For the trial to be considered fair, and for any sort of justice to be offered to the family of the 23-year-old woman, it is imperative the men's arguments are also heard and that they be reported.
The reputations of the managers Sam Allardyce and Neil Warnock were considered fair game for public excoriation by the House of Commons select committee for culture, media and sport as it accused the Football Association chairman, Greg Clarke, of "institutional failure" if the FA failed to rigorously investigate misconduct allegations.
In 1973, when independent book-publishing houses were considered fair game for takeovers, he vowed that Norton had "never been for sale and is not likely to be".
They are the sport's lawmen, subject to all the pressure experienced by the stars, but with none of the cash or adulation, and increasingly considered fair game for abuse by internet bile-spewers and even motormouth coaches for whom vilifying the ref – once unthinkable – is now an accepted mind-game technique.
Those who venture into male preserves, such as cafés, are considered fair game for harassment.
He is considered fair game for all manner of theories about his mood swings, his loneliness and his craftiness.
They also show that non-members are considered fair game for extensive surveillance, in the form of bulk monitoring of mass communications, and eavesdropping on the calls and emails of top officials.
Before the uprising that has ravaged the country over the past three years, political enemies of the Syrian regime were considered fair game for cartoonists, television sketches and social media campaigns.
That and the killing of Philando Castile are just the latest in a series of depressingly similar cases in which there seems to be overwhelming evidence that young black men are considered fair game for any trigger-happy law enforcement officer or security guard.
Not what's on it, per se, but what might be considered fair game for new revenue streams, which telecom companies are hoping to tap in exchange for a priority tier of high-speed network service.
