He Had It Comin'
The Boss left for the day. Good news because now I can sit back and not work. Well, I wasn't working before, but now I don't even have to pretend, which is a little like working.
So we've got this new case. Very different from what we usually take. It involves police brutality and it turns out that Arizona has some pretty protective statutes that save cop ass. For instance, A.R.S.12-712 basically says that if the plaintiff, at the time of injury, is engaging or beginning to engage in a criminal act, then there is no liability against the defendant. Now, almost anytime you're involved with a police officer and it ends in brutality, there's going to be something a cop can make up to "prove" that you were getting ready to engage in a crime. Resisting arrest would probably be the most invoked excuse - if I were predicting results of an empirical study on the matter... You resisted arrest and therefore you will have the shit beaten out of you with a baton stick, while your hamster is maced and your grandma gets raped. And the cop gets off. Twice. Dirty bastard.
I found a couple of sticky affirmative defenses such as this and immediately took them to The Boss. He wasn't concerned. He thinks he's that guy from the play Chicago... what's his name... you know, the guy Usher is playing these days. Yeah, him. That's who The Boss thinks he is.
So we've got this new case. Very different from what we usually take. It involves police brutality and it turns out that Arizona has some pretty protective statutes that save cop ass. For instance, A.R.S.12-712 basically says that if the plaintiff, at the time of injury, is engaging or beginning to engage in a criminal act, then there is no liability against the defendant. Now, almost anytime you're involved with a police officer and it ends in brutality, there's going to be something a cop can make up to "prove" that you were getting ready to engage in a crime. Resisting arrest would probably be the most invoked excuse - if I were predicting results of an empirical study on the matter... You resisted arrest and therefore you will have the shit beaten out of you with a baton stick, while your hamster is maced and your grandma gets raped. And the cop gets off. Twice. Dirty bastard.
I found a couple of sticky affirmative defenses such as this and immediately took them to The Boss. He wasn't concerned. He thinks he's that guy from the play Chicago... what's his name... you know, the guy Usher is playing these days. Yeah, him. That's who The Boss thinks he is.
posted by Lex Fori at
4:53 PM
3 Comments:
You must clarify your analogy to Usher and Chicago. I have not seen Chicago (and refused to for that stupid gichi mama song).
And what's your affirmative defense? That the cop is making up the resisting arrest idea?
By
Arbusto, at 8:48 AM
Arbusto, due to the lack of response, I think the Boss is at work :)
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Crazy East Coast Uncle, at 4:10 PM
Arbusto - Usher is playing Billy Flynn in a rendition of Chicago somewhere in the country. As for the affirmative defense, yup, you're exactly right, making up the resisting arrest.
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Lex Fori, at 10:16 AM
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