When I was a kid I always enjoyed checking out these books from the library about odd laws from the past. Many of them revolved around animals being put on trial. I hadn't heard much about this of late, though I seem to recall a story from a few years ago about a dog being put on trial in Michigan or some such fantastic place. Well, thanks to Macedonia, my long nightmare of waiting for a story about a bear being put on trial and convicted of theft is finally over. Stephen Colbert will probably enjoy this.
I will assume that this was the defense lawyer.
P.S., this story has a reference to "turbo-folk," which you can now "understand" thanks to "Wikipedia."
