Blogging Criminally For Over Ten Years



4/30/2008
Why there are no cameras in the Supreme Court
Generally, I am a believer that all court proceedings, including the federal supreme court, should be televised. However, there is a persuasive argument that in appellate courts - particularly the federal supreme court - there are those who would grandstand instead of arguing the points. Personally, while I recognize this type of behavior is a possibility, I think that the benefits of an open court outweigh it.

All that said, here is the nightmare scenario given form.

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4/30/2008
Why She Prosecutes
Race and Prosecution
Felicia J. Nu’Man, a Louisville prosecutor, explains why she prosecutes.

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4/29/2008
There Have Always Been Black Widows
Here's one from 100 years back.

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4/28/2008
CLTV Episode 25: Fave 5
5 posts from the criminal law blawgs which caught my interest.

Larger video at CLTV.

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4/28/2008
Begging, but Not Poor
A local TV channel does an expose on a fake homeless beggar.

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4/28/2008
Marine not prosecuted by Japanese will be by Marines
Under Japanese law the prosecution cannot proceed without permission of the victim. There are no such requirements under the UCMJ.

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4/27/2008
Tag Clouds
These are "tag clouds" offered by MakeCloud.

From my RSS feed:



Cloud of Google News for "crime."



Backlinks:


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4/26/2008
The Spirit

Y'know, I understand the urge to bring back old time heroes. However, that is just creepy.

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4/25/2008
Snipes Gets Every Second of His Time
Judge: "One of the main purposes which drives selective prosecution in tax cases is deterrence. In some instances, that means those of celebrity stand greater risk of prosecution. But there's nothing unusual about it, nor is there anything unlawful about it. It's the way the system works."

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4/23/2008
Lycurgus is Spinning in His Grave:
Moore v. Virginia - State Officers Don't Have to Follow State Law
Moore v. Virginia, in which a Virginia Officer made an arrest which was clearly illegal under Virginia law, the federal supreme court has ruled that there is no remedy under the constitution.

Citizens of the United States are not protected when the government breaks its own laws unless the government has granted them protections (either by law or constitution).

And what about the Virginia Supreme Court's finding, in its decision as final arbiter of Virginia law, that the required issuance of a summons is a citation? The federal supreme court doesn't even address it.

A disturbing opinion.

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4/23/2008
Police Get to a Grow House Too Late
But, it was all for personal, medicinal use.

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4/23/2008
10 Years of Illegal Tickets
Will a "good faith" violation of the law allow the city to keep the money it got from 10 years of illegal tickets?

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4/23/2008
Kentucky's Head PD Retiring
After 31 years.

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4/23/2008
5 Years for Fruit Theft
I guess 17 fruit theft convictions were too many.

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4/23/2008
Drugged Up Children
Caocaine and tranquilizers in a 3 year old and 16 month old.

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4/23/2008
There are Reasons You Don't Give Inmates Access to Computers
They tend to steal things.

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4/23/2008
Misuse of Database Leads to Officer's Conviction
He checked to see who was following someone at his mosque. It was the FBI.

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4/23/2008
Detroit Officer Accused by Hitman, Freed by DA
He was freed because there was no evidence - other than the hitman's statement, that the officer payed to have his wife killed.

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4/23/2008
Chicago's Turning Bloody
7 killed over the last weeked and "[t]wenty-four of the city's public school children have been slain since the academic year began in August; 21 of them were killed by shootings."

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4/23/2008
Vampires, Whips, and Rape
Strange stuff.

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4/23/2008
Urban "New Lawyer" Myth Brought to Life
It's an urban legend we've all gotten thru an email sometime. Brand New Lawyer has just passed the Bar when he has some sort of confrontation with an Officer. Having just spent 3 years in law school and 3 months studying for the Bar Brand New Lawyer knows every nook and cranny of the law and spins the encounter round on the Officer.

Meet Eric Bryant, the man living the urban myth.

I wonder how well this will turn out for Mr. Bryant.

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4/23/2008
Marjuana Should Not be Legal
This is fun to read as much for the comments as anything else.

Any time someone makes a comment like that it brings out the true believers.

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4/23/2008
Now that Lethal Injection is Constitutional
States have started back up their death sentence processes.

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4/23/2008
Here's a Surefire Way to Get Out of Jury Duty
Show up drunk.

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4/23/2008
Canada: Police Breaking the Law
Authorized by parliment in 2002 and now up for review.

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4/23/2008
Ask Instead How the Guys at the Lab Sleep
Because, if they told me there was 1,000 times the normal level of arsenic in a body I'd be convinced there was a murder.

Oops, their bad.

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4/23/2008
Begging to go to Prison
"A drug addict who stole vodka and a milkshake from Elland Co-op begged a judge to send him to jail to help keep him away from heroin."

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4/22/2008
Black Widows Convicted Again
Insured more homeless men and killed them.

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4/22/2008
Scotland Yard Takes Extraordinary Steps to Get Its Men
It set up an investigation off site. It excluded Freemasons. And in the end it charged an officer involved in the original investigation.

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4/22/2008
Irish Politician Gets Slammed
After writing a letter in favor of a convicted rapist.

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4/22/2008
A Really Stupid Way to Steal Gasoline
By punching holes in the gas tank.

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4/22/2008
Nerves of Steel
Returing to the deli to get his change after he tried to rob it.

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4/22/2008
Stealing Copper from a Church
While destroying its air conditioner.

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4/22/2008
Final Warning
It's never good when the judge writes that on your record.

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4/22/2008
Angel Theft
This can't be good for the soul.

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4/22/2008
Can't Hide Drugs, Even There
Found in bra and wig.

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4/22/2008
I did more crime. I should get less time.
Somehow, the judge didn't see it that way.

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4/22/2008
Thieves Break Into DoJ & Steal Underwear
In the Philippines.

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4/22/2008
Hitman Fingers Officer
Says officer paid for the murder of his wife.

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4/22/2008
Drugs: Legalization or Not?
Arguments for both sides from LA Times.

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4/22/2008
Beaten Down by a 76 Year Old
Some people don't take kindly to being robbed.

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4/22/2008
This is CNN
Too wierd.

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4/22/2008
DOJ: Criminal Conflict of Interest
A former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Criminal Division is charged.

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4/22/2008
Burglaries Up in the District
There's been a 21% increase in burglaries in DC.

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4/22/2008
Mexican Army Takes Over Police Duties & Crime Increases
The Mexican Army moved into a border town because the police were too few and too corrupt to stop the drug trade. However, after the Army got there the police stopped working and all sorts of crime started.

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4/21/2008
Pot U.
Teaching people how to open and run pot shops.

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4/21/2008
In the UK Grand Theft Auto is Child's Play
All the way down to an 8 year old stealing a lorry (that's a truck for those of us in the US).

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4/21/2008
Cocaine in Art
Didn't quite make it into the country.

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4/21/2008
Can Your Car tell You When You Are About to Get Robbed?
It will if Honda has any say in the matter.

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4/21/2008
Military Problem with Rape
Congress is concerned about how the military is handling rape cases.

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4/21/2008
You're Still a Heroin Dealer
Even if you're only "standing in."

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4/21/2008
Is it Constitutional to Shoot Criminals in South Africa?
Maybe . . . Maybe not.

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4/21/2008
Barney Frank Endorses Marijuana
Introduces a bill to legalize for users and small time distributors.

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4/21/2008
Expanding DNA Collection
The Feds are going to start taking DNA without convictions.

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4/21/2008
Australian Doctor Calls for Legalization
of all drugs.

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4/21/2008
Crime Mums


I'm confused. In Australia flowers bear criminals as fruit and give interviews?

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4/21/2008
Indoor Grows Hazardous
Exposure to indoor marijuana grows is making officers sick.

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4/21/2008
Metal Theft: Lead
Stolen from a church roof.

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4/21/2008
Stolen Card Connection: Texas to India
One would suspect that an American name would probably not match the guy's ID.

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4/21/2008
Thou Shalt Not Steal From the Police
At least not to build a bed.

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4/21/2008
Stealing From Firemen
Thief takes a $500 protective coat while the fireman were there.

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4/21/2008
Can Statements of the Murdered be Used?
Obviously yes if the object of the murder was to keep the victim silent, but what if that wasn't the intent? Does Crawford require exclusion because the dead victim cannot be cross examined?

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4/21/2008
M&M Thief
Or at least attempted M&M thief.

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4/21/2008
Second Tier Physicians' Group Endorses Marijuana
The American College of Physicians endorses moving marijuana from schedule 1.

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4/21/2008
NY: Should All 3d Misdemeanors in 10 be a Felony?
Marcus Molinaro introduced the Chronic Criminal Act to make 3d misdemeanor offenses within 10 years a felony. Not a terribly bad idea (if traffic offenses aren't included), but it appears dead in committee.

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4/20/2008
Judge in the Polygamy Case
Barbara "No Nonsense" Walther.

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4/20/2008
Manslaughter by Heroin
Woman lets her daughter die of a geroin overdose.

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4/20/2008
Homicide by Heroin
Reckless homicide for distributing the heroin that killed.

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4/20/2008
Cheese Heroin Distribution
10 years in federal prison.

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4/20/2008
Stop the Heroin Blocker
Urging the cessation of the stomach heroin blocker.

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4/20/2008
Grand Theft Bees
Or an attempt -for some reason they didn't complete the act.

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4/20/2008
Can't Trust Anyone: Nurse Thief
While people were critically ill in the hospital she stole their keys and burgled their homes.

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4/20/2008
Fake Kidnapping
"The Kurla police have arrested a 34-year-old man for faking his own kidnapping by unidentified policemen and stealing Rs 45,000 which was to be deposited in his friend's bank account."

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4/20/2008
What Exactly is Going on at the North Pole?
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

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4/20/2008
Attempting to Escape a Courtroom
It probably wouldn't have been a good idea even if he'd made it thru the 7th floor window.

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4/20/2008
Canada< DUI's, and the Removal of the Possibility of Innocence
Can't call a witness to say someone might or might not have been drunk.

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4/20/2008
If You're Going to Smuggle Marijuana in Your Car
It might not be the smartest thing in the world to store it where it will catch fire.

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4/20/2008
Go Cold Turkey in Jail
Get paid by the government for your troubles.

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4/20/2008
How Bad Off Are You
When both the police and Hell's Angels are telling you to lay off the cocaine?

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4/20/2008
You Can't Make This Up
A high police officer breaks into a car to steal the stereo, but the seats are too comfortable and he falls asleep.

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4/20/2008
Grand Theft Croc
My primary question is, "Why?"

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4/20/2008
Police Accidently Raid 50 Year Old's House
"Police declined to say how she reacted."

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4/20/2008
Hard to Prosecute a Rape
When the woman has previously cried wolf.

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4/20/2008
Rape or Falling Out Among Thieves?
Pakistan - Woman accuses co-robber of rape and blackmail.

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4/20/2008
Mom Gets Clued in to Daughter's Marijuana Use
and turns her in to the police.

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4/20/2008
Too Fat to be Jailed
But he was healthy enough to bust a window over a guy's head.

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4/20/2008
If You Advertise for Murder on CraigsList
You're not going to have much of a defense.

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4/20/2008
Asset Seizures = Rugby
At least in Scotland.

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4/20/2008
Ambulance theft
leads to need for an ambulance (suicide attempt).

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4/20/2008
Rape or Drug Dealing - In Saudia There is Only One Option
Death by beheading.

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4/20/2008
Once an Officer's Retired
Why would you try to kill him?

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4/20/2008
Maternal Betrayal and Rape
Mom holds down 13 year old daughter for man.

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4/20/2008
Officer Sentenced for Dealing Drugs
10 years.

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4/20/2008
Force the Door


A rape victim scrawls this message on the window to get the police to come rescue her.

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4/19/2008
In a Different Part of the US
"We cannot emphasize enough: these are individuals charged with felonies. The criminal statutes of this state are not so sacrosanct, nor is our pursuit of judicial economy so preeminent, that we will endorse the trampling of citizens’ rights in pursuit of either. A citizen should not have to endure or defend a felony prosecution premised upon an unconstitutional statute. Our precedents do not hold otherwise."

Illinois v. Carpenter

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4/19/2008
Televising an Execution
Japanese TV is going to televise a hanging.

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4/19/2008
Pretending to be the IRS
Phishers are pretty much scum of the Earth, but I must admit that it takes big brass *ahem* "moxy" to pretend you're the IRS in your phishing scam.


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4/19/2008
Egg Thief
Yes, he has a drug problem.

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4/19/2008
Steal Rare Coins if You Must . . .
. . . just don"t try to get the guy you stole them from to keep them for you.

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4/19/2008
If You're Dumb Enough to Steal the Judge's Robes
You probably deserve the 3 years you get in prison.

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4/19/2008
Grand Theft Gator
On video, no less.

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4/19/2008
If You Steal a Police Car . . .
. . . they will find you.

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4/19/2008
No, You Can't Subpoena the Vice-President
Yelling something at the Vice-President and getting arrested doesn't give you the right to subpoena him.

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4/19/2008
Want a TV?
Just pick one up and walk out the door.

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4/19/2008
DNA Non-Match 23 Years Later
Man released after 23 years on a rape charge.

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4/19/2008
It Wasn't Rape
Just murder and necrophilia.

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4/19/2008
If You Keep Stealing from the Same Place . . .
. . . guess what happens?

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4/19/2008
Australia: Rape Trial Rules
"The NSW government wants the NSW Bar Association to toughen up its regulations and to discipline barristers who directly or incidentally harass or embarrass victims in the witness box."

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4/19/2008
Modern Car Nontheft
The kid stole the key, but couldn't quite get the car (or even get out of the car).

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4/19/2008
Copper Theft: Sabotage of War Materials Charges
Stealing bullets meant for the troops.

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4/19/2008
Copper Theft + Live Wires =
Yep, he zapped himself.

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4/19/2008
No, It's not Medical, It's Religious
Marijuana, that is.

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4/19/2008
B&E at Grow House
It may not be a good idea to report that B&E if you're growing a cash crop in the house.

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4/19/2008
Feds Bust Indoor Pot Growing Op
6,848 plants.

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4/19/2008
Is the House Next Door a Marijuana Farm?
Some of the signs that may indicate there is a grow-op in your neighborhood include:

- a person bringing many small plastic pails into the house and yet you never see them gardening in the backyard using those containers.

- same thing applies to planting soil, plant food, peat moss etc.....

- bringing large lengths of tubing into the house. (This is used for irrigation)

- bringing large lighting fixtures, industrial size (These are used for artificial sunlight/warmth)

- hydro meters are tampered with. Many times the growers will cut into the hydro power avoiding the high cost of electricity involved in such an operation.

- all the windows in the house (usually basement) are boarded up or covered up in some way.

- condensation on the windows. These houses will have very high humidity.

- smell coming from the house. Noxious fumes can build up in a marijuana grow-op house thus needing it to be vented. It will be a very distinct smell.

- comings and goings at odd hours.

- sometimes it will appear as if nobody is living there yet there is always a small light or T.V,. left on in the house. The yard is not looked after, i.e. long grass, snow not being shoveled in winter.

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4/19/2008
Lethal Injections Okayed
US Supremes say Kentucky can continue to use the death penalty.

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4/19/2008
Big Brother in UK
Using cameras to spy on a family to see if they qualified to go to a school.

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4/19/2008
Is it Violent to Drink and Drive?
No. At least not federally.

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4/18/2008
Sheriff's Prostitution Ring
A sheriff resigns in the face of charges that he is running a prostitution ring out of his jail.

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4/18/2008
There Are "How To" Videos on Child Abuse?!?
Caught with an instructional video. [blech]

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4/18/2008
Proof that Gas is Too Expensive
Knife fight over who will pay.

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4/18/2008
Yet another offer to sell me drugs over the internet
It's no wonder our biggest problem hereabouts. I get several versions of this every day:


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4/17/2008
Drugs - 17APR08
1. Heroin use is on the rise.

2. "Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a pleasure-related chemical, can reduce use of cocaine by 75 percent."

3. A deputy caught in a drug cartel.

4. Facebook and cocaine.

5. A woman uses a 5 year old's urine to pass a drug test and thus the police find out that the 5 year old has used cocaine.

6. "[B]abies exposed to cocaine in the womb may have long lasting brain changes -- especially males."

7. Ireland: 1/4 have used illegal drugs. 1/14 have used in the last year. 1/30 have used in the last month.

8. Teens are turning to tablets.

9. Inmate got the drugs into jail by swallowing them - and they got out of his system by . . .

10. Busting on "Just Say No." Pretty easy when you are talking about people already in deep trouble.

11. Don't bring crack to the courthouse.

12. Drugs smuggled in new shoes.

13. The first Central Utah Substance Abuse Conference was like a political rally against drugs.

14. Don't leave cocaine in your car when you get it detailed.

15. Spain is the largest user of cocaine in Europe.

16. The carjackers made me use.

17. Ghana, drug dealing car dealer, and claims against the police.

18. Azerbaijan: Where heroin gets thru to Europe.

19. 70 year old drug dealer.

20. "FAMILY homes across Wales are being used as hi-tech cannabis farms to fuel the country’s rocketing demand for the drug."

21. Kashmir: At a time when women literacy has improved a lot in the state, scores of girls and women have taken to drugs.

22. Labour MP calls for the legalization of hard drugs.

23. Colombian navy vs. drug labs.

24. "A MAN who suffered life-changing injuries in an horrific road crash claimed he used cocaine to help him cope with the pain, a court heard yesterday."

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4/16/2008
Theft
1. Getting run over by the truck he stole.

2. Can't steal birthday gifts for your kid.

3. 100 corruption cases in Kazakhastan.

4. More crime and fewer officers.

5. More scams against senior citizens.

6. Politician:
I want to assure the police station commissioners and policemen and women from these areas that they have permission to kill these criminals.

I won’t tolerate any pathetic excuses for you not being able to deal with crime. You have been given guns, now use them.
7. "The impact of the crime in India is that today more and more people report that they keep some kind of self-protection at home; watchdogs are becoming as popular as the friendly family pet. Vigilante groups and private security agencies are flourishing. Even in the national capital not only women prefer to stay off the streets at night, but parents also feel insure about the safety of their children."

8. Smirking thug gets probation.

9. Regurgitation leads to DNA arrest.

10. Crime up 8%.

11. Crime down 10%.

12. Drug theft by sword.

13. Stealing a police officer's sidearm isn't the greatest idea.

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4/16/2008
Metal Theft
1. Death during copper theft from roof.

2. Steal the fence, ignore the cars.

3. Theft from cemetery.

4. Copper thief kills radio station.

5. Electrocuted stealing cable.

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4/16/2008
Marijuana
1) Forcing a 2 year old to smoke.

2) "The vast majority of people in Brazil believe smoking marijuana should remain a crime."

3) Algerian marijuana confiscation up 592%.

4) Mexico provides the most marijuana to the US. (duh)

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4/15/2008
Is it better or worse . . .
. . . if the crack you try to sell to senior citizens is fake?

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4/15/2008
Groping 53 Women
Go to Prison (again).

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4/15/2008
Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer
Should all adults be allowed to drink beer?

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4/15/2008
Internet Terrorism & Rick Rolling
Now we're calling an Internet prank "terrorism."

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4/15/2008
Mayor Turns to Feds to Stop Sheriff
Because the Sheriff is working with ICE.

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4/15/2008
DUI
Driving to a police station soused probably isn't a good idea.

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4/14/2008
CLTV 23: Pd's and MPRE's - WWJD?
New post by a healthier me (although, I cut out a couple coughing fits).

Can lawyers be ethical? Must defense attorneys be propitiation? And what about those PD offices? (which might as well be a religious discussion)

CLTV Cite

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4/10/2008
Sometimes Burglary's Just a Bad Idea
Especially if the home owner is a female boxer with an ice scraper.

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4/10/2008
Drugs in the News
1) Interior Minister Prince Naif yesterday urged everybody to cooperate in the Kingdom's fight against drugs. "Drugs are more dangerous than wars and catastrophes," the Saudi Press Agency quoted the prince as saying.

2) "Drug prohibition helps the U.S. maintain a racial apartheid prison-industrial complex."

3) Police foiled a bid to smuggle high quality charas to Punjab and arrested the alleged supplier on Tuesday.

4) The SDU has uncovered intelligence that Chinese-sourced chemical precursors, such as PMK, were being shipped to the Netherlands to turn into pills to export to Australia or smuggled into Australia for local ecstasy production.

5) [The heroin dealer] was initially co-operative his manner soon changed and he then refused to remove his hand from his genital area.

6) We found [heroin] for sale within 26 minutes of arriving in central Hove.

7) "Marijuana is among the most frequently used illicit drugs by women during their childbearing years and there is growing concern that marijuana abuse during pregnancy, either alone or in combination with other drugs, may have serious effects on fetal brain development. There is strong evidence that THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, crosses the placenta, that maternal marijuana abuse results in intrauterine growth retardation and that infants exposed to marijuana exhibit a temporary syndrome that includes lethargy and decreased muscle tone. Fetal exposure to THC can also result in attention deficits, learning disabilities and behavioral problems. A new study using rats found that THC combined with mildly intoxicating doses of alcohol induced widespread nerve cell death in the brain. The study is published in the Annals of Neurology, the official journal of the American Neurological Association."

8) Drug dealers looking for extra profits apparently added lead flakes to packets of marijuana, inflating their value while causing dozens of cases of serious poisoning.

9) The next marijuana.

10) An Accra circuit court on Wednesday remanded into prison custody a businessman who expelled 68 pellets of drugs suspected to be cocaine.

11) Cocaine and benzos in a 2 year old.

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4/08/2008
I'm Harboring a Semi-Felon


A while back I told ya'll that I inherited a dog when my neighbor moved out without taking his dog. Yesterday, while I was talking to my landlord, I asked him what happened that Neighbor moved out so quickly.

"I don't know. All I know is that they were taken out by the Troopers. I didn't know anything about it until someone told me that the Kentucky State Police had been in the house searching it from top to bottom. Not sure what they were charged with."

Wonderful. Does that make my new dog the opposite of McGruff?

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4/07/2008
CLTV 22: A Sick Guy's Fave Five
It's kinda pitiful, but it's up. Next weekend, hopefully, I won't film one while I feel like I'm about to fall over.

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4/04/2008
Ought to be in Monty Python
Lady Over-Acts After Tapped on Head

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4/04/2008
Bungles Update: Henry's Gone
On top of the Chad Johnson problem, now the Bengals have lost their number three receiver to a life of crime and thuggery.

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4/03/2008
A Question


Just How big and tough an Hombre do you have to be to be a sheriff with the nickname "Fuzzy?"

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4/02/2008
3 Laws Safe
Even Robot Laws Have Problems
Anyone who has cable has seen the movie I Robot and some of us have actually read Asimov's stories. A recurring theme was the three laws of robotics, meant to keep sentient robots from turning on us humans. In other words, in the future Asimov foresaw people were smart enough to predict the SkyNet problem and take steps to prevent it. People continue to laud Asimov for these 3 laws:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
The problem is that the first law doesn't work. Basically, carried to its logical conclusion, it allows and commands robots to do what they tried to do in the movie: herd us all into safe areas and not allow any harm to come to us (we'd basically become pets).

So, what's the solution? Anyone?

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