Fox:
Geragos- Humor will go a long way in winning over the Jury. Jury less likely to convict while they are laughing.
This is sick.. If I were on the Jury I'd be insulted. I'd want to hear facts, details. He's hoping that they won't pay attention to those.
That was Stan Goldman singing Geragos's praises to O'Reilly...I switched channels...;(
It does bother me to hear that some juror is just yukking it up at Geragos' lame, compulsive joking.
But I can remember one time, at least, when I saw a criminal defense attorney (who had a better sense of humor than Geragos) who yukked it up like that--and it was a much less serious crime than murder--and the jury laughed along with him... then later came back with a GUILTY.
Prosecutors are taught to NEVER allow an opponent to draw them into such joking in front of the jury. Eventually, if the prosecutor remains serious, and the defense attorney keeps making a joke of the trial, sometimes the jury might come to think of the prosecutor as their "conscience", as in, "but he's reminding us that even though we like to laugh, this is really a serious matter."
A good defense attorney will tell his client NOT to be shaking his head no when a witness is testifying against him. Yet I heard that Scott WAS visibly shaking his head no when the witnesses were testifying against him. Don't do that, Scotty-poo: they say "guilty people do that."