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the re-questioning of a witness who has already been questioned by the other side in court
- Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.p. 237.1
cross-examination = re-questioning a witness who has already been questionied by the other side in court
- Jem was not one to dwell on past defeats: it seemed the only message he got from Atticus was insight into the art of cross examination.p. 68.8
- This was as much as I heard of Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination, because Jem made me take Dill out.p. 265.4
- Well, Mr. Finch didn't act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them.p. 266.3
- Which reminded me that we were missing nearly all of Mr. Gilmer's cross-examination.p. 269.6
- It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.p. 271.7
cross-examined = re-questioned a witness who had already been questioned by the other side in court
There are no more uses of "cross-examination" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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