0 a person who asks detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth: --
There were three successive teams of cross-examiners, who took it in turn to relieve one another.
From the point of view of prosecuting counsel cross-examining a stalker on why he believed the victim consented, it could be a cross-examiner's day dream.
They are skilled cross-examiners, regularly engaged in cross-examination.
Simply the accent of syllables can leave a bewildered jury believing they must put their guard up with a witnessor in some cases the cross-examiner if they are not careful.
The duty of the cross-examiner is to put his case to a witness.
In court, his ability both as a cross-examiner and as an advocate, was legendary.
But the difficulty with any attempt to control the behaviour of a cross-examiner by judicial direction is that one cannot know what question will be asked until it is asked.
Cross-examination, apart from being a great pleasure for the cross-examiner, has its virtues in bringing out the truth.
