In fact, defendants cannot talk about their motives, benevolent or otherwise, until they face sentencing once they’ve already been found guilty.

“Somebody Somewhere” doesn’t end with a benevolent monarch returned to the throne, the forces of evil destroyed or Sam making her Broadway debut while Iceland beams at her from the wings.

His rhymes are intermittently clever and the chorus contains several sticky hooks, but that fresh, benevolent trickster’s energy that made “Old Town Road” feel so ahead of the curve still remains an elusive quantity.

Its Gotham as a right-wing talking point come to life, hollowed out by federal disinvestment and abandoned to the whims of street gangs, mobsters and the benevolent grace of a gazillionaire industrialist named Bruce Wayne.

For a while there, many of us in the newspaper business thought that benevolent billionaires were a plausible savior for news organizations like the Post and the LA Times.