Judge from Help Desk is © Copyright 2002, Christopher B. Wright. Used with permission.
![[Comic for Sunday, March 3, 2002]](/comics/gpf20020303D_g1b.jpg)
Transcription
[[Court is back in session.]]
Judge: The defense may call its first witness...
Maddie: The defense calls the Defendant, Mr. Barker, to the stand.
[[Maddie & Fooker whisper]]
Maddie: Do NOT screw this up...
Fooker: You say that like you EXPECT me to...
Maddie: I DO.
[[On the witness stand.]]
Maddie: Mr. Barker, where were you on the night the mall attacks occurred?
Fooker: I was out of town. My friends picked me up from the airport the next day.
Maddie: The airport? I take it then, you were a considerable distance from the mall? And that you could not have been present during the attacks?
Fooker: Yes.
Maddie: Do you have any idea who the man in the mall video may be, then?
Fooker: If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was me...
Maddie thinks: And there it is...

