Comments on: Law is like poker.

By: Prosecutors are not your friends. (Updated X 2) | People v. State

Prosecutors are not your friends. (Updated X 2) | People v. State — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:58:31 +0000

[…] should be the only ones that are prosecuted. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt requires nothing less. Law is like poker, but shouldn’t be, especially when the life and liberty of a human being hangs on the river […]

By: John Kindley

John Kindley — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:19:10 +0000

It’s kind of funny that one of my posts that Mark Bennett pointed to in his “shoutout” post was “my” post on intellectual property. I don’t know if Mark realized that I had flat-out lifted the entirety of that particular post from its original author, Thomas Knapp. (In my defense though, Thomas Knapp had invited readers to do exactly that in the very title of his post, and fully appreciated the “joke” when I pointed it out to him.) It’s even more funny because Mark has had a real problem with bloggers lifting his own posts. But who knows, maybe Mark realized what I’d done and just recognized the content of the post as an alternate view. (And regardless of the contours of intellectual property law, stealing blog posts without attribution to their authors is just impolite and unethical.)

Anyway, that’s just a riff on the last sentence of your comment, which of course doesn’t apply one bit to your new post on poker. I loved it, and I’ll stop by there later to comment.

By: Todd Taylor

Todd Taylor — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:10:04 +0000

Your post reminds me of the criminal defense lawyer who filed a motion to have the case decided through trial by combat between the defense lawyer and the prosecutor. As I recall, the motion proposed that they meet on the courthouse steps at a designated time and commence to fight until the other cried for mercy.

Like all creative defense motions, the prosecutor resisted the relief requested in a somewhat knee-jerk fashion.

Anyway, your post inspired me to write my own, so I have you to thank for late-night inspiration. I like your perspective. I’ll try not to rip-off too many of your ideas–just the really good ones.