Robert P. Taylor's JuryDuty: reflections on a trial
These were the three witnesses that I had time and occasion to sketch. There were many more, all presented by the Assistant District Attorney. The others included at least: (1) a neighbor of the victim, (2) a fire captain, (3) an EMS man, (4) a police woman, (5) a plastic surgeon and burn specialist, (6) a fingerprint "lifter", and (7) a fingerprint identifier. Some would have been wonderful sketch subjects, but either there was no interruption while any of them was on the stand or else we were sent out of the courtroom during the interruption.
What always amazes me on jury duty is the disagreement among witnesses about simple facts like time, or who was present. One always assumes that witnesses will remember everything exactly and that if one witness's testimony disagrees with another's, it is because one of them is trying to cover up something or wasn't really present or didn't really see what he or she testified to. In fact, after being in many trials, you can only conclude that most witnesses are very busy with preoccupations and duties that crowd out much of their memory or distract them from details that, after all, only become important in the trial's retrospective framework.