Law Humor

Judge Cites Ludacris?

By John Mesirow

Oh no you didn't just cite Ludacris, federal Judge Terence T. Evans. Okay, maybe "cite" is a little misleading, but still ... from footnote 1 in U.S. v. Murphy The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch "hoe." A "hoe," of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing "hoe" to "ho," a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps "You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies." I like it. Here's the full cite (with a link to the case): U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857 (7th Cir. 2005).

Full post as published by Legal Juice on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).