Today is 11/07/2024, Post #2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_question

Leading question

From Wikipedia

A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed. The use of leading questions in court[where?] to elicit testimony is restricted in order to reduce the ability of the examiner to direct or influence the evidence presented. Depending on the circumstances, leading questions can be objectionable or proper.

The propriety of leading questions generally depends on the relationship of the witness to the party conducting the examination. An examiner may generally ask leading questions of a hostile witness or on cross-examination ("Will help to elicit the testimony of a witness who, due to age, incapacity, or limited intelligence, is having difficulty communicating their evidence"), but not on direct examination (to "coach" the witness to provide a particular answer).

Example

Leading questions may often be answerable with a yes or no (though not all yes–no questions are leading). Leading questions are distinct from loaded questions, which are objectionable because they contain implicit assumptions (such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" indirectly asserting that the subject both has a wife, and has beaten her at some point).









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High Plains Drifter (1973)

Quotes

The Stranger: Wonder what took her so long to get mad?

Mordecai: Because maybe you didn't go back for more?









Back to the Future II

Biff: Bulletproof vest ! Great flick ! Great frigging flick ! The guy is brilliant. What the hell's going... What the hell are you doing in here ?

Marty McFly: Party's over, Biff.









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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Quotes

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is this Mickey Mouse shit? What in the name of Jesus H. Christ are you animals doing in my head? Why is Private Pyle out of his bunk after lights-out? Why is Private Pyle holding that weapon? Why aren't you stomping Private Pyle's guts out?

Private Joker: Sir, it is the private's duty to inform the senior drill instructor that Private Pyle has a full magazine that is locked and loaded, Sir!

[pause]

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slowly and strictly] Now, you listen to me, Private Pyle. And you listen good. I want that weapon, and I want it now. You will place that rifle on the deck at your feet, and step back away from it.

[Private Pyle grins and aims the rifle at Hartman]

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [raising his voice] What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?









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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Quotes

Eleanor Shaw: I will do whatever is necessary to protect America from anyone who opposes her. I can't... am I the only person in this room who's been reading these NSA reports?

Congressman Healy: I've read them.

Eleanor Shaw: All right, then. You know... you know we are on the brink of another cataclysm, probably nuclear, on our own soil.

Congresswoman Becket: Oh, Ellie, that's a bit extreme.









High Plains Drifter (1973)

You know what you are? Just trash. A bottle of whiskey for courage and the manners of a goat.

You're the one who could use a lesson in manners.

Not from you, whiskey breath.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:24 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 11/07/2024