{"id":622,"date":"2025-12-18T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:41:12","slug":"jurors-call-defense-attorney-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Jurors Call Defense Attorney\u2019 Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-7.png 560w, https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-7-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The jurors, stunned,<br>all looked eagerly. A minute passed. Nothing happened. Finally<br>the lawyer said, \u201cActually, I made up the business about the dead<br>man walking in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you all looked at the door with anticipation. I<br>therefore put it to you that there is reasonable doubt in this case<br>as to whether anyone was killed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and I must insist that you return<br>a verdict of \u2018not guilty.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury retired to deliberate. A few minutes later, they<br>returned and pronounced a verdict of \u201cguilty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut how could you do that?\u201d bellowed the lawyer. \u201cYou must<br>have had some doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw all of you stare at the door.\u201d<br>The jury foreman replied, \u201cOh, we looked, but your client<br>didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jurors, stunned,all looked eagerly. A minute passed. Nothing happened. Finallythe lawyer said, \u201cActually, I made up the business about the deadman walking in. But you all looked at the door with anticipation. Itherefore put it to you that there is reasonable doubt in this caseas to whether anyone was killed, and I must insist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}