Call His Bluff
Nov. 3rd, 2009 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanThe prosecutor spluttered. "Whatever do you mean?"
"I mean," said Holmes, bringing his fingertips together and assuming a professorial air, "that you have undertaken to prove several patently false propositions. A man holding a gun on another man does not resort to other weapons out of spite. Neither does he risk walking through crowded streets without some other guarantee of his hostage's good behavior. While your zeal may be construed as admirable, your insistence upon resorting to slander in the face of any and all evidence which refutes your thesis bodes ill for the future of justice in this country."
"I mean," said Holmes, bringing his fingertips together and assuming a professorial air, "that you have undertaken to prove several patently false propositions. A man holding a gun on another man does not resort to other weapons out of spite. Neither does he risk walking through crowded streets without some other guarantee of his hostage's good behavior. While your zeal may be construed as admirable, your insistence upon resorting to slander in the face of any and all evidence which refutes your thesis bodes ill for the future of justice in this country."
