Tobias Wolff's " The Deposition" is a story of humiliated justice and the lies behind the humiliation. The characters in the story search for their right and get deprived of that as false statements and confessions obstruct their ways to achieve what is just. Starting with the witness in the court and then with the lawyer Burke, the characters undergo an echoing ambiguous treatment of fallacy and false justice that turns the story into a tale of escaping truth and trying to establish their own lies which leads judgments to be wrong. The main character of the story, the lawyer...
the woman's right to have justice and Burke was also trying the same attitude to get rid of the accusation made by the girl and the woman and tried to save his reputation. Although, the accusation made by the girl was not absolutely right but the policeman and the other woman would not know that and not even the girl herself. Thus, Burke and the witness in the story humiliated humiliation of justice and rights to achieve it and as a result we see the depression and frustration foreshadowing the hopes of the victims who had plead for justice.