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'If You're an Octogenarian Defendant Whose Arthritis Is Acting Up, Press 8'

By Eric Lipman

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We can only hope that "COPS: Naughty Grannies 4" was filming when 86-year-old Jeanne Marie Owens-Libby was arrested at her home in Ft. Myers, Fla., for failure to appear on a traffic warrant after leaving the scene of an accident. Grandma Jeanne apparently wasn't feeling well, and got tangled in recorded messages and automated systems when she tried to call the courthouse to say she couldn't make her court date. Who could blame her for getting fed up and just saying, "F*@k it, I'm 86, I don't have time for this crap?" While nobody loves old lady mugshots more than me, the real kicker here is the use of this story by the Florida DUI Traffic Ticket Lawyer Blog, maintained by Ft. Myers firm Finebloom & Haenel. Click on some of those links in the blog posting. Fantastic use of the Web by lawyers. My favorite: the link to fightyourftmyersarrest.com. That pop-up lawyer will haunt my dreams, man. Exploring the firm's Web site further is, well, fun. David Haenel (his name is David, and he's here to help you) seems to have recorded a three-minute video discussing just about every vehicle-related offense, giving a fair bit of information on the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).