13-3606. Bigamy; classification; exception
A. A person having a spouse living who knowingly marries any other person is guilty of a class 5 felony.
B. Subsection A of this section does not extend to a person whose spouse by the former marriage has been absent for five successive years without being known to such person within that time to be living, nor to any person whose former marriage has been pronounced void, annulled or dissolved by judgment of a competent court.
If I were going to be a lawyer, I'd try to be like Mark...
The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse
Mark Bennett
Try this:
Stand up. Raise one foot off the ground. Now shift your weight forward. Don’t set your raised foot down. What happens?
You fall down.
But if you do the same thing and set the raised foot down to stop your fall, you take a step. Raise the other foot off the ground, shift your weight forward, and set your raised foot down to catch you. String a series of these events together, and you’re moving across the ground.
Walking....
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