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Thursday, February 28, 2013

"You might be a felon"

(With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)

You might be a felon if:

  • You sneak into zombie movies. Couple That Snuck Into Movie Theater Faces Felony Charge In Indiana
  • You snack during work. Walmart Presses Felony Charge In Oreo Theft | The Smoking Gun
  • Slap your neighbor with laundry. Woman Pummels Elderly Neighbor With Wet Laundry, Cops Say - Oak Lawn, IL Patch
  • You have an affinity for eyewear. Underage Drinker Grabs Cop's Glasses and Flees, Police Say - New Lenox, IL Patch
  • You enjoy mixing business with pleasure. Mesa PD: Cab driver told women they could pay fare with sexual favors | azfamily.com Phoenix
  • Taking a boat for a swim. Phillip Beach Accused Of Stealing A Sailboat By Pulling It While Swimming
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Quotable quotes

  • "We do not want a police state, and it seems we are on the precipice of becoming one, in the name of DUI." Martin v. Commonwealth, 870 A.2d 982 (2005)
  • "The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established be years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." Weeks v. U.S., 232 U.S. 383, 393 (1914)
  • "The point of the Fourth Amendment, which often is not grasped by zealous officers, is not that it denies law enforcement the support of the usual inferences which reasonable men draw from evidence. Its protection consists in requiring that those inferences be drawn by a neutral and detached magistrate." Johnson v. United States, 333 US 10, 13 (1948).
  • "The criminal goes free, if he must, but it is the law that sets him free. Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence." Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 659 (1961).

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