--- Anna Simpson wrote:
<Warning: Plot hole nit-pick. People who not like nit-picking should look away now.>
The only other explantion I could come up with is that the records are faked to make it look as if Blake's arrest happened quite some time after it did (and therefore after the alleged assaults). This would make things tie up, but you'd still think Blake might have mentioned it.
Does anyone have another explanation?
The only thing I can think of is that Blake is initially arrested on security grounds and was therefore able to be held without being charged of anything. The decision is made to fit him up. The memories are faked. Blake is then 'released' on security grounds and promptly re-arrested on civil grounds. This enables the administration to claim that Blake was arrested after the 'assaults' as the security arrest was not on civil records. Blake has been sufficiently disoriented by the events surrounding the massacre to have lost track of time. Varon assumes that Blake is guilty and Blake's defence is sufficiently vague "I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence" to ensure that the evidence is not properly challenged.
Varon however has been sufficiently disturbed by Blake's horror when the charges are put to him to get a guilty conscience late at night. He and Maja go to check the records with the consequences we all know.
Incidentally, Varon seems to have been hand picked to defend Blake. He is obviously pretty naive about the extent of Federation tyranny and corruption. I suspect that Glynd expected him to go through the motions and lose the case, which he duly did. It must have been a nasty shock when Varon turns up at the office claiming to have uncovered evidence of a massacre.
Stephen.
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