Go ahead, drive like an idiot. Then, just hire a lawyer:
Whether you live in South Bend, Crown Point, Indianapolis, Valparaiso, or another Indiana town or city, you may have racked up a few traffic tickets. You may not think that traffic tickets warrant engaging the services of a criminal defense lawyer, but if you\'re faced with the potential suspension of your driver\'s license, you might want to think again.
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No, I wasn't shocked that someone who had been a reporter for 15 years, pesumably with a front-row seat for the stupidity of criminals, would think he could rob a bank without things going terribly wrong:
Lowery, who had disguised himself, then walked into the bank carrying a single-shot sawed-off shotgun and about 25 shotgun shells, the reports indicate.
It was just 30 years ago that the guillotine was last used in France. That method of execution, as horrible as it sounds to us today, was adopted during the French Revolution as a more humane method of capital punishment than some of the methods then employed. In this country, our search for the most humane way of execution has taken us from hanging to firing squad to electric chair to gas chamber to lethal injection. The search continues:
Tag, you're busted!
Prosecutors put the city's spray-paint graffiti artists on notice Tuesday, charging a 21-year-old Fort Wayne man accused of causing about $20,000 in damages to area businesses last year with 51 counts of criminal mischief, one of them a felony.
Last week, I wrote that both News-Sentinel columnist Kevin Leininger and I thought that Republican mayoral candidate Matt Kelty's martyrdom posturing over his campaign-finance violations was wearing a little thin. That might not be the prevailing opinion out there among the voting pubic.
The Washington Post decides that people should be charged with actual crimes, not just possibly hinting that they might be willing to commit crimes:
(CBS4) FORT LUPTON, Colo. Violaters of the city of Fort Lupton's noise ordinance were in for a big surprise this past Friday. The city's judge sentenced citizens who have been busted for being too loud to 1 hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music.
In a courtroom with mostly young adult offenders, Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" played loudly on a boombox.
Man, when you can't even get attention by dying en masse, what's the world coming to?
The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitol lawn in what they called a "die in" — with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. When police took no action, some of the protesters started climbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
We've all heard jokes about the "fashion police" going after so and so for what they wear. Now the jokes have come true:
It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle — low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.
The Fort Wayne blogosphere has been all over the video clerk who killed an armed, would-be robber. Here are The PA-IN Erudition, Angry White Boy and The Fort Wayne Blog. The general feeling is: People have had it, justice was done, self-defense, like that.
