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Friday legal puzzler

Posted by Christopher Shea September 26, 2008 01:45 PM

The State Court of Appeals of Michigan recently had to take up the following issue: If a man is convicted of having sex with a sheep, must he register as a sex offender?

The UCLA professor Eugene Volokh outlines the relevant statutes and links to the court's decision (which reads a bit like William Gaddis's "A Frolic of His Own": deadpan legalese in the face of absurdity that must never be acknowledged).

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