50 which is delivered by Haller about the representation of his client and the
adversaries. The lead words and sentences in the dialogue between Haller and his
adversaries during the trial are examined. This examination aims to discern what issuestopics which are emphasized by the defense lawyer, what
ideological implications are there from those topics, and what discursive strategies are employed to construct ideological representations of events in
relation to the adversaries state along with the police, DA, opposing witness, and the prosecutor.
The topics of the selected utterances of defense lawy ers’ character which
emerged in the analysis are presented below.
a. Topics of the adversaries representation.
1 The police, District Attorney DA, and the Prosecutor
The topics of other-representation dealing with representation of the adversaries, such as police, DA, and the prosecutor as the party who break the
system of justice appear explicit by the examination of the leading words and sentences of the following dialogue. The examination is given below with
wordings in bold. a
The Police justify the action of the victim who has counterfeited her testimony.
The topics or the most important ideas proposes by the defense lawyer to the juries and the judge are revealed from the cross examination addressed to
detective Booker. The topicthe important idea can be seen as follows.
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Context:
The dialogue below is a cross-examination of detective Booker after he gave his testimony for the prosecutor dealing with Roulets knife as the key
evidence. Here, Haller was not trying to deny the detective testimony but focused on the police reaction which seemed to justify
Campo’s action in counterfeiting her testimony.
Haller : Detective Booker, did Regina Campo explain why she lied to
the police? Det. Booker :
She didn’t lie to me.
Haller : Maybe not to you but she told the first officers on the scene,
Maxwell and Santos, that she did not know why the suspect had come to her
apartment, didn’t she?
Det. Booker : I wasn’t present when they spoke to her so I can’t testify to that.
I do know that she was scared, that she had just been beaten and threatened with rape and death at the time of the first
interview.
Haller : So you are saying that under those circumstances it is acceptable to lie to the police?
Det. Booker : No, I did not say that.
Data: CDApg 252-253 7
Topic from the discourse above: The Police justify the action of the victim who counterfeits her testimony.
The defense lawyer Haller attempts to shatter previous claim proposed by the police who performed as the state witness for the victim. By
influencing the judge and the juries, Haller asserts that the police justify the action of victim who has counterfeited her testimony.
b The prosecutor and DA phony up the evidence file in order to win the
lawsuit. The involvement of DA and the prosecutor in fabricating the key
evidence in order to draw this topic is identified from the discussion of the dialogue as follows.
