I just don’t understand drinking and driving

Hi, Firefly. How is your mood coming along ?

David, the defendant was observed drinking in the bar--there are witnesses
to his alcohol consumption and the time frame involved.

There may also be witnesses to the accident.

All this speculation is meaningless.

This isn't a parlor game--it's a real case, and a real person was killed
and a real person faces real and serious possible criminal penalties.

I'm sure the real defense attorney in this case knows how to handle it.

Hi, Firefly. How is your mood coming along ?

From what I've heard Thom has a court date this morning,
will be interesting to hear how it goes.

Thom isn’t talking to anyone, only thing I heard today was it’s not looking good for him, not sure if he was in court today or what happened but it’s being hushed up for now. A lot of his friends know his legal troubles are being posted here online so people are being quiet about it.

William Stuntz was the popular and well-respected Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard University. He finished his manuscript of The Collapse of American Criminal Justice shortly before his untimely death earlier this year. The book is eminently readable and merits careful attention because it accurately describes the twin problems that pervade American criminal justice today—its overall severity and its disparate treatment of African-Americans.

The book contains a wealth of overlooked or forgotten historical data, perceptive commentary on the changes in our administration of criminal justice over the years, and suggestions for improvement. While virtually everything that Professor Stuntz has written is thought-provoking and constructive, I would not characterize the defects in American criminal justice that he describes as a “collapse,” and I found his chapter about “Earl Warren’s Errors” surprisingly unpersuasive.

Rather than focus on particular criminal laws, the book emphasizes the importance of the parts that different decision-makers play in the administration of criminal justice. Stuntz laments the fact that criminal statutes have limited the discretionary power of judges and juries to reach just decisions in individual cases, while the proliferation and breadth of criminal statutes have given prosecutors and the police so much enforcement discretion that they effectively define the law on the street.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncoöperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1l0xfIMWk

Is there a REASON
that u find it necessary or advisable
to refer to excrement in your expression?
Will u write that way on the menus of your restaurant??