Criminal law was oddly amusing today. It might be the winds…
Bottle abuse?
Jill: “Does it matter that he1 was trying to abuse his wife?”
Prof R: “How do you know he was trying to abuse his wife?”
Jill: “Well he threw a beer glass at her!”
The Social Policy of Russian Roulette…
Jack: “There may be a social policy that if you’re dumb enough to play Russian Roulette then you get to have your brains blown out.”
Prof R: “It’s sometimes called the Darwin effect.”
Professor R then showed us a powerpoint slide of Russian Roulette and apologized that he couldn’t make the graphic spin.
1 Mayes v. People, 106 Ill. 306 (Ill. 1883)