What Stands

A charge has been handed down. It falls to you to make it stand.

• You

  You are the state prosecutor. Cases arrive already decided — your task is to make the paperwork say so.

• The regime

  You serve a regime that wants convictions, and wants them to look sound. It is watching how you work.

• The indictment

  You draft from a box of papers — statements, evidence, scraps. Copy what you need onto the model and assemble the charge that will hold up in court.

• Wall pressure

  A wall of pressure rises as the regime waits. Take too long, or build the case badly, and it climbs — and the case is taken out of your hands.