"Did you state under direct examination all your reasons for disliking him?"
The three of us sit around a small table in her room on the fifteenth floor, and go over my direct examination.
Each direct or cross examination is also worth, at most, 10 points.
The side that calls the witness first asks questions, in what is called direct examination.
In direct examination, one is generally prohibited from asking leading questions.
His answers on direct examination didn't give me any inkling that he'd been present.
"Is that all you're going to try to bring out on direct examination?"
After it became clear their presence had something to do with sudden violence, the next logical step was a direct examination.
On direct examination he was asked about two statements contained in his letter.
I hadn't the slightest notion what they had discovered by direct examination.