Finally, Henry noticed Janet who had been trying to get his attention for some time. "We'll take a ten minute recess and when we come back, Trenchant may cross examine Dr. Stone. You may leave the room. I'll summon you when we are ready," he ordered, taking in Janet and Diana with the same disdainful glance.
The committee huddled and Lyle Stone joined them. So much for impartiality.
Janet and Diana left, both breathing an audible sigh of relief as the door shut behind them. Stopping at the soft drink dispenser, the court reporter glanced around carefully then said sotto voce, "What a farce. Unbelievable."
Chapter 9
The ten-minute break had stretched to twenty before Henry and the panel finished going over their notes to make sure they had brought out everything that Mark, the university attorney, had advised.
Diana and Janet were called back and Diana began the cross examination of her department chair, Lyle Stone.
She asked him first to confirm a sentence written in his memo to the dean and which he had testified to before the break.
"Yes," Lyle answered, "I did write in the memo to the dean and also testified that I gave you all of the documents used in the handwriting analysis."
Diana held up several sheets of paper from the evidence packet on the table. "I have found documents dated nearly twenty years ago in this material the committee has introduced as that sent to the document examiners. These were not in the material that you gave me. So your assertion that I was given all of the documents is incorrect."