33rd / 424th District Courts

The following paraphrases an event in an actual case ...

Def Atty: Request the doctor step down and examine my client's foot.
(the doc complies)
Doc: (in response to some questions) Looks like burns and cuts on that foot.
Def Atty: Your Honor, request the jury be allowed to examine my client's foot.
The Court: If you think you're going to offer that foot in evidence, forget it.
Court Reporter: If they do, I don't want to be responsible for it!
Clerk: And I don't have a refrigerator to store it in!

Jury laughs. A lot. That exchange did serve to relieve some tension and provide some break in what had been otherwise pretty dry testimony.