Ira Glass

I'm sure the defense would go ballistic if that happened.

This is why in England they wear black robes and wigs.

I don't think this can be corrected by any type of instruction to the jury.

And so I have no choice but to declare a mistrial.

Everyone is like, what?

Because this is a crazy turn of events.

That's like a nuclear bomb to just drop the entire trial and start it over because of this woman's shirt.

Wait, and what do people do?

Well, everyone's just surprised.

Like, everybody is stunned.

And the judge is kind of like, I'm going to see what all the attorneys think about this.

I should say also the jury is not back from the break.

It's like the potential jury is not seeing this whole back and forth.

Anyway, the judge pulls all the attorneys like, do you guys think there should be a mistrial?

And even the government, whose case was supposedly hurt beyond repair because of this shirt, they seem taken aback.

They seem surprised by this turn of events.

And they say basically, I don't know.

They don't co-sign the mistrial.

They don't ask for a mistrial.

They don't ask for a mistrial.