• Verbatim: What is a Photocopier?
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[video=youtube;PZbqAMEwtOE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE[/video] Original Deposition (video takes place at about page 280 of the pdf): [URL="http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=687295.pdf"]http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=687295.pdf[/URL]
Fantastic. They keep going and going in the document too, it's great.
Wait hold on, this actually happened during a court interrogation? Wow.
That was a thrill to watch.
It's shit like this that makes me really hate how court cases work in the American justice system. You can just spew some general bullshit or legal precedents and make the case run circles around itself. It's disgusting.
why couldn't the interrogator define what he means by a photocopier though?
This makes me think of the "I know what it is, I just want to see that you know," crap from the tradition of bullshitting that small children have with each other.
[QUOTE=barttool;44683518]why couldn't the interrogator define what he means by a photocopier though?[/QUOTE] He does, but the dude refuses to understand.
That ending is what got me.
[QUOTE=barttool;44683518]why couldn't the interrogator define what he means by a photocopier though?[/QUOTE] He didn't want to out of stubbornness. He wanted to force the guy to admit he was incompetent.
Also, the moment you star defining things, you can deny them if you are not completely and utterly exact in your wording and make things even more difficult. Which is what this is all about, feigning ignorance for the sake of using up the allotted time the questioner has.
well, if he can define what a photocopier is, he could have simply ended with: "You call a 'Xerox' a machine that can copy the contents of one piece of paper into another piece of paper (whatever was the exact definition he used in the dialogue). People in an office setting also define 'photocopier' as a machine that can copy the contents of one piece of paper into another piece of paper. From those two propositions, we can conclude that what you call 'xerox' is a photocopier, and that the two terms can be interchangeable, do you agree? (the man would have to say yes) in that case, you are saying that in your office, you have photocopier, yes or no? [editline]30th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=cherry gmod;44684172]Also, the moment you star defining things, you can deny them if you are not completely and utterly exact in your wording and make things even more difficult. Which is what this is all about, feigning ignorance for the sake of using up the allotted time the questioner has.[/QUOTE] Can't they consult the transcriber for the exact wording they just used?
I don't understand what the whole issue was to begin with?
[QUOTE=Corewarp3;44685650]I don't understand what the whole issue was to begin with?[/QUOTE] What is a photocopier.
[QUOTE=Corewarp3;44685650]I don't understand what the whole issue was to begin with?[/QUOTE] The issue of the case is that the County recorder office was charging $2 a page for copies of files in their records, which is pretty extreme. Many documents can run on to 100 pages or more. My guess is they were trying to get info to prove that the document copying process isn't worth that much. Which led to them inquiring this guy about the photocopiers available to him.
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