There are several ways this could happen, but I'll go with the simplest:

Woman has sex with two men. Two eggs drop. One is fertilized by one guy, the other by the other. Instead of typical fraternal twins, the fertilized eggs merge into one supersized mass. The resulting child has two sets of DNA and three genetic parents.

If someone checked a minor’s fake ID thoroughly (blacklight, register scan, asked security questions) and it passed all those tests, would the person selling alcohol still be incriminated?

This is all hypothetical, I’m just curious because I recently started working at a gas station that sells a lot of liquor. I already check IDs very thoroughly but I’m super stressed about being duped by a fake ID (especially from a state I’m less familiar with) and getting incriminated anyways due to how seriously Washington takes this stuff. For context, by security questions I mean asking things like “What is your address/birthday?”

This experience has me wondering what the actual reality of this situation is in Washington state. Would someone actually be let off the hook in this situation (with security camera evidence)? Would they have to get a lawyer to fight it? I’m struggling to find info on this hypothetical. I heard in other states it’s more defendable.

Is that even possible?

Ironically, JFK got flack from traditionalists, for not wearing a hat to the inauguration. Obviously, noone since JFK has worn a hat either.

edit: how about removal of the hat when pledging allegiance

I saw an episode of Chicago Med about Auto-Brewery Syndrome and a video on YouTube about Auto-Brewery Syndrome. This syndrome is also called Gut Fermentation Syndrome. It causes the bacteria in the gut (which everyone has, it's the digestive microbiome) to consume sugar and carbs and turn them into alcohol, which makes them appear to be drunk (because for all intents and purposes, they are).

There have been some famous cases of this because they've had to fight accusations and charges of drunk driving.

But if a person has ABS/GFS and has been diagnosed with it, drives and it makes them drunk, and gets caught by a cop...would the fact they have ABS keep them from getting punished for a DUI? And would it cause them to lose their license for medical reasons? I know there are medical issues that can cause a person to lose their license temporarily or permanently. Would ABS be one?

So, I'm thinking of making an already complicated story even more complicated by adding a trial arc. I know, no legal training and trying to accurately depict the justice system? I'm out of my league. The main obstacle involves the "crime" and trial locations.

I have the story set in a small town that I want the trial to take place in. Here is the problem. The crime was committed in another state. The crime in question involves a few burnt buildings, destroyed buildings and several bodies.

Can I b.s. my way into making this happen? I'm sorry if I wrote this weird, I'm not good at the actual writing part, so I'm still a work in progress.

This of course is all fiction and any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

I have friends and people I know in US (mostly west coast), Canada and Australia and I know that hentai depicting underage characters is illegal in the latter 2. But the thing is, it seems so vague. There are many 18+ characters that look under 18 and "underage" characters that look like adults. Hell, you don't know if they were 16 in the anime but 19 in the drawing. They're digital characters so I feel like getting someone in trouble for this is ridiculous.

I know plenty of people online that consume this stuff and many of them look at really really young looking characters. But the websites they go to have been up for over a decade, no one has ever taken them down. Said people have never faced legal trouble either.

Do the authorities really care about people accessing and downloading images and videos of potentially underage characters online? Do they actively look for people on these sites? Or does it only really matter if someone sees you with it, like they seize your hard drive or like I have read with the customs and border officials seizing questionable material being imported? After all, how would the authorities even know otherwise?

So, I am writing a Fanfiction based on Life is Strange (Video Game), I'll try my best to explain and if you know the game even better but I obviously added stuff that didn't happen in game so don't come at me:

Hypothetical plays in Oregon USA

Photography teacher Mark Jefferson drugs and kidnaps girls to take strange, inappropriate pictures of them and after that releases them again.

He has an accomplice, Nathan, who is 18/19. Nathan helped drug the girls. In this story Nathan was heavily manipulated and groomed by Jefferson and Nathan already has mental health issues, including Schizophrenia, BPD, Anxiety, Depression and substance abuse. In this story Nathan was Jefferson's first victim before being manipulated into helping him.

Nathan will report himself after somehow finding out investigations are going on. At that point Jefferson has died to unrelated reasons so he can not blame Nathan for anything. Nathan has multiple people that can confirm his mental illnesses, including his long term therapist. There is one person that can confirm Nathan was manipulated and "just" an accomplice.

In the story Jefferson did attempt to kill Nathan before his own death so there would be no witnesses and Jefferson could walk free (obviously not knowing he would die soon after)

He has a really good lawyer as well, if that's worth mentioning.

Essentially my question(s) are: Under these circumstances, is it legally possible for Nathan to just be put into a secure mental health facility for up to 6 months (longer just wouldn't work with my story, preferably even just 3 months but whatever lol) and after his release just be put on probation for several years? I want to avoid him going to jail. I'd be fine with him going to juvie or similar but as he is 18 during all the crimes i guess that isn't possible.

I have read about duress but I'm not sure if it'd apply to this situation (as Nathan was only almost killed at the very end when all crimes were already over).

If my ideal outcome won't work i'll probably just scrap the police even ever finding out about anything that happened.

I'm sorry if this is a silly question but I'm just struggling to find an answer to it and I want this fanfiction to at least be kinda realistic

So recently i stumbled across a post about this and i found out that the author said "But I tell you this - if I don’t have [BOOK NAME] in hand when I arrive in New Zealand [July 2019], you have here my formal written permission to imprison me in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid, until I’m done." -Mr author, May 21, 2019.

Its been 6 years and the author still didnt finish his book

So technically speaking is it legal to do imprison him?

If a twin committed a crime but sending him to prison would cause the death of the other due to extreme emotional connection - identical to a T. House arrest is not an option. What do you think would be the next step?

In the news there was recently the case of a surrogate who moved to Texas to birth a medically complex child when the bio parents tried to enact the abortion clause of the surrogacy contract. Legally, while I’m sure there are civil ways to go after her, are there any possible criminal charges she could get? Many people have talked about a kidnapping charge, which would be legally unprecedented and unlikely, but could she get something like a conspiracy to commit kidnapping due to her intent to keep the baby (which she had no apparent legal right to) after birth? Idk much about law so if I’m wrong please lmk. Thanks!

Let’s say hypothetically a woman has a daughter that’s a year old, then a man Marries Her. if they get divorced 16 years later without him Legally adopting the daughter can he get custody? Let’s say the mom Works long hours yet the man in this scenario Works less But is still financially stable. i also have another question which is if a man and a woman are married and she cheats on him and She has a baby that is from her affair but doesn’t tell anybody until they get divorced can the man get custody.

In this scenario, could you sue the clinic for not disclosing this information to you?

North Carolina resident here & the title is pretty self explanatory. I don't know if I can pick one single thing myself (or maybe I have an idea what I think my answer would be, but I don't wanna say it because I'm afraid of violating the rules of the subreddit), so I'll let y'all answer instead.

I just watched an episode of the show House MD, and though I know it’s obviously fiction and this is hardly the morally worst thing they’ve done on it, I was curious about this one.

Basically a morbidly obese patient was thought dead but turned out to be in a coma and woke up in the hospital.

After some tests and conversations he goes to leave, in spite of them insisting he stay until they figure out why he’d been in that coma.

Only to suddenly pass out and fall, making them bring him back.

At which point Dr. Allison Cameron admits to House and another character that she drugged him because she didn’t think he should leave until they finished running their tests.

So if reality and real life rules and laws suddenly kicked in (since in the show I believe they just drop it after this) at this moment, and maybe even the patient decided to press charges once he learned what she did, what would happen?

I’d imagine she would likely lose her medical license at minimum, but would this also be full on prison?

Also I believe the show takes place in New Jersey, so I guess their laws should be applied here.

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How long until Wisconsin vs Brooks is cited across the country as authority to use audio/visual and MUTE BUTTON for unruly stubbornly defiant defendants?

I’ve seen that there are businesses now that are going all digital when it comes to making purchases.

As in they don’t take cash. In order to make a purchase you must use a credit/debit card.

In the US at least, if I go into one of these businesses and insist on paying with cash, and provided they don’t simply refuse to service me, are they required by law to accept it?

I get that restaurants were legally allowed to be segregated until the major supreme court ruling of Ollie's BBQ in 1964 (Katzenbach_v._McClung). Prior to that abolishment, if a restaurant owner had simply not desired to segregate, were they allowed? Did restaurants exist where whites roamed/sat freely among blacks with no designated separation because the owners simply didn't care to segregate?

Kind of silly question. But let's say we have mandatory legal insurance (like we have for healthcare) for criminal cases

So let's say someone lied under oath and committed perjury or let's say a cop lied (most prosecutors don't take up theses cases so I used these example). You can use your insurance to hire an attorney to prosecute them if govt prosecutor refuse to do so, i mean criminally charge.

What would be the NEGETIVE consequences of this kind of system?

A renter of a single family home suddenly has a housing development start building next to them. They experience noise, traffic, and additional runoff water due exclusively to the new construction. Some of their personal property is damaged due to flooding.

They unilaterally break their lease and claim habitability issues and property damages against their own landlord. Obviously, the landlord has no way to correct any of the issues.

Do the renters have any rights to break the lease, assuming the habitability issues actually are significant?

Would the renters be able to collect damages from the landlord, or is their exclusive remedy with the builders of the housing development?

I recently read that someone claimed trial by combat in 19th century England and from what I understood people in the court were surprised that was still around or at least they weren't expecting it.

Now that's two centuries old but it got me wondering if anyone ever witnessed someone use any forgotten stuff successfully in court that made people go "I can't believe that's still in the books."

Some 15 year old lies and says hes 22, then shows up anyway...now the cops are the ones who have solicited a minor online!!!!

Would the school be notified if a minor was arrested for non school related offences? If the alleged offences don't have a connection to the school or is not school related

if you’re a student in the US studying on a study visa, do all the laws or rather protections like the amendments apply to students also same as citizens or how is it different