" And so the new century will bring a new kind of law,' was how Mr. Picton summed things up.....
'Proceedings where victims and witnesses are put on trial instead of defendants, where a murderer in identified as 'a woman' instead of an individual....If things go on like this we'll find ourselves in some shadow world, where lawyers use the ignorance of the average citizen to manipulate justice the way priests did in the Middle ages. "

― Caleb Carr , The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)