July 10, 2004

The Dangerous Lives of Opera Stars

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were dealt another heavy blow this week by a panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. An opinion written by Judge Posner held that under the recent Blakely decision judicial application of the guidelines violated the right to trial by jury.

Now that's the important stuff, but I wanted to take just a moment to note one the silliest lines I've read in an opinion in some time. In his dissent Judge Easterbrook writes the following: "Just like opera stars often go on singing after being shot, stabbed, or poisoned, so judicial opinions often survive what could be fatal blows". Opera stars OFTEN go on singing after being shot, stabbed, or poisoned? I had no idea it was such a high-risk profession.

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