Three members of a grand jury are giving a hearing. The target of the hearing is gone, and all that is left is an empty suit, draped over a chair, with a microphone pointing towards it.
It's unusual that the target of the grand jury, i.e., the person on trial, has escaped or evaded the jury; the evidence of that is: the only evidence they were there is the empty suit.
What is the person on trial for, and how did they escape prosecution?
Are you now, or have you ever been?
scene: a courtroom description: Three members of a grand jury are giving a hearing. The target of the hearing is gone, and all that is left is an empty suit, draped over a chair, with a microphone pointing towards it. uncanny: It's unusual that the target of the grand jury, i.e., the person on trial, has escaped or evaded the jury; the evidence of that is: the only evidence they were there is the empty suit. entities: Hearing_(law), Invisibility, Accountability. caption: Are you now, or have you ever been?
A meta joke about interrogating someone who doesn't exist. Usually, "Are you now, or have you ever been ..." is followed by a concrete detail, e.g., "involved with the victim?" or "financially tied to the company?" But here, the person being interrogated doesn't exist, and so the question is complete, and turns into a philosophical question about the nature of existence, instead of a benign factual question.