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CPL Loses Again

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, lost a last-ditch appeal Friday to block the eviction of his law practice from its Newport Beach offices.

In a brief hearing at Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Judge Robert J. Moss affirmed his Oct. 22nd order that Avenatti and his staff vacate their ocean-view suite in a building across from the Fashion Island mall. He ordered them to leave by Monday.

Yep, fresh out of the pokey after posting $50k in bail on a domestic violence charge, the Creepy Porn Lawyer has lost another case. He owes $213,254 in rent, and there's a $10 million judgement against his "law" firm.

That boy can't seem to do anything right, yet seems to believe that he should be the Democrat candidate for president. Why not? Democratics are mostly crooks and liars anyway....

 

Nope

Wife got another summons for jury duty; I think that's like the fifth or sixth time since we've been together. I got one a few years back, but it did not go well, so I'm presumably off their list.

After spending a day cooling my heels in the jury room, I returned the next day and they called me up. So I ambled into a courtroom along with a bunch of other unfortunates, and jury selection began. I noticed that the lawyers basically asked everybody the same things, and the defense lawyer ended by asking the potential juror if he or she would like to be on the jury. Inexplicably, they all answered "yes".

When they got to me, things went a bit differently, and when Mr. Defense asked if I'd like to be on the jury, I stunned him by replying "no". He looked genuinely shocked. He turned to the judge and exclaimed "Your honor! This man just indicated that he doesn't want to be on the jury!"

To which the judge responded: "I believe that if more people were as honest as he, empaneling would be considerably more difficult".

I was rejected as a potential juror. Never been summoned since.

 

Shooters

That jerk who shot up the school in Parkland just can't contain himself.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz attacked a detention officer at the county jail and now faces new charges including use of the officer’s electric stun device, authorities said Wednesday.

Some folks just need to be put down.

Meanwhile here in Oregon, our own little psychopath, Kip Kinkel, has public lawyers who are appealing to SCOTUS because his 112 year sentence is just too much for the darling.

Since the Oregon Supreme Court found that Kipland P. Kinkel's nearly 112-year sentence reflected his "irreparable corruption rather than the transience of youth,'' it shouldn't be overturned, a state appellate lawyer wrote to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He was 15 when he murdered his parents and the next day shot up his school, murdering two more people and wounding two dozen more. This was clearly no "snap" or spur-of-the-moment thing; he planned it all out.

He needs to be put down as well, but instead he has lawyers drawing their pay from our tax dollars, appealing to SCOTUS on grounds that a poor little teenager (who's also an orphan) should not be subjected to a life sentence just because he happened to murder a few people.

Kinkel pleaded no contest to four counts of murder and 26 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to 25 years for his four homicides and nearly 87 years for the wounding of 24 others and attempted murder of a police detective.

He's 36 now, and the argument being peddled is that he was never given a chance to show that he could be rehabilitated.

He has shown he is a danger to society. Spending his life in prison isn't as much about punishment as it is to protect the public.

 

George Again

The guy just can't seem to stay out of trouble:

SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman entered a no contest plea to resolve a misdemeanor charge of stalking a private investigator in the latest run-in with the law for the neighborhood watch leader who killed Trayvon Martin.

Don't know how you "stalk" a PI - generally, it's the other way around. In any case, it seems clear that George has serious mental problems, and should probably be removed from society.

 

 

Latest ID Theft Comes From USPS

A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters unless the USPS beefed up security around the program and made it easier for people to opt out. This week, the U.S. Secret Service issued an internal alert warning that many of its field offices have reported crooks are indeed using Informed Delivery to commit various identity theft and credit card fraud schemes.

USPS has been so lax about this that literally anyone can sign up for "Informed Delivery" with your address, making it easy for ID thieves to stop by and pick up any of your mail that they might find useful. Yet another reason to invest in a locking mailbox.

Last month, WKMG’s Clickorlando.com wrote that a number of Belle Isle, Fla. residents reported receiving hefty bills for credit cards they never knew they had. One resident was quoted as saying she received a bill for $2,000 in charges on a card she’d never seen before, and only after that did she get a notice from the USPS saying someone at her address had signed up for Informed Delivery. The only problem was she’d never signed up for the USPS program.

 

Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child

The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday issued its most strongly worded policy statement against spanking children.

It's supposedly ineffective and harmful.

My mom and dad never got the memo. Oh well.

46-year-old Gail Cleavenger of DeBary, Florida must have received the message and taken it to heart. Too bad.

When the 15-year-old returned from school to his home in DeBary, Fla., on Friday, police say, he called 911. “He’s probably one of the top three sociopaths I’ve ever come across,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said during a news conference Saturday. “He wanted to tell everyone how smart he was for what he did to his mom.”

He strangled her to death.

In an interview with investigators, the teen, with what seemed like a sense of pride, Chitwood said, recounted the steps he took to hide his mother’s body. He tied her legs together, placed her in a wheelbarrow, loaded her into a van and buried her beneath a fire pit at a nearby church.

He poured bleach into the hole to mask the smell of decomposition.

What a smart guy.

 

Standard Procedure

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that could put him on death row.

He was caught, and injured in a shootout with police, so why is he pleading not guilty?

Easy: it would be malpractice if a defense attorney allowed his client to plead guilty at arraignment. The burden of proof is on the state for a good reason: it's a massive machine that grinds up both the innocent and the guilty. The defense exists to protect the defendant from being more fodder. There's no reason for anyone to not force the state to meet that burden, particularly since the odds are always against the defense from the get-go.

So they always plead not guilty, even when caught with their pants around their ankles.

After all, it only costs taxpayers.

"The more I think about it, ol' Billy was right: kill all the lawyers; kill 'em tonight."

 - Get Over It - The Eagles

 

Fry Me A River

Edmund Zagorski is due to be fried tonight at 7 p.m. Tennessee time. For his final meal, he's selected pickled pig knuckles and pig tails.

Death row inmates are usually given $20 (£15.50) to spend on a special meal before they are put to death.

Oh, let's not shilly-shally around about it - he's going to be executed because he was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of two men - John Dotson, 35, and Jimmy Porter, 32 - in 1983. He was found to have shot them and, for good measure, slit their throats.

It's long past time for his removal. He's not going to be "put to death", he's going to be killed.

Some apologists argue that Old Sparky is inhumane, but how humane was his treatment of two other people? Frankly, I don't care how he goes, as long as he's gone. And it looks as though he's come to the realization that this time, they're really going to kill him.

 

Old Sparky

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday (Nov. 1), it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcomed in the prison system and who worries that his device will malfunction.

Comforting, isn't it?

In two Florida executions in the 1990s, smoke and flames shot from the condemned inmates' heads. In 1999, blood spilled from under an inmate's mask.

Well, you probably want to adjust the amps on those things.

But it must be said that none of the inmates complained.

 

A Bit Of The Old Ultra-Violence

We don't have Whitey to kick around any more:

Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger Jr. has been killed behind bars shortly after he was transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia. He was 89.

Transferred to a different prison and killed there the very same day, and just ahead of Halloween.

Organized crime boss Bulger had been convicted in 2013 of killing at least 11 people and was serving a life sentence. He was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California. 

His life sentence lasted five years.

Prison life can be hard on a guy.

And in Chiraq, things continue apace:

Over this past weekend, at least 42 people were shot, five of them fatally, including a 16-year-old boy, according to data kept by the Tribune. Nearly half of those shootings occurred in the Englewood police district on the South Side and the Harrison and Austin districts on the West side -- neighborhoods that have borne the brunt of violence this year.

Fortunately, they have strict gun laws in that toddlin' town.