I think you can only deem testimony 'plausible', but not yet "credible and damning", if the opposing counsel and witnesses haven't addressed it yet. Often, people who are each individually credible-seeming provide contradictory accounts.
Here's Re/code's report on the cross-examination, which seems to identify a number of contradictions in Pao's accounts over time:
Here's Re/code's report on the cross-examination, which seems to identify a number of contradictions in Pao's accounts over time:
http://recode.net/2015/03/10/in-cross-examination-ellen-paos...