Similarly, D will generally not be allowed to introduce evidence of his intoxication in an attempt to get a murder charge reduced … the assumption is that the ordinary man is sober, so D's drunkenness does not help him.
Charles Dickens's Beadle Bumble said it best: "If the law believes that, sir, then the Law is an Ass!"
Sometimes you have to infer things from the available evidence...
"Pro-Bono" means sending students out to volunteer in local legal offices. Usually.
So I see all these 2Ls troopping to their job interviews, and I wonder...