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[sir_samuel]

The Council room was discomfortingly crowded for Vimes' taste. Besides the members of the Council themselves, representatives of the Starks, and that damned Lannister woman, there was, oh so conspicuous in their inconspicuousness, the press.

A room full of people, and what were they here to talk about? Stabbings. Just bloody lovely

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[misanthrope_md]

House thought that it was kind of a no brainer himself. "I suspect that some people might be wary of the IPD playing judge and us handing down the sentence," House said. "However, even in the legal system where I'm from, a district attorney isn't going to bother to prosecute a case he doesn't think he can win. And if all of the evidence points to self defense and all of the stories match up... well, no prosecutor in his right mind would put her on the stand - " He gestured down at Sansa's photograph. "and try to paint her as a cold blooded killer." He shrugged. "So since we still have no proper legal system then I guess we're playing the role of district attourney. And a trial would just be a waste of time."

[jdick]

"I'm with House on this," Joe agreed with a small shrug. It wasn't something he was used to admitting, agreeing with a doctor, but he did and he thought holding some kind of a trial would be an incredible waste of time. "She's got herself and her kid to look after and if someone attacks her, she's got that right to defend herself, doesn't she?" It seemed pretty straight forward to him.

[dale_cooper_fbi]

"If no one has come forward to present compelling evidence contrary to the reports we have," said Dale, who had already carefully reviewed the notes, "and I'm quite convinced you did a thorough job with the investigation, I see no reason to pursue this any further. Everyone involved has been through enough already."

The island new year always seemed to start a little bit like this. Dale hoped it wasn't a pattern that would continue.

[westroslucrezia]

"And if someone does come forward?"

Cersei had sat calmly through the beginning of the meeting - dangerously calm. She had not spoken as the guardsman had made his speech and the so-called council had given their little opinions. Now she only raised her chin, hands folded in her lap, her expression stony.

"What then?"

[dale_cooper_fbi]

"If anyone should have evidence that refutes what is so thoroughly documented here, then I would like to see it," said Dale. It was his decided belief however that if any actual evidence existed, it would already be documented in the file and would not be introduced for the first time at this meeting. "Do you know of anyone who has any such evidence?"

[westroslucrezia]

Cersei's eyes flashed. "I have the belief that a mother deserves justice for her son's murder," she answered coldly. "I would hope that the people here would feel the same. This girl's family and mine have a history. I have no doubt that had this not happened, they would have found another way to see him dead."

[starkhand]

Ned was unused to sitting in on a meeting of a council of which he was not a member, and so it was with some effort that he kept quiet. If he was not called on to speak, he would remain silent - unless it seemed that things would not go well for Sansa, in which case he would have a great deal to say.

[abbysciuto]

"I agree with Dr. House and Agent Cooper. The facts are as clear-cut as they ever tend to be in these situations," Abby said simply. She'd also carefully reviewed the notes, since she hadn't been anything more than peripherally involved in the investigation itself...mostly because she knew this meeting would be inevitable and she didn't want any hint of conflict of interest. There was no reason to think it was anything other than self-defense in either case.

Sterilizing the lab instruments after they'd found out that Sylar had had new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease had been less than straighforward, but it had been an interesting expansion of everyone's lab skills.

[legendarymadman]

Geoffrey feels there are a lot of things he can offer the Council, but an opinion on police matters probably isn't one of them.

"We put our faith in law enforcement to do their jobs," is all he says on the matter. "If they say it was self-defense, I don't see any reason to second guess them. As far as I'm concerned, it's already dealt with."

[sir_samuel]

Vimes glanced over the report on Sylar. "So, um. As the scientist type among us, you wanna explain this mad cow business? I could come up for a lot of things to call this guy, but bovine wouldn't've been one of 'em."

[abbysciuto]

"Sure," she agreed. She had sort of been expecting someone to ask, so she'd already considered a Gibbs-style explanation, which would involve an example or two and very few big words

[_kinginthenorth]

Robb sits stiffly, quietly, next to Ned, glaring at Cersei Lannister with enough force to have bored a hole in her beautiful, mad face. More than once when she speaks he nearly interrupts her, and Grey Wind is so tense at his feet that he has no choice, at one point but to send the wolf from the room. It would hardly help Sansa's case if Cersei's throat were ripped out before the whole council, satisfying though it might be; he'd be glad enough to do it himself given the chance.