"Well I don't!"
Feb. 28th, 2011 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blindingtrustThe trial had been very heated. It was rare to find such fierce competition in the court room for someone like Two-Face. Ivy insisted on calling him Harvey Dent. That didn't mean the papers didn't call him what she called him. She liked to identify them as a person rather than as the manifestation of their illness. Harvey wasn't what anyone would call sane after all.
And hearing his lawyer pick up on that. Try to weaken her stance that Harvey needed to go back to Arkham because Blackgate was what Harvey wanted this time for reasons Ivy didn't want to think on.
The lawyer said he believed in Harvey Dent. That struck a different cord within her.
She stood up cane in hand and turned to the jury. They felt nervous about this. So she smiles kindly at them. Everyone likes a pretty young woman she has found. It sets them at ease.
"Well frankly? I don't believe in Harvey Dent." She lets that sink in.
"You've seen and heard the evidence. And I'm sorry to say we are all biased in some form or another by Harvey Dent's infamous career. Which is a shame." She shakes her head sadly.
"I wish we could be fair. This is as fair as we can get. But let's try to be for a minute ladies and gentlemen, shall we? Pretend you never heard the name Two-Face. Now imagine someone else doing this. Imagine if you will someone going into a jewelry store."
She had heard hints that it had mafia connections. That perhaps this was why Harvey had flipped a coin to decide on his actions.
"Mister Dent confessed to flipping a coin before he walked in there with his men. To decide if he was going to threaten everyone in there or not. Now, that isn't so bad, is it? A fifty/fifty chance to start. Either you do something like that.... or you don't.
What followed though is worse though. Every time a coin is flipped the probability changes. The chances get narrower. He saw there were customers. Yet he still flipped a coin. And he is educated enough to know that the chances were going down. Further and further to if he was going to shoot or not. And he did shoot the employees. It was not in their favor. He knew that and could have stopped. Yet every time he was left with two choices he confessed he had to do it. He claimed he couldn't stop himself. You and I and everyone else heard him ladies and gentlemen of the jury. So I ask you, don't believe in Harvey Dent.
He is not well. Our only hope for us and for him is to send him back to Arkham. Where they can help him. Maybe one day in the future you and I can believe in him and his hopeful recovery but not today, please not today."
If Harvey wasn't insane Ivy would have crusaded for him to go to Blackgate or anywhere else but Arkham she thought grimly. It wasn't the best place to go really but it was safe enough and recived fairly decent funding. She felt bad for not saying she believed in him. She had faith that if he stayed in Arkham and got proper treatment he could get better. She honestly didn't believe that he was a bad person just very ill. He needed their help and not their scorn even if she still found some of the past cases very chilling. At least she thought though that this would never turn into a death penalty case as it wasn't constitutional in the state of New Jersey, she did not think that Harvey deserved that fate. Now there were a few others she could argue for that being the fate they deserved but she wasn't sure it was something she had the right to decide.
Even when the public bayed for vengeance. No they had to take the moral high ground. These people deserved their help not their righteously angry 'justice'. Which was why she was secretly thankful that the Batman and his ilk never went too far even when some thought it would be okay if they did, Ivy certainly didn't and wasn't even sure that the masked vigilantes should even operate in Gotham. Though she couldn't and wouldn't deny that somehow they made things almost safer.
And hearing his lawyer pick up on that. Try to weaken her stance that Harvey needed to go back to Arkham because Blackgate was what Harvey wanted this time for reasons Ivy didn't want to think on.
The lawyer said he believed in Harvey Dent. That struck a different cord within her.
She stood up cane in hand and turned to the jury. They felt nervous about this. So she smiles kindly at them. Everyone likes a pretty young woman she has found. It sets them at ease.
"Well frankly? I don't believe in Harvey Dent." She lets that sink in.
"You've seen and heard the evidence. And I'm sorry to say we are all biased in some form or another by Harvey Dent's infamous career. Which is a shame." She shakes her head sadly.
"I wish we could be fair. This is as fair as we can get. But let's try to be for a minute ladies and gentlemen, shall we? Pretend you never heard the name Two-Face. Now imagine someone else doing this. Imagine if you will someone going into a jewelry store."
She had heard hints that it had mafia connections. That perhaps this was why Harvey had flipped a coin to decide on his actions.
"Mister Dent confessed to flipping a coin before he walked in there with his men. To decide if he was going to threaten everyone in there or not. Now, that isn't so bad, is it? A fifty/fifty chance to start. Either you do something like that.... or you don't.
What followed though is worse though. Every time a coin is flipped the probability changes. The chances get narrower. He saw there were customers. Yet he still flipped a coin. And he is educated enough to know that the chances were going down. Further and further to if he was going to shoot or not. And he did shoot the employees. It was not in their favor. He knew that and could have stopped. Yet every time he was left with two choices he confessed he had to do it. He claimed he couldn't stop himself. You and I and everyone else heard him ladies and gentlemen of the jury. So I ask you, don't believe in Harvey Dent.
He is not well. Our only hope for us and for him is to send him back to Arkham. Where they can help him. Maybe one day in the future you and I can believe in him and his hopeful recovery but not today, please not today."
If Harvey wasn't insane Ivy would have crusaded for him to go to Blackgate or anywhere else but Arkham she thought grimly. It wasn't the best place to go really but it was safe enough and recived fairly decent funding. She felt bad for not saying she believed in him. She had faith that if he stayed in Arkham and got proper treatment he could get better. She honestly didn't believe that he was a bad person just very ill. He needed their help and not their scorn even if she still found some of the past cases very chilling. At least she thought though that this would never turn into a death penalty case as it wasn't constitutional in the state of New Jersey, she did not think that Harvey deserved that fate. Now there were a few others she could argue for that being the fate they deserved but she wasn't sure it was something she had the right to decide.
Even when the public bayed for vengeance. No they had to take the moral high ground. These people deserved their help not their righteously angry 'justice'. Which was why she was secretly thankful that the Batman and his ilk never went too far even when some thought it would be okay if they did, Ivy certainly didn't and wasn't even sure that the masked vigilantes should even operate in Gotham. Though she couldn't and wouldn't deny that somehow they made things almost safer.
