{"id":4683,"date":"2024-12-16T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:08:45","slug":"pat-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/court-stories\/written-memories\/pat-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young lawyer in the 1970s during a hearing before Judge Maxwell the AUSA addressed each FBI agent who testified as \u201cSpecial Agent\u201d. I thought this was an effort to bolster the witness\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>When time came to cross examine the next agent who testified I asked if it wasn\u2019t the case that all FBI agents are \u201cSpecial Agents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The response I received was, \u201cThey are to their mother\u2019s\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The agent\u2019s answer together with Judge Maxwell\u2019s wry smile was a learning experience (be careful what you ask) that remains with me to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young lawyer in the 1970s during  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-memories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}