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ZANY BUT ALL TRUE CRIMINAL LAW STORIES

Hi Folks — I am busy grading 165 law school exams.  However, Lindsay Samuels who read my bog wrote to me with the following Information.  See below:

Hi Leonard,

Orlando, FL: After a 47 year old man was shot in the chest by an AK-47 at an Orlando motel, doctors patching up his wound found a tumor in his lung and removed it.  The man who had been shot during a “24 hour party” with hookers said he wants to use his second chance to turn his life around.

OK. No more “24 hour parties” with hookers… 

St. Petersburg, FL: A man wanted for violating probation in St. Petersburg was caught hiding in an attic after his two year old son told officers where he was.  The boy blurted out the attic hiding spot while officers were questioning his mother while she was claiming she did not the husband’s whereabouts.

DADDY IS HIDING UPSTAIRS IN THE ATTIC…..

Orlando, FL: It has been reported that police in Orlando thought they could be “flushing” out a group of terrorists.  Why? Well, they spotted a trailer marked

Cleveland, OH: No courtroom sketch artist for this trial!  We learn that a TV station in Cleveland has started a courtroom puppet show.  WOIO is using Muppet-like puppets to illustrate a local official’s corruption trial because the federal court does not allow cameras inside. The re-enactments included puppet versions of the judge, the defendant, jurors and witnesses reciting lines directly from the day’s court transcripts.

THIS IS ABOUT THE SILLIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD OF…

CANADA: What a sad story. A trip to his bathroom did not turn out well for Port Colborne, Ontario resident Alistair MacPherson, who died of natural causes as he was turning on the sink’s water faucet.  The water flowed for three weeks before his body was found.  MacPherson’s family has beseeched water officials to waive the $600 water bill, but they have refused.

GLUG GLUG GLUG….

 St. Louis, MO: A Missouri gubernatorial candidate who had been touting his economics degree was unmasked as a liar when a local newspaper discovered he had left out the word “home” in his “home economics”

Burbank, CA: A woman at a Burbank McDonald’s restaurant offered another customer sex in exchange for his Chicken McNuggets.  He declined the offer. It is not certain whether he didn’t want to part with his McNuggets or that she was just too homely.

MY GOSH, HOW HUNGRY WAS SHE?