Non Compos, Part Three

Final extracts from the court record

JUDGE: ...I was often called “Pinky” in those days, of course, because of my mother’s maiden name, Auriculaire.  “Pinky, old dumpling,” my head of chambers liked to say to me, “justice is a matter of fashion and nothing more.”  By that, I think he meant that there’s no real scale of proportion between transgression and retribution in this world; everyth…