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Law Practice

Nov. 5, 2012

Saint Gilbert publicly confesses

To promote literacy, I deliberately placed a grammatical error in last month's column. The response was overwhelming.

2nd Appellate District, Division 6

Arthur Gilbert

Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963

Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.

UNDER SUBMISSION

In Edgar Allan Poe's chilling story, "The Imp of the Perverse," the deranged protagonist commits the perfect murder. That no one knows about his perfect crime drives him crazy. Wait a second. He already is crazy. Let's just say it drives him crazier. He craves that everyone know that he has committed the perfect murder. But that would mean revealing his identity as the murderer. Sounds crazy, doesn'...

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