I'm not sure I've ever actually used "take the stand." Agree with 'trophe.
Yep. In court you'd just say, "The Defense calls [NAME]." Outside of court, you might say (among lawyers), "We're going to put [NAME] on the stand," or, "We're going to subpoena [NAME] to testify."
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i’ll go ahead and co-sign with my fellow barrister. important to note though that outside of court, those in my circle are focused on my eye movement, and i theirs.
recently i was grabbing drinks with some attorney friends of mine, one of them who happens to be my best friend is the lead prosecuting attorney on a capital murder case that i’m defending. he mentioned to our other friends that he didn’t know if I was planning to call a particular witness to the stand the next day. i simply responded by saying, “oh, eye think that you do.” and then followed up with a series of blinks. unfortunately due to attorney client privilege, I can’t disclose to everyone here what series of blinks I gave.