Friday Links

Above, you’ll find the cover of Secrets of the Sinister House #17, published way back in 1974. As you can see, the prosecutor has called the murder victim himself to the stand to identify the criminal defendant as his killer. Is there precedent for that, we wonder? We suppose there is no confrontation clause issue if the defense lawyer gets to cross examine the dead guy.  However, everyone in the court room appears shocked by the testimony. Why is that?  They all just observed a  spectral figure walk into the courtroom, take the stand, receive the oath, and provide all of the relevant background information prior to the courtroom identification. Presumably, the corpse had to sit in the courtroom and wait while some other witnesses testified, as well. What’s so shocking about this particular moment taking place after all that? Oh, well.

Our own Frances Zacher’s recent post regarding legal issues prompted by driverless cars is getting some play in the blogosphere.  Max Kennerly of the Litigation & Trial Blog responded here, while friend of the blog Alan Crede of the Boston Personal Injury Lawyer Blog – whose original post here prompted Frances to respond – replies here. Want to hear something off topic but cool? In his post, Alan called us “the darling of The New York Times, National Public Radio and Jackie Chiles” and recipients of “well-deserved blogospheric celebrity.”  Aw, shucks.

Remember back in May when we remarked upon the controversy surrounding Superman’s renunciation of his U.S. citizenship? Well, according to this report, in the final issue of Action Comics – the series in which Superman first appeared in 1938 – Superman addresses the issue yet again. Click here to see the panel in question while you can read a review of that issue here. Oh, well. (By the way, Action Comics is ending its run of more than 900 issues and more than 70 years because DC Comics is rebooting its universe and relaunching all its series).

Well, we’ve previously mentioned that you can now access our blog content on Facebook, right?  Well, guess what? We’ve now got a fancy personalized Facebook URL! How about that? Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/abnormaluse and if you’ve not yet become a fan of Abnormal Use on Facebook, now is your chance.