The law and the jungle

Well, this won't look good on the job resume:

GARY, Ind. -- An anger management instructor was charged with domestic battery after his wife accused him of grabbing and beating her during an argument, police said.

Can you imagine being free this long, even having a daugher who doesn't know about your past, then getting caught?

A Muscogee County inmate who left a work detail 37 years ago is back in custody.
In 1970, Eddie Rias was arrested and sentenced to five years for robbery by intimidation.
Rias was living under another name in Indiana when U.S. Marshalls tracked him down.

Me, either.

Not so much a bargain:

Barrett agreed to meet the officer at the Holiday Inn Express in Fishers. The officer gave her $140 in exchange for a sex act and she was then arrested. Barrett is charged with solicitation of prostitution and is now out on a $2,500 bond.

Let's see. I can pay $140 for a sex act or kick in another $60 and have someone killed. Look at the photo -- not a tough choice.

Chicago is being overwhelmed with gang violence and has had 225 homicides so far this year. Yeah, this will work:

City officials again will use the carrot approach to reducing the number of guns in Chicago, by offering a $100 pre-paid gift card for each weapon turned in this weekend.

This sounds like a bargain:

An Angola woman is in jail after she paid an undercover police officer to kill her soon to be ex-husband.  Mollie Krontz, 44, was arrested at the public access area of Marsh Lake around 10:00 Tuesday night. 

Headline in the Evansville Courier & Press: Convicted sex offender loses appeal. I wonder who found him attractive in the first place.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a 110-year sentence for a woman who had pleaded "guilty but mentally ill":

Thirty-two-year-old Magdalena Lopez pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder for the July 2005 deaths of her nine-year-old and two-year-old sons.

She was sentenced in August to two consecutive 55-year terms. The judge decided against allowing the sentences to be served at the same time.

The Court of Appeals agreed, citing the brutal nature of the crime.

If you have a couple of peaceniks trooping through town as part of a nationwide walking protest, do you, A: Wish them well and ease them out of town, perhaps to laugh at them later over beers or, B) Start hassling them and throw one in jail, garnering sympathy for them and making your police force look like bullying thugs? They know which one to pick in West Terre Haute: 

We had cliques in high school. There were the jock clique and the student newspaper clique and the band clique and the nerd clique. Like that. One thing they all had in common was that they didn't kill people. On the other hand:

Federal and local law enforcement agencies have joined together to form a special unit to suppress gang violence in the city, the Fort Wayne Police Department announced Tuesday.

Florida was the first state to make its no-retreat law apply outside the home (Indiana is now one of at least 13 others), creating an automatic assumption that the use of deadly force is justified in warding off an attacker in just about any public place. The gun-control lobby warned that we would see a shooot-first mentality and a wave of vigilante justice. Instead, what seems to have happened is that prosecutors say they are confused by the laws and think others are, too.