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not in a court of law

"It's your actions that count, not your intention."
- Michael Mann [born 1943] whose credits include Miami Vice

legal cocaine

 

Spectral Evidence

    

"Witchcraft was a felony in both England and its American colonies, and therefore witches were hanged, not burned. However, witches’ bodies were burned in Scotland, though they were strangled to death first." [Source here].

Dreams were admitted as credible prosecutorial evidence. 

exculpatory

"Your past doesn't inform your future."

less exposure to liability

Why some authors sometimes prefer to write fictional novels instead of autobiographies or biographies:

If you meet the requirements for a civil action, you can sue someone for defamation, whether libel or slander, if they have written or said something bad about you. However, you must be able to prove the necessary elements of a defamation suit if you wish to collect damages. 

Defamation can take two forms, which are generally referred to as libel and slander. Libel is defined as a defamation of a person, group, organization, product, government, or country that was made in written or printed words or in pictures. Slander is the same thing, except the defamatory statement was made in the form of spoken words, sounds, sign language, or gestures.

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discord

"War? War is an organized bore."
- Justice Holmes

dissident

"I break this law in service of a higher law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

truism

"People don't like to admit when they've made a mistake."
- From "Conviction"

on dropping out of law school

"It was so boring."
- Paul Simon

control

“The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.”
- Truman Capote

bad

"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been arrested once."
- John Waters

Pay for performance

A new model to pay for value not hours here.

exoneration

In the United States, DNA testing has led to more than 230 exonerations in cases where there had been overwhelming evidence of guilt, because memory is malleable and full of holes. Visit The Innocence Project to learn more.