In practice (law and order)

Our legal systems formulate

that law and order permeate.

Authorities investigate.

With victims we commiserate.

416

False clues often exasperate,

mistakenly may implicate,

but new facts then illuminate;

those wrongly charged they vindicate

420

As villains we’re invertebrate.

Our skills we overestimate.

In flawed plans we miscalculate

and leave clues that incriminate.

424

Escapes we must precipitate

and so, we fast flee interstate.

Our lairs police triangulate

to capture and incarcerate.

428

Appointed is a magistrate

to manage and adjudicate

with ranks of lawyers to debate

and juries to incorporate.

432

So, trials we co-ordinate.

Grave charges we effectuate.

The purpose is to criminate

the lawbreakers we derogate.

436

Next prosecutors postulate

the prisoner is a reprobate

and further we insinuate

he’s only good for fishing bait.

440

Defence then tries to demonstrate

some factors that extenuate.

The jury must appreciate

this miscreant’s a retardate.

444

In closing, lawyers inculcate

the jury to exonerate.

But prosecutors perorate

a guilty verdict, actuate.

448

The twelve jurors then sequestrate.

We’re told not to discriminate;

the gory details explicate

and evidence evaluate.

452

Behind closed doors we altercate;

decide the fate of this ingrate.

The heinous crimes we quantitate.

The rights from wrongs we calculate.

456

For hot tea breaks we impetrate.

All facts we recapitulate.

Choose one to intermediate;

the verdict to articulate.

460