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Sometimes other [[Courtroom Antic|courtroom antics]] are pulled to buy time if it is known the '''Smoking Gun''' will arrive soon.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Done literally in ''New Warriors''. Vance, a telekinetic, is on trial for the murder of his abusive father. The defense claims it was an accident, Vance was striking out in self-defense with his badly-tuned powers. The prosecuter pulls a pistol and fires at Vance's face. Vance mentally freezes the gag pistol and, unfortunately, the very smoke emanating from it. Stopping the smoke gets him sent away. The prosecuter remains unpunished.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[
** In an earlier episode, Majors Burns and Houlihan managed to have Colonel Blake arrested for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy". Hawkeye and Trapper arrived at the last minute with one of the "enemy" Blake was accused of aiding; a pregnant South Korean villager (North Korea was the enemy during that war, not South) who was dislocated when her village was bombed. When Burns refused to back down from his trumped-up charge, Hawkeye produced another smoking gun—a letter revealing Burns' affair with Houlihan, which he threatened to send to Burns' wife. The charges were dropped forthwith.
{{quote|'''Meg Craddy''': (Indicating the pregnant villager) This is an example of Henry Blake's work!
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