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* SoapboxSadie: When Nathan's explaining the InsanityDefense, one of these pops up to object to the term "insane" as insensitive. The narration shoots her down and explains that "insane" is in fact the legal term.
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* SoapboxSadie: ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: {{Subverted}}. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Gouverneur Morris gets caught inserting language into the final draft of the U.S. Constitution that the delegates hadn't agreed to. When Nathan's explaining the InsanityDefense, one of these pops up confronted, he produces a procedural rule he himself wrote allowing him to object do it, a la Ron Swanson's "I can do what I want." But then under George Washington's reproving glare, he agrees to the term "insane" as insensitive. The narration shoots her down and explains that "insane" is in fact the legal term.change it back.
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* CourtroomAntic: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury. These antics are meant to illustrate principles of law -- [[AsYouKnow real lawyers, naturally, don't bother with this, because they know the other lawyer already knows them.]]
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* CourtroomAntic: CourtroomAntics: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury. These antics are meant to illustrate principles of law -- [[AsYouKnow real lawyers, naturally, don't bother with this, because they know the other lawyer already knows them.]]
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* NationalGeographicNudity: The scenes from the history section of Constitutional Law that are set in the Stone Age and Ancient Egypt have plenty of topless women.
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* SoapboxSadie: When Nathan's explaining the InsanityDefense, one of these pops up to object to the term "insane" as insensitive. The narration shoots her down and explains that "insane" is in fact the legal term.
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Deleted Five Man Band example - zero-context. Part of TRS Wick Cleaning - cannot expand due to unfamiliarity.
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* FiveManBand: In the story arc about [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=432 Conspiracy]]. The tale is re-examined in the [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2637 the Miranda Warning]] section.
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!!This work contains examples of:
* ADickInName: In the section covering the fifth amendment, a corrupt corporate executive is named Richard Head. The author lampshades this, saying "This is what happens when I let my 9-yr-old design a character."
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler: The Defense Counsel is the Prosecutor's father.]] No moral weighting attached, but they're by definition on opposite sides.
* ADickInName: In the section covering the fifth amendment, a corrupt corporate executive is named Richard Head. The author lampshades this, saying "This is what happens when I let my 9-yr-old design a character."
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler: The Defense Counsel is the Prosecutor's father.]] No moral weighting attached, but they're by definition on opposite sides.
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* ADickInName: In the section covering the fifth amendment, a corrupt corporate executive is named Richard Head. The author lampshades this, saying "This is what happens when I let my 9-yr-old design a character."
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Fremont," "this state" or "<person>'s state" is often used when the comic has to get down to details and examples.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Fremont," "this state" or "<person>'s state" is often used when the comic has to get down to details and examples.examples.
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''[[http://lawcomic.net/ The Illustrated Guide to Law]]'' is a webcomic by Nathaniel Burney that teaches legal concepts to a general audience. For each subject, the comic begins by presuming no knowledge, then proceeds in baby steps to fairly sophisticated discussions.
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''[[http://lawcomic.net/ The Illustrated Guide to Law]]'' is a webcomic by Nathaniel Burney that teaches legal concepts to a general audience. audience.
For each subject, the comic begins by presuming no knowledge, then proceeds in baby steps to fairly sophisticateddiscussions.
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* GeniusBonus: There are lots of throwaway jokes and visual gags for readers familiar with mathematics, physics, literature, gaming, and history, to name just a few.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: There are lots of little throwaway gags for those familiar with physics and mathematics. The author goes out of his way to get period costume and other details just right. And the comic spends a lot of time laying evidentiary groundwork when it's about to bust a particularly well-entrenched myth (see the dozens and dozens of pages setting forth the history of the right against self-incrimination, the neuroscience and psychology of interrogations and eyewitness identifications, and the history of government from the Stone Age to 1776).
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* OffOnATechnicality: Criminal Procedure explains how the "technicalities" of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments work. The cases where the case dies on a single technicality are usually cases where the evidence is suppressed because of a police error. "No evidence, no case."
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* IdiotBall: several people used in examples (mostly by misunderstanding various legal principles).
* TheMole: the Entrapment section includes several undercover cops or police informants. The Miranda Rights section reveals that [[spoiler: the Ringleader]] from the Conspiracy section was a police mole.
* TheMole: the Entrapment section includes several undercover cops or police informants. The Miranda Rights section reveals that [[spoiler: the Ringleader]] from the Conspiracy section was a police mole.
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* IdiotBall: several Several people used in examples (mostly by misunderstanding because they misunderstand various legal principles).
* TheMole:the The Entrapment section includes several undercover cops or police informants. The Miranda Rights section reveals that [[spoiler: the Ringleader]] from the Conspiracy section was a police mole.
* TheMole:
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* CourtroomAntic: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury. These antics meant to illustrate principles of law -- real lawyers, naturally, don't bother with this, because they know the other lawyer already knows them
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* CourtroomAntic: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury. These antics are meant to illustrate principles of law -- [[AsYouKnow real lawyers, naturally, don't bother with this, because they know the other lawyer already knows themthem.]]
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* CourtroomAntic: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury.
** Some of the CourtroomAntics are meant to illustrate principles of law. Attorneys don't bother with them in real life because [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow everyone knows these arguments, making them unnecessary]].
** Some of the CourtroomAntics are meant to illustrate principles of law. Attorneys don't bother with them in real life because [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow everyone knows these arguments, making them unnecessary]].
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* CourtroomAntic: The suppression hearing on eyewitnesses gets a little heated, and at one point [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3658 Pi throws another lawyer's papers into the air to make a point]]. She's right, but the Judge warns her not to do anything like that in front of the jury.
** Some of the CourtroomAntics arejury. These antics meant to illustrate principles of law. Attorneys law -- real lawyers, naturally, don't bother with them in real life this, because [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow everyone they know the other lawyer already knows these arguments, making them unnecessary]].them
** Some of the CourtroomAntics are
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* TakeThat: [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=299 His section on the jury]] gets absolutely nasty toward the system, pointing out that expecting twelve ordinary individuals with no legal training to comprehend the complex requirements of the job is entirely unreasonable.
* As well as [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3682 eyewitness identification procedures]] where the law's standards on reliable eyewitness runs counter to what science says the memory works.
* As well as [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3682 eyewitness identification procedures]] where the law's standards on reliable eyewitness runs counter to what science says the memory works.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=299 His section on the jury]] gets absolutely nasty toward the system, pointing out that expecting twelve ordinary individuals with no legal training to comprehend the complex requirements of the job is entirely unreasonable.
* ** As well as [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3682 eyewitness identification procedures]] where the law's standards on reliable eyewitness runs counter to what science says the memory works.
** [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=299 His section on the jury]] gets absolutely nasty toward the system, pointing out that expecting twelve ordinary individuals with no legal training to comprehend the complex requirements of the job is entirely unreasonable.
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** Some of the CourtroomAntics are meant to illustrate principles of law. Attorneys don't bother with them in real life because [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow everyone knows these arguments, making them unnecessary]].
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* As well as [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3682 eyewitness identification procedures]] where the law's standards on reliable eyewitness runs counter to what science says the memory works.
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* FiveManBand: In the story arc about [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=432 Conspiracy]].
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* FiveManBand: In the story arc about [[http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=432 Conspiracy]]. The tale is re-examined in the [[https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2637 the Miranda Warning]] section.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Fremont," "this state" or "<person>'s state" is often used when the comic has to get down to details and examples.
** JustifiedTrope: Generally, the author using a HYPOTHETICAL law, that doesn't necessarily match that of any specific state, to illustrate the legal principles, because every jurisdiction is different.
** JustifiedTrope: Generally, the author using a HYPOTHETICAL law, that doesn't necessarily match that of any specific state, to illustrate the legal principles, because every jurisdiction is different.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Fremont," "this state" or "<person>'s state" is often used when the comic has to get down to details and examples.
** JustifiedTrope: Generally, the author using a HYPOTHETICAL law, that doesn't necessarily match that of any specific state, to illustrate the legal principles, because every jurisdiction is different.examples.
** JustifiedTrope: Generally, the author using a HYPOTHETICAL law, that doesn't necessarily match that of any specific state, to illustrate the legal principles, because every jurisdiction is different.
