Above-ground grave in New Orleans.

Finally.

Let’s hope this awful woman never again gets within spitting distance of public office. I’ll bet a kidney that she tries.

By the way, Bernard Rottschaefer is still in prison.

….so any attorneys want to explain to me what happened in this video? Is this as blatant, outrageous (and, I’d hope, illegal) as it looks? I mean, it is Maricopa County. But damn.

Summary for the attention deprived: As the defense attorney is talking to the judge, a detention officer walks up behind her, sifts through her files while she isn’t looking, then actually removes a document from her file and hands it off to another deputy.

(Thanks to commenter “Salvo” for the link.)

MORE: I have a post up about this at Hit & Run.

Alaska.

My crime column this week looks at the life and death of Pennsylvania crime reporter Pete Shellem, whose reporting helped free four innocent people from prison. He died last week at age 49.

For ten years, Boulder residents have staged a spontaneous “naked pumpkin run” on Halloween, in which dozens of runners (150 last year) don only shoes and a pumpkin on their head, then jog a four-block route through the city.

This year, however, Boulder police put an end to the revelry, stationing 40 cops and two SWAT teams along the route, which police chief Mark Beckner promising that anyone showing their, er, treats would land on the state’s sex offender list.

Looks like it worked. Just a few people did the run this year, and with sufficient clothing to ward off an arrest.

(Thanks to Sean McMahon for the tip.)

Indiana.