Question lists

I have been wondering for a long time: do you make a list of questions to the witness? I made such letters. However, when I was in the courtroom and could ask questions from my list, I noticed that at least half of my questions had already been answered by a witness with questions other than those on my list, and I had at most a few questions left that seemed irrelevant to me or redacted so that they had to be reformuled or were just stupid. For a long time I stared at my list and wondered how to reformulate the questions. It took a really long time and aroused the consternation of the court, the representative of the other party and even the witness himself. And even me. How is it possible that precisely because I wanted to do better, I fared much worse than the Judge and The Representative of the Other Party. I was inept like Danny Snyder from the movie “Sleepy” entangled in a list of questions that never led to any punchline.

Gen. D. Eisenhower said that “war plans are completely useless, but planning is indispensable.” Similarly, it can be with a list of questions: I see the benefits of working on a list of questions. Often stupid and unproductive questions reveal their nature only on the list. As models her beauty only on the catwalk. The list is therefore used to discover questions that I will not ask.