[80823] in Cypherpunks
pathology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Secret Squirrel)
Thu May 29 09:43:42 1997
Date: 29 May 1997 12:51:58 -0000
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
Reply-To: Secret Squirrel <nobody@secret.squirrel.owl.de>
This was taken from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office
publication "The Point of View":
In a murder trial, the defense attorney was cross examining a pathologist.
Here's what happened:
ATTORNEY: Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the pulse?
CORONER: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you listen to the heart?
CORONER: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
CORONER: No.
ATTORNEY: So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren't sure the
man was dead, were you?
CORONER: Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a
jar on my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there
practicing law somewhere.
