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May 24, 2005

The 7th Circuit Court gets Ludicris

Here’s a quote from a decision by the Federal Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit in Chicago.

Seventh Circuit Judge Terence T. Evans on distinguishing between
gardening implements and a staple of rap music vernacular: Footnote one
of the Seventh Circuit's opinion in
USA v. Murphy states:

"The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a
snitch bitch "hoe." A "hoe," of course, is a tool used for weeding and
gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music
(perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden's response. We have taken the liberty of changing "hoe" to "ho," a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps "You doin' ho activities with ho tendencies."

This is so much better than stuff I could make up.

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