On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > Rule 1504 requires specifying "a <whatever>" in order to initiate, and > the rest of it generally appears to assume that this means "exactly one > <whatever>".
This is about a criminal case in which I am the defendant, so I would recuse myself, but I think this is pretty clear cut: indeed, the rest of the rule uses "the Accused", "the specified rule", "the specified act", and it is common practice to use "a" to mean "one" - "specifying an integer from 1 to 14", "the enacting instrument may specify a title for the new rule". TRUE on 3184-86. (But it may be the case that "did X and Y" can be considered a single, composite "action".)
