There are many great lines Justice Fergus O’Donnell’s opinion in R. v. Duncan (2013), which was an otherwise unremarkable case except that the defendant tried to run one of those “sovereign citizen” defenses up the flagpole. That didn’t go so well:…
For those of you wondering whether the "sovereign citizen" movement has had any legal success recently, the answer is still "of course not." (Previous failures include this, this, and this.) For those of you who thought the not-quite-dead-voter case seemed like a Monty Python sketch,…
Huh?
The sentence at the end of the proceedings was much worse, in a different way.
Or at least reduced the number of people who died of old age while saying it.
Australian lawyers should be on their best behavior.
A remarkable effort.
It has tried this before, as you may recall, and that didn't really turn out so well. That time was also much more of a serious group effort, whereas at least so far this is just a resolution sponsored by…
From a complaint filed last week in San Francisco: Michael M ____ v. City and County of San Francisco; San Francisco Superior Court; Dennis Herrera; Wayne Snodgrass; Andrew Gschwind; Harry Gower III; Robert Baysinger; Alisa Hollander Ella Yip; Adena Gilbert; Charlotte Woolard;…
Paul Christiansen, who caused a mistrial in March by doing his own research on the defendant and disclosing it to other jurors, has been fined $1,200 by a court in Newbury, New Hampshire. Jurors, of course, are instructed not to do…