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Here's a plot bunny with great possibilities for hot action and nasty revenge.
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Great Tactic!
Chicago was also homeport for the great Clarence Darrow. He had a nastier tactic--in the days when people could smoke in courtrooms, ol' Clarence would light up a cigar as opposing counsel launched into their summation. He would never knock off the ash, which grew longer and longer as Clarence held the cigar clenched in his teeth. The jury would be fixated on the lengthening cigar ash, waiting for it to fall, thereby ignoring opposing counsel's eloquence. The story went that Clarence would insert a steel wire in his cigars, to keep the ash from falling.
But that sort of sharking goes back to the pool hustlers, who had a panoply of annoying tics and twitches, to throw off their opponents' concentration. Didn't the movie "The Sting" take place in Chicago? I wouldn't be surprised if this dude was playing the old Chicago game.
Chicago was also homeport for the great Clarence Darrow. He had a nastier tactic--in the days when people could smoke in courtrooms, ol' Clarence would light up a cigar as opposing counsel launched into their summation. He would never knock off the ash, which grew longer and longer as Clarence held the cigar clenched in his teeth. The jury would be fixated on the lengthening cigar ash, waiting for it to fall, thereby ignoring opposing counsel's eloquence. The story went that Clarence would insert a steel wire in his cigars, to keep the ash from falling.
But that sort of sharking goes back to the pool hustlers, who had a panoply of annoying tics and twitches, to throw off their opponents' concentration. Didn't the movie "The Sting" take place in Chicago? I wouldn't be surprised if this dude was playing the old Chicago game.
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I've read that in ancient Greece, legal cases were sometimes heard in a darkened room so that none would be swayed by appearances and the case would rest on it's merits alone.
Lady Justice is usually portraited as being blindfolded for the same reason.
http://www.logiclaw.co.uk/justice.jpeg
The word justice comes from Latin, Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The Greek equivalent was the goddess Dike.
Just sayin'...
Lady Justice is usually portraited as being blindfolded for the same reason.
http://www.logiclaw.co.uk/justice.jpeg
The word justice comes from Latin, Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The Greek equivalent was the goddess Dike.
Just sayin'...
stephen55
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I've read that in ancient Greece, legal cases were sometimes heard in a darkened room so that none would be swayed by appearances and the case would rest on it's merits alone.
Lady Justice is usually portraited as being blindfolded for the same reason.
http://www.logiclaw.co.uk/justice.jpeg
The word justice comes from Latin, Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The Greek equivalent was the goddess Dike. Not that that has anything to do with why the lady is holding a sword.
Just sayin'...
Lady Justice is usually portraited as being blindfolded for the same reason.
http://www.logiclaw.co.uk/justice.jpeg
The word justice comes from Latin, Justitia, the Roman goddess of Justice. The Greek equivalent was the goddess Dike. Not that that has anything to do with why the lady is holding a sword.
Just sayin'...
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