When law school dean and former Court of Appeals Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa on Wednesday opened a New York State Bar Association summit on the USA Patriot Act, he expected an academic discourse far removed from the "blather and the decibels and the rhetoric" that has so accentuated the security versus freedom debate.
That opening led naturally, or not, to G-strings. Shortly after Bellacosa, dean at St. John's University School of Law, initiated the panel discussion, Manhattan defense attorney Gerald B. Lefcourt launched into an energetic, nuts-and-bolts criticism of the post-9/11 anti-terrorism laws. Lefcourt described how in real life the laws can be and are exploited by law enforcement for investigations that have nothing at all to do with terrorism. Like the Nevada G-string case.
Read all about it here from the New York Law Journal via Law.com.