Ignorance of the law

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Ignorance of the law is no defense. How about ignorance about what you did?

In the department of ‘you can’t make this stuff up’: Scooter Libby, lawyer, foreign policy hand, author and Dick Cheney’s personal one-man heat shield, has hired a memory loss expert to assist in his defense.

Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter is the guy who got the call.

Maybe Scooter can consult one of Schacter’s books, The Seven Sins of Memory.

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