TAKE X (6-5-17: The End)

> Deliver your opening statement.




Your Honor, I intend to prove my client's complete innocence regarding this murder. The charges against him reek of the church attempting to silence a dissident rather than them actually trying to find the real murderer. Moreover, I will present evidence showing that my client could not have possibly committed this crime.



The judge nods thoughtfully. "I see, I see. And you, Mr. Mugg - your opening statement."




Straight from the defense's mouth, Your Honor - the defendant is a dissident, and by divine decree 72 subsection 12A, that is an offense punishable by imprisonment and possibly death.


As is defending a dissident, for that matter.



"Ah, right, right," the judge says. "Of course. Very well, then."




Wait, what--



You have to admit, you weren't expecting them to be quite so overt.