He said the dust collecting units were not operating as they should in October 1984 and there were “quite a few" dustouts. These, he claimed, would require one to vacate the basement as soon as possible by walking along the side of the walls in the dark.

Broadly, though, the lawsuit advanced three claims in support of its plea that Stroman not be executed the following week. The first was the most conventional, and where a less gumptious plaintiff might have ended.

She hugged the single yellow line, but she drove fast.

Whose serve is it?