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Old July 24, 2013, 10:21 PM
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It is quite correct to state 'you forget that ...'. It would not be proper to say 'you forgot that we ...'. A question isn't being asked. "You've forgotten" could be used.

The prisoner doesn't need to proceed with any form of 'forget'. He or she would be more concerned with the fact that no one knows his/her story and would ask permission to relate it.

By the way, 'how far justice could have been done on your side' is not quite right.
Justice can be on one's side, but it cannot 'do' on one's side.
There is an idiomatic expression 'do justice'. This may be used as 'could have done justice' or 'could have been done justice', but 'how far' and 'on your side' are out of place. So, assuming the author meant to say 'be' on one's side, the statement should have been "... how much justice could have been on your side."

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