hi clo,
i forgot what i ate for lunch yesterday.
i remember the first line of an essay i wrote about bishop suger of st denis in 1987. i remember writing a piece on john of gorze in 1982 but not a fact about him.
memory is fickle.
the forensic testimony i've seen said the sweatshirt was hanging off m's chest. does that make you a liar because you said he held the gun to m's chest if it is true that the shirt was hanging down?
no. just mistaken.
sometimes folks see lies when all sorts of alternatives explain an error. lies imply deliberately misleading someone. not merely being mistaken.
i know you desperately want z to be guilty. but the evidence of harm to z's face tells you that a self-defence claim is plausible.
if it can't be ruled out, doubt exists.
so the prosecution must show malice and intent to undermine z's defence. they are not even close.
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