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During a three week trial, the insurance carrier\'s attorney kept arguing that \'they have no witness to prove\' a certain key point. We must have heard it 20 times. We argued that there were more witnesses, but the defense was hiding those people\'s identities so they weren\'t deposed and would not be testifying at the trial. During the closing arguments, the defense attorney stopped his argument, walked behind his table and opened a banker\'s box, then closed it and resumed his argument without mentioning what he was looking for. When it was my turn to argue, I said to the jury, \"For a moment, I thought their attorney was going to pull out at that witness. You know, their \'missing\' manager who has never come to court or given his deposition.\" The defense attorney had inadvertently highlighted the huge difference between a missing witness from a hiding or hidden witness. The jury did the right thing on that case. That is the case of the Witness Hiding in a Box.
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