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14 April 2008
The best court transcript evah.→[More:] The moral of the story: don't mess with court reporters. Especially if they're from Brooklyn.
That is a story that the convict will NOT tell in prison. I would think that you get absolutely no benefit to your reputation from being beat down by the court reporter.