From: Gary Britt 


  The reason ignorance of the law is no excuse is because its better than
the alternative in most circumstances.  At least that's the rationale

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4675aab0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> As to my understanding of law, its like everything else.  I don't know
>> everything, for that I'll have to defer to the non-lawyers among us.
>
> About a year or so ago I was sitting in a barber shop in town with the
> judge and I asked him "how many laws apply to us sitting here right now,
> just a count you don't have to name them all". He couldn't answer me so
> then I asked "ok ballpark it, 100, 1000, 10000, about how many" and
> again he really had no idea.
>
> So then I asked "how can anyone claim that not knowing something is
> illegal isn't a defense if a judge doesn't have any idea how many laws
> there are in effect?"
>
> We had a really good conversation about it, ending with him telling me I
> would make a good lawyer and me suggesting I'd be better as a judge .
>
> Geo.

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