A Queen's Counsel weighs in from across the pond on behalf of Steven Leventhal. After citing the fact that Mr. Leventhal uses that dollar bill trick (everybody talks about that dollar bill trick), David Pannick writes in part for the Times of London:
Counsel are not required to stick rigidly to the point. They are allowed to illustrate their case by the use of literature, fable and even the lyrics of pop songs. At the Soham murder trial in 2003, Maxine Carr’s defence counsel, Michael Hubbard, QC, quoted to the jury Engelbert Humperdinck’s song Please Release Me, Let Me Go, to make the point on behalf of Ian Huntley’s former fiancee: “For I don’t love him any more.”
Why should magic tricks be any different? Why, indeed?
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