One Step Ahead

[Lownumba]

I was involved in an administrative law action (not with the SEC but the same friendly federal government). It was not to be confused with an episode of Judge Judy.

The judge ruled on various procedural points during the hearing but asked no questions himself. Like the judge in this sordid matter, he was an employee of the agency initiating the action. It showed.

And not one attorney asked one witness one question to which he did already know the answer. It was simply a matter of getting everything on the record. As I've said before, it was a Roy Beanesque case of "Let's give them a fair trial and then hang them."

Old Jug Ears would be a wild card on the stand. No one wants that.