Under New York's law, a jury first decides on guilt or innocence in capital-murder cases.
So the entrepreneur who first decides to export cut flowers from Colombia to America, for example, cannot hope to stay ahead of imitators for long.
The firm's supervisory board, which the shareholders appoint, cannot dismiss Mr Lagardère as general partner unless he first decides to sack himself as gérant.
Still, the final confrontation – in which Jesse first decides to kill Carlos out of despair and is then turned back by Tulip, who was never going to kill him anyway – is really sweet and fun.
It's generally a two-step process: in confronting a politically charged issue, the court first decides a case in a "narrow" way, but then uses that decision as a precedent to move in a more dramatic, conservative direction in a subsequent case.
But isn't it axiomatic that as soon as one of these horrible egomaniacs first decides to run for something, anything, that it's irrefutable proof-positive the guy's a complete lunatic and thug?" His grand finale: "Why not Blagojevich speaking on ethics?
