Beware of Legal Advice from Friends: Today’s (Metro section, 11/16/06) Oregonian had a, um, interesting story about a defendant who listened to his “friends” who advised him to use the UCC to defend himself in his attempted aggravated murder trial. Does one laugh or cry? I suppose there was a time when people laughed at lawyers using RICO statutes, and they certainly used to laugh at lawyers who filed consumer law class actions against tobacco companies, so why not … oh, never mind.