The word "rape" banned from Nebraska rape trial

There are idiots everywhere, including Nebraska. Judge Jeffre Cheuvront of Lancaster County is presiding over a rape trial in which he's banning the use of words and phrases such as "rape," "victim," "assailant," "sexual assault kit" and "sexual assault nurse."

This is the second trial for the alleged assailant (oops!). The first one ended in a mistrial late last year because of a hung jury. That trial faced similar language restrictions.

The Lincoln Journal-Star is reporting this morning that the re-trial has already hit the mistrial phrase. Judge Cheuvront declared a mistrial before a jury had been seated, because of protests, in which the alleged victim (oops again) has taken a leading role, decrying the Orwellian language restrictions.

In George Orwell's 1984, the Anglo-fascist language Newspeak had vocabulary that shrank each year.

The judge believes that the jury pool has been prejudiced by the protests.

Forgive me for sounding prejudiced against him, but Judge Jeffre Cheuvront is a moron.

Lawyer jokes have been popular for years. But with the recent lawsuit of a Washington DC judge over a lost pair of pants--he wanted $54 million from his onetime dry cleaner, Florida's "crying judge"," and now this story from Nebraska, jokes about judges may be what you'll hear at the next cocktail party you attend.

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