{"id":23222,"date":"2021-07-30T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23222"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:11:07","slug":"quick-notes-from-the-legal-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23222","title":{"rendered":"Quick notes from the legal beat."},"content":{"rendered":"

Two quick legal stories that I find interesting, ripped from the pages of the NYT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

1. Remember the Bonhomme Richard fire, about a year ago? Totally wiped out the ship?<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Naval Institute, the ship, which cost an estimated $761 million to build, was sold for $3.66 million to a company in Brownsville, Texas, that will break it apart and sell the metal for scrap.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Navy has charged one of the crew with aggravated arson and “willfully hazarding a vessel”<\/a>. Which is just kind of…wow. I don’t know what to say.<\/p>\n

2. Lawrence Handley has pled guilty to two counts of second-degree kidnapping and one count of attempted second-degree kidnapping. He could get anywhere from 15 to 35 years in prison, and frankly I’m surprised he’s not getting the death penalty, or a life sentence for felony murder.<\/p>\n

Mr. Handley decided to hire two guys to kidnap his wife.<\/p>\n

Mr. Handley\u2019s lawyer, Kevin Stockstill, said in an interview that his client had been using methamphetamine and cocaine for days when he hatched the plan to have his wife kidnapped. He said that Mr. Handley had planned to \u201ccome in as a hero\u201d and rescue Ms. Handley in an effort to \u201cwin her back.\u201d<\/a>
\n\u201cIt was certainly not logical thinking, but when you\u2019re doing a lot of meth and cocaine, I guess it seemed rational to him,\u201d Mr. Stockstill said. \u201cIt turned out to be a terrible decision.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(As a side note, “Mr. Handley had run software and vitamin businesses and had been the chief executive of a series of drug treatment centers that sold in 2015 in a deal worth about $21 million…”)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the two men pulled off the kidnapping successfully. But as they were making their getaway, sheriff’s deputies noticed the van driving “erratically” and tried to pull it over. They didn’t know anything about the kidnapping at the time.<\/p>\n

A police chase ensued.<\/p>\n

The men, Sylvester Bracey and Arsenio Haynes, drove off the interstate, turned down a dead-end gravel road, and were penned in by the police, prosecutors said. Both men tried to escape by swimming through a canal, prosecutors said. They drowned.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two quick legal stories that I find interesting, ripped from the pages of the NYT. 1. Remember the Bonhomme Richard fire, about a year ago? Totally wiped out the ship? According to the U.S. Naval Institute, the ship, which cost an estimated $761 million to build, was sold for $3.66 million to a company in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23223,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions\/23223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}