A defense attorney was cross-examining
a
police officer during
a felony trial – it went like this:

Q.
Officer, did you see my client fleeing the scene?
A. No sir, but I
subsequently observed a person matching the
description of the offender
running several blocks away.

Q. Officer, who provided this
description?
A. The officer who responded to the scene.

Q. A
fellow officer provided the description of this so-
called offender. Do
you trust your fellow officers?
A. Yes sir, with my life.

Q.
With your life? Let me ask you this then officer – do you
have a
locker room in the police station – a room where you
change your clothes
in preparation for you daily duties?
A. Yes sir, we do.

Q.
And do you have a locker in that room?
A. Yes sir, I do.

Q. And
do you have a lock on your locker?
A. Yes sir.

Q. Now why is
it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers
with your life
, that you find it necessary to lock your locker
in a room you
share with those same officers?

A. You see sir, we share the
building with a court complex,
and sometimes lawyers have been known to
walk through that
room.