Reply #28: Actually, I think it was me who made the poster sick

[GreenArrow]

but you have just posted exactly what I was going to post. I've got a different source, but it's essentially the same thing. And JE's summation to me is the worst sort of emotional manipulation. It is, however, very effective.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/15/edwardss_career_tied_to_jury_award_debate/

For instance, his summations routinely went beyond a recitation of his case to a heart-wrenching plea to jurors to listen to the unspoken voices of injured children.

"I have to tell you right now -- I didn't plan to talk about this -- right now I feel her, I feel her presence," he said in his record-setting 1985 lawsuit on behalf of Jennifer Campbell, born brain-damaged after being deprived of oxygen during labor. "She's inside me and she's talking to you. . . . And this is what she says to you. She says, `I don't ask for your pity. What I ask for is your strength. And I don't ask for your sympathy, but I do ask for your courage.' "

The hell he didn't plan to talk about it; it was exactly what he planned to talk about. And it helped him win the case.