A defense attorney was cross-examining a police officer during a felony trial. It went like this:
| Attourney: | Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene? |
| Officer: | No sir, but I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender running several blocks away. |
| Attourney: | Officer, who provided this description? |
| Officer: | The officer who responded to the scene. |
| Attourney: | A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers? |
| Officer: | Yes sir, with my life. |
| Attourney: | With your life? Let me ask you this then officer – do you have a locker room in the police station – a room where you change your clothes in preparation for you daily duties? |
| Officer: | Yes sir, we do. |
| Attourney: | And do you have a locker in that room? |
| Officer: | Yes sir, I do. |
| Attourney: | And do you have a lock on your locker? |
| Officer: | Yes sir. |
| Attourney: | Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with those same officers? |
| Officer: | You see sir, we share the building with a court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room. |
