Legal Commentary

Wanted: ?Decoy Jews?

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Dutch city is now famous not just for its cheese, but its “decoy Jews” In an effort to combat attacks on Jewish citizens, the police are disguising officers as Jews to capture anti-Semitic hooligans. The Jewish broadcasting company, Joodse Omroep, recently showed young Muslims shouting and making Nazi salutes at a rabbi...

High Beemer: Drunken Dallas Officer Shown on Video Firing Weapon in Police Car

Posted on June 21, 2010
Off-duty Dallas officer Beemer, 27, is facing a misdemeanor charge of discharging a weapon after she fired a revolver in a squad car after being picked up drunk by colleagues. The incident occurred around 11 p.m when friends tried to persuade her not to drive home drunk...

West Virginia Officer Fired For Not Removing Marine Corps Tattoo

Posted on June 21, 2010
The firing of Christopher Piggott, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and former Parkersburg firefighter, has caused a free speech and due process controversy in West Virginia. Piggot was fired because he would not have a Marine Corps tattoo removed from his forearm...

How Not to Start Your Grill

Posted on June 21, 2010
As part of our public service duty here at the Turley blog, I give you examples of how not to start your grill this summer in thirty seconds or less. Then there is the use of liquid oxygen in twenty second: Then there is the two-second option (which lights both the grill and surrounding area):

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Do You Recognize These People?

Posted on June 21, 2010
The Los Angeles Police Department has taken the unusual step of releasing this video to ask citizens to identify some of the individuals who went on a rampage after the recent victory of the Lakers over the Celtics. It took only 30 minutes for the rampage to begin – demonstrating that some people were simply [...

Police Officer Reportedly Blocks Couple From Entering Emergency Room And Later Charges Husband With Evading Arrest for Staying With Ailing Wife

Posted on June 21, 2010
Aline Wright probably thought that she had enough tough breaks in her life when her husband rushed her to the emergency room in Chattanooga. Aline is a cancer survivor, amputee, she was showing signs of a stroke and her new husband Jesse Wright ( a nurse technician) ran her to the emergency room...

Zuckerberg Faces Possible Death Sentence For Hosting ?Draw Muhammad Day? On Facebook

Posted on June 20, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is facing a possible death sentence in Pakistan for hosting the “Draw Muhammad” day contest. Pakistani police have opened an investigation under a section of the penal code that carries the death sentence for blasphemy against the ?prophet? Mohammed...

Samba Baby

Posted on June 20, 2010
How does it feel to know that little Luiz Otavio is less than two years old and can dance you under a table? This video has gone viral with the world’s most naturally talented dancer.

Happy Father?s Day

Posted on June 20, 2010
Happy Father’s Day to all on the Turley Blog (and even those on other blogs). I was awakened this morning with breakfast in bed by the four kids with grits, fried eggs, applewood bacon, and toast. We are going for a long hike in the mountains. Here is a charming video that I saw recently...

Just Hanging Around

Posted on June 20, 2010
One has to be careful when reaching for your hat in a dark closet. Why do I think there is a dog in this house?

Praying Mathis: Detroit School Board President Asks to Retract Resignation After Scandal

Posted on June 20, 2010
We have been following the continuing scandals and criminal indictments of Detroit leaders. Now, we can add Detroit School Board President, Otis Mathis. Mathis is accused of fondling himself during meetings with Superintendent Theresa Gueyser. He apologized for his conduct, promised to seek help, and then resigned...

Canadian Prosecutors Consider Criminal Charges Against Four Officers in Taser Death

Posted on June 19, 2010
A special Canadian prosecutor will consider criminal charges against four officers after an investigation found that they were not justified in tasering a Polish immigrant who later died. Robert Dziekanski was tasered five times at Vancouver airport in 2007...

Iranian Clerics Call For Increased Crackdown on ?Badly Veiled Women?

Posted on June 19, 2010
Iranian clerics are campaigning for a continued crackdown on “badly veiled women” who are being compared to drug traffickers. Ironically, conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being described as something of a libertine for suggesting that the government may try to emphasize a “cultural campaign” over the recent public measures taken against women who have been [...

From China With Love: Prosecutors Crackdown on Condom Counterfeiters

Posted on June 19, 2010
We have seen dangerous Chinese products reach the United States ranging from children toys to drywall to baby food. Now, officials are warning that millions of fake Trojan condoms have made it to U.S. markets — raising the risk of exposure to disease or unwanted pregnancies...

Bloggie Doggie: Meet Mouse, Our Pet of the Week

Posted on June 19, 2010
This is Mouse, our pet of the week — nominated by Cathy M. With a ball fetish and a libertarian streak, she reigns supreme today above all animals great and small. Congratulations to Mouse and Cathy M. If you are interested in nominating a pet (any species allowed), you can find the questions here...

Crisp Justice: Man Jailed For Blowing Bubble in Court

Posted on June 18, 2010
Mirza Zukanovic, 20, was sent to jail in Australia this week for blowing a bubble in court. Magistrate judge Rodney Crisp wants 30 days in jail for Zukanovic to break him of his bubble habit. Zukanovic was appeared on an assault charge when he popped a bubble in front of the judge...

BP Chief Hayward Apologizes to House While Rep. Barton Apologizes for Apologizing to Hayward

Posted on June 18, 2010
Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, appeared in the House of Representatives to apologize again for the destruction caused by his company. In the meantime, Rep. Joe Barton , R-Arlington, apologized for apologizing earlier Hayward. Barton earlier apologized to BP for the “shakedown” of the oil company by the Obama Administration, which has demanded [...

Phobia Realized: Woman Seeking to Overcome Fear of Primates Is Attacked on ?Monkey Island?

Posted on June 18, 2010
Dee Darwell, 56, had a lifelong fear of primates due to the British woman being raised in a house with her father’s chimpanzee pet — which she described as “positively evil.” Darwell finally decided to overcome her phobia by going to Thailand to visit “Monkey Island” — where she was promptly attacked by monkeys and [...

GOP Candidate Alleges Conspiracy Between Government and BP in Causing Spill

Posted on June 18, 2010
Previously, we saw Rush Limbaugh suggest the Gulf spill was caused by sabotage by environmentalists to stop drilling offshore (and to avoid major oil spills in the future). Then, Sarah Palin joined in to argue that indeed the oil spill was the fault of environmentalists and their laws protecting the oceans...

Zero Tolerance, Zero Intelligence: School Bans Eight-Year-Old?s Patriotic Hat Due to Use of Tiny Soldiers

Posted on June 18, 2010
David Morales, 8, thought that he had put together a cool hat to honor American troops when his class was asked to make special hats for a meeting with another second-grade class from another school. Officials at Tiogue School in Coventry, Rhode Island, however, quickly banned the hat...

Ashkenazi and Sephardi Unite Over Separation: Israeli Supreme Court Under Fire For School Ruling

Posted on June 17, 2010
The Israeli Supreme Court has become embroiled in another religious controversy. Last week, the Court struck down subsidies for religious students. Now, tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews are protesting in various cities after the Court ordered the jailing of some Ashkenazi parents of European descent who refused to send their daughters to a school [...

Indian Family Tortures and Kills Couple After Daughter Marries Lower Caste Man

Posted on June 17, 2010
We have another shocking honor killing. The murder of a couple identified as Asha and Yogesh occurred outside Delhi when the family of Devi took revenge for her marrying a man from a lower caste. Even after his arrest, her uncle Omprakash Saini, proclaimed “I’m not sorry...

Not Recommended By 9 Out of 10 Dentists: Boy Pulls Tooth With Rocket

Posted on June 17, 2010
This boy was not satisfied with the door knob approach to tooth pulling and decided to modernize the concept with a rocket. This is a procedure out of the Wernher von Braun school of dentistry. Below is the another such procedure using a larger rocket for a molar...

One Husband Too Many: Colorado Woman Charged With Marrying Soldier While Husband Deployed in Iraq

Posted on June 17, 2010
Authorities in Colorado Springs, Colorado have brought a relatively rare bigamy case against Tammy Ann Wilson-Patton, 29. She is the wife of Eugene Alton Patton Jr., who returned from a thirteen-month deployment in Iraq to find his wife married to another soldier at Fort Carson...

Police Officer Responds to False Burglary Call ? Releases Dog on 10-Year-Old Boy

Posted on June 17, 2010
There is a disturbing account in Gainesville, Florida where an officer released a police dog on a ten-year-old boy who was subsequently bitten. It turns out that a burglary call was made by a woman with mental issues and that the boy was merely riding his bike in the area...

Southwest Airlines Employee Finds Package With Roughly 60 Human Heads

Posted on June 17, 2010
A Southwest Airlines employee reported a rather novel and alarming package on a flight to Fort Worth — a box filled with as many as 60 human heads. The box was going to a Fort Worth medical research company and was not properly packaged. It was seized out of concern that it might be destined [...

Israeli Supreme Court Strikes Down Subsidy for Yeshiva Students

Posted on June 16, 2010
The Israeli Supreme Court handed down an important ruling this week — striking down benefits for older yeshiva students. Married yeshiva students are given support payments that supply them with a state subsidized income. In 2000, these grants were abolished for secular high education but retained for religious students...

New York Couple Arrested in Fake Kidnapping

Posted on June 16, 2010
In New York, Stephanie Benatatos, 21, and Zifiris (John) Valsamis, 24, have been arrested in an effort to fake their own kidnapping to get money from Benatatos parents. What is striking is the ransom amount: $400. A caller told the parents that the couple was kidnapped to settle a drug debt by two armed men [...

Video: Police Officer Punches Woman in Face After Stop Over Jaywalking

Posted on June 16, 2010
Seattle recently addressed a controversy of police stomping on a man. Tensions have reignited in Seattle after the posting of this video showing a police officer punching a 17-year-old woman in the face after stopping people for jaywalking. Two very different views of the video have emerged...

Inclement Weather or Divine Critique: Lightning Destroys Massive Jesus Statue in Ohio

Posted on June 16, 2010
In Monroe, Ohio, the evangelical Solid Rock Church just north of Cincinnati had something of an unexpected divine intervention. The church had erected a “King of Kings” statue that towered over the surrounding area — 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base...

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