This is a common, and effective, defense cross technique. Undercover cops are asked, “Your job is to deceive people as to who you really are, isn’t that right?”
Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse
An all-important exchange just now: Susan Necheles asks Stormy Daniels about her experience making porn films. “You have a lot of experience in making phony stories about sex appear to be real,” she says. Daniels responds, “That’s not how I would put it.” She is momentarily taken aback, and then adds, “The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room.” What jurors make of this — and of the accusation that pornography is akin to fabricating from whole cloth a sexual encounter — is incredibly important.