- Man evicted from lodgings abandons his ailing fish. A suitable case for criminal prosecution? [Carissa Byrne Hessick; Clint Bullock and Chelsea Donovan, WECT]
- Guardianship and public administrator abuses will be one topic of elder abuse task force announced by Michigan attorney general [Beth LeBlanc, Detroit News]
- “Red Flag Law is sort of like the Department of Pre-Crime from the movies” [Cato Daily Podcast with Dave Kopel and Caleb Brown on emergency gun confiscation proceedings; related, Kopel testimony via Cato, earlier]
- “Man sues parents for getting rid of his vast porn collection” [Associated Press]
- Three candidates vie to replace long-serving Jim Hood: “AG candidate [Mark] Baker says Mississippi should end its alliance with private lawyers” [Brian Brueggemann, Legal NewsLine]
- “Is It Time to Revisit the Constitutionality of Unauthorized Practice of Law Rules?” [Michael Rosman, Federalist Society]
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Re; fish cruelty, the problem was that the statute didn’t cover fish.
So, instead what we got was a bunch of lawlessness from the cops and the judge who didn’t read the statute.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse…unless you are a law enforcement officer, then it’s totally a perfectly valid excuse.
“the statute didn’t cover fish.”
Indeed, according to NC Gen Stat § 14-360 regarding cruelty to animals:
So, were the authorities ignorant of the law, or did they decide the law wasn’t going to get in the way of looking tough on animal cruelty? Either is unacceptable.