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What Is Evidentiary Harpoon?

Evidentiary Harpoon is an attempt by a witness, usually like a professional law enforcement officer or another experienced professional witness, who, it’s a statement blurting out of evidence that was already deemed inadmissible and that will be objected to, but is blurted out in the presence of the jury with the idea of the jury’s heard it, and once they’ve heard it, they can’t unhear it. And even though the judge will strike it from the record and admonish the jury to disregard it, if the evidence is bad enough, it may be impossible.

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