An insurance agent from Cleveland is selected as the representative of Earth in a galactic trial for multiple crimes against life, but it’s not until the verdict that you’ll see the time travel angle.
Representative? I’m an insurance agent from Cleveland, Ohio! I got a wife and three kids and about the worst thing I’ve ever done was voting Republican in the last election. How can I be a representative?

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  1. “Murder in the Nth Degree” by R. A. Montana, in Microcosmic Tales, edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (Taplinger, September 1980).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by R. A. Montana