The DE jury followed my advice and were done by lunch! Lawyers need to drive back to NY by shkiah.
Hunter raised an interesting (Talmudic?) point – are you considered a drunkard at the moment you are not drinking (and maybe alcohol level just below the legal limit). Should a person have a chezkas kashrus? The fact that he drunk before does not mean that he’ll not stop today. Power of teshuva, etc. Same goes for a ganav or a gambler. If he is not gambling right now, he is a kosher witness. And if it is Montag, he is not a mechalel shabbos (right now).
Possibilities are endless. A policeman stops you – why are you speeding? A: I am not speeding, I am at full rest right now, forget all my previous aveiros.
Maybe this needs to be included into YK liturgy – ashamnu, but not right now; bagadnu, but not right now. Look at us right now, we are fasting and davening. Disregard nah the sheretz b’yadeinu.