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340. Intellectual dishonesty epic (finale)

By Joel Jacobsen

(Here's part 1 of this epic.)How can you tell when a judge is up to something?  One sure giveaway is the emotive adjective or adverb.  I always tell my students that the strongest argument is the quietest: "The Supreme Court just decided this issue last week."  You don't have to raise your voice or work on anyone's emotions on those rare occasions when the law has truly boarded up all the escape routes.When federal judge Jerome Frank went on about the "satanic" police serving the "brutalistic" regime in Coney Island, it was because he couldn't carry the day by calmly setting forth the facts and the law.  The hysteria (or, if you're feeling generous, faux-hysteria) of his language was intended to justify the result he reached...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).