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General => Akihabara => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on May 18, 2007, 05:35:22 AM

Title: What's a website, asks judge at internet trial
Post by: Foxy Brown on May 18, 2007, 05:35:22 AM

A judge in an "internet terrorism" trial admitted yesterday that he had no idea what a website was.

Mr Justice Openshaw told stunned prosecutors at Woolwich Crown Court in south London: "The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a website is."  (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/18/njudge118.xml)

Title: Re: What's a website, asks judge at internet trial
Post by: nop on May 18, 2007, 06:45:04 AM

So judge will be impartial since he doesn't know what website is.  He has no prior bias about website.   >:D   But I don't know about the terrorist defendant though.     :o   This is fresh.

Title: Re: What's a website, asks judge at internet trial
Post by: ~Dan~ on May 18, 2007, 10:03:13 PM

It's not a new phenomenon that Judges are often out of touch with the real world.  A judge once asked "Who are the Beatles?" and one in the 1950's asked "What are boogie woogie?".  ;D