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year and a day

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A quick definition of year and a day:

A year and a day is a time period that starts on a certain date and ends on the same date the following year. It is important because it is the amount of time allowed for certain legal claims and crimes to be prosecuted. The term comes from the fact that a year traditionally ends on December 31, not January 1. It is also known as "year and day."

A more thorough explanation:

Definition: A period of time that starts on a specific date and ends on the same date the following year. For example, January 1 to January 1 of the next year. This term is used in law to refer to the statute of limitations for certain claims and crimes.

Example: In some states, the statute of limitations for filing a personal injury claim is "year and day." This means that the injured person has one year and one day from the date of the accident to file a claim.

Illustrative caselaw: Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001) is an example of a case where the "year and day" rule was applied. In this case, the defendant was charged with murder, but the victim died more than a year and a day after the alleged crime. The court ruled that the defendant could not be charged with murder because the "year and day" rule had expired.

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last week
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he also has a hot tub which is a big deal
Dkk
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Paralegal, military, entrepreneurship, crypto, weird other work experiences like Disney. COVID issues, UCLA issues, drug addiction with my brother.
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Yeah, hot tub is the biggest one.
@Dkk: I feel ur pain with no responses yet
2big2fail
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were you a disney channel child star
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babycat
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he’s bridgit mendler
2big2fail
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im just waiting for pellerdine
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Dkk
20:32
Crypto is booming right now and my friend is CPO of a carbon creidt company on the blockchain and the Canadian government has called him like 3 times this week and he needs help so he actually just gave me a job offer today.
i aspire to be bridgit mendler
Dkk
20:32
Nah, just security there.
wait are u actuaLLY a big crypto guy
m10
20:33
Yeah, like huge into the Cardano space. One of the runner ups for the government on Cardano.
do yall think admissions judges what job you have during ur gap year
babycat
20:34
probably
m10
20:34
My constitution that I wrote is getting submitted on the 30th and if the community likes it, then I will be the first person in the world to write a constitution for on-chain blockchain based governance.
m10
20:34
Right now it's me and two other people.
babycat
20:34
you should meet the urbit guys. they have thielbux I think
damn, i was impatient to hear back from my jobs so i was just gonna work retail but idk if admissions is high brow about that
m10
20:35
@babycat: I may have already met them. I met urbit people like 3-4 years ago. It's just hard to do their stuff.
m10
20:35
Ahh any work is good work to admissions usually.
babycat
20:36
yeah I thought she meant like a year before she applied. if you already applied it doesn’t matter all that much
m10
20:36
Personally, I have only helped launch two coins but my friends want to launch a third. Bigegst project is probably disco solaris: https://www.jpg.store/collection/moebiuspioneersdressed
ohh yeah i mean right now cuz im still waiting and i dont like being unemployed but i dont know if theyd be like she works at aerie not a finance firm ew
m10
20:37
And then, the sexy naked ones hehehehe: https://www.jpg.store/collection/moebiuspioneersnakeddiscos
babycat
20:37
@m10: I don’t like that they’re all tied to pictures of people
i also think getting a job faster will help with going crazy over admissions even if its not as "fancy"
m10
20:38
All of what? That's like the only NFT project I worked on that was moderately good @babycat
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