The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a criminal defense attorney for one year, with six months stayed, over the attorney filling a Pringles can with his own feces and throwing it in the parking lot of a victim advocacy center just before meeting with the center’s staff in court about a murder case. Jack […]
Part of speech: noun Origin: Ancient Greek, early 17th century 1. A lover of learning; a student or scholar. 2. An astrologer or predictor.
When I was a young lawyer, jurors were not routinely allowed to ask their own questions of witnesses. When the jury instructions and other trial rules were modified to make this a regular feature of trials, most of us came to believe that juror questions were an important and useful change to the way trials […]
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present … fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. Abraham Lincoln (1862), on the imperative of winning the Civil War
Knowledge is in every Country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington (1790), urging the pursuit of science in his first address on the State of the Union.
Rumbustious Part of speech: adjective Origin: British English, late 18th century Boisterous or unruly.
Exhortation An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.
Declivity A downward slope.
Pellucid Translucently clear (of music or noise) clear or pure in tone
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