"I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing." OK, says the jury:
A man who shot his drinking buddy to death was too drunk to mean it, a Lexington jury concluded. The attorney who swayed the jury, colorful Kentucky politican Gatewood Galbraith, spoke exclusively to WLKY.com after the verdict.
-- Quatrain XI of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ," translation by Edward Fitzgerald, 5th edition
I love the kitchen, so I'll bake the bread. You bring the poems and find us a tree to sit under. But we have Circuit Judge John D. Tinder to thank for the better wine selection:
Boy, you can wait your whole life for an opening paragraph like this:
Indiana State Police arrested a Chicago man Wednesday afternoon after he was found driving completely nude and masturbating on the Indiana Toll Road.
A homeless man in Indianapolis is suing because police chased him away from Monument Circle:
It's not clear whether the action was part of a recent police crackdown on the homeless Downtown.
So, Geoff Paddock is one of the people who don't get their reminders to renew their license plates. He forgets and is issued a ticket. He complains to the BMV and is told, well, it was one of our computer glitches, and it's just a courtesy anyway, so quit yer whinin'. Paddock isn't buying it:
“But it's more than a courtesy. License fees are a tax, and the least the state can do is to mail notices in a timely manner.”
Can you imagine being one of these 191 people, knowing you've been charged with something and worrying for eight or nine years when they're going to come and drag you into court?
The Johnson County prosecutor today announced the dismissal of misdemeanor criminal charges against 191 defendants whose files were submitted to the Greenwood City Court in 1998 and 1999 but were apparently hidden by a former court employee.
Richard Jewell, the security guard who should have been a hero but was labeled a terrorist, has died at 44:
The Jewell episode led to soul-searching among news organizations about the use of unattributed or anonymously sourced information. His very name became shorthand for a person accused of wrongdoing in the media based on scanty information.
Today's quiz: What distinction does the Indiana Supreme Court have?
Answer: It's the only state high court without a woman.
This will matter to those who think women still aren't getting a fair shake in certain areas. Of course, having a representative on every state Supreme Court but one has to be seen as progress, even if it seems to make Indiana a little backwards.
I am learning more than I want to know about men's restroom etiquette. The only rules I have known for sure are that there is no eye contact at the urinals, and there is no talking except for a brief exchange during the hand-washing process or a "How you doin'?" if you meet while one is going in and the other is leaving. Now I have to wonder about my stupid feet:
We tough-on-criminals types have to answer for people mistakenly convicted -- in capital punishment cases especially, but in all other prosecutions as well. The show-some-compassion crowd, though, has to talk about monsters like this guy, who beat his 3-week-old son to death:
