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Ignorance of the law can so be a valid excuse--and the result is this hilarious but legal....
LICENSE TO STEAL
Illustrated by WOOD
The case, and the opinion of the Court, may be summarized as follows:
Skrrgck, a native of Sknnbt , where theft is honorable, sanctioned by law and custom, immigrated to Earth where theft is contrary to both law and custom.
While residing in Chicago, a city in a political subdivision known as the State of Illinois, part of the United States of America, one of the ancient nation-states of Earth, he overheard his landlady use the phrase "A license to steal," a common colloquialism in the area, which refers to any special privilege.
Skrrgck then went to a police station in Chicago and requested a license to steal. The desk sergeant, as a joke, wrote out a document purporting to be a license to steal, and Skrrgck, relying on said document, committed theft, was apprehended, tried and convicted. On direct appeal allowed to the Galactic Tribunal, the Court held:
All persons are required to know and obey the law of the jurisdiction in which they reside.
Public officials must refrain from misrepresenting to strangers the law of the jurisdiction.
Where, as here, a public official is guilty of such misrepresentation, the requirement of knowledge no longer applies.
Where, as here, it is shown by uncontradicted evidence that a defendant is law-abiding and willing to comply with the standards of his place of residence, misrepresentation of law by public officials may amount to entrapment.
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