If, during a hearing, one takes pity on a police officer who is testifying as a state’s witness and offers him a granola bar when the judge decides to take an hour-long break right in the middle of his testimony, and then after the break this police officer, who took your granola bar so happily, starts making shit up on cross-examination in an effort to bolster the state’s weak case, can you ask him for your granola bar back?
HELL yes.
And I’m sorry, but that made me laugh.
Well of course you can and should – so that it can be lodged in a place far more satisfying to you than his mouth.
Yes, you can ask for it back, but, you have to ask yourself, are you prepared to receive it in the form in which it will be returned to you?