JAG1995

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
[about Singer's cross-examination of Harriet] What the hell were you doing in there?

Lt. Loren Singer:
Discrediting the witness, sir.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
You attack her testimony to put doubt in the members' mind, Lieutenant. You attack her, you look like a bully.

Lt. Loren Singer:
They saw she wasn't objective.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
They saw a lawyer attacking a woman who lost her baby.

Lt. Loren Singer:
That was my point, sir.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
You brought her to tears, Lieutenant. You made her sympathetic.

Lt. Loren Singer:
The members knew what I was doing, sir.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Two of the members are women who have children.

Lt. Loren Singer:
She was a strong witness, sir. I decided it was a risk worth taking.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Well that's not your decision to make, is it? Where'd you get this dream stuff from, anyway?

Lt. Loren Singer:
Harriet told petty officer Tiner. He told me this morning.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
I should have been informed.

Lt. Loren Singer:
Would you have used it, sir?

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Not the way you did. You hurt us in there, Lieutenant.

Lt. Loren Singer:
I thought it was our best shot, sir.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Our best shot comes this afternoon when we present our case. I'll be conducting both the direct and the cross.

Lt. Loren Singer:
Are you implying I'm a bad lawyer, sir?

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Just inexperienced, Lieutenant, and without wisdom.

Lt. Loren Singer:
Permission to speak freely, sir.

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.:
Denied. That'll be all.