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To: HiTech RedNeck
Having two clauses contradict each other in the very same page should be a red flag, and the proper thing to do is to hold off on doing anything with the law until the legislature has clarified.

Laughably moronic, and every criminal's dream. Virtually EVERY law, as they are written today, can be twisted so as to have potentially contradicting clauses. In this very case, the attorney found a way to find ONE clause that made it seem uncertain as to whether one or two working lamps were required. The court itself notes that in a nearby sentence, that law requires all original light to be working... and yet, even though they did not, the cocaine dealers argued it all the way up to the US Supreme Court. Even with only one subsection of one traffic regulation using "the" and "a", their attorney claimed uncertainty and contradiction in the law. Any decent defense attorney could find such contradictions in almost every law... so your proposal would end all law enforcement until the higher courts could personally review every single one. Ludicrous.

106 posted on 12/31/2014 9:52:52 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317
Any decent defense attorney could find such contradictions in almost every law

I doubt it - pick a law at random and point out the contradiction.

108 posted on 12/31/2014 10:18:39 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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