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Originally Posted by MLeake
Spats, with no disrespect intended to you, Frank, or Bartholomew, those kinds of word games and parsing are why most of us laymen:
1) don't hold lawyers in the esteem the profession may once have enjoyed; and
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What I've outlined is not a "word game." When admitting the wrong thing can cost your clients millions of dollars, or even decades in jail, it is most certainly not a game.
As for parsing, well, I guess it is parsing. However, the burden of proof remains at all times on the Plaintiff. Why would anyone expect a Defendant to admit to things, when they really don't know if such things are true? Especially with the constitutionality of laws and hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line?
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Originally Posted by MLeake
. . . .2) would really, really like laws to be passed in plain, understandable English, and limited in length, so as to be legible and comprehensible to a high school graduate.
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And anyone who believes that writing laws in that way is possible is welcome to give it a shot. If he can, there's a career at a Bureau of Legislative Research somewhere just waiting on him.