of the witness is a sentence which is grammatically built up in such a way, that if the last word or the last few words are cut off, then it has the exact opposite meaning. And if the sentence with the end cut off is also grammatically correct, no one would know that it was not what the witness intended to say, except for the witness who is no longer allowed to say anything. | |
| Apr 11, 2023 at 18:14 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |