DON'T CRY For Me

It was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who said: "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now". While tears may be common in movies and on stage, it is rare to find them employed by legal counsel. In the course of a trial in the United States, where the jury system operates in serious cases, counsel for the plaintiff was weeping openly during his conduct of the prosecution case.

The action was instituted by a young lady in Tennessee who was seduced under promise of marriage. In court, counsel for the aggrieved lady, in the middle of a very eloquent and impassioned appeal to the jury, shed tears and unduly excited the sympathies of the jury in favour of the plaintiff and greatly ...

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