The handheld video game shaped like a steering wheel and the fiber optic beer lamp sitting on her desk were evidence — but just barely.
Whenever a report has landed on David Cameron's desk providing overwhelming evidence that his drug policies are ruining lives, killing people, and wasting taxpayers' money, the response has been the same: "Drug use is falling.
The charming woman at the desk was less in evidence, and the maid who had carefully ironed our laundry seemed to have disappeared entirely.
In the stack of daily mail that arrives on our program desk, we often find evidence of censorship among the requests for Handbooks for Writers in Prison, mentorship correspondences and contest submissions.
Piovanetti, the managing attorney for the nonprofit Immigration Legal Services of Long Island, believed the legal dossier laid out on his desk, and the "garbage evidence" it contained, proved part of the point.
In fact, my former mother-in-law used to come out" to the family house in Clifton where the Hermans raised their family and lived for 49 years, "and the boys would ask, 'How come we have three grandmothers?"' Shuffling through his desk drawers, Mr. Herman gathers evidence of another family success story.
ALL the familiar props are here: the half-empty coffee pots, the battered metal desks, the caged-off evidence room, the rolls of yellow crime-scene tape.
In one work they are tearing each other's hair out; in another, they are in the middle of a dogfight; in a third, all that's visible is an abandoned classroom with clothes strewn on desks and floor, mute evidence of their status as role models for other children.
It was about a year after the police had arrested Mr. Balderas, and the desk was still covered with evidence of J. J.'s work: plastic baggies and rubber bands, empty cases for Glock pistols.
