Funny court opinion
People & Places, Quotes May 5th, 2005
This came in from Elizabeth from The Reputation listserv:
The text of the opinion states: “On the evening of May 29, 2003, Hayden was smoking crack with three other folks at a trailer park home on Chain of Rocks Road in Granite City, Illinois. Murphy, Sr., who had sold drugs to Hayden several years earlier, showed up later that night. He was friendly at first, but he soon called Hayden a “snitch bitch hoe”1 and hit her in the head with the back of his hand.” Footnote 1 — explaining “snitch bitch hoe” — reads: “The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A “hoe,” of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing “hoe” to “ho,” a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps “You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.”"
I appreciate the humor, and the fact I know where Granite City and the Chain of Rocks Road is.
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