Brickbat: Over the Line
The Kansas Supreme Court has disbarred former Shawnee County chief deputy district attorney Jacqueline Spradling, citing a "serious pattern of grossly unethical misconduct" in her 2012 prosecution of Dana Chandler for double murder. The court had earlier overturned Chandler's conviction because of prosecutorial misconduct. "She ignored the order of a district court, repeatedly made arguments to the jury that lacked any evidentiary support, intentionally lied to this court in her briefs and in oral arguments, and made false statements during the disciplinary investigation," the justices wrote.
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Or femin-ine(-ist) solidarity?
How could we tell – we’re not biologists.
“This is a huge decision,” said attorney Keen Umbehr, who filed a complaint against Spradling. “Disbarring a prosecutor is so rare.”
Rarer even than disciplining a cop. Not quite so rare as disciplining a judge or a Congressman.
“Not quite so rare as disciplining a judge or a Congressman.”
Different type of disciplining, presumably not requiring a dominatrix (unlike the type that judges and Congressmen generally prefer).
‘I’m not jumping in after you’: Arizona man drowns in front of three police officers who ‘ignored his desperate pleas for help’, bodycam footage shows
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10888589/Arizona-man-drowns-three-police-officers-ignored-pleas-help-bodycam-shows.html
Or more likely because the cops were laughing and mocking the guy while taunting his wife.
The transcript claims one of the officers then threatened to put her in his police car unless she calmed down.
Bitch actually expected them to do something other than laugh.
Officials said in a statement: ‘The three Tempe police officers who responded to the call and witnessed the drowning have been placed on non-disciplinary paid administrative leave pending the investigations, as is customary in critical incidents.’
And now they get a paid vacation!
Man, IDK, hard to call cops allowing a man to enter the water of his own free will an oppressive police state. Of course, I’m from Chicagoland so, unless the cops put a bullet in the guy and *then* send him for a swim, it’s not really news.
They deliberately waited until he went under before calling a boat. They wanted his wife to watch him die.
In the video, he can clearly be seen when the officer says, “You guys stay here, I’ll go get the boat.” It would seem that at least that officer didn’t want to stand there and watch him die.
I’m unaware of the logistics of a boat rescue at Town Lake and, even for civilians, I’d be hard pressed to convict anyone of wrongful negligence unless the boat was already at the scene when the guy went into the water. Especially since it seems the guy can actually swim at least a little bit.
Again, it’s better than your average police video where the film starts rolling and, within ~10s shots are fired. Moreover, I don’t exactly have a clear solution. Cops aren’t lifeguards and we don’t expect lifeguards to carry around tasers and forcibly subdue people. Maybe flotation devices in squad cars but the guy wasn’t compliant with their indications that swimming in the lake was forbidden (and they didn’t even tackle, tase, or cripple him for disobeying!). IDK, what you’re suggesting as the solution. Bike cops in Tempe riding around with kayaks? Officers shedding gear and getting into a fist fight in the water with someone intent on disobeying them? Are you really discontent with the message “Don’t swim in the lake that the cops told you you aren’t allowed to swim in because you might drown. They won’t stop you, but they won’t save you.”? I don’t see a solution that isn’t equally afoul of “Obey, or else.”
He can clearly be seen treading water without obvious distress that is.
Business as usual. “Tough on crime” means you gotta break a few eggs. Judge clearly does not understand this, or he’s in the pay of Big Crime. Both Democrats (who act least act like it) and Republicans (who pretend to act like it) agree that “Tough on Crime” gets you elected.
“She ignored the order of a district court, repeatedly made arguments to the jury that lacked any evidentiary support, intentionally lied to this court in her briefs and in oral arguments, and made false statements during the disciplinary investigation,” the justices wrote.
Spradling has some real potential for political office, media pundit, or law firm partner.
Sound like maybe she was one toke over the line.
The Lawrence Welk version!
That’s Dick Dale!
[listens]
dammit.
Oh well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCNRl9IGwk