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The prosecutor asking about Laura's panties

posted 12 years ago by novastar_6
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Boy that prosecutor would probably love having me on the stand to grill, he kept going on about it's ridiculous that Laura does NOT know which pair of her panties is missing, that she doesn't know how many of which color she has, etc. Maybe he's got the days stitched onto all of his shorts, but if it were me I wouldn't know either, I couldn't say how many pairs I have, how many are which color, which ones were missing, etc., granted it would probably be easier with only 8 pairs in 2 colors, but I thought that was a stupid point to try and bring up. It's not like he asked which sweater is missing, which skirt was missing, that would be easy to remember, underwear is something else.

[–] Zanza8 12 years ago

I heard an FBI profiler talk about that once-how people always say nothing is missing, but how would they know if someone took a pair of panties or something?

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[–] novastar_6 12 years ago

It wouldn't happen to be John E. Douglas, would it?

Anyway, it's a good point, unless you had one of each pair like one of each color and one of each print, etc. Something like that, but if you're like normal people and buy packs of the same kinds, then yeah it would be hard to know.

[–] liscarkat-2 12 years ago

Good point. I have no idea exactly how many underpants I have, or how many of each color. Police interrogators in movies also always ask people what they were doing at a certain time on a certain night in the past. There, I would also be screwed. I couldn't tell you exactly where I was or what I was doing on the night of ________________.

[–] freerun250 12 years ago

When he read the tag with the name of the store and city I thought she had her name in there and he was going to read it! I agree, I now have my MIL living with me and I kept throwing one pair in with her stuff and seeing it appear back on the washer, I finally realized they were mine. :)

[–] drxcreatures 10 years ago

ILR? He was just trying to get her to mess up her testimony.

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