The details of the murder are given every day, to provide grist for the newsmill. Readers some come to regard A as a heinous, cold-blooded killer, and cannot wait for the trial, so that an open and transparent trial can be held before an experienced and impartial judge randomly selected from the panel available.

Pictures of the handcuffed killer are printed regularly to utilise the four-color graphics capability of the new press. His dress is unkempt, sharply contrasting with the carefully creased police uniforms. In all the TV pictures showing him entering police vehicles the police are shown to be treating him with the courtesy and respect due to one presumed innocent until proven guilty. Guide is given by a gentle grip on the humerus, which is all that is necessary, as the handcuffs and chains are seen as sufficient to prevent this dangerous criminal from an imminent impending escape attempt.

He hangs his head in shame, avoiding the cameras and the scathing stares of the crowd. They shout unpleasant names, crying for his harshest punishment. The professional police protect him from the anger of the assembled crowd. He is fortunate to be securely shielded from the wrath of the wronged. The prime minatore congratulates the inspector-general of police on the skill of the detectives who found the felon. A posse of policemen are given public plaudits and promoted, soon sent to other stations where their gifts are given greater scope.

After several years of delay, the case is eventually brought to trial. The charges have been considerably altered. The new charges now bear little resemblance to the original ones. In the progress of the trial these newer charges are amended several times because the alibi of the killer indicates that the charges cannot be found against him. The trial is long and labourious, in which the house of the victim is reassembled in the courtroom for the benefit of the judge, who seems totally committed to fairness and justice, insisting continuously that all irrelevant issues be rejected without examination. He thusly insures that the trail will be a speedy one, providing justice without unfair or unnecessary delay to the accused.

The lawyers presenting the defence attempt to divert the judges attention to extraneous facts regarding the case, such as the presence of the accused in various classrooms of a distant university where he is pursuing a degree in religious studies at the time of the incident. Medical evidence is presented that the mother died of natural causes in a hospital, under the care of licensed doctors and surrounded by nurses, and was not murdered by the son at all. This is irrelevant, rules the judge, and the sworn testimony of various newly wealthy witnesses is presented to support the prosecution claim that the killer is indeed guilty as charged.

At the end of the trial, because certain technical difficulties arise, the charges are amended again. The new charges are based on the sworn testimony of two senior policemen who give evidence that the killer had perverted the course of justice by asking why the charges were being brought against him in the first instance, as it seemed a pre-arranged perhaps political matter of false prosecution to unfairly implicate him as a murderer in the natural death of his mother.

The testimony of the witnesses, though showing a frayed edge here and there, is accepted, and the judge has no difficulty finding the killer guilty as charged, and charged, and charged, and then charged again. The appeals court upholds the trial judge, finding his rulings apt and scholarly. They gratutiuously offer an opinion that they believe the killer had dirty fingernails as well. Naturally it is necessary to kept the prisoner in solitary confinement as protection of the nation against this serious threat to the public peace. Justice is served.

The learned judge, having demonstratd his judicial competence and objective stance in matters affecting the public order, was soon given a second high profile case, in which a large contingent of criminals intent on overthrowing the government, had, by using a cache of stolen weapons, entrenched themselves on a remote hilltop, giving then notice to the neighboring people their treacherous intent to commit treason by firing the wieldy weapons into the air, as to test the reliability of both the well-oiled weapons and the weighty ammunition, which had been so riskily removed from the sleeping arms of the military, and hauled laboriously in the dark up a steep, slippery and rutted path to their well-prepared defenses. The public perception is that again, justice will be served.