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Jail Time
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
Everyone in the courtroom was stunned. Fred was going to get 18 months in jail for doing his job, which is a respectable profession. How could this happen in a country like the United States?
Answer
Fred was a journalist and refused to name his source on an article he wrote on some government misdealing. He was jailed in accordance to a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that journalists could be made to testify before a grand jury if the prosecution could convince the judge it was necessary.Hide Answer Show Answer
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