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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We don't have lawyers on Lemmy lol, only privacy/Linux enthusiasts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

IANAL but my attorney once told me he witnessed a guy defending himself in court for involuntary manslaughter saying "I didn't see the red light because I was drunk."

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know a person from my town that defended himself for murder and refused a lawyer because "they weren't there, how could they know what happened!?" He didn't get a lite sentence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That's basically just proving the "Involuntary" part.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

LOL exactly! Why drive drunk in the first place?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here's a better question:

Scientists. . how many laws have been gazetted that completely ignore or contradict actual science?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not even a scientist but I know that it's A LOT, I don't think it would be easy to get an actual number