Gregory Powell, about whom we have written previously, is seeking “compassionate release” from prison. Mr. Powell has been turned down 11 times for parole.
Former LAPD Officer Ian Campbell was unavailable for comment.
Edited to add 10/19: Not going to happen.
The more TMQ columns we observe, the more we think Gregg Easterbrook needs a good editor.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
St. Louis
The bartender says, “I can’t serve you. We’re in different relativistic frames of reference.”
A “faster than light” neutrino walks into a bar.
(Hattip: SnarkyBytes.)
California seems to be the home of that defense. I can’t find the post where I wrote about the teacher who had guns and drugs planted in his car (on school property) by his ex-wife and her boyfriend, but I do recall mentioning that.
Now we have a private detective agency that was allegedly taking money to set up ex-husbands on DUI charges.
I’ve got to admit that I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the way the LAT spins the story. I understand two chicks lured you to a bar, I understand one of them showed some cleavage; however, keeping under the legal limit is still your responsibility. There’s no evidence (and no accusation) that they drugged this poor guy’s drinks or anything like that.
On the other hand:
That puts a different spin on things, but you don’t find out about these accusations until about halfway through the article.
Interesting legal note:
I wonder if Texas has a similar law?
I feel like I should say something about Dan Wheldon, but I don’t know what.
When I was a little kid, I was a big racing fan; I especially enjoyed watching the Indy 500. I still have a closet fondness for NASCAR: open-wheel racing kind of lost me with the whole CART/IndyCar debacle. But this is still just shocking and awful.
Surprising thing, though: the FARK threads have been more respectful than you’d think (this being FARK and all).
I wasn’t planning to say anything about the Texas Rangers: last year was significant, this year, well, what can you say other than that they’ve gotten good?
However, I can’t help but take the opportunity to gloat a little here, since it appears that a Rangers/Cardinals World Series has John Gruber extremely upset. Poor guy.
Loser update tomorrow: Miami plays tonight.
Somewhat buried lead: the MP-5s were converted to fire blanks only.
I am not an MP-5 armorer, but I would guess: probably none. I doubt any of those parts are serial numbered like AR lower receivers. And I’m curious where the LAT reporter got his information.
Steven Seagal, that is.
You may remember (from here or elsewhere) Mr. Seagal’s stint with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, followed by his guest appearance with Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. (I believe I failed to note that the subject of the cockfighting bust is suing Mr. Seagal.)
Anyway, Mr. Seagal has taken on a new law enforcement role: deputy with the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office. Hudspeth County is right on the border with Mexico (Wikipedia map.)
The current status of “Steven Seagal: Lawman” is unclear to me, but I welcome updates.
Including my sister, the doctor, who is now one of the bloggers on the Park City Mountain Resort “Snowmamas” site.
I’m delighted.
I’m also a little jealous, as she’s already made more off of her blogging than I have in two years.
But that’s not important. If you’re planning a family ski vacation, I strongly encourage you to consider Park City Mountain Resort. I know my sister and her family have been very happy with their stays there.
I’ve been wondering if Roger Ebert was going to review the sequel to The Movie That We Do Not Discuss; after giving a zero-star review to the first one, was there any point in his reviewing the sequel?
Well, he finally got around to it. In keeping with our practice, we note this because it is also a zero-star review. We also question Ebert’s objectivity in reviewing this film. On the other hand, we really can’t work up the ability to be indignant that he chose to review it himself.
Just saying. It doesn’t look like they were good luck for Whitey Bulger.
Seriously, I’ve been meaning to throw up a link to this long and entertaining Boston Globe article about Whitey and his life on the run for a couple of days now. It has everything, including a former Miss Iceland who apparently ratted Whitey out. (My mother also forwarded a link saying that Miss Iceland is going to collect the $2 million reward offered by the FBI. Good luck to her: I hope Whitey’s friends, if he has any left, don’t reach as far as Iceland.)
Various news sites are reporting the passing of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language.
Edited to add: NYT obit here. LAT obit here.
I’ve closed comments on posts older than 90 days in attempt to keep up with spam.
My blog is nowhere near as popular (or good) as Popehat, where I got the idea, but I was still dealing with upwards of 300+ spam messages a day in the filter. Comments on posts older than 90 days have been closed since Monday, and I’ve seen about a 2/3rds decrease.
If you do want to leave a comment on an older post, you’re more than welcome to use the “Contact the proprietor” link and drop me an email.
Sean Sorrentino is doing a third run of Project Gunwalker t-shirts.
This is great news. As a proud owner of one of Sean’s shirts, I’m considering ordering two or three more. Remember, these shirts make great presents for any major holiday: Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Ashura, even Armistice Day (though from what Sean says, the shirts may ship a little late for that one).
Edited to add: Now in pink!
Joseph Hyungmin Son, who played “Random Task” in the Austin Powers movies, is doing time in prison “after having been convicted of torture and sentenced to life in prison without parole in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve rape of a woman out walking her dog.”
I think that was generally well known. That’s not the WTF moment.
According to the LAT, he’s now suspected of killing his cellmate. He’s been in prison for a little over three weeks now…
Let’s start off this week with a video:
The reasons why will become apparent. (Also, we have a couple of friends who are students of ti kwan leap.) After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
OK, maybe not so much.
Mike Stoops out as coach at the University of Arizona.
41-50 over seven and a half years, and UA is 1-5 so far this season.
(Hattip: Thanks, FARK.)
Here’s the case brief for Chimel v. California. I ruthlessly edited it down to only three pages this time.
Chimel is interesting because it helped to define the limits of a search “incident to arrest”. Mr. Chimel was arrested, at his home, and charged with burglary of a coin shop. After he was arrested, the police searched his entire house (even having his wife move stuff around) without a warrant, and claimed they didn’t need one since their search was incident to a valid arrest.
The Court said, “Nope. Doesn’t work like that. ‘Search incident to arrest’ only covers the person and the area under the person’s immediate control. You want to search someplace other than that? Get a warrant.”
We’re wrapping this class up. Next Monday is the final; there should be one more case brief, too.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami (bye week)
Indianapolis
St. Louis (bye week)
I am happy right now.
Indeed, I am happier than I have been at any point in the past five years.
No, I am not willing to discuss the reasons why (at least, not in public).
I will, however, leave you with the quote of the day:
And with this music video, which seems appropriate.
I’m a little busy, but I’m taking a break from Chimel v. California to throw some linky-love Lawrence’s way for his “Fast and Furious” posts. Especially this most recent one about Holder, which can best be summarized as:
I always respected the man, mostly for his ability to make Pete Rozelle and the rest of the No Fun League miserable. I don’t expect you’ll hear a lot of “No, that’s God; he just thinks he’s Al Davis” jokes, but if he did make it to Heaven, I hope he has a decent quarterback.
This isn’t going to become the “All Steve, all the time” blog. (“Don’t mourn: build something.”)
But I really liked this piece by John Siracusa, and wanted to point it out. This will probably be the last Jobs related link, barring something extraordinary.
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(Also, you really should be listening to Siracusa’s “Hypercritical” podcast from 5by5 Studios.)
Number 6: Be very careful using the “reply to all” button in your email client. Indeed, I question the wisdom of even having a self-destruct button “reply to all” button in email clients. You may laugh, but I have seen far too many cases where the “reply to all” button functions very much like a self-destruct button.
Number 7: There are certain words you should probably avoid putting in a professional email. I’m sure everyone has their own list, but I’m also pretty sure that if we merged all of our lists together, “f-cking” and “b-tch”, as well as the conjugate “f-cking b-tch” would be there.
No reason really. Just thought I’d point these out.
(Hattip: Ken over at Popehat.)
Should they not have done that?
I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing. I mean, if someone had told them it was a bad idea for a guidance councilor to strip search students, and that the Supreme Court had ruled it was illegal, then the Atlantic Community School District might not be out $300,000.
You know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of school districts, and I tell you, people do things like sending 12-year-old boys out to act as decoy buyers so they can bust other kids for selling pot all the time.
