A courtroom quotation (from things people said)

• Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"

• Witness: "No."

• Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"

• Witness: "No."

• Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"

• Witness: "No."

• Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"

• Witness: "No."

• Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"

• Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."

• Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"

• Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."