Elizabeth from Knoxville: The Opera

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21. Lawyer: My client was caught up in the mob and had non idea what was happening

Prosecutor: Elizabeth from Knoxville, tell the court what you told the reporter as you were stumbling around outside the Capitol Building

Elizabeth: I told him I was Elizabeth from Knoxville and that we were storming the Capitol and that it was a revolution.

Lawyer: Oops. I guess I’ll be changing that plea now, from “not guilty” to “fruit loopy crazy”.

I guess she didn’t realize that the “revolution” had failed and the government she attacked wasn’t going to be very sympathetic to what she and her cro-magnon compadres had tried to do -- almost accomplished doing -- to its legislature and the historic building in which they work.

Would the judge in a sedition trial have discretion in sentencing? 10 years may be a bit stiff for Elizabeth from Knoxville, although 10 years with all but 3 suspended might be fair.