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Feb. 1, 2011

Reel Law

"I object, Your Honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. I move for a mistrial."

- Accused of siding with Central American rebels, Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) makes his opening in pro per remarks at trial in Bananas (1971).


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