Legal Commentary

As Dan adjusts to life with Cubby, the great question is how we balance scholarship with parenthood. One possible answer: You never know when legal scholarship will appear in unexpected places. Case in point:

Today on Arthur (my daughter's post-nap show of choice), an expensive cake plate was broken in the living room and a video/audio recording seemed to show that the plate had broken while Arthur and his friend were throwing a baseball around on their way to play outside. And everyone's immediate conclusion upon watching the tape was that Arthur was responsible for breaking the plate. But breaking the recording down, along with outside investigation, showed that conclusion was wrong.

In other words, the episode illustrated the central point in my recent article on video evidence. As I said, you never know.