ABSTRACT
“Each of us knows, though we do not like this knowledge, that a courtroom is a visceral Roman circus. No one in this contest is, or can be, impartial.… For to suspend judgment demands that one dismiss one’s perceptions at the very moment that one is most crucially—and cruelly—dependent on them. We perceive by means of the kaleidoscopic mirror of this life.… The light is always changing in that mirror. This light will not permit us to forget that we are mortal: which means that we are all connected—which complicates the judgment.”
