In which the form letter needs another option. Something, you know, accurate.

Pick one: A) We won B) We lost or C) We slayed all the dragons, shook the flying bat and delivered the chalice to bathe the gold castle in fantastical light

This bit of delight arrived from the prosecutor’s office a day or two after the trial.

I’m not going to beat up an office that saw a case through to its best outcome. But it really should have more than (what I imagine are) two form letters for post-case synopses. Letter 3 could be kind of celebratory, actually, with wording along these lines: “Fewer than 1% of felony cases go the not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity route, and of them, the finding sticks only 25% of the time. Ta-da!”