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Alan Shore can see the dead. Not in a conventional sense, like a white mirage from Ghostbusters or a maudlin silhouette gracing corners or cracks. Alan Shore could see the dead in the verdict paper (as blanched and wrinkled as a corpse's face) and in the shine on the guard's gun, hear the dead in the gavel tap and the prosecution's closing.
Innocents, guilty, petty larcenists, murderers, rapists, and thieves- they are all only equal in two places in the world: the courthouse and the graveyard.
Sometimes, Alan Shore finds it hard to tell the difference between the two.
A/N: This is just a little ficlet I thought up of, when reading Law terms on Wikipedia. De mortuis nil nisi bonum means "Not of the dead, nothing unless good." I figured Alan would have some qualms about defending or prosecuting so many people each day.
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