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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Leading questions are absolutely useless for getting information. You only ask them when you already know the answer and are fishing for confirmation.
Dealing with presumably hostile witnesses in a courtroom does not call for the same techniques as conducting media interviews with people you have to work with regularly.
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I suggest you not tell me my business.
We use leading Q’s all the time in discovery. And that’s not because we know the answer. It’s because we want to elicit one.
ETA: Her question of “what do you think” wasn’t actually leading either. It had a premise and invited comment on the premise. That’s not what a leading question is. A leading question suggests the actual answer.