November 13, 2014

What's happening Thursday morning

Judge overturns same-sex marriage ban in South Carolina

In the past 30 years, women have entered US prisons at nearly double the rate of men.

Lowering the Bar - The fact is that singing in court is rarely appropriate. I'd have said "never appropriate" had I not participated in a trial in which the plaintiff's attorney sang "What the World Needs Now Is Love" to the jury during closing argument. I didn't actually witness it, unfortunately, and so was surprised to hear that the jurors did not come down out of the box and beat him senseless, as I would have predicted. I was even more surprised that they later gave his client several million dollars, as I would not have predicted. But such is life. It's much more likely that singing in court will backfire, and at a minimum, you should not sing while evidence is being presented.

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