Sublime

Character: Show that the witness has been dishonest in other statements or actions, or has criminal convictions suggesting dishonesty.

“professional marriage”

Intent is the resolution to commit a crime.

Bias: Show that the witness is testifying under an immunity agreement or plea bargain, has a personal relationship with someone involved in the case, or is being paid for expertise.

“handsome and pretty and educated and white”, who, according to the Times, not only “believed they owned the world” but “had reason to”. She was from a Pittsburgh suburb, Upper St. Clair, the daughter of a retired Westinghouse senior manager. She had been Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, a graduate of the Yale School of Management, a congressional