No Crying in the Courtroom!

State prosecutors in Ohio want to ban teary-eyed appeals to the jury in an upcoming capital murder case, Time reports. A motion seeking to prohibit blubbering defense attorneys accuses them of crying on cue and violating a 1999 Ohio Supreme Court ruling that it’s “improper to inflame a jury’s emotions by crying.” A defense attorney for the trial calls the motion “a little ridiculous.”

Prosecutors are "alleging that I cry on cue and that I’ve been trained to do this. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. “In a death penalty case, as strongly as I feel for my clients, it happens.” (More lawyer stories.)