Reverend Conehead
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Nothing like a good moral dilemma to start off your day. The love of your life had a moral failing. Let's call her Jenny. She drove the getaway car for a mobster who committed a murder. The mobster, let's call him Ralphie, went in and shot some rival mobster 30 times with a fully automatic AK-47. You happened to be there hiding in the closet, and were able to see everything through the louvered closet doors, but Ralphie did not see you. You know the guy, and you're certain he's the murderer. The murder victim was also a mobster scumbag.
You later learn that Jenny was coerced to drive the getaway car, but she has a checkered past, and you fear that they won't believe her, and she'll be prosecuted and put away for many years.
The prosecution wants you to testify against Ralphie so they can put him behind bars for life, and they offer you immunity. You can't be prosecuted for anything you say, but it also means you can't plead the 5th for anything. In other words, you're not allowed to refuse to answer any questions.
Meanwhile, you're visited by the mob's boss, Tony. You're afraid he's going to threaten you with murder, but he doesn't do that. He says he's interested in playing nice and attracting flies with honey or whatever. He offers you 10 million dollars tax free to not implicate Ralphie. He shows you proof that a Cayman islands bank account exists with the 10 mil already in it. All you have to do is testify that your vision was blurry, plus it was too dark, and so you couldn't really tell who the murderer was. Do that, and you get all the banking info that gives you access to the big bucks. All you would have to do is get to the Cayman Islands, and you're rich.
However, you've already told the DA that you saw everything clearly and you know it was Ralphie for sure, guaranteed, positively with 100 percent certainty without any doubts at all.
You fear if you testify truthfully, the mob will call a hit on you and have you blown away. Plus, your testimony could end up implicating Jenny, whom you're in love with. However, if you lie by saying you could barely see anything, you'll protect Jenny, the love of your life, plus you'll get 10 million dollars of secret money in a Cayman islands account. You and she could disappear there and live in luxury for the rest of your lives.
What do you do?
1. You tell the DA you want to testify, but your life has been threatened. You try to get put into witness protection, and you ask for immunity for Jenny, and to have her get into witness protection with you.
2. Testify that you were having problems with your contacts drying out that day, and so you took them out. As a result, from your closet vantage point, all you could see was a big blur, and you could hear only the shots and the victim screaming, but you have no earthly clue who did the hit. You really are nearsighted and normally wear contacts, btw.
When the prosecutor asks why you said in their interview that it was Ralphie, you say you were mistaken. You had been hallucinating on shrooms that day they talked. You then accept the 10 mil and run off to the Cayman islands with Jenny.
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You later learn that Jenny was coerced to drive the getaway car, but she has a checkered past, and you fear that they won't believe her, and she'll be prosecuted and put away for many years.
The prosecution wants you to testify against Ralphie so they can put him behind bars for life, and they offer you immunity. You can't be prosecuted for anything you say, but it also means you can't plead the 5th for anything. In other words, you're not allowed to refuse to answer any questions.
Meanwhile, you're visited by the mob's boss, Tony. You're afraid he's going to threaten you with murder, but he doesn't do that. He says he's interested in playing nice and attracting flies with honey or whatever. He offers you 10 million dollars tax free to not implicate Ralphie. He shows you proof that a Cayman islands bank account exists with the 10 mil already in it. All you have to do is testify that your vision was blurry, plus it was too dark, and so you couldn't really tell who the murderer was. Do that, and you get all the banking info that gives you access to the big bucks. All you would have to do is get to the Cayman Islands, and you're rich.
However, you've already told the DA that you saw everything clearly and you know it was Ralphie for sure, guaranteed, positively with 100 percent certainty without any doubts at all.
You fear if you testify truthfully, the mob will call a hit on you and have you blown away. Plus, your testimony could end up implicating Jenny, whom you're in love with. However, if you lie by saying you could barely see anything, you'll protect Jenny, the love of your life, plus you'll get 10 million dollars of secret money in a Cayman islands account. You and she could disappear there and live in luxury for the rest of your lives.
What do you do?
1. You tell the DA you want to testify, but your life has been threatened. You try to get put into witness protection, and you ask for immunity for Jenny, and to have her get into witness protection with you.
2. Testify that you were having problems with your contacts drying out that day, and so you took them out. As a result, from your closet vantage point, all you could see was a big blur, and you could hear only the shots and the victim screaming, but you have no earthly clue who did the hit. You really are nearsighted and normally wear contacts, btw.
When the prosecutor asks why you said in their interview that it was Ralphie, you say you were mistaken. You had been hallucinating on shrooms that day they talked. You then accept the 10 mil and run off to the Cayman islands with Jenny.
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