–From Julie Enloe, Marquette University Law School, Date of event: 1992
Like myself, my best friend during law school was a non-traditional student. However, she was much older than me and quite proud of the fact that she was a card-carrying member of the AARP.
During evidence class, we got into a discussion of “the ideal witness.” The professor posed some hypothetical examples, including a police officer who, at 55, was near retirement, as opposed to his much younger and rather inexperienced partner.
One young man in the second row was quite disgusted by the notion of an older witness. Such a person, he opined, could be easily cast as incompetent. “After all,” he said, “he’s going to die soon!”
No one laughed harder than my friend, who remarked that it was nice to know that she would graduate with one foot already in the grave.
(By the way, my friend is still very much alive and runs her own law practice!)
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