Rusty Harding has been really hammering away at Anna Nicole Smith (no pun intended) on the stand during the trial here in Houston, but he has also been screwing up. Yesterday, on several occassions, he used words that Smith didn't understand as a way to demonstrate her stupidity. Well, duh!! No one thinks she is a rocket scientist. What's funny is that it backfired. He kept using large words and she kept saying, "You know I don't know what that means. If you'll use a word I understand, I'll answer." It made him look like an idiot especially to the jury. Most jurists aren't rocket scientists either and his line of questioning was insulting to them as well as her. Today, however, he really pissed her off when he asked if she had been taking acting lessons again when she started crying on the stand. Her response, "Screw you, Rusty." OUCH!!! ------------------ Me fail English? That's unpossible.
I think she actually said "F**k you Rusty Harding," but whatever. To be honest, I've really had a change of heart concerning this trial. Harding and his brothers were all trying to screw each other out of everything, and now they are going after her. I don't know if she wants it all or what, but she deserves some of the money. I think Harding's attempt to portray her as a gold digger / bad girl is really backfiring. ------------------ "Salt Lake City, Utah. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany." --Olaju-Won Kenobi, to young jedi Steve (Fran)'chiseWalker
Yeah, I thought the whole "acting lesson" thing was a bad move. The last thing a lawyer would want to do is have the jury sympathize with the other side. He could have made his opinion about it known in other ways - closing statements, perhaps. He is smarter than that. By the way, his last name is Hardin, right? No matter. ------------------
The whole thing is pretty humorous to me. It only goes to prove that no amount of money can buy scumbags class. ------------------ "Blues is a Healer" --John Lee Hooker
