«Have you anything to say for yourself before I pass a sentence?» the judge frowned at the pickpocket.
«Just what good have you ever done for mankind?»
«Well, Your Honour», answered the prisoner, «I’ve helped several reporters, prison guards and you keep your jobs».
* * *
«You seem to be in some distress», said the judge to the witness. «Is anything wrong?»
«Well, your Honour», said the-witness, «I swore to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but every time I try, some lawyer objects».
* * *
A friend of the judge dropped in for a visit one morning before court opened and looked around.
«Goodness, you certainly have a lot of criminals to try this morning, haven’t you?» he observed.
«Oh, not so many», answered the judge. «You are looking at the wrong bench - those are the lawyers».
SOLVE THE CHAINWORD
1. A rule of conduct formally recognised as binding or enforced by authority (3).
2. Person who gives evidence under oath in a law court (7).
3. Declare what the punishment is to be (8).
4. A form of proof legally presented at a trial through witnesses, records, documents, etc. (8).
5. Having authority to carry out decisions, laws, decrees, etc. (9).
6. Person with special knowledge, skill or training (6).
7. The presentation of evidence in court to a trier of facts who decides the case (5).
8. Person who disobeys the law (10).
9. Distinct grade in the armed forces (4).
10. One who murders (6).
11. Belonging to the family of a king or queen (5).
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An officer was injured after being thrown from the bonnet of a car he was trying to stop in Malvern. PC Bill Turner suffered stomach injures which required hospital treatment. A youth has been charged with assault and dangerous driving and will appear in court next month.
* City of London Police has installed 13 closed-circuit cameras at exits from the capital’s traffic management scheme, so that the officers can respond immediately to vehicles violating no-entry signs.
* Young offenders in Nottingham are being given a taste of prison life. The youngsters, aged 11-17, are taken to Nottingham Prison by officers, and spend a day seeing overcrowded cells, slopping out, and listening to criminals who graduated from petty crime to major offences.
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