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Jun. 23rd, 2005 01:50 amPS Судя по комментариям, все решили, что я возмущен. Это не так - скорее очень сильно удивлен.
Pakenham's final appearance in court has been variously recorded.
As defence counsel in a complicated fraud case, he was due to address the court
during the afternoon session, and had partaken of a particularly well-oiled
lunch.
"Members of the jury," he began, "it is my duty as defence
counsel to explain the facts of this case on my client's behalf; the Judge will
guide you and advise you on the correct interpretation of the law and you will
then consider your verdict. Unfortunately," Pakenham went on, "for reasons which
I won't go into now, my grasp of the facts is not as it might be. The judge is
nearing senility; his knowledge of the law is pathetically out of date, and will
be of no use in assisting you to reach a verdict. While by the look of you, the
possibility of you reaching a coherent verdict can be excluded." He was led from
the court.