Borstad McSingewad focuses. He feels uncomfortable talking to holographic jurors, despite it being years since the Jury Security Act passed, but out of habit, he walks to the jury display.

“Binaries and nonbinaries of the jury, Jonathan Blurt, is accused under the Third-Party Liability Act of responsibility for the actions of his putative grandfather, a murderer convicted in-absentia,” he says.

“The prosecution alleges he would not exist had his grandfather, Aloysius, been convicted of his crimes. They say Aloysius couldn’t have impregnated his wife, Berenice, because of his incarceration. The prosecution has tried to establish a Prima Facie case denying my client’s right to exist.”