I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in. |
Neither side in this argument has an open-and-shut case, and certainly agreeing with the president's case doesn't make you a fool. |
In my opinion, it's an open-and-shut case. |
But this isn't an open-and-shut argument, and in any event it leaves open the possibility that some forms of severe child abuse can indeed be punished by the government. |
Perhaps one could come up with a crisp legal principle, or a crisp political norm for prosecutorial behavior, that would limit prosecutions to such open-and-shut cases. |
The case for optimism is hardly open-and-shut. |