In ten lines, the intern in question relates a hospital drama — a patient in trouble, "a new chest tube to suction" — and concludes with a superior's pithy, annihilating verdict on the intern's performance: "the needle was / in the wrong place, / just like me".
"Nature is superior to art," was his verdict.
If it had convicted on any of the indictments, even on the least, which related to conspiracy, either the verdict would have been reversed by a superior court or a very dangerous precedent would have been established.
In his two-hours-plus closing argument Wednesday, Charles Cooper, the slim, white-haired lawyer arguing against same-sex marriage, evoked the Paul Newman character in "The Verdict," a man who was out of his depth against a superior legal team.
The American ambassador to Moscow, Joseph Davies, reported to his superiors from the show trial that there was "proof... beyond reasonable doubt to justify the verdict of treason".
The verdict, which was reached in a district court and would need to be upheld by a superior court, has received worldwide attention.
Not long after the original trial judge read his verdict, one of his aides said publicly that he had been under constant pressure from his superiors to find the two men guilty.
Final Verdict- The bluegrass battle is receiving all of the hype, but this could very well be the superior game.
A verdict is expected by early February, according to Belen Suarez, Deputy Prosecutor for Corruption and Organized Crime and one of Grinda's superiors.
