From a reader:

Jonah, Don’t forget the modernized version of the Dickens quote, a la Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry: Harry Callahan: Are you trying to tell me that ballistics can’t match the bullet up to this rifle? District Attorney Rothko: It does not matter what ballistics can do. This rifle might make a nice souvenir. But it’s inadmissible as evidence. Harry Callahan: And who says that? District Attorney Rothko: It’s the law. Harry Callahan: Well, then the law’s crazy!