ext_110433: The Magdalen Reading (0)
nebroadwe.livejournal.com ([identity profile] nebroadwe.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] seawasp 2011-03-24 12:29 pm (UTC)

I'm with everyone who asks for context on hypotheticals. In fact, I once irritated a lawyer voir-dire-ing me during jury duty for just that reason; his hypothetical -- "Would you sue the landlord of an apartment building if your mother was injured in a slip-and-fall accident on one of its sidewalks?" -- left out all kinds of things I would have wanted to take into account, such as how the accident took place, whether the landlord had a history of negligence or not, how bad the injury was, and whether this particular slip-and-fall constituted a suing matter by law. "It depends" evidently wasn't a good answer. (I've never served on a jury yet, though I actually wouldn't mind doing so. I think it would be interesting.)

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