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Expert Witness (11/19)

posted 9 years ago by SBL84
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What the hell was that Plaintiff thinking?

If things went his way and he got his $4,000 from the Defendant, couldn't he be charged with perjury? According to Judge Milian, the transcripts from the case show that he testified that he wasn't being paid for his testimony. So as soon as he collects the payment for that testimony, that's clear proof he committed perjury.

Then he has the nerve to talk about how he did it in the interest of justice and he didn't care about being paid... and yet he's here, trying to get $4,000.

[–] LittleBrother55 9 years ago

Yeah, this is one of the many cases where the plaintiff's case gets thrown out because he doesn't have "clean hands".

Milian has so many cases where one or both sides have done something shady or shaky that they should be thrown out, but she generally sidesteps the "clean hands" concept and rules anyway.

But this plaintiff was, as the saying goes, as wrong as two left shoes.

The defendant seemed kind of weaselly to me, so at first I was rooting for the plaintiff. But once it became clear that the plaintiff had given false testimony, he proved himself to be the bigger weasel.