Today in Least Surprising Updates: The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously held on November 14 that Dennis Hawver would be disbarred for violating <stops to count> seven ethical or court rules when representing a defendant who was ultimately sentenced to death….
Today’s Quiz:
You should find this one more difficult than the previous quiz.
Police did not carry out an aggressive, military-style raid to accomplish which of the following purposes?
(a) To find the source of a parody Twitter feed
(b) To check a bar for underage drinkers
(c) To recover a large number of overdue library books
(d) To enforce copyright law against a DJ
(e) To check whether barbers had valid barbering licenses
(f) To apprehend Tibetan monks who overstayed their visas
(g) They did that in all these cases
I think it is worth considering this one for a moment, so I’m going to put the answer and further discussion after the jump below.
An expected development.
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