{"id":134019,"date":"2025-09-26T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/26\/these-are-not-the-metaphors-youre-looking-for\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:11:01","slug":"these-are-not-the-metaphors-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/26\/these-are-not-the-metaphors-youre-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are Not The Metaphors You\u2019re Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Ed. Note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A panel of Florida judges recently cautioned trial judges for straying away from standard jury instructions by using attenuated metaphors. This includes invoking fiction to help make points about reasonable doubt and the presumption of innocence. Which fictional universes did a trial court judge invoke to help explain these concepts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The universes range from magical to highly technically advanced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/these-are-not-the-metaphors-youre-looking-for\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These Are Not The Metaphors You\u2019re Looking For<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Ed. Note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A panel of Florida judges recently cautioned trial judges for straying away from standard jury instructions by using attenuated metaphors. This includes invoking fiction to help make points about reasonable doubt and the presumption of innocence. Which fictional universes did a trial court judge invoke to help explain these concepts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The universes range from magical to highly technically advanced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/these-are-not-the-metaphors-youre-looking-for\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">These Are Not The Metaphors You\u2019re Looking For<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A panel of Florida judges recently cautioned trial judges for straying away from standard jury instructions by using attenuated metaphors. This includes invoking fiction to help make points about reasonable doubt and the presumption of innocence. Which fictional universes did a trial court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}