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of the evidences which would give disadvantage to
her.
21. It is both Police and the prosecutor who ask Corliss as a Jailhouse informant to make a
testimony that Roulet confided in him.
Presupposition
22. Campo fabricates her testimony that she has over
powered and broke free of Roulet when he attacked her.
Presupposition
23. Regina Campo chooses to target Louis Roulet as a
ticket for leaving her profession as a prostitute. Presupposition
24. Corliss is never charged with perjury since he deliberately sent by the police.
Presupposition 25. The prosecutor and DA phony up the evident file
in order to win the case. Coherence and
Disclaimer 26. Detective Booker never really conducts an
objective investigation dealing with the case.
Coherence 27.
Detective Booker testifies with no evidence. Coherence
28. Regina Campo counterfeits her testimony in front
of the judge and juries by herself.
Coherence 29.
Snitching for a prosecutor is
Corliss’ occupation.
Expression, Rhetorical question
and Lexicon 30. Regina Campo completely lies to police for her
report about who the suspect is. Rhetorical question
and lexicon
b. Topics of positive self-representation
The following table is topics of negative other-representation during the trial occurred.
Table 4: Topics of positive self-representation No
Topics Discursive
Strategies used 1.
All charges upon Louis Roulet are false.
Lexicon
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2. All charges against Roulet are false and illogical.
Lexicon 3.
All of the testimony of the state’s witnesses and all
evidences support
Roulet’s innocence.
Lexicon
4. There is no prostitute
who got killed
after “had a date
” with Roulet.
Lexicon 5.
There is no prostitute who reports bad thing about
Roulet. Lexicon
6. Louis Roulet is the real victim of set up case by
Regina Campo Lexicon
7. Roulet is an innocent person who suffered by set up
case. Rhetorical Question
and Expression 8.
Roulet never hold the knife when the supposed attack
occurred. Rhetorical question
9. There is no
prostitute who gets injured or got beaten after dating Roulet.
Syntax
10. It is a normal habit of Louis Roulet to carry his knife everyday to wherever he goes.
Syntax 11. Marry Winsor is not lying about her testimony that
she got attacked and raped. Coherence
The topics above clearly show the attempt of giving negative representation to the adversary. The goal is certainly to influence the judge,
juries and the public in the courtroom that out-group or the adversaries prosecutor, victim, victims witness and the police are the agent who
defamed the trial by doing fraudulent and forgery against Haller. They are also depicted negatively by emphasizing issuestopics that they have given
false testimony, done perjury, worked unprofessionally, and used a liar snitch as a witness who helped the prosecutor to imprison an innocent man in the
previous case. By asserting this negative labelling, the judge is eventually influenced by Haller to sentence his client free. As the result, the judge drops
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