Attorney Bill Bone believes that he has spotted the hole or holes in the defense of his opponent, Michael Robb. Bone has filed a motion with Circuit Judge Donald Hafele in Palm Beach demanding that Robb be ordered to wear shoes without holes in court. Robb’s tasseled Cole Haan loafers have visible holes on both sides and Bone insists that the shoes are cheap theatrics to play to the sympathies or jurors. Robb argues that they are just cheap. It is up to the Court to determine the Cole Hann truth.

Bone wrote the court that “[p]art of this strategy is to present Mr. Robb and his client as modest individuals who are so frugal that Mr. Robb has to wear shoes with holes in the soles. Mr. Robb is known to stand at sidebar with one foot crossed casually beside the other so that the holes in his shoes are readily apparent to the jury who are intently watching all counsel and the Court at that moment.” He insists that the shoes are merely “a ruse to impress the jury and make them believe that Mr. Robb is humble and simple without sophistication.”

Robb insists that these are his lucky “trial shoes” and scoffs at the suggestion of theatrics: “I’ve been practicing law for 21 years, and Mr. Bone thinks he’s finally cracked the key to my success? Gotta be the shoes. Like Michael Jordan.”

Of course, holes in soles have played on sympathies in both politics and law.

Robb insists that he runs his shoes into the ground like a dead horse: “They were close to being retired but they’re back in play. You ride that horse until it completely collapses.”

Of course, there is a general rule for lawyers not to be the best dressed in a courtroom — a rule that is often ignored by lawyers who risk alienating a jury. I have also seen lawyers who change into cheap outfits for trial. One court was forced to deal with a male lawyer who insisted on wearing dresses as a statement against the “controlling male ethos.’

However, few judges would want to police the shoes of counsel. No one wants to be called a heel.

Lyrics Language: Scots
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Steve Winwood Hole in my Shoe Lyrics:
I looked to the sky
Where an elephant’s eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water
(letting in water)

I walked through a field
That just wasnt real
Where 100 tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
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Was letting in water
(letting in water)

(I climbed on the back of
a giant albatross
Which flew through a
crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness
reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly)

I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water
(letting in water)
Lyrics: Hole in my Shoe, Steve Winwood

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