January 18, 2006
For now
Alito says `one man, one vote' is settled law
The whole point of being a Supreme Court Justice is that you can vote to get rid of settled law. And this is just the sort of thing Alito made his career as a lawyer attacking on behalf of the Republican Party.
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January 02, 2006
They would
Defense attorneys embrace infamous
I guess that it's necessary. I just don't think it's something to be proud of.
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January 01, 2006
I like it
CNN.com - Tennessee law shames drunken drivers - Dec 31, 2005
Convicted drunk drivers will be forced to do 24 hours of community service roadside cleanup while wearing signs that read "I am a drunk driver". Personally, I'm a big believer in the power of shame. However, there are detractors, like the head of the criminal justice department at Seattle University, because I guess they couldn't find anyone in Alaska or Hawaii to comment:
"If I'm forced to wear a sign saying that I'm a drunk driver, then I'm going to feel worse and worse about myself and I may drink more and more because I feel shunned," she said.
Well, they'll be in groups, I suppose, so at least they won't be drinking alone.
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December 13, 2005
Leheist
College Class President Charged in Robbery
The sophomore (of course it would be a sophomore) class president at Lehigh University has been charged with robbing a bank. He got the student Senate president to drive him to the bank.
The accused (actually, he's admitted robbing the bank) is the son of a Baptist minister and is described as "the sort of student who would cheer on the college football team wearing body paint." I hate those guys. I always figured that their crime would more likely be manslaughter by making a freshman drink paint thinner than robbing banks, though.
(Thanks to Meryl.)
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October 24, 2005
Asshole
al.com: NewsFlash - Dad: Caging special-needs kids necessary
He adopted the kids, then kept them in cages. Did he sell tickets, too? Or peanuts? Please don't feed the special-needs kids!
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October 18, 2005
Enjoy prison, dirtbag
al.com: NewsFlash - Author of sex book held in Montgomery jail on Florida vote charge
The author of a book that tells men how to go to foreign countries in order to procure child brides has been arrested for vote fraud. Seems he didn't tell the Florida election officials that he was a felon. (For selling drugs, not the pervert thing.) I bet he voted for Bush in 2000, too.
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September 29, 2005
If at first you don't succeed ^2
Scrushy activities in capital reviewed
So the federal prosecutors who are going after Don Siegelman are also going after Richard Scrushy. It stems from Siegelman appointments to the state Certificate of Need Board, which decides if hospitals can expand. Roughly speaking, it's as if California authorities now tried to get O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake on the same charges.
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August 15, 2005
Another boring sequel
al.com: NewsFlash - Man who mooned Panhandle jury convicted at retrial
I mean, if you're going to moon the jury at the first trial, you have to top yourself in the retrial, not just sit there.
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July 30, 2005
Momma needs a new roof!
al.com: NewsFlash - Police: Woman spent $1.7 million in housing grants at casinos
Okay, that's just sad. How do you even lose that much money gambling? How do her bosses not notice that much money gone missing?
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July 28, 2005
Pervert of the day
al.com: NewsFlash - Milton abortion protester jailed after losing molestation appeal
Is it my imagination, or are a whole lot of the people in the anti-abortion movement sickos?
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July 21, 2005
Someone needs to proofread
Clerical error triggers lesser sentence
A mother and son are guilty of misdemeanor, not felony, assault because their indictments left out the word "intent". So instead of prison, they get a year in county jail. BTW, this is for a fight in a courtroom in which two police officers were injured.
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July 18, 2005
I knew it
CNN.com - Sharpton urges calm during probe of�LAPD shooting - Jul 18, 2005
This is an alternate universe!
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July 08, 2005
They had to mention the Nigerian thing
Native Nigerian pleads innocent to bank fraud
I think bank fraud's their national industry.
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June 01, 2005
Guess what color he is!
TV thief released after 35 years
Junior Allen stole a $140 black & white television in 1970. For this, he was sentenced to life in prison. After 25 attempts at parole, he finally got out on his 26th try. Meanwhile, rapists and murderers went free.
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April 28, 2005
The Pantsless Arsonist?
Pants Left Behind Yielded Pivotal Link
So a suspect in a series of Washington area arsons might get convicted because he left his pants behind at one crime. His pants. You would think that even at a fire someone would notice the guy walking away without his pants.
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April 05, 2005
Six degrees of assassination
Senator John Cornyn thinks that judges get assassinated because of
court rulings he doesn't like.
Cornyn is from San Antonio, where Charles Voyle Harrelson assassinated
a judge in 1979.
Harrelson is the father of Woody Harrelson, who in 1996 played Larry
Flynt, who was paralyzed in an attack while leaving a courthouse.
Woody Harrelson was in "Natural Born Killers", directed by Oliver Stone.
Oliver Stone also directed "JFK", which is about an assassination, and features Kevin Bacon.
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March 10, 2005
Clear!
CNN.com - Officer's use of Taser in hospital investigated - Mar 10, 2005
Supposedly, he knelt on a drug suspect's chest, then tasered him twice to compel a urine sample. You just know that there are at least three Supreme Court justices that would have no problem with this interrogation procedure.
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March 01, 2005
Out of the club
al.com: NewsFlash - High court ends death penalty for youths
If being in the same club as Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and Pakistan is something you want. "Troy King", no doubt, is deeply hurt by this, since his solution to everything is to kill more people faster. I'm expecting a story in tomorrow's paper where he says that this will bring down reading scores or something.
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February 11, 2005
We'll soon fix that
Downtown Atlanta crime falls 19% | ajc.com
Really? We'll soon solve that!
Dinner with a .38 on the side? | ajc.com
Your generic crazy Republican lawmaker wants to allow people with gun permits to carry concealed handguns into restaurants.
"What if someone comes to Atlanta to stay at the Ritz-Carlton, and they have to walk a couple of blocks to a restaurant?" said state Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta). "They'd like to be able to carry that gun in downtown Atlanta at night. Right now, even if they have a permit and have passed the background checks, they can't."
This is obviously a huge injustice. I can't believe the ACLU isn't on this.
I don't live in Atlanta, okay. But I visit there, downtown, pretty regularly, and I've never even felt threatened. Okay, I'm a big guy, but so are most of your gun freaks.
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January 05, 2005
I don't like the stuff
Herald.com | 01/05/2005 | Miami woman guilty of poisoning boss' Dr. Pepper
How could they tell?
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December 05, 2004
Try it on your own kids!
Herald.com | 12/05/2004 | Experts dispute data on stun guns
Miami police zapped -- the story actually uses that verb -- two kids with tasers recently. The company says that there's no cause for concern, that kids can be tasered just fine. Experts aren't so sure, but if we went around listening to experts we'd never get anything done.
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November 10, 2004
You know what I'd like?
CNN.com - DNA frees inmate after 19 years in jail - Nov 9, 2004
Every time one of these guys gets sprung from jail, the prosecutors should have to apologize. I don't think it's much to ask. As it is, the best you can hope for is a "we won't retry him" message. A lot of the time (not apparently in this case) they'll stand up there and talk about the release of someone who was obviously innocent as some miscarriage of justice.
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September 28, 2004
As long as their belongings were safe
CNN.com - House fire kills 6 trapped by burglar bars - Sep 27, 2004
This is the second time in the past week that a family has been killed by fire when firefighters couldn't get through burglar bars. This time it was in Oklahoma City. Last week, five were killed in a similar situation in Florida, though that time there were also hurricane shutters up.
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August 26, 2004
I dislike gag orders
al.com: NewsFlash - Two professors challenge Drummond gag order
As a matter of principle, I think they should only be issued where absolutely necessary. Some judges, however, seem overly enamoured of them.
As the story goes, Drummond Company, a coal mining outfit, runs mines in Colombia. They're accused of sponsoring hired killers who murdered union organizers. Of course, nobody's been arrested.
Under the Alien Tort Claims Act, the familes of the victims and the union in Colombia sued Drummond in Birmingham two years ago. The judge issued the gag order, which seems overly broad, involving such things as ordering the union -- which is based in another country, mind you -- to remove links to outside websites that discuss the case. Two Tuscaloosa professors are trying to get the order lifted on First Amendment grounds. Good luck to them.
Obviously, I have no personal knowledge of the case. Knowing coal companies as I do, it wouldn't surprise me any. I mentioned this case a long time back, in the Blogger days -- gosh, two and a half years ago, almost. I then said that I doubted company management knew about the assassinations in advance. That's a reasonable guess. Some higher-up said to take care of it. Some VP then passed the word along to a local manager, who took the simplest course available to him. Good old plausible deniability -- heck, the higher-up probably thought there'd just be some of that good old Pinkerton-style roughing up.
(UPDATE: Here's a slightly better article, the Birmingham News story before the AP stripped out some details.)
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July 07, 2004
Oooooh, a reprimand!
Pilot Reprimanded for 'Friendly Fire'
He was a very naughty pilot for killing those four Canadians. Now don't do it again!
Amazingly, his lawyer wants to appeal the verdict. He killed four people and was punished by a reprimand and loss of a month's pay, and his lawyer wants to appeal!
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June 23, 2004
Summer Repeat
CNN.com - Video shows LAPD officer beating suspect - Jun 23, 2004
What are they, stupid? Well, probably. They have to know that they're on videotape from a helicopter. All those car chases are on TV now.
But I'm going to blame the Bush Administration for this anyway. Surely, if it wasn't for their advocacy of beatings of terrorist suspects, impressionable police officers would never commit such atrocities.
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June 21, 2004
This is insane
CNN.com - Keeping name private can be crime, court rules - Jun 21, 2004
You have a right to be silent, right? I guess not. The Rehnquist Court is definitely getting on my nerves.
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June 08, 2004
Well, lah-dee-dah
CNN.com - Nichols more committed to religion, sister testifies - Jun 7, 2004
Good for him. I'm sure it will be a comfort on death row. Murdering terrorist bastard.
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May 04, 2004
You go, girls!
Cross-dressers stole vehicles, authorities say
A band of cross-dressers has been stealing cars from dealerships around Alabama to drive throughout the Southeast to competitions for men who parade on stage in women's clothing, police said.
Really, there's a gang of drag queen car thieves. They don't sell the cars when they're done, they just cruise for awhile then abandon them.
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April 22, 2004
En garde!
He was wearing a fencing mask. However, he had a gun and not a sword.
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April 16, 2004
Born to eat wild
Weston restaurant owner charged with buying wild meat
The owner of the "Pacific Island" restaurant purchased wild ducks, white-tailed deer, bear and snook from undercover agents of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. I don't know what "snook" are but I'm guessing it's a fish which would mean that this goes in all three "pundit" categories.
The defendant says that he didn't feed any of this to his patrons, and that it was only used to feed his employees. Uh-huh.
(Offensive and overly intrusive registration required. Better use email address mac at warliberal dot com, password warliberal.)
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April 02, 2004
A final update
Man, 85, dies before trial on wife's murder
John Quirk, charged with strangling his wife in an argument over the noise his breathing machine was making, died of heart failure in Virginia a month ago.
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February 28, 2004
I... I... I...
Scrushys will host talk show on WTTO
Starting Monday at 7:30, Channel 21 (the WB affiliate) will start airing a daily talk show starring Richard Scrushy and his wife Leslie. Their first guest will be Roy Moore. Another topic will be their opinion of Mel Gibson's movie. This is a very special day for me. I'm going to tape this sucker for sure.
The station won't say who's paying for the show, but I suspect Scrushy lawyer Donald Watkins... Leslie will provide "a short devotional exercise" to kick off each show.
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January 30, 2004
Society for Creative Policing
Teen Uses Sword to Capture Prison Escapee
14-year-old hears a noise in the basement, so he grabs a sword and goes to check it out. Really, who hasn't this happened to? The sword belongs to his brother, a soldier at Fort Riley, KS.
UPDATE: John Lott says that 99 percent of the time, merely brandishing your sword will cause an intruder to wet his pants and run away like a little bunny.
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January 26, 2004
Another Inevitabilty
Attorney Challenges Utah Polygamy Ban
Personally, I don't see why people shouldn't be allowed to marry as many other people as they want. (As long as they're all consenting adults.) No skin off my nose. Still, Rick Santorum's dream of man-on-dog comes closer.
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January 23, 2004
Imagine!
Prosecutors Reject Limbaugh Proposal
They're treating him like he was some sort of ordinary person! Unbelievable. They actually want to charge him with a crime for repeatedly breaking the law! Don't they know that the laws don't apply to prominent Republicans? Why isn't the White House doing something about this?
They're only doing this because they want to see white person put in jail, you know.
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January 07, 2004
Adrienne T. Samen, career criminal
‘Bridezilla’ faces assault charge
‘Bridezilla’ needn’t have gone to jail
Dec. 19, Mrs. Samen got into a fistfight with her sister and was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
Sunday, she mooned a police car before getting into the Chevy Blazer her poor, put-upon husband was driving.
You may recall that Mrs. Samen came to national attention for going berzerk at her wedding and throwing things at the staff. It's possible, just possible, that she has a little bit of an alcohol problem.
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January 04, 2004
We want blood!
Alabama wants to execute Malvo
Of course we do. Only Texas has more juvenile offenders on death row than we do, and what's one more? Well, we haven't actually executed any juvenile offenders, but there's always a first time! Montgomery has officially requested that Virginia send Malvo down there for his next trial.
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December 24, 2003
I don't blame her
Kellie Adams -- who was shot by Lee Malvo or John Muhammad in Montgomery before they moved their operation to the Washington area -- originally seemed okay with the two not being charged in Alabama. (One of her co-workers was killed in the attack.) After the jury decision that Malvo would serve life in prison, she apparently changed her mind. I don't necessarily agree with the idea of shopping for a venue that would be willing to execute a juvenile, but I do understand and in her position would probably think the same.
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December 04, 2003
Terrorist convicted
nbc13.com - News - Anti-Abortion Extremist Convicted In Anthrax Hoax
Lunatic anti-abortion terrorist Clayton Waagner [sic] represented himself, but whoever represented him would have had a fool for a client. Here's a choice nugget: "He said only his abhorrence for killing prevented him from shooting abortionists and clinic workers in the head." He then said that the trial was "fun". Waagner mailed death threats and envelopes of white powder to clinics in 24 states.
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November 25, 2003
That's not fair
Muhammad and Malvo started down here, we should get to try them. It's questionable if Montgomery could get the latter for first degree murder, but certainly they could get Muhammad, who actually was the triggerman in the ABC shooting it seems.
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November 24, 2003
The ultimate punishment
CNN.com - Muhammad jurors reach verdict - Nov. 24, 2003
Death penalty. I'm not sure about this, considering that by all reports Muhammad wasn't the trigger man. But it's not unjustifiable under the law as I understand it. Next up, Montgomery?
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November 12, 2003
Failure
Clinic bombing suspect arrested
This guy never even managed to bomb a single clinic. He's charged with "intent to commit a crime of violence".
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October 31, 2003
Technically, a polygamist
ajc.com | Gwinnett | Alleged bigamist wanted by police
A bigamist has two wives. This guy has nine. Sometimes he gives himself the title of "Bishop", by the way.
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Best. Story. Ever.
CNN.com - Girls pummel man who exposed himself - Oct. 31, 2003
Take it from me, you don't want to mess with Catholic schoolgirls. "Known sexual predator" Rudy Sasanto had exposed himself to teenage girls as many as seven times. On the eighth try, the girls took matters into their own hands. 20 of them confronted him, chased him down the block, caught him, and pummelled him. Oh, wow.
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October 25, 2003
On ice
Man arrested in theft of Popsicles
Well, first he stole guns and ammunition from another house. Then he broke in and stole the popsicles. He says he never got a chance to eat any of them. He's been charged with first degree (for the guns, I'd guess) and third degree (popsicles) burglary.
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Did he wear the costume with the stripes?
Chief Justice Rehnquist speaks at UA
He spent most of his speech talking about the Presidential Election of 1876. I'd think that after Bush v. Gore, he'd want to avoid the subject of controversial elections settled in favor of a Republican who really lost.
Holy Crap note: Five demonstrators gathered outside the law school to protest in favor of St. Roy and his granite calf. That's it, boys, try to annoy one of the few justices that might actually listen to Roy's rantings.
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October 15, 2003
Rape shield law?
CNN.com - Bryant judge to allow some testimony of alleged victim's sex history - Oct. 15, 2003
What rape shield law? What's a rape shield?
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October 14, 2003
I don't get it
Mom Who Drowned Kids on Suicide Watch
If Andrea Yates wants to off herself, let her. The only shame is that she didn't do it before June of 2001.
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He's got them on his side now
Lawyer Calls Jurors 'Cave Dwellers'
Actually, "illiterate cave dwellers", though "illiterate" is usually understood. And he wasn't saying that everyone in eastern Kentucky was an illiterate cave dweller, just the ones that hadn't heard about the case. I mean, people are so sensitive.
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September 30, 2003
Roy Moore Award for ignoring court orders
F.C.C. Chief Will Enforce Phone Curbs
I know that the Supreme Court wouldn't issue a stay blocking implementation, but other Federal courts have said that the FTC can't do that. (I disagree; the first decision is no longer operative after Congress passed a bill and the President signed it; the "free speech" for corporations argument is full of holes.) But Powell says the FCC is going to enforce the restrictions anyway.
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September 29, 2003
If you're tired of New Jersey...
N.J. Criminalizes Driving While Tired
Um... What are you supposed to do if you get tired while driving? It's not like drinking, or talking on a cell phone, or whatever. It's going to happen no matter what, and it's going to sneak up on you. If you feel tired, what are you supposed to do? Pull over to the side of the turnpike and take a nap? I'm pretty sure that the state troopers won't look fondly on that either.
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September 24, 2003
So much for self-defense
Owner fatally shot at Decatur karate studio
I'm certain that I'm going to get shocked email or messages left from his family -- I always do for these stories -- but does this make anyone else think of that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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September 23, 2003
Go ahead, run over the French people
The Miami Herald | 09/23/2003 | Officer won't be charged in death of sunbather
In Febuary, apparently doing his Wehrmacht imitation, a Miami Beach police officer ran over two French sisters who were sunbathing on the beach. He was driving an SUV, naturally. One of the sisters died, and the other spent a month in the hospital. He did not turn his siren on, he was not in hot pursuit, and he was driving five miles an hour.
The state's attorney says it's okay because he wasn't driving "recklessly". He just didn't see the two naked women lying on the sand in front of him. I'm sorry, how do you not see that?
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September 07, 2003
The Bonfires of Madison County
Third Iowa Covered Bridge Set on Fire
Somebody is setting the actual bridges of Madison County IA on fire. This is wrong.
They should set Robert James Waller on fire.
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That poor insurance company!
We have got to get some tort reform around here! This insurance company, through no fault of its own, is going to have to pay $358K to a woman just because one of its doctor customers left a sponge inside here following a tubal ligation. Like it's their fault that it stayed in her for 8 1/2 months and perferated her bowel, and that other doctors had to go in and remove it along with five inches of that bowel. When are insurance companies going to get some justice around here?
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August 30, 2003
That's fairly typical
The Miami Herald | 08/30/2003 | Prisons take ax to rehab programs
At least Florida has rehabilitation programs. I doubt Alabama has any. But it's funny how supposedly "Law and Order" Republicans don't mind getting rid of programs that decrease recidivism.
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August 29, 2003
Guilt by disassociation
Prosecutors Fight DNA Use for Exoneration
Yes, God Forbid that you let somebody out of jail early -- or fail to execute him! -- simply because it turns out he didn't do it. And if hair or blood samples match his, that's grounds to keep him in jail, even if DNA proves that it's not his hair or blood.
There's something sick about a system that puts such a premium on convictions and "finality" that exculpatory evidence doesn't matter.
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August 26, 2003
Another bad wedding
Wedding Guest Bites Off Man's Finger
Hey, it was just part of the finger! Okay, most of it. And, okay, he also smeared cake all over the face of the man's son. And knocked out a 49-year-old woman.
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August 20, 2003
"Random", huh?
Police probe jailer's strip search claim
A female employee of the Birmingham city jail says that she was ordered into a small room at the end of her shift, ordered by a female supervisor to disrobe, which she partially did, then told that there was a new strip search policy, she was the first, and to tell her co-workers. A Department spokeman says there's no such policy.
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August 19, 2003
Hey, they closed the bar!
Bride in Conn. Rages at Reception, Jailed
Adrienne T. Samen -- who in her mug shot had two clearly visible tattoos, and you'd think she'd get a wedding gown that would cover those -- started throwing things, including cake and vases, at reception workers who closed the bar. Then she left the restaurant -- still in wedding gown, of course -- and started walking down the road, where the police found her. She's on bail and on her honeymoon now. I've got a good feeling about this marriage.
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August 17, 2003
Works for me
CNN.com - Marshals fatally shoot most wanted fugitive - Aug. 17, 2003
Eddie Mathis, cocaine ring enforcer and double murderer, shot in a Michigan hotel room. I suppose someone somewhere is upset by this.
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August 15, 2003
News doesn't happen
CNN.com - Outage fails to generate crime spree - Aug. 15, 2003
You can just tell how disappointed the news people are with that. "What is wrong with you people? Start with the [fair & balancing] looting already! I have six pages of scolding already written!"
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Cop crime wave
Cops are continuing to Fair & Balance over the people they're supposed to be protecting. Following in the footsteps of yesterday's news of the Atlanta-area Police Officer of the Year who was actually a ganglord, now a Massachusetts police captain -- one with 27 years on the force -- is charged with shoplifting a fish tank and a NASCAR racing model. The two items together only cost about $50; he earned $112,327 in the last fiscal year.
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