What was the most epic, I arrest my case, moment that a lawyer got to dish out?

I was on the losing end of this one. I was representing a pro bono defendant who was attempting

to regain custody of her children. The family division attorney was laying out his case to the

judge for why my client wasn't ready, and his final point was that my client had refused

emotional counseling to avoid violent fits of rage that she had inflicted on her children.

On cue, my client jumps up, screaming,

"'Frick you, Judge Lady, you stupid frickin' see-word!

Frick you all for taking my freaking kids, you freaking see-words!'

I just caught the opposing attorney's smirk of

satisfaction as I got up to usher my client out of the courtroom. I was prosecuting some kid.

He had an antisocial behavior order, which meant that he was not supposed to go to a certain

street. He'd pled not guilty on the basis that he hadn't been there. I opened my cross-examination

by holding up a map and pointing at the street. I said to him, you weren't here, didn't you?

He said, yes. In England, we don't say I rest my case. Instead, I looked up at the bench and said,

No further questions, and sat down. It might not seem epic, but I got the defendant to admit

the offence with one question. That never happens. Opposing counsel decided that I'd coached

my witness and gave him lines to repeat, that he was lying. Short version is that he asked

the witness if he spoke to me before he testified. The witness said that he had spoken to me.

The attorney looked like he thought spoken to me. The attorney looked

like he thought he had me. The attorney asked the witness what I told him and what instructions

I gave him. Witness looked him dead in the eye and said, the first thing he told me was to tell

the truth no matter what. He said the lawyer is never the one who goes to jail, that he isn't going to

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