A question of autopsy

Prosecutor: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
Witness: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Prosecutor: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
Witness: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an
autopsy!
Prosecutor: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a
pulse?
Witness: No.
Prosecutor: Did you check for blood pressure?
Witness: No.
Prosecutor: Did you check for breathing?
Witness: No.
Prosecutor: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
Witness: No.
Prosecutor: How can you be so sure, doctor?
Witness: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Prosecutor: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
Witness: It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

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