nevermind I'm going to fail
An actual question from my compilation of pre-test Law questions. I died a little. Okay, a lot. Emphasis mine.
Kryptonian law dictates that no Kryptonian citizen may do or say anything that will potentially lead to the compromising of another Kryptonian citizen's freedom of speech, action, etcetera, and that the punishment for such an act is one ( Read more... )
Kryptonian law dictates that no Kryptonian citizen may do or say anything that will potentially lead to the compromising of another Kryptonian citizen's freedom of speech, action, etcetera, and that the punishment for such an act is one ( Read more... )
Re: answer: Essentially, the question debates a witness's right to shield themselves from self-incrimination-the notorious "right to remain silent". In this situation, taking into account Kryptonian law, Kal should have the right not to answer any questions regarding Lex's whereabouts, as Lex's incrimination by the Israeli law would by proxy lead to Kal's incrimination by the Kryptonian law, i.e. incriminating himself. However, since local jurisdiction always trumps foreign mandates, regardless of any one person's nationality or origins, Israeli law trumps Kryptonian law in this case, and overrules Kal's right not to incriminate himself according to another system of ruling (which might not even include the self-incrimination clause in any case).
Bottom line: the answer is (c), since Kal has nothing to incriminate himself over and is under no obligation not to incriminate Lex. Ergo, he must answer all questions put to him by the police, in accordance with the Israeli law.
Although personally I like to think he'd say silent on account of (e) anyway. :D
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...typing that last sentence, I could feel my geekiness rising upwards like a tide during monsoon season. Fuck yeah, I'm totally gonna level up soon. \o/
Our lecturers are totally badass. Well, for lawyers, anyway. Except for the one who teaches procedural jurisdiction, his lessons are like watching paint dry, if paint were a lanky middle-aged balding lawyer wearing ill-fitting trousers and a crooked tie. Our (equivalent of a) TA, however, is this totally hot college student: stubble-jawed, blue-eyed, with extra religion baggage for guaranteed fun times (i.e. he wears a kippah). And he always wears these high-riding shorts and thin cargo pants... where was I? Oh, yes, what I meant to say was that our staff is very diverse, but in the end it all balances up nicely. :D
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HAHAH, TAKE THAT, INCREDIBLY BORING LAW TEACHER, I DID LEARN SOMETHING! Although it sounds more like common sense to me than anything else, but eh, any opportunity to diss the INCREDIBLY BORING LAW TEACHER o'doom. I wish he would have worded his questions the way your lecturers do. *sob*
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Why, of course! It's that inherent, self-accomplished knowledge that you can now continue plotting the fic spawned by this excellent plot bunny, safe from the crippling troubles of factual errors and the self-doubting worry that a snot-nosed reader will nitpick your legal savvy upon posting.
I mean. You are going to write it, aren't you? *innocent*
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I mean, seriously. D=
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It must be written! For great tractor justice. D: I might just come hunt you on MSN next week to bandy around fic ideas. If, you know, my MSN is even working at all after all this time of neglect and disrepair. SHAME, ELLA, TRES SHAME.
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