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In Kentucky, prosecutors offered a plea deal to a man they accused of murder because the statute was too confusing to explain to jurors.
From this article, HT: instapundit.
If jurors, before a trial begins, don’t know the law in question, something is just horribly wrong. Now, if you can’t even explain the law to them…
Quote of the day
1) People are often stupid
2) Bureaucrats are the same stupid people, with bad incentives.
From AI.
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