* Lawyer: "How did you happen to go to Dr. Cherney?"

* Witness: "Well, a gal down the road had had several of her children by Dr. Cherney and said he was really good."

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* Lawyer: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?"

* Witness: "All my autopsies have been performed on dead people."

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* Lawyer: "Were you acquainted with the deceased?"

* Witness: "Yes sir."

* Lawyer: "Before or after he died?"

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* Lawyer: "Mrs. Jones, is your appearance this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?"

* Witness: "No. This is how I dress when I go to work."

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* The Court: "Now, as we begin, I must ask you to banish all present information and prejudice from your minds, if you have any."

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* Lawyer: "Did he pick the dog up by the ears?"

* Witness: "No."

* Lawyer: "What was he doing with the dog's ears?"

* Witness: "Picking them up in the air."

* Lawyer: "Where was the dog at this time?"

* Witness: "Attached to the ears."

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* Lawyer: "When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?"

* Other Lawyer: "Objection. That question should be taken out and shot."

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* Lawyer: "And lastly, Gary, all your responses must be oral. Ok? What school do you go to?"

* Witness: "Oral."

* Lawyer: "How old are you?"

* Witness: "Oral."

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* Lawyer: "What is your relationship with the plaintiff?"

* Witness: "She is my daughter."

* Lawyer: "Was she your daughter on February 13, 1979?"

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* Lawyer: "Now, you have investigated other murders, have you not, where there was a victim?"

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* Lawyer: "Now, doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most cases he just passes quietly away and doesn't know anything about it until the next morning?"

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* Lawyer: "And what did he do then?"

* Witness: "He came home, and next morning he was dead."

* Lawyer: "So when he woke up the next morning he was dead?"

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* Lawyer: "Did you tell your lawyer that your husband had offered you indignities?"

* Witness: "He didn't offer me nothing. He just said I could have the furniture."

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* Lawyer: "So, after the anesthesia, when you came out of it, what did you observe with respect to your scalp?"

* Witness: "I didn't see my scalp the whole time I was in the hospital."

* Lawyer: "It was covered?"

* Witness: "Yes, bandaged."

* Lawyer: "Then, later on...what did you see?"

* Witness: "I had a skin graft. My whole buttocks and leg were removed and put on top of my head."