Re: [OT] Free Software Strikes Again?
- From: stamant@xxxxxxxx (Rob St. Amant)
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:53:30 -0400
Ken Tilton <kennytilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Professor Dow said the computers crashed at the Texas Defender Service
in Houston while lawyers were rewriting his appeal to take advantage
of the high court’s unexpected interest in lethal injection.
Because of the resulting delay, the lawyers missed by 20 minutes the 5
p.m. filing deadline at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin,
where the appeal had to go first before moving to the Supreme Court.
The Texas court refused their pleas to remain open for the extra
minutes. Because the lawyers missed that crucial step, Professor Dow
said, the Supreme Court had to turn down the appeal, and Mr. Richard
was executed. "
Holy crap. I guess this is the kind of scenario that corporate
lawyers think about when they're writing the boilerplate for
shrink-wrap licenses.
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