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Focuses on the lighter side of the law by highlighting all things humorous about the legal profession, ranging from odd cases and strange court filings to weird laws.
By John Mesirow

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Last Entry: May 25, 2010 at 02:01:20

How About This Defense?

Posted on May 18, 2008
Dude (Horace Bordelon) robs a bank in California, the same one he robbed 7 years earlier. His defense? As reported in The San Francisco Chronicle: He robbed the bank only so he could return to the routine of prison life, so he didn't actually intend to steal any money...

Not Your Average Fetish

Posted on May 17, 2008
So here's what David Aston, married (but not for long) father of two, likes to do in his spare time, as reported by the Oxford Mail: Oxford Crown Court heard Aston twice stripped naked from the waist downwards, crouched on all fours on a towel in woodland near Bicester and encouraged four girls to kick him in the groin until he could no longer handle the pain...

If Guinness Book Had A Category For Peeping Toms ...

Posted on May 16, 2008
There is no doubt that a recently arrested 46-year-old Canadian man would be in the book. (His name has not been released.) As reported at canada.com, he was arrested after "an apparent bungled break and enter." His real purpose was soon revealed...

Sex And Knife Play?

Posted on May 15, 2008
No, I wouldn't normally think of them together either. Catherine McCoubrey and her boyfriend did, though. As reported in the Winnipeg Free Press: ... the couple had been drinking alcohol and were engaged in so-called ?rough sex? when the boyfriend asked McCoubrey to carve a heart-shaped symbol on to his chest...

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Wo. You Don't Want To Catch This Judge On A Bad Day

Posted on May 14, 2008
It would appear that Maryland District Court Judge Bruce S. Lamdin had a lot of bad days. The excerpts below are from the opinion released yesterday by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. As stated in the opinion, "... Judge Lamdin expressly admitted that he made each of the comments attributed to him and that those comments violated specific Canons of the Maryland Code of Judicial Conduct...

Not The Best Landlords

Posted on May 13, 2008
Certainly it's natural to want to maximize one's real estate investment. But we are still, for the most part, a nation of laws. San Francisco landlords Kip and Nicole Macy apparently didn't care much about the law. They were trying to clear out a 6-unit building they bought in San Francisco...

Dude Stole From The Wrong Folks

Posted on May 12, 2008
I don't think Michael Spillman, Jr., of Mansfield, Ohio, will be stealing anything anytime soon. He was at the home of Jacqueline Chapman and Bernard Demuth when they left for a funeral. When they came home, Spillman was gone, and so was $2,200 in gaming equipment...

What Is The Punishment For Firing A Gun In The Air?

Posted on May 11, 2008
Daniel Ranallo can tell you, because he did it in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, and got busted. As described by Judge Pursel, per The Morning Call: This is a bizarre case where the defendant was wandering around with a gun looking for someone and firing the gun in a public place...

So Much For Customer Service!

Posted on May 10, 2008
In a Fairfax County, Virginia Food Lion, a customer and a Food Lion manager got into an argument over the use of certain coupons. It goes without saying that coupon use is a very contentious issue. So perhaps it's not surprising that the manager then knocked over the customer's grocery cart...

Okay, So Maybe Working In A Nursing Home Isn't The Best Job, But ...

Posted on May 09, 2008
Warning: Brushing your teeth will not be the same for a little while after you read this. As reported in the Evening Telegraph, nursing home worker Nina Strange ...dip[ped] a toothbrush into bath water, in which a patient had just defecated, before using it to brush the 75-year-old woman's teeth...

65-Year-Old Living With Mom Wigs Out

Posted on May 08, 2008
So maybe it's only a little strange that 65-year-old Tad Gunter is living with his 85-year-old mother, Margery Gunter. Actually, it's really nice if he's taking care of her. What do you think, nice or strange? Margery Gunter told deputies that her son, Tad Gunter, has been acting weird for the past month, according to an arrest report...

More Weird And Wacky British Laws

Posted on May 07, 2008
In addition to a few previously noted wacky British laws, as reported in The Daily Mirror, here are a few more that are still on the books: A law enacted by George I states that: "The severest penaltys will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to have carnal knowledge of a pet of the Royal house...

Tennessee Republican Leader With Some Serious Gender Issues

Posted on May 06, 2008
Perhaps that's the reason Tennessee House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower did what he did. As reported in the Nashville Scene: Tennessee is the only state in nation with a law preventing sex-change recipients from retroactively revising the sex designation on their birth certificates to correspond with their new gender identity...

Kid Gets Suspended For This?

Posted on May 05, 2008
Yes, Christian Haughwout, a 14-year-old student at The Morgan School in Clinton, Connecticut, was suspended for 10 days for ... bringing a camera to school that emits a mild shock! The official reason for the suspension? "Possession of a dangerous instrument and causing a threat or danger to the physical well-being of himself or other people...

Male Lawyer Call Female Lawyer What?

Posted on May 04, 2008
This is not your garden variety "babe-calling" case. Ms. Aude sued Mr. Mullaney for negligently giving her herpes. (The jury found that he did, but that she was "contributorily negligent.") Mr. Mullaney was represented by Allen Harris (and Benjamin Lipsitz)...

So Much For "Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold"

Posted on May 03, 2008
Actually, "hot" and "warm" revenge didn't work out too well either for David Alan Hawkins, who had the misfortune of trying to develop a condominium project when the Savings and Loan crisis hit in the 1980s. He lost his financing, and the project, with the collapse of Queen City Savings and Loan...

Man Climbs On Roof Of Moving Vehicle?

Posted on May 02, 2008
Okay, maybe that sounds just a little insane. But consider this - he was driving! As reported in the Reading Eagle, Messerly was driving his employer?s minivan on the bypass in West Reading about 3 p.m. April 4 when he climbed out of the driver-side window, stood on the roof and was catapulted into the woods when the van crashed into a guide rail, borough police said...

Lesbians Sue lesbians?

Posted on May 01, 2008
So no matter what happens, the lesbians win! Actually, that's not true. The Lesbians might win. What the hell am I talking about? Three Greek women who live on the island of Lesbos filed suit against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, per the AP, claiming that its name "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos...

Cops Summon A Three-Year-Old?

Posted on April 30, 2008
They did. They summoned him to court (on charges of creating a law and order problem!), and 3-year-old Mukesh Prasad came with his daddy. The Magistrate was pissed. The summons was immediately dismissed. How did this happen? Seems a couple of police officers in Sultanpur, India were looking for Mukesh's 19-year-old brother, Sunil...

This Is How You Examine Someone For An Ear Infection?

Posted on April 29, 2008
You would not believe the frequency with which doctors sexually abuse their patients. In doing research for these posts, I come across cases similar to this at least several times each week. According to a woman examined by Arkansas Dr. Clarence Jay Arendall, here's what happened, as reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: [The woman] said in the lawsuit filed March 12 that she visited Arendall for an ear infection in the past five years but that during the examination, he lowered her pants, touched her genitals, fondled her breasts and made sexual comments to her...

Traffic Court Judge, Who Knows A Thing Or Two About Traffic Tickets, In The Soup Again.

Posted on April 28, 2008
Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Willie F. Singletary knows a thing or two, OR 55, about traffic tickets. That's because, a year ago, his driver's licenses was suspended through 2011 due to 55 traffic violations totalling $11,427, as reported by the Philadelphia Daily News...

Lawyer Said What To The Judge?

Posted on April 27, 2008
Here's what William P. Smith, Esq. said to the Judge in a Florida Bankruptcy proceeding: Mr. Smith: I suggest to you with respect, Your Honor, that you're a few French fries short of a Happy Meal in terms of what's likely to take place. Billy, Billy, Billy...

A One Month Suspension For What?

Posted on April 26, 2008
Remember the post the other day about the doctor who got a one week suspension for having a sexual relationship with a patient? Well, Dr. Mark Blaylock got a one month suspension for ... putting a picture of a government official in the trash! For real...

Was This Psychiatrist Treated Fairly?

Posted on April 25, 2008
You are psychologist Andrew Jacobs, and you need a psychiatrist to treat your wife for depression. Not surprisingly, you refer her to the same Harvard-trained psychiatrist you've been referring people to for 10 years. Surprisingly, this man, Kansas Dr...

Felons Can't Vote In Idaho But ...

Posted on April 24, 2008
They can run for president. Of the United States. No shit. All you have to do is pay a $1,000 fee and you're on the ballot. That's just what Keith Russell Judd, a felon who is locked up in federal prison until 2013, did. You can read more (just a little bit) in this Idaho Mountain Express article.

Perhaps The Flight Crew Should Have Cut Her Off?

Posted on April 23, 2008
So this woman is on a Delta flight that lands at Logan International Airport in Boston. As she would make sure everyone knows, she is FAMOUS! As reported in The Boston Globe: The general manager of WHDH Channel 7 was arrested after an allegedly drunken, obscenity-laced tirade at Logan International Airport in which she threatened to call a news crew and put a state trooper "on TV and ruin [his] life," according to a police report...

Um. What Address Did You Say This Was?

Posted on April 22, 2008
This is a strange one. See if you make the same call the jury did. Here's the scene, as described in The Oregonian: The petite 24-year-old Beaverton woman got out of the shower wrapped in a towel, stopped to watch a couple minutes of TV and then sat down on her bed...

Dude! This Is How You Come To Court?

Posted on April 21, 2008
Malcolm Williams came to the Houston County Courthouse to pay some fines and to report to his probation officer. When he emptied his pockets before going through the metal detector, as reported in the Dothan Eagle: ...out spilled two baggies of marijuana along with a wad of cash and a cell phone...

Strip Search?

Posted on April 20, 2008
If you missed it, check out yesterday's entry regarding some strange "justice" in Eutawville, South Carolina. Here's some more of that there strange justice. This is the side of the story of three fellas who were pulled over by the Eutawville police: They had finished a day of fishing, and were driving through Eutawville, with a boat in tow...

Here A Bra, There A Bra, Everywhere A ...

Posted on April 19, 2008
How the hell was this done? Somebody just waltzed into Victoria's Secret in Flagstaff, Arizona and stole 350 bras! Mind you, the store was open. And for some reason, the anti-theft tags did not trigger the alarm. The haul has a retail value of about $15,000...

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