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A few years ago I went to a restaurant in Georgia that had super lovely service time. We ordered beer and wine, and at the end of the meal when we looked at our bill, we realized that those weren't on it, we asked, and they just said something to the effect of "oh, it's comped". Cool, we said, service did kind of suck. So we gave it another go later in the week, service was better, but same thing with the booze. Our last night there, we went to a different restaurant and were speaking to one of the staff about our experience. They mentioned that the first restaurant didn't have a booze license yet, which threw the comped drinks into a whole different light. Obviously giving away free booze is loving terrible for business profits, but is it also a license violation of some sort?
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Only if someone tattles
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Oct 26, 2020 18:02
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i get kinda mad even imagining the trash person who snitches on someone for giving them free booze
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Oct 26, 2020 18:04
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Bodrick posted:If Rudy Giuliani had believed Maria Bakalova to be 15 (even though she was 24), and still actually had sexual contact with her, would he have committed a crime? It's obviously sleazy AF, and I'm fairly sure it would be statutory rape if the ages were reversed, but it seems like it possibly wouldn't be illegal if they both consented, since they were both legal age (even if he didn't think she was). Dunno NYS law but most states make this stuff strict liability so "I didn't know she was 15" isn't a defense. Conversely this would likely make "she was 24" an absolute defense.
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Oct 27, 2020 17:02
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nm posted:Dunno NYS law but most states make this stuff strict liability so "I didn't know she was 15" isn't a defense. Conversely this would likely make "she was 24" an absolute defense. Yeah, but law school question: is impossibility a defense to the crime of attempt?
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Oct 27, 2020 18:44
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I guess I'm also curious if those dudes on To Catch a Predator ever actually get charged or convicted of anything beyond being embarrassed on TV, since those shows use adult women posing as underage victims.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:47
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Anonymous Zebra posted:I guess I'm also curious if those dudes on To Catch a Predator ever actually get charged or convicted of anything beyond being embarrassed on TV, since those shows use adult women posing as underage victims. Seriously some of the best television ever made!
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Oct 27, 2020 19:37
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blarzgh posted:Yeah, but law school question: is impossibility a defense to the crime of attempt? Q: Steve sexually touches the voodoo doll he has made of Shirley, believing her to be 14 when actually
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Oct 27, 2020 20:29
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Alchenar posted:Q: Steve sexually touches the voodoo doll he has made of Shirley, believing her to be 14 when actually Well how old is the doll, and did it consent?
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Oct 27, 2020 20:48
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blarzgh posted:Yeah, but law school question: is impossibility a defense to the crime of attempt? Norway: No.
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Oct 27, 2020 22:31
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Alchenar posted:Q: Steve sexually touches the voodoo doll he has made of Shirley, believing her to be 14 when actually Not impossible attempt, because it's not attempt.
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Oct 27, 2020 22:33
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Is it possible to commit assault with a voodoo doll? Using it for voodoo known to the victim, not a blunt weapon
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Oct 27, 2020 22:57
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Getting dangerously close to charging someone with witchcraft here.
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Oct 27, 2020 23:13
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Alchenar posted:Q: Steve sexually touches the voodoo doll he has made of Shirley, believing her to be 14 when actually
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Oct 27, 2020 23:59
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Outrail posted:Getting dangerously close to charging someone with witchcraft here. Eminent Domain posted:I've definitely had clients be able to get restraining orders on abusers who made threats of putting spells on them and poo poo. It was part of an overall pattern of harassment however. Haven't had a repeat yet, but I remain hopeful
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Oct 28, 2020 00:47
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Show me on the doll where... Ohhhh nice try Esmeralda!
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Oct 28, 2020 00:55
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Is a victim's fear of harm in an assault case required to be reasonable? If the defendant intends to commit an action that would NOT cause a reasonable person to fear that they will suffer physical harm, but the victim DOES apprehend that fear, and the defendant DOES intend to create that fear, is it assault?
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Oct 28, 2020 03:04
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Devor posted:Is a victim's fear of harm in an assault case required to be reasonable? More seriously, what is your example of an action where a reasonable person doing it would not believe that it would put someone in fear of imminent bodily injury, but a reasonable person having the same action done to/at/near them would believe that they were under imminent threat? E: Or do you mean something like "Alice knows Bob believes that being within five feet of a willow branch will cause him to instantly die. Does Alice commit assault if she chases Bob with a willow branch?" Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 03:13
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Dead Reckoning posted:I believe that this post implies the author intends to cause me imminent bodily harm. Take him away, officers. Voodoo, e.g. I am cursing you with a voodoo doll which I say has your hair in it and stabbing it with needles I believe in Voodoo, and I know that you believe in Voodoo.
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Oct 28, 2020 05:59
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Devor posted:Voodoo, e.g. I am cursing you with a voodoo doll which I say has your hair in it and stabbing it with needles You probably just end up with a charge of criminal harassment because 'a course of conduct intended to disturb, harass etc the victim' is easy to prove there and doesn't require the jury to consider their conception of reality. Voodoo is no different to being threatened with a curse or an exorcism or whatever.
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Oct 28, 2020 10:45
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Feel like we've had this conversation about two years and one month ago.
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Oct 28, 2020 11:26
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Devor posted:Voodoo, e.g. I am cursing you with a voodoo doll which I say has your hair in it and stabbing it with needles If applicable, possibly impossible attempt, unless a doctrine of absurd threats applies.
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Oct 28, 2020 11:28
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Nice piece of fish posted:Feel like we've had this conversation about two years and one month ago. Spoooooooky They say every year as Halloween approaches, a cursed topic rises from the grave, haunting the legal questions thread once again, creating joinder and commandeering the vessel that is the court
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Oct 28, 2020 14:30
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Bad Munki posted:Spoooooooky If the court is a vessel then blarzgh is the cabin boy E: at best the coxswain
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Oct 28, 2020 15:11
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Do I create joinder with the thread by reading it or posting in it?
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pseudanonymous posted:Do I create joinder with the thread by reading it or posting in it? Does your monitor have a gold fringe?
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Oct 28, 2020 16:00
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Bad Munki posted:Spoooooooky Did we ever get a ruling on pizza's status as an open faced sandwich?
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Oct 28, 2020 16:18
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Outrail posted:Did we ever get a ruling on pizza's status as an open faced sandwich? Not a problem if you fold your slice to eat it
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Oct 28, 2020 18:26
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Soylent Pudding posted:Not a problem if you fold your slice to eat it Doesn't that just make it harder to cut with a knife?
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Oct 28, 2020 18:32
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pentyne posted:Doesn't that just make it harder to cut with a knife? Lock this man up
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Oct 28, 2020 19:00
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Plus canned pineapple rings don’t fold very well
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Oct 29, 2020 02:00
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e: wrong thread
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Oct 29, 2020 02:10
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Anonymous Zebra posted:I guess I'm also curious if those dudes on To Catch a Predator ever actually get charged or convicted of anything beyond being embarrassed on TV, since those shows use adult women posing as underage victims. Yes. I had a former HS friend get caught on this. He's now a successful architect. I think he got probation, a felony, and a sex registration. Otoh, those car theft shows have a ton of issues getting convictions.
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Oct 29, 2020 18:10
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Here's a dumb question: In the US, after I die, is there any way for my family to retain my skull for enshrinement/ossuary use/painting?
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a mysterious cloak posted:Here's a dumb question: In the US, after I die, is there any way for my family to retain my skull for enshrinement/ossuary use/painting? If your family is the sort of family that would do that I doubt they're the sort of family that cares about legalities.
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a mysterious cloak posted:Here's a dumb question: In the US, after I die, is there any way for my family to retain my skull for enshrinement/ossuary use/painting? I'm pretty sure, yeah. You could write it in your will, and pre-arrange for such a transaction with the mortuary that you intend to go to, but 1) If your family refuses to partake in this ritual, you cannot legally compel them from beyond the grave. 2) If the mortuary refuses to accept the transaction, there is nothing you can do to legally compel them. I don't think it would fall under the "mutilation of a corpse" statute (criminal) since that requires a lack of legal authority.
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blarzgh posted:I'm pretty sure, yeah. You could write it in your will, and pre-arrange for such a transaction with the mortuary that you intend to go to, but Couldn't you like set aside some money and hire an attorney and try to constantly compel your heirs to take your skull, I mean like literally haunt people.
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pseudanonymous posted:Couldn't you like set aside some money and hire an attorney and try to constantly compel your heirs to take your skull, I mean like literally haunt people. You'd have to pay the lawyer in advance of your death, but sure!
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Nov 4, 2020 19:51
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You could condition their inheritance on acceptance of the skull, which might be totally unenforceable but it'd take them years of anguish and litigation to fight it so either way you get to poltergeist. Probably news coverage too.
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Nonexistence posted:You could condition their inheritance on acceptance of the skull, which might be totally unenforceable but it'd take them years of anguish and litigation to fight it so either way you get to poltergeist. Probably news coverage too. Conditional bequests are not super-strictly enforced; they can't be illegal, unreasonable, or against public policy. Additionally, the issue with the bequest in this case is, "My Whole Family has to paint the skull" so if you made your bequest conditional on the skull painting, the whole family could get together and just ignore the will and divvy the poo poo up however they want, or all agree not to enforce that condition. A will is a document that gives beneficiaries the right to sue to enforce the distribution of assets in a certain way. Families can just Not Probate the Will if they want and agree. So if you put every potential beneficiary under the will in the same boat, they can all decide to paddle in the same direction: away from Skull Island.
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