This is an American citizen. What they taught me in Civics class oh so long ago is that an American citizen has a right to trial by Jury, and a lawyer to defend himself. You may consider it silly, or irrelevant, or alarmist, or any number of other things - but as a kid raised on the idea that the difference between America and the society in which Serge grew up is that the government could not levy charges against you without providing you the opportunity to defend yourself.
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