The judge went on and on about how dishonest this was and told the expert to “step down, sir, step down and leave this courtroom,” and then told the jury to completely disregard everything this “so-called expert” had said. Final note: Court reporters protect their judges when they can. In this case, the transcript presented a different and very abbreviated version of this event. In the official transcript, my law partner makes his motion and the judge replies, “The motion to strike is granted. The last two times no one responded so we closed the flight and focused on 343. Shortly after my supervisor had asked for 699 passengers the last time a family of four joined the line. I noticed them because I’d just come from getting a wheelchair for a passenger and almost bumped into one of the children on my way back to the checkin counter.