Pollard was put through the legal ritual and took the stand.
"Pollard, what happened to James Forrest Carroll?"
Pollard cleared his throat. "James Forrest Carroll followed the pattern of several of the top physicists working on the Lawson Radiation," he said. "May I express a pertinent opinion?"
"Objection!" shouted prosecution.
Judge Hawley frowned. "Is the opinion based on the crime?"
"No, your honor. It is pertinent to all such cases."
"Objection overruled."
"May I take exception?" asked Frank Barre, the State's Attorney.
"Let us examine the personal opinion first," replied the judge.
Pollard nodded. "It has been the opinion of the men at the Lawson Laboratory that all of these men have discovered something that has driven them into amnesia. Amnesia, you understand, is the mind's withdrawal from a distasteful reality.