A defense attorney was cross-examining a police officer during a felony trial. It went like this:
| Attourney: |
Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene? |
| Officer: |
No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender running several blocks away. |
| Attourney: |
Officer, who provided this description? |
| Officer: |
The officer who responded to the scene. |
| Attourney: |
A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers? |
| Officer: |
Yes sir, with my life. |
| Attourney: |
With your life? Let me ask you this then officer - do you have a locker room in the police station - a room where you change your clothes in preparation for you daily duties? |
| Officer: |
Yes sir, we do. |
| Attourney: |
And do you have a locker in that room? |
| Officer: |
Yes sir, I do. |
| Attourney: |
And do you have a lock on your locker? |
| Officer: |
Yes sir. |
| Attourney: |
Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with those same officers? |
| Officer: |
You see sir, we share the building with a court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room. |