The Volokh Conspiracy - Beware Quoting the Beatles to a Judge:

The Daily Mail reports on an interesting judicial opinion from Montana. The judge asked Andrew McCormack, a Beatle-loving beer thief, what he thought his sentence should be.

He wrote: "Like the Beetles say, Let It Be". But his cheeky quip did not impress Gregory Todd, a 56-year-old district court judge in Montana.

In a sentencing memorandum Judge Todd first corrected McCormack's misspelling and then gave the defendant a lesson in The Beatles discography.

The judge produced a sentencing memorandum that cited 42 Beatles songs.

	[Jonathan Adler, June 9, 2007 at 9:24pm] Trackbacks Beware Quoting the Beatles to a Judge: The Daily Mail reports on an interesting judicial opinion from Montana. The judge asked Andrew McCormack, a Beatle-loving beer thief, what he thought his sentence should be. He wrote: "Like the Beetles say, Let It Be". But his cheeky quip did not impress Gregory Todd, a 56-year-old district court judge in Montana. In a sentencing memorandum Judge Todd first corrected McCormack's misspelling and then gave the defendant a lesson in The Beatles discography. The judge produced a sentencing memorandum that cited 42 Beatles songs.