The Romeo and Juliet Defense In the statute’s affirmative defenses, the first on the list (Texas Penal Code §§21.11(b)(1)) is commonly referred to as the “Romeo and Juliet Defense.” This one of several protections appearing in Texas criminal laws that recognize that young adults and ...
In the midst of modern life, they exist mostly in an insulated shadow society, one replete with self-imposed codes of conduct, laws regarding marriage and divorce, and strict rules designed to keep their race separated from the gadje (the Gypsy word for “non-Gypsies”); there are even ...
Even Shakespeare couldn't resist the lure of seers. Soothsayers play a big role in his plays Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceasar, and others. It is hard to believe, but fortune telling, tarot reading, and others related to psychic vision are illegal in many places in the United Stat...
Rod Green, a former law enforcement officer in Montana, said when he saw Kelley arrive in all black, he examined him closely to make sure he was not carrying a gun. The Greens both have licenses to carry handguns, and they are friends with Kelley's in-laws. If Kelley had been carryin...
But the laws of the world and the interests of the powers that be never benefit those like Rosa and Enrique, indigenous people running away from the violence in their homeland only to discover that on this side of the border they will be exploited and persecuted just as violently. “Maybe ...