An Oath That Matters

I represented a man that was charged with assault on a female. He and his wife were both Muslim. He told me that his wife had fabricated the story of assault in order to extract money and favors from him. He testified that she had scratched herself, which left the marks the police accused him of making. Given that the Bible has little significance to Muslim, I decided to hire a translator to bring the Koran (the Muslim holy book) and to provide a Muslim oath to the court in the hope that the wife would not be willing to lie after swearing to her god not to lie. I made a big show of having the translator and placed the Koran in the view of the prosecuting witness. After seeing the Koran and being told that there was a person who could provide a Muslim oath, the wife declined to testify and the charges against my client were dismissed.