No Quantum of Solace
About the horrible Eckert case in New Mexico.
The Inexplicable
Plaintiff in Deming Case Was Held for 15 Hours [Updated]
Via Reason.com, here's the complaint in Eckert v. City of Deming, which I also wrote about yesterday. In general the KBO News report summarized it correctly, but there are some additional facts alleged here (in addition to more horrible details of…
Do NOT Clench Your Buttocks in Deming, New Mexico
Why not, you ask? Because it may be interpreted as probable cause to conduct an anal-cavity search. Or six. According to this KOB News report, police in Deming, New Mexico, and some doctors they convinced to help them, conducted no…
Good News for Law Firms: UFOs Are About to Save Us All
There's been a lot of doom and gloom lately about the state of the legal market, the number of jobs available (or not available), and so forth. Well, the good news is that experts are saying that an uptick is…
House Stabbed
Resting comfortably A Seattle-area home is said to be recovering from a knife wound it suffered sometime late Sunday night, according to KOMO News. Police believe the home was stabbed by a man who was angry over his belief that the…
Police Pretty Sure Man Tied Himself Inside Sack and Shot Himself Before Jumping Into River
"We are 99.999 percent certain it was suicide," said a spokesperson for the police department in Hamburg, Germany, and it's really hard to see what other conclusion you could reach on this one. Local media had speculated that Ulrich Sattler…
And This Is My Pet Unicorn, Mr. Carrot Pretty Lashes
Here's where this is going, in case you found this through an innocent unicorn-related search: [The defendant's] attorney … called the prosecution's case a stretch of the imagination. "Getting struck in the testicles is no way a reward or an…
Asiana Airlines Says It Will Sue KTVU for Airing Prank Names
I don't want to disappoint anyone who really enjoys reading 1000-word rants about whatever is bothering me that day, but posts will probably be shorter this week as I am also working on getting the book finished. This one doesn't…
Be Sure to Look Nice When Planning Your Husband’s Murder
Because it appears that detectives are getting really high-quality undercover video these days. You'll want to be presentable when the jury sees it. I found this interesting because I had not yet had the opportunity to see a 21-year-old woman…
The Dude Who Went to Pizza Court
Hear Nebraska is a nonprofit group that says it "strives to make the state [Nebraska] a globally recognized cultural destination," and while that's probably more of a long-term goal there is some great stuff on its website right now. This…