Plea

"Plea"

After a trial had been going on for three days, Finley,
the man accused of committing the crimes, stood up
and approached the judge's bench. "Your Honor, I
would like to change my plea from 'innocent' to 'guilty'
of the charges."

The judge angrily banged his fist on the desk. "If you're
guilty, why didn't you say so in the first place and save
this court a lot of time and inconvenience?" he demanded.

Finley looked up wide-eyed and stated, "Well, when the
trial started I thought I was innocent, but that was before
I heard all the evidence against me."

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"Strange"

A lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked
the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone,
"Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."

The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would
be confusing, for passersby would tend to think that
three men were buried under the stone.

However he suggested an alternative: He would inscribe,
"Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer."

That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone
and read it, they would be certain to remark:

"That's Strange!"
Received on Tue Mar 29 03:46:00 2005