I saw a 1990s vintage movie recently with a neat trial scene. The lawyer protagonist was defending a client charged with murder. The case turned chiefly on a woman eyewitness who saw the crime as she was coming out of a convenience store with newly purchased diapers in her hands. Defense counsel seemed to be fishing for some way to shake her testimony. Her asked why she had needed the diapers so suddenly so late at night. Prosecutor: "Objection. Your honor, does counsel not know why a mother needs to buy diapers?" The judge admonishes the defense counsel on his fishing, counsel promises he's getting to the point. "Don't you usually buy diapers before you need them?" "Well yes, of course, we usually keep a supply in the hallway closet. I was sure I had just seen a bag of them...." Ah ha! Counsel's eyes light up as he bores in to make a point about the unreliability of memories of what one's eyes had seen. ...
