Why I Am Not Surprised

When I was in seventh grade, my Social Studies teacher decided
to hold a mock trial as part of the curriculum. I don’t remember what the
academic purpose of the whole thing was, whether the trial was based on some actual,
historical event. All of that is lost to me. What I do remember is that I was
the prosecuting attorney (a position I was very proud of, as my father was a law
school professor),