Going against trends toward greater social acceptance within India and worldwide, two presiding Supreme Court justices unexpectedly overturned the high court judgment in 2013, re-criminalizing homosexuality in a nation that has the second largest population in the world.
History's river gently enveloped justice that day and the judge unexpectedly rejected the death penalty and instead chose life imprisonment for Mandela and his eight co-defendants.
Kenneth Clarke's plans to slice £350m out of the annual legal aid budget appear to be losing momentum after the justice secretary unexpectedly announced a six-month delay to the programme.
As he sentenced Gary Dobson and David Norris to serve a minimum of 15 years and two months and 14 years and three months respectively for the "terrible and evil" murder, Mr Justice Treacy unexpectedly admonished the Metropolitan police in front of a packed courtroom.
"He is trying to protect this person from the hot boiling cauldron of this committee," responded Senator Dick Durban of Illinois, adding: "Well, who is turning up the heat?" The vacancy created by the the death of Antonin Scalia has been the subject of fierce political debate that began just hours after the senior justice died unexpectedly in February.
Although the film did not do as well as the book, and many people didn't think it did the novel justice, I unexpectedly loved every second of the movie.
Almost immediately upon hearing the shocking news that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had unexpectedly died Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would not permit the president to fill the court seat.
The ruling Law and Justice party (PIS) unexpectedly withdrew its support for draft proposals drawn up by an independent anti-abortion campaign group, in an unscheduled parliamentary committee meeting late on Wednesday.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's pugnacious president, was dealt a blow in June when his ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) unexpectedly lost its parliamentary majority.
His argument met an unexpectedly skeptical response from Justice O'Connor, who said: "Well, but of course, there's been a couple of centuries of practice in this country of not funding religious instruction by tax money".
