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With this rule in place, and with prosecutors thirsty to invoke it, the first part of every excessive punishment analysis turns into Tom Cruise cross-examining Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men: Q: “Grave Danger?”

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

“Especially since I’m Latino and it wasn’t lost on me that this person was head of the Border Patrol and that a lawyer who’s named Cuauhtémoc is cross-examining him.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

While cross-examining a witness for the Justice Department, John Schmidtlein, Google’s lead trial lawyer, tried to describe how this suit differed from the landmark antitrust case brought against Microsoft in the 1990s.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Jamie Foxx has a ball playing a flamboyant personal injury lawyer who sounds more like he’s preaching from the pulpit than cross-examining a witness in Maggie Betts’ “The Burial.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

As the accused took turns cross-examining the witnesses, the Crown and the prosecution began to get a sense for the first time of the true caliber of the men and women on trial.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela