Making Objections

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  • If the attorney is being aggressive or rude to the witness
  • “Objection, your honor, argumentative/opposing council is badgering the witness”
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Compound Question`

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  • When a question has multiple parts (“you went to the park and then walked home and then you saw …”)
  • “Objection, your honor, this is a compound question”
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Argumentative

  • If the attorney is being aggressive or rude to the witness
  • “Objection, your honor, argumentative/opposing council is badgering the witness”
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Compound Question`

  • When a question has multiple parts (“you went to the park and then walked home and then you saw …”)
  • “Objection, your honor, this is a compound question”
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Completion

  • When opposing council asks a question while the witness is still speaking
  • “Objection, your honor, I ask that my witness be allowed to finish their answer”
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Lack of Personal Knowledge

  • When ops-council has not introduced evidence to show that the witness has knowledge about a certain event
  • “Objection, your honor, lack of personal knowledge” → Explain what they lack knowledge about
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Speculation

  • When a regular witness gives an opinion they’re not qualified to give regarding the state of mind of someone else (what they saw, heard, felt, wanted)
  • “Objection, your honor, speculation
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Lack of Foundation

  • Use this when ops-council tries to make a witness an expert without providing credible context
  • “Objection, your honor, opposing council has not laid proper foundation to show that this witness is qualified as an expert in __ field” → and why
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Hearsay

  • When the question calls for hearsay or the witness testifies to hearsay
  • “Objection, your honor, this is hearsay” → why (if the ope-council says otherwise)
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Improper Impeachment

  • When ops-council tries to impeach your witness, but there was no contradiction between the affidavit and the testimony
  • “Objection, your honor, this was an improper impeachment. No contradiction was elicited, so any statements read from the affidavit are hearsay”