Most people do not know the honorable Robert B. Reich was once a practicing attorney before he wiggled into academia, and he had a reputation for brilliant cross-examinations. When Reich was finished with a witness there would be nothing left of them.
There was only one witness whom got the best of Young Reich, and the case involved an alleged sexual assault by Mr. Reich's client on a very large young Irish woman. Seems the young woman had had too much alcohol to drink one night and the next morning she awoke in her bed with the accused lying next to her. She determined she had been violated and called the police.
Under cross-examination Reich cooly stated, "Mam, you would have this court believe that just because you awake next to a man in your bed, that you have been sexually assaulted? Why you could just as easily make such an accusation against me. Tell the court what would you think if you woke up one morning and found me lying in your bed?"
The large woman studied, Reich for a moment and responded, "Well sir, I would have thought I had had a miscarriage!"
This is the Tale and parts of it are true.
All was lifted from Mark Twain's volume III Autobiography! The names were changed to protect the guilty.
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Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Mark Twain Fan Club and the Urban Poverty Law Center
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