Legal Commentary

Murder or Mayhem: The Life and Death of Skeeter

Posted on November 23, 2010
Police in Lakeland, Florida have a classic whodunit on their hands after finding the corpse of a local named Skeeter under a motor home. Polly Boykin, 52, was arrested for the death of the cat but has claimed “self defense” in shooting Skeeter...

Woman Leaves Former Husband for Another Man Ten Years Ago and Then Returns to Sue Him For Millions in Lottery Wins ? And Succeeds

Posted on November 23, 2010
Nigel Page, 44, can tell you about the meaning of adding insult to injury. Ten years ago, Wendy Page, 43, left Nigel for another man. She would have nothing to do with him until he suddenly changed in her eyes: after she saw him on television winning the £56million Euromillions jackpot lottery...

Doing an Ed Rooney: New York Principal Charged With Trespass in Showing Up At Home of Two Boys Who Failed To Appear At School

Posted on November 22, 2010
There is an interesting case out of Chester, New York where Chester Academy Principal Ernest Jackson has been charged with criminal trespass after he followed the lead of the character of Ed Rooney in the movie ?Ferris Bueller?s Day Off? and went to the house of two kids who did not show up at school...

New York Hospital Sued After Amputating Woman?s Legs During Routine Surgery

Posted on November 22, 2010
Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York is being sued in a horrific case of alleged medical malpractice after Stacy Galette went in for a simple gynecological procedure and came out a double amputee. The Brooklyn mother is suing for medical malpractice for the loss of her legs one year ago...

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Bee Keeper Allegedly Shoots Himself After Setting Up Snare Gun For Honey-Loving Bear

Posted on November 22, 2010
John Frost allegedly bagged himself in setting up a snare gun to shoot a bear in Loveland, Colorado. The bear had recently knocked over Frost’s beehive and stolen some of his honey. Police believe Frost set up a shotgun with a tripwire and then tripped the wire...

Biden: The Kiddies in Kandahar Are Getting Soooo Big

Posted on November 22, 2010
The Afghan leaders have been struggling to throw off the impression that they are merely lackeys to the American government or worse. Vice President Joe Biden did not exactly help that image by describing them on Larry King as like children to the American parentage...

Would You Like Possession With That Popcorn? Catholic Exorcist Blames Harry Potter With Spate of Demonic Possessions

Posted on November 22, 2010
The latest Harry Potter movie is greeted by movie theaters as a record blockbuster and kids as the long-waited sequel. For one person, however, it is the start of the new season of demonic possessions. Father Thomas J. Euteneuer explained in an interview this week that Harry Potter has opened the gates of Hell for [...

Suspicion

Posted on November 21, 2010
Suspicion Today we have Terry Stafford in glorious STEREO! An excellent creation best appreciated with headphones/earbuds. -David Drumm (Nal)

Bar Medical Clinic Shutdown: ?Doctor? Has a Lot To Get Off Chest

Posted on November 21, 2010
Kristina Ross, 37, is the kind of person city officials love to hate. Determined, driven, and passionate about her desire to do something good for women’s bodies in spite of  red tape, Ross now sits in a Boise, Idaho jail for undertaking a task usually reserved for men in their twenty’s...

Puppy + Leaves = Cute

Posted on November 21, 2010
If it’s Sunday, it’s time for a cute puppy video. -David Drumm (Nal)

Face and Butt See Eye-to-Eye

Posted on November 21, 2010
We have previously discussed the North Face/South Butt lawsuit, here. It was a lawsuit of the piracy/parody type, with one side claiming piracy and the other claiming parody. It seems that the two sides have come to an agreement to turn the other cheek...

Don?t Touch My Junk!

Posted on November 20, 2010
Don’t want to go through the TSA’s full body scan or porn-o-scan? The TSA has an alternative: “enhanced” pat-downs. These pat-downs gropings have one objective – coerce you into going through the body scanner. T-shirts with the logo on the left are available here...

Can?t You Hear My Heartbeat

Posted on November 20, 2010
Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat Today we have Herman’s Hermits in glorious STEREO. It’s hard to find the Hermits in stereo, and an excellent job was done on this creation. -David Drumm (Nal)

Crime & Punishment: Cross-Dressing Criminal Meets His Maker!

Posted on November 20, 2010
I?m in Orlando attending the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. I was a presenter at two sessions on Friday. I was so busy for several days preparing for my presentations that I didn?t have time to research stories and write-up posts about them for the Turley Blawg this weekend...

(Below) River Dance Closes Lincoln Tunnel

Posted on November 20, 2010
A Florida dance troupe is learning the cultural ways of the Big Apple after they ditched their cars in the Lincoln Tunnel and dashed away on foot wearing camo. Seems our tiny dancers were late for a TV appearance on BET’s “106 & Park” show...

Can You Hear Me, Major Tom: Scientists Discover First Extra-Galactic Planet

Posted on November 20, 2010
Hot on the heels of the first capture on an atom of anti-matter in a magnetic “bottle,” scientists now say  they’ve discovered the first planet formed outside of the Milky Way. The online edition of the journal “Science” reports that a planet has been found orbiting “our” Star HIP 13044...

Delightfully Tacky Yet Unrefined: Hooter?s Security Roughs Up Granny Over Bill

Posted on November 20, 2010
Hooters Restaurants likes to promote their orange-hotpanted waitresses with the provocative tied-up teeshirts as, “delightfully tacky yet unrefined.”   The slogan might  be applied to its security guards too, if a  fiesty grandma gets her way...

America?s Other 9/11: Ferguson and the Shot Not Heard ?Round The World

Posted on November 20, 2010
Mention 9/11 and we are instantly catapulted into the past with keen memories of where we were and what we were doing. It is a monumental day in American history, both for its infamy and for the honor on display in the response. So too, was another September 11, 1777...

Senator Rockefeller Suggests Taking Fox and MSNBC Off The Air To Make Citizens Feel Better About Congress

Posted on November 19, 2010
In this video, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) suggests that he would like to see both FOX and MSNBC taken off the air so that people felt better about Congress and their government. This is coming from a Senator who led the effort to kill dozens of public interest lawsuits suing telecommunication companies for violations of [...

Smile! Anti-Matter Finally Isolated and Photographed

Posted on November 19, 2010
International physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have a photo of perhaps the most camera-shy element in the universe: anti-matter. In an incredible breakthrough, CERN was able to capture atoms of antimatter for a tenth of a second...

Study: One in Five U.S. Adults Suffer From Mental Illness

Posted on November 19, 2010
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued the results of a national survey that found more than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness in 2009. Of those, 11 million had a serious mental illness...

London Mayor Tells Bush To Stay Out of Londontown ? Will International Shunning Become Prosecution?

Posted on November 19, 2010
Boris Johnson, the conservative Mayor of London, has declared George Bush a persona non grata — asking him to stay out of London with his new torture-touting memoir. The question is whether such international shunning will become actual effort to prosecute Bush, who just confessed to war crimes...

London Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter After Yelling At Driver Caused Heart Attack

Posted on November 19, 2010
There is a fascinating case out of England where an officer has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a woman died following a road-rage argument. Christine Roche, 64, had a heart attack at the wheel after being confronted by the unnamed off-duty officer who was yelling at her for clipping his car mirror...

Bristol Palin Triggers Rampage in Wisconsin

Posted on November 18, 2010
Bristol Palin has been implicated in a rampage in Dane County, Wisconsin.  Her latest alleged victim from her appearance on Dancing with the Stars is Steven N. Cowan, 66.  Cowan shared the view of millions that Palin was not much of a star and even less of a dancer...

Ghailani Acquitted On Major Terrorism Charges ? Rep. King Responds With Call To Change Legal System

Posted on November 18, 2010
The trial of alleged Al Qaeda accomplice Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has resulted in an acquittal on all major terrorism charges in New York. Ghailani was charged with crimes related to the 1998 suicide bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans...

Montgomery Police Officer Given $185 Ticket After Paralyzing 14-Year-Old Boy

Posted on November 18, 2010
A Montgomery County police officer Jason Cokinos is back walking the beat after hitting and paralyzing 14-year-old Luis Jovel Jr. Cokinos was speeding to his off-duty job when he hit Jovel and received only a $185 speeding ticket. The county paid $400,000 in damages...

Arpaio Found To Have Abused Office To Target Critics ? Proceeds To Make Steven Seagal a Deputy

Posted on November 18, 2010
An independent prosecutor has found Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas had no basis for their public-corruption charges against critics and judges who sought to curtail their abuse of their offices. Navajo County Attorney Brad Carlyon reached the same conclusion as virtually all outside observers, including this blog...

New York Police Nab Chess Felons in Park

Posted on November 18, 2010
New York Police swept into a park in bulletproof vests to arrest men trying to kill royals including two kings, two queens, four knights and even four bishops. The men had set up chess boards in a park that was empty at the time. It turns out that they were sitting in an area restricted [...

Constitutional Nightmare: New Jersey Town Bars Sleeping in Public

Posted on November 17, 2010
The city of Roselle, New Jersey has passed a new law criminalizing the act of sleeping in public. Police Chief Paul Morrison insists that he is only going to use it against homeless people but that may be a statement that city lawyers will come to regret in court...

California Principal Blocks Ambulance Sent to Help Student To Protect Recently Remodeled Field

Posted on November 17, 2010
Parents in San Jose, California are upset over an astonishing decision made by a high school principal to stop an ambulance from driving onto a football field to help an injured player at Del Mar High School on October 29th. The principal Liz Seabury reportedly says she was following district orders to protect the school’s [...

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