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Abstract
AN ATTORNEY DEFENDING a deposition may at times raise a relatively obscure objection-that the interlocutor has asked a misleading question. The objection is appropriate when any answer will provide erroneous information. The classic example is, Have you stopped beating your wife? As a useful book on the topic explains, If the witness answers [\u27]yes,[\u27] the implication is that he at one time did beat his wife; if he answers \u27no,\u27 it sounds as though he continues to beat her. The query calls naturally for one of two responses and both are misleading
