Legal Commentary

The Hole in the Defense: Lawyer Files Motion to Demand Opposing Counsel Wear Shoes Without Holes

Posted on July 10, 2009
Attorney Bill Bone believes that he has spotted the hole or holes in the defense of his opponent, Michael Robb. Bone has filed a motion with Circuit Judge Donald Hafele in Palm Beach demanding that Robb be ordered to wear shoes without holes in court...

Muslim Court Calls for Appearance of Genie In Court

Posted on July 10, 2009
A Shariah court in the town of Mahd Al-Dahab has summoned a genie to appear in court in a case where a family has complained about harassment from the supernatural being. The Koran (Qu’ran) mentions genies or jinn. The family says that the genie is not just mean but tech-savvy...

Family Affair: Sen. Ensign?s Parents Wrote $96,000 Check to Lover

Posted on July 10, 2009
Sen. John Ensign’s affair is moving from the politically damaging to the downright pathetic. Ensign’s lawyer has released a statement confirming that the $96,000 given to former aide and close family friend Cindy Hampton came from his parents...

Reports Shows Additional Undisclosed Surveillance Programs ? And Likely Unlawful Conduct by Bush Administration

Posted on July 10, 2009
A new government report has disclosed that President Bush authorized secret surveillance activities that went beyond the previously disclosed NSA program – raising the prospect of additional unlawful conduct by the Bush Administration. At the same time, a House member has revealed that CIA Director Leon Panetta has shutdown a program that was never [...

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Chico?s Is Not For Gay Chicos: Two Men Allegedly Threatened With Arrest for Kissing in Texas

Posted on July 10, 2009
Gay Rights activists are protesting the handling of a dispute at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant in El Paso, Texas. When two gay men kissed, the group of five gay men were reportedly told by guards to leave because the restaurant did not approve of “the faggot stuff...

Rupert Murdoch?s Company Accused of Wiretapping Public Figures

Posted on July 09, 2009
The British police are investigation one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiaries over allegation of wiretapping of public figures. The Guardian has reported that Murdoch’s company paid $1.6 million to settle court cases involving hacking into cellphones...

Corpus Delicti: Historic Illinois Cemetary Accused of Digging Up and Reselling Graves While Oklahoma Couple Accused of Traveling With Corpse

Posted on July 09, 2009
Officials and workers at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois have been accused of digging up and dumping bodies in older plots in order to resell plots in a criminal scheme. In the meantime, an Oklahoma couple Abel Wolf, 35, and Denise Wolf, 40, (shown here) has been accused to digging up the [...

The Proper Way to Peel a Banana

Posted on July 09, 2009
I saw this video today and was struck by the fact that I have been peeling bananas the wrong day for decades. I had to share it for all Turley bloggers to save time on future human v. banana incidents. I have personally tried this technique and had extremely satisfying results in my [...

Yemenese Justice on Display

Posted on July 09, 2009
Yemen displayed its version of justice with the execution of confessed child rapist Yahia al-Raghwa, 22, in a public event. Due to the graphic nature of the pictures, I have supplied a link below for those who want to see them. al-Raghwa was a barber who admitted to the raping of a boy when [...

House Members: CIA Repeatedly Misled Congress

Posted on July 09, 2009
Despite the outrage expressed by certain members and former Bush officials over allegations that the CIA may have lied about prior briefings with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, members revealed this week that the CIA has admitted to members that it did indeed repeatedly mislead members in reports since 2001...

Rendering Unto To Caesar: Man Sought After Running Out on Payment for a ?Only God Can Judge Me? Tattoo

Posted on July 09, 2009
Police in Denton, Texas are searching for a man with a usual piece of identifying information: a tattoo reading “Only God Can Judge Me.” It was indeed the tattoo that is the cause for the arrest warrant: the man took the meaning to heart and ran from the parlor without paying for the tattoo...

Louisiana Judge Suspended After Calling Domestic Abuse Claim ?Crap?

Posted on July 09, 2009
Whatever judicial temperament may be, Louisiana Judge Timothy Ellender seems to have little of it. Judge Ellender was suspended for violating the code of judicial conduct in statements that he made at a 2007 domestic abuse hearing. It is not the first brush of Ellender with controversy...

Tennessee Minister Arrested for Child Molestation at Sunday School

Posted on July 09, 2009
We have yet another minister arrested for molestation. Randall Thomas Hollifield, 45, is accused of raping a child. He is a volunteer youth minister at the New Beverly Baptist Church in Knoxville. When police searched his home, they found over 3,000 images of child pornography on his computer...

Obama Administration Reserves Right to Indefinitely Hold Detainees Acquitted of Charges

Posted on July 08, 2009
The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention and blocking the investigation of war crimes. Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department’s chief lawyer, has stated that it is a “policy question” whether acquitted individuals will be released or held indefinitely...

Are Men Obsolete?

Posted on July 08, 2009
Men are now down to programming VCRs and DVDs as our only claim on indispensability. Scientists have reportedly created sperm –threatening men with obsolescence. Scientists used stem cells to create the sperm — a possible solution to male infertility...

Court Denies Ward Churchill Reinstatement on Colorado Faculty

Posted on July 08, 2009
Judge Larry J. Naves has denied former University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill reinstatement despite a ruling from a jury that his termination for plagiarism was politically motivated. The jury awarded Churchill $1 in damages. The University was under intense public pressure to fire Churchill after he analogized victims of the Sept...

Spare the Taser, Spoil the Child: Police Chief Tasers 14-Year-old Girl in Head After She Ran From Her Mother ? And Demands Charges Against the Girl

Posted on July 08, 2009
Tucumcari Police Chief Roger Hatcher in New Mexico shoot a 14-year-old girl in the head with a Taser dart after she ran from her mother and police. Hatcher insists that it was the right thing to do since (I kid you not) he was afraid she might be injured if she ran into traffic...

English Woman Given One-Year in Prison for False Rape Charge

Posted on July 08, 2009
Gary Wood, 31, says that he was looking for the love of his life on the Internet when he met Natalie Jefferson, 27. He says that he was shocked when she proceeded to accuse him of rape. While Wood faced 10 years in prison, it will be Jefferson who will go to jail [...

Israel Blocks Team of Humanitarian Doctors From Entering Gaza to Treat Patients

Posted on July 08, 2009
Israel has blocked another humanitarian team from reaching Gaza. This time, however, the team of doctors were organized by the French government to give medical aid and surgical help to the residents. The team included reconstructive plastic surgeons who are needed to help residents injured in the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza...

Creationism Goes Nuclear: Arizona State Senator Proclaims That Earth is 6000 Years Old

Posted on July 07, 2009
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen sits on the state’s Education Accountability and Reform Committee as well as the Natural Resources Committee. So, it was a bit scary to hear Allen display her knowledge of science and geology recently during her call for uranium mining...

Police Officer and Two Other Adults Criminally Charged After Holding Teen for 12-Hour Exorcism

Posted on July 07, 2009
A South Australian police officer Senior Constable Roger Sketchley, 28, and two other adults have been charged with holding a teenager for 12-hours in an exorcism ritual after he complained of stomach pains. The officer is part of a Lutheran Church in Australia...

Invasion! Montgomery County Police Cross State Line and Conduct Raid in Washington D.C.

Posted on July 07, 2009
The Montgomery County police conducted a raid on a home roughly a quarter of a mile in the territory of Washington, D.C. It appears that the Montgomery County police rented themselves and their vehicles to a television production company for a show called “Prison Wives” and proceeded to conduct the raid without notifying the [...

No Angel: Woman Arrested for Harassing Grandmother With 45 Prank Calls A Day

Posted on July 07, 2009
Angel Marie Rawls, 21, is not what you would call an ideal granddaughter. She has been arrested with a friend for calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times a day with death threats. Rawls would tell her grandmother that “you’re going to die” and “I’m watching you” to terrify the elderly lady...

Palinotology: Sarah Palin States That, If President, She Would Be Protected By The ?Department of Law?

Posted on July 07, 2009
There is a reason why many of us never tire of watching Sarah Palin. It may be the same sensation draws people to car races to see the crashes or watch the Weather Channel for the tornado footage, but there is something enthralling the study of Palin, or Palinotology as I prefer to call it...

Caging the Catwoman: Woman Charged Criminally for Feeding Stray Cats

Posted on July 07, 2009
Katherine Varjian, 65, was been captured! The feline felon has long been in the sights of the Beverly Hills cops as a recidivist feeder of stray cats. Her twelve-year reign of terror was brought to an end with misdemeanor charges for feeding as many as 30- cats a day in her back alley...

United Breaks Guitars

Posted on July 07, 2009
In light of our recent cathartic blog on airlines, this video is not to be missed. Dave Carroll was traveling to Nebraska when he witnessed United employees throwing guitars out of the cargo hold — something we have all witnessed from time to time with our own luggage...

High-Ranking Iranian Official Accuses Mousavi With Treason and Being ?Foreign Agent?

Posted on July 06, 2009
The Iranian government appears to be laying the groundwork to arrest Mir Hossein Mousavi, who this week released proof of extensive fraud and government interference with the June 12th elections. Hossein Shariatmadari, a special adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused Mousavi of being a “foreign agent” working for the United States and a member [...

Marion Barry Charged With Stalking

Posted on July 06, 2009
D.C. City Council Member and former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, 73, is continuing to rake up new criminal charges. This week’s crime du jour is stalking. Barry is charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend and political consultant Donna Watts-Brighthaupt after she flagged down an officer and complained about Barry...

Georgia Police Waffle on Charging Officers: Officers Involved in Tasering Waiter for Fun Resign From Force

Posted on July 06, 2009
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Gary Miles was fired and Sgts. Chris Parry and Joey Parkerson have not been charged with tasering a Waffle House waiter for fun, but instead will be allowed to resign from their position as police officers. An investigation showed that the officials used the weapon as a joke on Daniel Wilson, 22...

Palin Threatens Washington Post, Ny Times, MSNBC, and Other Publications With Defamation Lawsuit

Posted on July 06, 2009
Sarah Palin may have been unclear as to why she decided to quit early as governor, but her lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, is insisting that it is not because of an investigation of wrongdoing involving her house on Lake Lucille or the Wasilla Sports complex...

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