• Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

    John Henry Wigmore: Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.
    John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”
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