[count-your-change]

One cannot be both a witnesses in a trial and an advocate and any appearance that they might be one eliminates their position as the other.

Isn’t that what the judge was saying? and No, and it wasn’t denied.

[muawiyah]

Again, the judge claims "secret" testimony. She's swapping places with the prosecutor ~ and we (Americans) don't do it that way. The funny little foreign guys do.

So a compromise position would probably be to remove the judge, remove the defense counsel, remove the prosecutor (I have problems with the Philadelphia crowd as I've said several times) and the way to do that is to change the venue ~ hopefully to some place where they aren't otherwise preoccupied with protecting pedophilia.

[metmom]

The judge was obviously letting him know so they could deal with the situation.

He needed to make a decision.

And as for blowing a gasket over the fact that the prosecution and judge saw the materials before he did, well, that is going to happen, isn’t it?

How would it be physically possible for the prosecution to pull together all the materials and decide what it’s going to use and not see it FIRST???

Duh! Of course they’re going to know what they’re using before the defense finds out.

The defense lawyer is showing gross unprofessional behavior. Any lawyer who cannot control himself in the courtroom like that is too immature to be handling the case. If he’s upset, fine, he’s upset. But to rage like that and name call and hurl accusations. He’s fortunate indeed that the judge exercised more self-control than he did.