• @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    Reminds me of my lawyer relative talking about defending a case involving undercover cops and strip clubs. “Turgid” is a legal concept, I guess. Honestly I think that’s very stupid.

    • @toynbee
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      32 months ago

      Apparently it can mean “excessively embellished in style or language,” so I guess if you were to describe a legally contested situation in a … Turgid manner, it could distort any case made based on your testimony? IANAL, so that’s just a wild swing at the appropriate application based on one web search.

      Preemptive aside: I’ve seen lots of jokes made, so for anyone not familiar, IANAL is neither sexual nor any kind of innuendo or entendre.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Unfortunately, that particular legal brief that I read, which was written by “real lawyers”, used “turgid” in reference to genitalia. The argument had something to do with the intent of undercover officers in strip clubs. I’ve forgotten why the cops were there to begin with, but my relative has a career in representing cops when they did illegal and horrible stuff. I am NOT defending any of that.