I'm not sure if the homeowner's association bit is true, but it'a too good to check.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Headline of the day: Zombie-eyed woman dressed as pig in bathing suit busted for DUI
A 26-year-old Orlando woman wearing "zombie" contact lenses and dressed as a "pig in a nude color bathing suit" for Halloween was charged with driving under the influence last week, an arrest report released today shows.
"After the breath test Gagnier was allowed to go to the bathroom and allowed to put on a jail jump suit," the report said. "Gagnier was further processed and transported to the jail.
"Performance Artist" Nails His Testicles to Cobblestones in Moscow's Red Square
"A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," Pavlensky wrote in a statement explaining the performance.
Tourists and locals alike witnessed an unusual scene Sunday as St. Petersburg performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky hammered a nail through his testicles and into the cobblestones of Red Square, close to Lenin's Mausoleum.
The performance coincided with the holiday, "Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Policemen on Red Square quickly responded by first covering the naked artist with a blanket. The young artist was taken into custody and hospitalized after being removed from the pavement.
Pavlensky has a history of extreme performance pieces, beginning with a protest in July 2012 in which he sewed his mouth shut and carried a sign to protest against the imprisonment of the band Pussy Riot in front of Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
In May, Pavlensky staged a second performance in which he was left, naked and wrapped in barbed wire, in front of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Building, following which he spent several days in police custody and underwent psychiatric examinations that concluded that he was legally sane.
According to Interfax, Pavlensky will be given medical assistance and be interrogated by police before a decision is made about his legal competence.
Ex-prosecutor jailed for 10 days for withholding evidence after sending innocent man to prison for 25 years
Prosecutorial overreach story du jour - it's the first time in history a prosecutor has been jailed for withholding evidence. Not nearly enough, is it?
A former Texas district attorney agreed Friday to serve 10 days in jail for withholding evidence that could have stopped an innocent man from going to prison for nearly 25 years — apparently the first time a prosecutor has been sent to jail for concealing evidence helpful to the defense.
Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson agreed to a plea deal that will also require him to pay a $500 fine and complete 500 hours of community service after state District Judge Kelly Moore found him in contempt of court for telling a trial judge in 1987 that he had no exculpatory evidence to hand over to lawyers for Michael Morton, whose conviction in his wife's death was overturned in 2011.
Charges of tampering with evidence — which could have meant 10 years in prison — were dropped as part of the deal, under which Anderson will be disbarred.
Prosecutors are required by law to share any evidence they collect that could help the defense. But Anderson withheld two critical facts in his prosecution of Morton: that witnesses reported seeing a man park a green van nearby and walk into the woods near the Mortons' house and that Morton's 3-year-old son specifically said Morton wasn't at the scene.
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| Michael Morton spent nearly 25 years in prison after being convicted in his wife's beating death. |
Morton was released from prison two years ago, when new DNA evidence proved his innocence. In March, a drifter named Mark Alan Norwood was convicted of beating Christine Morton to death her in bed based on the same evidence.
Michael Morton was in court for the hearing Friday in Georgetown.
"My number one motivating factor here is that what happened to me will not happen to you," he said, addressing Anderson. "And by what happened today, we've succeeded."
Gerald Goldstein, an attorney for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal clinic affiliated with the Yeshiva University Law School, said Anderson's sentence, however brief, was precedent-shattering.
Gerald Goldstein, an attorney for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal clinic affiliated with the Yeshiva University Law School, said Anderson's sentence, however brief, was precedent-shattering.
"This is the first time in the country's history that a prosecutor has been found guilty of criminal contempt, will go to jail and be stripped of their law license," Goldstein told NBC station KXAN of Austin.
Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day: UK pays tribute: The Queen leads Remembrance Sunday commemorations
Lots of photos from today's ceremonies at The Daily Mail: The Queen today led the nation in honoring Armed Forces members killed in conflict as Remembrance Sunday services took place around Britain.
The monarch laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph on Whitehall to commemorate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice since the First World War.
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