On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:16 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >... Which confused me since this was city government and the court records >were timestamped. And we could not stop processing during the "fall back", so >we had 1 hour of duplicate time stamps in court records. Which a defense >lawyer would have __loved__ to know about should his client have been arrested >during that hour. > It may not much matter. The strongest legal concern is with statutes of limitations. But think curfews. And in Colorado, the legislated tavern closing time is 0200. I believe this is covered by specific legislation.
In states such as Colorado which have a constitutional limit on the length of the legislative session, it's fairly common for the Speaker to order the Sergeant at Arms to stop the clock one minute before midnight in order to continue with urgent legislation. I likewise wonder what a defense lawyer would do with knowledge that a client was being prosecuted under a law passed in that Twilight Zone. Of course, the legislature's minutes wouldn't show it, but there's usually a journalist covering the session. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
