I watched Red Dward - Justice last night and I think of this:
KRYTEN: It's a question of differentiating between guilt and culpability,
sir. What the mind-probe detected was your own sense of guilt about
the accident. In a way, you tried and convicted yourself. I simply
have to establish you're a neurotic, under-achieving emotional retard
whose ambition far outstrips his miniscule abilities and who
consequently blames himself for an accident for which he could not
possibly have been responsible.
RIMMER: You're going to try to prove that I was innocent of negligence on
the grounds that I'm a half-witted incompetent?
CAT: Man, there ain't a jury in the land that won't buy a plea like that.
KRYTEN: Not a half-wit, exactly -- more a buffoon.
RIMMER: (Thinks about it. He's quite impressed.) Right, I see. But how
would you even begin to build such a case? Where would you conjure up
the evidence?
KRYTEN: Sir, providing I can have completely free access to your personal
data files, I think I can come up with the outline of a winning case by
lunchtime.
Change Rimmer for Nate and you see the funny solution to this problem. Not that Nate is in anyway like Rimmer :-)
