Cops and Courts

After a hiatus from the blogosphere that I assure you, dear readers, was only temporary, I’d like to introduce a new weekly installment here at copsandcourts.com. It’s called Legalese.
That’s right, Legalese, as in that impossible-to-understand brand of jargon-y gobbledygook that lawyers use to obfuscate the clear and simple truth from us laypersons.
Actually, legalese is born [...]

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I frequently write stories about judges handing out “deferred” and “suspended” sentences (see this recent blog post for an example), and I sometimes wonder whether readers are familiar enough with the terms to understand exactly what they mean.
So, here goes:
A “suspended sentence” is when a judge suspends imposition of a sentence -  either in part [...]

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