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Jasmine Crockett: “Child witnesses are always difficult [to cross-examine]…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 32:30

And you have to be very like, you don't want anything that you do to a. To a witness to then reflect poorly upon your client. And so that's why Child witnesses are always difficult [to cross-examine] because you look like a villain as a grown person, crossing them hard. So y' all have seen me in committee. Y' all see how I can go for the jugular on some people. Like, when it comes, like, there's this balance that you have to walk. (32:30–32:34)

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Asserts that cross-examining child witnesses is challenging because it can make the attorney appear villainous.

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