Think back to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” the scene where the protagonist, Alex, lays in a police department holding cell. He stares defiantly at the officers who have beat him and says he won’t speak without his lawyer. “I know the law,” he sneers. The inspector looks down at him. “We’ll have to show our little friend Alex here that we know the law too,” he says, “but that knowing the law isn’t everything.” The problem for little …