In our early days as lawyers, Kiz and I were compelled to defend a man charged with robbery. We fancied that we were smarter than the State prosecutors, and that we would get him off on smarts alone.
Now, the accused person was a giant of a man, who topped something like 6 feet 7 inches. He stood tall and proud, despite our advice to slouch a bit. Boy, did he look menacing! In spite of that, we could tell that we were winning. We were connecting with the jury by the manner in which we were 'destroying' the prosecution witnesses one by one.
One witness, though, was irrepressible. She recounted how her family was made to lie face down, in order not to be able to recognise the robbers by face later on. But, that turned out to be a tragic mistake. The witness remembered that the lead robber had huge, huge, bare feet.
As if hypnotized, everybody (judge, lawyers, jurors, clerks, and the onlooking public) turned to look at our client's feet. They were enormous! And he had no shoes on! Thankfully, he got 20 years or so!
35yrs,actually.
ReplyDeleteYes, Kiz, told Office Female #2 that it was more like 30 years, but I did not remember, so I wanted to be cautious. Yes, I remember now that it was 35 years.
ReplyDeleteI once read somewhere Nana Yaw that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - I guess his feet were evidence enough even though technically the evidence wasn't left at the scene of the crime. Lol!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Alternatively you two should have just blamed it on Big Foot - though this would only hold if there were previous sightings in Ghana. Ok, bad joke but yes, I am finding this rather funny.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha. His big bare feet gave him away.
ReplyDeleteHa ha @ Denise. Big Foot.
ReplyDeleteSome people "sighted" him/her/it a couple months ago but it turned out to be a hoax, like Big foot him/her/it self.
LMAO, don't know why this is so funny. But it is! Imagine your feet giving you away! Nothing but your feet. Maybe HE is the bigfoot! *Last sighted in the Amazon forest. Probably got there on foot!* Hahaha.
ReplyDeleteGeez, NY!
ReplyDeleteI can't stop laughing at the part " Thankfully, he got 20 years or so!"
He got 20 looooooooong years for goodness sake. The lesson is:never defend anybody with any unusually huge digit on any part of their bodies. people notice such crazy footage, you know!
LOL...I always tell ppl my feet are big for an itty bitty person! Physical features can be betraying I guess!~
ReplyDeleteSomething's off here. I always thought if the shoe does not fit, you must acquit.
ReplyDeletethe things we cannot do away...
ReplyDeleteLol, Denise. I still wonder if he'd have been found guilty by a judge sitting alone. Juries have their own ideas.
ReplyDeleteYes, Raine, his feet gave him away. They had nothing else on him!
ReplyDeleteIf Big Foot has a moniker "Shaibu Sando" then you are right!
ReplyDeleteCrazy footage, huh? Thanks for the clever double entendre!
ReplyDeleteYes, Maxine, I say I see people with criminal features. Lol!
ReplyDeleteYes, Faf, but there were no shoes, in this instance, to start with!
ReplyDeleteWill land us in jail, Nana F
ReplyDeleteHehehehehe...so having big feet is not always a plus. You know what they say about men with big feet/hands
ReplyDeletedidn't the state atourneys know about this to use as precedence with the voice of Tagor, Abbass and ACP Kofi Boachie on tape discussing cocaine business?
ReplyDeleteor the voice unlike the feet cannot be percieved with the eyes and so the voice disqualified. i'm always happy about how the law could just make us remember we are human beings with limitations.
btw, why "Thankfully he got 20 years or so!"? didn't you want your client to win? or you expected worse?
You should have appealed against the conviction...
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