“Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I'm not crazy, isn't that crazy?” ― Captain Jack Sparrow
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. -VOLTARE
A hypothetical question is one asked out of interest, as the answer will have no effect on the situation.
JUDGE MATZ: "Okay. I'm going to prevent the witness
from answering the question, because this is my standard
practice. Ladies and gentlemen [of the jury], "we" all know that "anything is
possible."
"But either way, you're going to trial, unless you decided that there's an alternative thing you want to do, and I'm hoping you won't, which is plead guilty." ~Judge Howard Matz, Pretrial of Killercop. 01.14.2003
"[And] in the year 2025 we're still trying to figure out if you've got a lawyer that's going to be okay for you the way you see it.
That's not going to happen because at some point I have the power and "the obligation" to find that you have waived your right to have a lawyer re-present you. And then you're going to trial on your own.
"Hypothetical questions are asked out of interest and should not have an affect on any situation. Most people, when hiding that they are asking a question for themselves, will say 'hypothetically speaking.'"
"But i think the way to really get the question ‘framed’ in a way that i think would assist me, is to ask it this way,...
Doctor, hypothetically speaking, to the extent that it's an inherent function of a criminal defense attorney in representing effectively the best interest of his client, to explore with the prosecutor, a reasonable plea agreement that might limit some "downside risks" to the defendant; and, two, secondly, to the extent that that attorney then has an "obligation" to discuss with the defendant, the discussions the attorney may have had with the prosecutor; do you think that the combination of those two things would make it difficult for Killercop to work with his attorney, whoever that attorney is?