Ongoing theme reemerging. A guy in Australia is charged with murder, and the prosecution are showing ‘snuff’ films to the jury. Nice eh? ( http://smh.com.au/news/0011/22/features/features4.html I don’t know how long the link will work for.)
But there doesn’t seem to be any actually snuff film bits in there, only accidental recordings. Anyway, he could probably tell if there was any real snuff out there. But either way, he is not going to be able to watch them for a while.
"I’m with spritle on this. Can you use smokeless tobacco in court? Can you use a spittoon? "
I got called for jury duty on a rape trial a couple of years ago and went through the whole thing with a lip full of Copenhagen. Didn’t need to spit.
Back in the fifties, there was something of a hassle about taking the cuspidors out of Congress. There were still a few tobacco chewers there at the time. I don’t recall how it all came out, but I guess the politically correct no longer use the filthy weed in any form. Or at least, they’re harder to catch at it.
Oh, the rape trial: We aquitted. Hope I’m never called for another.