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Category Archives: Law & Parody
Police Commissioner announces new anti-spitting technology
Police Commissioner Hannibal Mugfur announced a monumental new technology today guaranteed to solve thousands of crimes, bring deviants to justice and make the City’s sidewalks cleaner. Unveiling a demonstration model of the SPITSUCKER-100™ before a delighted audience at Daffy Duck … Continue reading
Posted in Forensic "science", Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
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Are you a cissy?
One of the many annoyances of being accused of a crime is having to put up with humiliating questions from your lawyer. Like, “Was your grandmother a drug addict?” “When was the last time you had sex?” or “Do you … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Humor, Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
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Powerpoint for the defense
Prosecutors see nothing wrong with summing up with Powerpoint like this: Well, two can play this game. Here are some handy graphics for defense summations:
Prosecutor Powerpoint and Wigmore’s horse
Since prosecutors’ summations are basically commercials to sell the jury on a guilty verdict, it was only a matter of time before they started using advertising graphics. In People v. Santiago (2014), New York’s top court saw nothing wrong with the People’s … Continue reading
In memory of Dennis Murphy, public defender
Dennis Murphy passed away at home in his sleep on March 22, 2017, after several years of being progressively weakened by neurodegenerative illness. He was Director of Training at the Legal Aid Society, where he overflowed with more ideas for … Continue reading
When is a trial not a trial? When there’s no jury.
We recently briefed a case where the judge took the bench after the lunch break and announced, “The Court has arrived at a verdict. The verdict is –,” until the parties frantically stopped her. The trial hadn’t finished yet! She … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Judges, Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
Tagged Twelve Angry Men; Bench trial
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How to describe judicial decisionmaking without being held in contempt
The biggest challenge of appellate writing is figuring out how to convey without actually saying so that the trial judge was an uninformed barnacle. Especially when the standard of review is that the judge is always right. The appellate squawker … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Defense Appeals, Humor, Judges, Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
Tagged heuristics
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