Public lawyer, public fool

Brian Hathaway, 20, was accused of having sex with a dead deer, but  he found a public lawyer willing to defend him by arguing that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed. 

Lawyer argues sex with dead deer not crime.

The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass,”
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the Webster’s dictionary defines “animal” as “any of a kingdom of living beings,” Anderson said.

If you include carcasses in that definition, he said, “you really go down a slippery slope with absurd results.”

Anderson argued: When does a turkey cease to be an animal? When it is dead?

When it is wrapped in plastic packaging in the freezer? When it is served, fully cooked?

A judge should decide what the Legislature intended “animal” to mean in the statute, he said. “And the only clear point to draw the line in that definition, I believe, is the point of death.”

I wonder if he had any idea that he made himself and his client  a laughing stock across the nation.    Sometimes, it's better to take your lumps and not make a public fool of yourself.