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Name that Legal Movie!
Criminal Defenses in CT
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As we all know, in 1886, John Chipman Gray coined this legal rule's classic formulation as follows: "No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest."
What is the Rule Against Perpetuities?
200
Known for her witty one liners, she told a litigant: "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!"
Who is Judge Judy Sheindlin?
200
President of the US.
Who was William Howard Taft?
200
Meaning "guilty mind"
What is Mens Rea?
200
“You are the law” was told to the jury in this 1982 movie
What is The Verdict?
200
This defense justifies the use of reasonable physical force upon another person to defend themselves or a third person from what they reasonably believe to be the use or imminent use of physical force.
What is Self-Defense?
400
This rule states that when a grant of real estate, be it by deed or devise, transfers a life estate and that same document grants the remainder interest to that life tenant's heirs, both interests become merged in fee simple to the life tenant.
What is The Rule in Shelley's Case?
400
The OG of TV Judges once said this: "When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, 'patience' and 'restraint'".
Who is Judge Joseph Wapner?
400
30th Governor of California 1943 - 1953.
Who was Earl Warren?
400
Meaning "the thing decided"
What is Res Judicata?
400
The truth was too hard to handle in this 1992 movie
What is A Few Good Men?
400
A defendant may raise this defense when the defendant engaged in proscribed conduct because the defendant was coerced by the use or threatened imminent use of physical force upon the defendant or a third person.
What is Duress?
600
This process predated the use of written deeds in conveying real estate; it required that the grantor take a handful of dirt, a twig, or rock from the land and hand it to the grantee in front of two witnesses.
What is the Livery of Seisin?
600
This graduate of Georgetown law was famous for her Spanish maxims, such as: "Ni tu mismo te lo crees." ("Not even you believe yourself.")
Who is Judge Marilyn Milian?
600
Co-author of "Civil Procedure in Sweden".
Who was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
600
Meaning "to speak the truth"
What is Voir Dire?
600
This 1996 film featured the line “"I'm Your Dream Client. I'm the most fun, I'm rich and I'm always in trouble."
What is The People v. Larry Flynt?
600
A defendant may raise this defense when the defendant was induced to engage in proscribed conduct by a public servant, or a person cooperating with a public servant, for the purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution, and that the defendant did not contemplate and would not otherwise have engaged in such conduct.
What is Entrapment?
800
This 1805 Case concerned a hunter who had been pursuing a fox when another man killed and took the fox. The court held that it is possession and not mere pursuit that vests property rights, thus officially establishing John Locke's principles of property acquisition in our law, which is still applicable today.
What is Pierson v Post?
800
"Ringmaster" known for this phrase: "Take care of yourselves, and each other."
Who is Judge Jerry Springer?
800
Member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
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Who was Hugo Black?
800
Meaning "bring with you"
What is Duces Tecum?
800
Name this 1998 “civil” movie.
What is A Civil Action?
800
According to Section 53a-12 of the Connecticut General Statutes, this is the burden of proof the defendant must meet to establish an affirmative defense raised at trial.
What is preponderance of the evidence?
1000
This mostly abolished future interest restricts the title to land to be vested solely in lineal descendants of the grantor.
What is a fee tail?
1000
Born in Providence, this empathetic Judge was caught saying: "I'd rather go overboard with compassion than go overboard with punishment."
Who is Judge Frank Caprio?
1000
Led the NFL in rushing in 1938.
Who was Byron "Whizzer" White?
1000
Meaning "that is" or colloquially, "in other words"
What is Id Est (or i.e.)?
1000
This 1993 best seller turned box office hit.
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What is The Firm?
1000
This general defense makes the use of physical force upon another person that results in actual injury noncriminal if such use of physical force is permitted or justified by a provision of law or statute.
What is Justification?