Law Humor

Iggidity, wiggity--whatever.

By NBlack

Via Lowering the Bar, this rather funny description of a California appellate court getting jiggy wid it--or something like that:

While the facts of the underlying opinion in U.S. v. Freeman aren't especially comical -- it was an appeal from a conviction and sentence on drug-conspiracy charges -- it does have some educational value.  The question was whether the district court had properly allowed the government's expert witness to testify "regarding the meaning of encoded drug language."  In part, this involved the witness's translation of certain terms that are "part of the jargon commonly used by drug traffickers." But, possibly since much of this jargon is not commonly used by Ninth Circuit judges and clerks (presumably), the opinion had to be amended in August to make the following change:

Wiggity_4 Please make a note of it to avoid confusing "iggidy" with "wiggity" in your future briefing. Link: Legal Pad (Cal Law)

--Nicole Black is of counsel to Fiandach & Fiandach, one of the largest and most experienced DWI defense firms in New York State.  She also co-authors the Thomson-West book Criminal Law in New York and writes a weekly column, Legal Currents, for The Daily Record.

Full post as published by Legal Antics on January 03, 2008 (boomark / email).