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Yes, Moffat\'s recycled quite a lot of it since the series was revived: the plot in \
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Yes, Moffat\\\'s recycled quite a lot of it since the series was revived: the plot in \\\"A Christmas Carol\\\", the setting in \\\"Silence in the Library\\\", one of the incidental characters in \\\"Day of the Moon\\\", ...
[edit: ... the bit about what monsters have nightmares about in \\\"The Girl in the Fireplace\\\"...]
[edit: ... the bit about what monsters have nightmares about in \\\"The Girl in the Fireplace\\\"...]
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** \\\"Regarding the rape, the traditional law — still the law in much of the US today — is that tricking someone into sex by impersonation is not a crime unless the perpetrator is impersonating the victim\\\'s spouse.\\\"
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for/about Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
(Figuring it out himself would mean doing stuff like having possible witnesses at the school interviewed and finding out just how legal the search of Stanley\\\'s home/room was.)
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for/about Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
(Figuring it out himself would mean doing stuff like having possible witnesses at the school interviewed and finding out just how legal the search of Stanley\\\'s home/room was.)
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** \\\"Regarding the rape, the traditional law — still the law in much of the US today — is that tricking someone into sex by impersonation is not a crime unless the perpetrator is impersonating the victim\\\'s spouse.\\\"
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for/about Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for/about Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
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** \
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** \\\"Regarding the rape, the traditional law — still the law in much of the US today — is that tricking someone into sex by impersonation is not a crime unless the perpetrator is impersonating the victim\\\'s spouse.\\\"
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
Really depends on the state. It\\\'s called Rape by Fraud or Rape by Deception, and some states have laws about it, some don\\\'t. But it no longer always has to be the spouse that\\\'s impersonated. Edit or cut entry?
* \\\"\\\'\\\'Holes\\\'\\\': Wrongly Accused protagonist Stanley Yelnats at his trial doesn\\\'t have a lawyer. Not \\\"got a bad lawyer\\\" or \\\"can\\\'t afford a good one\\\", he doesn\\\'t have a lawyer at all, even though that\\\'s constitutionally mandated in America. The curse on his family must be quite powerful to do that.\\\"
Stanley \\\'\\\'did\\\'\\\' have a lawyer in the book -specifically stated as incompetent and not very good at his job. The patents lawyer his dad hires finds out in about ten minutes why Stanley couldn\\\'t have done what he was accused of, and has some sharp words for Stanley\\\'s defense lawyer (implied to be the lowest ranking public defender or somesuch) not figuring it out himself. The curse was apparently more that he got the worst possible lawyer.
