ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? 
      WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM 
     ATTORNEY: And Mr. 
Denton was dead at the time? 
   WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I 
finished. 
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     ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? 
     WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? 
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   ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check 
for a pulse?
      WITNESS: No. 
      ATTORNEY: Did you check 
for blood pressure? 
      WITNESS: No. 
    ATTORNEY: Did you 
check for breathing? 
     WITNESS: No.. 
      ATTORNEY: So, 
then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? 
      WITNESS: No. 
    ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, 
Doctor? 
   WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a 
jar. 
      ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, 
nevertheless? 
   WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been 
alive and practicing law.
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