It’s not just a haircut.
Oklahoma prison officials put man in same cell as the man he testified against. You can probably guess what happened next.
Houston DA will require prosecutors to conduct DNA testing in every case where it’s applicable. Good for her.
Australian man rung up on child porn charges for downloading cartoon depictions of Simpson’s characters having sex.
Ten months have passed, and the Connecticut State Police still haven’t released their report on the death of Gonzalo Guizan, the unarmed 33-year-old shot and killed during a drug raid on the home he was visiting. The raid, incidentally, was conducted after a tip that the home’s owner was using drugs, not selling them.
Speculating on how Obama will fill out the U.S. attorney positions. Mary Beth Buchanan is still insisting she stay on. Obama needs to fire her. She’s not only a partisan hack, she’s a dishonest prosecutor.
The Chicago Tribune picks up the story of Tenaha, Texas, the town that’s made a habit of padding its treasury with assets seized from black motorists unlucky enough to have gotten pulled over while passing through.
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell moving ahead with plan to legalize sports gambling in the state.
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Link #2: When you name your kid “Jesse James Dalton” aren’t you pretty much steering them towards a life of crime?
When it comes to child porn laws, western (culturally) legislatures, courts, and law enforcement are highly limited in what they can do. They can only do what they can get away with. And you know how skeptical the public is about child porn laws…
Haha! Just checkin’ to see if yer payin’ attention.
We finally got a cop shooting in my area. No home invasion tho so we wont get a marker on the cato map (yet). The local dtf set up a buy in a fast food parking lot and the next thing you know, shots fired. Both suspects are in jail but no mention of any weapons charges. Its looking like they were unarmed. Everyone is real quiet about it.
http://sctimes.com/article/20090315/NEWS01/103150028/1009
I feel really bad for what is likely an old, non-internet using Cuban barber. He’s getting mugged by the internet and he won’t ever have any clue why either business drops off, or the wrong sort of business starts showing up.
So, if I draw two obviously cartoon characters (maybe even anthropomorphic house plants), draw them so that they appear to be “adult” (such has being tall, fully grown, with gray hair even), but then label them as being 12 or 9 years old, is that child pornography in Austrailia’s eyes?
What kid of dim bulb puts a man in the same prison as someone he testified against, least of all the same cell?
#6
Mistake number one is assuming this was any kind of accident.
The Chron link won’t display on either firefox or opera. Firefox claims it is using an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Any other links?
“no agency employees were put on suspension in connection with Duran’s death.”
That’s pretty much all you need to know. At best, this was institutional incompetence, at worst…conspiracy?
#7
That is one way to get rid of the out of control prison costs! Heads should roll! But, they won’t!
Teneha, Texas Town Motto: You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
The guards murdered Duran pure and simple. Like when they put a troublesome inmate or someone they don’t like in with an inmate who rapes other prisoners. Its just a normal form of torture that happens all the time in American prisons.
From the cartoons = child porn story.
“That ruling extended the legal definition of “person” to include cartoon characters.”
Does this mean that the creators of South Park can be charged with murdering Kenny if they go down under?
If a cop bust’s into your house can he shoot Marmaduke in your Sunday funnies section now?
If Lisa Simpson gets pregnant will Homer, & Marge be charged with neglect?
I used to think of Australia as a half way intellectual country.
It’s hard to see how there isn’t a criminal charge there of at least manslaughter, unless Oklahoma has a really stringent version of it. It’s got to be at least Negligent Homicide. IANAL though.
Cops are pigs, and prison guards are worse than cops. It was murder plain and simple.
Buchanan’s record of achievement:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/122263.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07079/770820-109.stm
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130413.html?success=1#lastpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Buchanan
http://www.wpxi.com/news/13366676/detail.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06326/740403-85.stm
http://kdka.com/topstories/Brian.Wells.collar.2.389997.html
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1112812884&channel=570698209
http://doctordeluca.com/Library/WOD/CriminalCriminalJustice08.pdf
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/opinion/24tierney.html?_r=1
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28537
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/09/12/location-privacy-gets-a-boost-in-pennsylvania-ruling/#comments
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/11/01/debating-the-thompson-memorandum/#comments
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/02/01/obscenity-prosecution-do-you-know-it-when-you-read-it/#comments
“I feel really bad for what is likely an old, non-internet using Cuban barber. He’s getting mugged by the internet and he won’t ever have any clue why either business drops off, or the wrong sort of business starts showing up.”
Is there any reason to believe this is a hoax or smear campaign? If so, I agree with you. If not, and we assume these posts are reporting pretty much what happened, then he has no one to blame but himself.
@#13:
Hoo-boy, with cartoon characters defined as “persons,” how long will it be before the guy in Japan who wants to marry an anime character brings this up to support his position?
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