- "The Daily Mail reports on an interesting judicial opinion from Montana. The judge asked Andrew McCormack, a Beatle-loving beer thief, what he thought his sentence should be. He wrote: 'Like the Beetles [sic] say, Let It Be'. But his cheeky quip did not impress Gregory Todd, a 56-year-old district court judge in Montana. In a sentencing memorandum Judge Todd first corrected McCormack's misspelling and then gave the defendant a lesson in The Beatles discography. The judge produced a sentencing memorandum that cited 42 Beatles songs."
- - Jonathan Adler, "Beware Quoting the Beatles to a Judge" http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_06_03-2007_06_09.shtml#1181438665 , citing http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=459804&in_page_id=1811 and http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/courtdogL_1000x679.jpg .
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
This blog is unutterably opposed to all profane use of Beatles allusions
Posted by Tom R at 12:24 pm
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