The power of the President of the United States or a state governor to pardon a criminal or to commute a sentence. The term itself means “leniency” or “mercy.” see, e.g. Herrera v. Collins, 506 US 390 (1993). See also Criminal law.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Warren E. Burger (1907-1995) US Supreme Court Justice, Address to the American Bar Association, 12 Feb 1978
Like everything else about web statistics, it’s hard to be sure what our users’ browsers are telling us about the languages they speak. But by any measure the LII is a polyglot place. LII users’ Accept-Language headers show them using 73 different languages.
English is in first place by a long shot (in both US and UK flavours flavors), followed by French, German, Spanish, two variants of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Polish, and Dutch. Slovenian is tied with several others for last place.
Sites linking to the LII are also linguistically diverse — 32,100 in French, 800 in Chinese, 517 in Arabic, and 220 in Vietnamese.
Questions are in regular supply here at the LII. And we have a lot of smart people in our audience, so we thought we’d see if we could get your help in answering a few of them.
So….every Thursday we’re going to throw a few out and see what you have to say about them. Sometimes they’ll be straightforward reference-desk stuff. Sometimes they’ll be quirks and oddities of life in the legal infosphere that we’re trying to explain. Sometimes neither you nor we will be able to imagine why we’re asking.
Good answers will get a tip of the hat from us the next week (and in any case will be on display in the comments).
Here are three to get you started. Answers can be submitted as comments.
1) What are your five favorite web pages for legal-research novices (how-tos, not information resources per se)?
2) Can you think of a reason why, on February 8, the New York State Thruway Authority would have had a sudden need to do research in the US Code? A lot of research?
3) Are government works in Argentina protected by copyright?
Yeah, I know, it’s not exactly the Car Talk Puzzler. But then, we’re not exactly Click ‘n’ Clack, either….
