Sinister Footwear

My shoes have been on trial for the past two days.

You see, one of the rights a defendant has when going to trial is to not appear in front of the jury in a jail jumpsuit (either a lovely orange or the classic black/white in this area). That's assuming the defendant is in jail in the first place. Anyway, unlike the provision of an attorney at the expense of the state, defendants in that situation don't get a clothing allowance. So we sometimes have to scrimp to put together an outfit of "street clothes" for a client who goes to trial. One such gentlemen went to trial this week on counterfeiting charges. Unable to round up any shoes for him, I volunteered a backup pair of dress shoes to the cause. Hell, they've seen more time in court in the past two days than I have in three years!

Unfortunately, the verdict was guilty. I'm not sure what that says about the shoes.