{"id":6470,"date":"2025-05-14T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:24:46","slug":"after-the-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/05\/14\/after-the-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"After The Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cMr. Bromley, before I sentence you, do you have anything to say to this Court?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m innocent, Your Honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI meant anything more than that nonsense. You&#8217;ve been found guilty by a jury of your peers. You understand, don&#8217;t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I would&#8217;ve done better with a different lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way&#8230;Why did you choose your brother-in-law, Mr. Bromley?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause, Your Honor, my sister-in-law cost a lot more. But I tell you, I&#8217;m innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told you to stop saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Honor&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe if I&#8217;d offered a better bribe? Would that have made all the difference?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMr. Bromley, before I sentence you, do you have anything to say to this Court?\u201d \u201cI&#8217;m innocent, Your Honor.\u201d \u201cI meant anything more than that nonsense. You&#8217;ve been found guilty by a jury of your peers. You understand, don&#8217;t you?\u201d \u201cI think I would&#8217;ve done better with a different lawyer.\u201d \u201cBy the way&#8230;Why did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13326,13325,841,11783,6419,41,997,1340,6764,1207,2058,4405,2122,8419,4805],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bribe","tag-brother-in-law","tag-court","tag-david-sydney","tag-difference","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guilty","tag-honor","tag-innocent","tag-jury","tag-lawyer","tag-nonsense","tag-peers","tag-sister-in-law","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}