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[NSFW] Judges of MassimoL, what are some of the weirdest cases you’ve seen?
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Not a Judge, my father worked court services as a police officer and came home and told me about the case. We had a few very rural areas around where I lived. The case was brought because the daughter had reported to a friend that her Dad and 2 Brothers had taken her out to the woods and had sex with her. While the judge was trying to explain to the Father why this is wrong he replied “Well how else is she supposed to learn….from a stranger?”
I don’t think I have ever seen my father drink as much as he did that night.
Worked in LE for a long while. Escorted an inmate to court for his dismemberment and murder charges trial. He chose to represent himself. Context: was infatuated with Charles Manson and cults. Started one that preyed on mentally unstable/ handicap women and killed them if they tried to leave. This poor girl with autism wanted to go home. He killed her with his followers help, chopped her up, and burned the pieces in a dumpster.
His opening statement was something along the lines of “Ladies and gentlemen of the court I just want to clarify that things being inserted into my butt are going to come up in this trial. I’m not gay. I just liked it.” The judge said what the fuck, but caught himself before dropping the f-bomb. Everyone in the courtroom laughed at him. It was thrown out and he went for mental health screenings.
I don’t miss LE work… at all. I did accrue a shit load of stories though.
Ok I’m not a judge but years ago I used to process court transcripts. I often would read them because some were really crazy, especially older ones because times were just different back then. Anyways there was one dated around 1940, it was a man divorcing his wife. After the divorce was final he sued her for mental distress and anguish because apparently her vagina stunk really bad, and because of it he didn’t want to have sex with her and it caused him to feel like less of a man because he wasn’t having sex as much as he though he should. He won the case, got custody of their child and she was ordered to pay a decent amount of money to him. Also the judge urged her to go to the doctor and get help for her smelly vagina because until she did, she would likely never find another man or be happy in life. Lol can you imagine that happening today?? Thank god things are changing, that poor lady!
Obligatory “not a judge”, but…
Had my first argument before the Second Circuit, so obviously fairly nervous. The case before me had a very generic name, think “Smith vs. Generic Insurance Corp.” Figured it was going to be dull…
But instead, it turned out that the issue was that Mrs. Smith, a widow, had her husband’s life insurance payment denied.
Why? Husband was an engineer of some sort and had constructed a device to… pleasure himself. He plugged said device into a wall socket on to… “enjoy”… on Easter Sunday, while his family was out, but unfortunately was electrocuted and died. (And presumably was found by his poor family on Easter, pantsless and plugged into the wall).
The insurer tried to deny benefits based on an exclusion for “intentional self-harm.” Cue a solid 20 minutes of the insurer’s lawyer being grilled by very staid and conservative judges as to whether the poor guy actually intended to harm himself, or, as one judge put it very mildly… “it seems the deceased intended… well… the opposite.” And the insurer lawyer struggling to articulate why self-harm and sexual pleasure are not always mutually exclusive.
From the questions, it seemed like the widow was likely to win. But man was that awkward for everyone involved.
I’m not a judge, but a legal case involving alleged identical twins once landed on my desk. It somehow hinged on whether or not they were identical or just fraternal twins.
They had an identical set of CODIS results. One party claimed that proved they were twins, the other party argued that all it demonstrated was that they were not excluded from being identical twins, so they ‘might’ not actually be identical. Apparently that was worth paying me reasonable amounts of money to demonstrate, mathematically, that if two siblings share fifteen CODIS markers, they are identical twins with a certainty of >99.99% rather than just being fraternal (or just siblings).
I have no idea what that case was about or why that was such a controversial piece of evidence.