A mere legality

[Jonathan Lighter]

Where does it say you can't arrest a dead guy?

JL

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Maybe, but that way he'd have avoided arrest.
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> An excellent point!
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