To: Mr. Silverback
Three words: Rules of evidenceLAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
446 posted on
03/02/2004 12:19:41 PM PST by
balrog666
(Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
To: balrog666
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. Are you certain of that definition?
514 posted on
03/02/2004 4:27:29 PM PST by
Mr. Silverback
(Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
To: balrog666; Mr. Silverback
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. LAWYER, n. One with professional training in lying under oath.
To: balrog666
My older son, who is studying programming, says that law is a lot of "if-then" statements. I said, yes, if-then statements with lots of looping.
Sometimes I analogize it to plumbing - if you don't put the pipes together just right, when you turn on the tap, you don't get any water. So the lawyer's job is to put all the pipe together tightly, in correct sequence.
Laypeople just know that they want water, they don't know how to lay pipe.
In real life it's actually more like putting together a Rube Goldberg device - you step on the cat's tail and she knocks over a billiard ball that starts a chain reaction that eventually tips over a bucket and water comes out. Every step of the way has to happen just so.
But if you're the one standing there expecting water, it's natural to blame the other side's lawyer - or your own - instead of realizing that somewhere along the line something was omitted.
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