Chauvin Murder Trial

[Aegon]

Here's to hoping that the medical examiners don't seem angry, bratty, or bitchy, I guess?

As that would clearly tank the credibility of an autopsy.

Or lying under oath, as that MMA guy did when he said he wasn't angry, because the word angry was triggering or microaggressive to him.

These are the prosecution's witnesses you're talking about. They are coached by a team of attorneys ahead of testifying. They know the strategies that the defense will use to discredit them as witnesses. So when the defense asks "are you angry," "so you were angry," "and that's when you got really angry," etc, they're trying to paint a picture of the witness so the jury no longer takes them seriously. That's why he responded that way, and why he couldn't give a simple "yes" or "no."

This is incredibly common in cases of all kinds. You're an idiot if you don't push back, at least a little, on cross examination like that.