The law and the jungle

OK, Second Amendment fans, was this a justified arrest or a justified shooting?

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The owner of a South Texas convenience store has been arrested for murder after shooting a man attempting to steal beer from his shop.

Inmates made obscene gestures? Whoda think it?

MUNCIE, Indiana — A large jail in central Indiana now has a frosted film over its cell windows after years of troubles with inmates communicating and sometimes making obscene gestures to people outside.

Didn't think I could still be shocked by anybody's opinion of sex, butI guess I can be. In a column for The Wshington Post, writer and former lawyer Betsy Karasik weighs in on the case of the Montana teacher who got just a 30-day sentence for the rape of a 14-yeaf-old student. Was she, like many, horrified at such leniency?

Hardly:

Well, we don't have to do what Idaho did:

A recent decision by the Idaho Supreme Court could help a region woman partially blinded after being struck by a foul ball at a 2009 RailCats game convince the Indiana Supreme Court to allow her to sue the baseball team.

A judge inadvertently blurts out the truth:

A court says local judges can't pick and choose which criminal records can be expunged from an individual's record under a new state law.

There seems to be a slight imbalance here. Elizabeth Paige Coast made a false accusation of rape, and then:

Coast, 26, accused Johnathan C. Montgomery, a former neighbor of raping her in 2000 when she was 10 years old and he was 14. She later admitted that she made up the story and lied on the witness stand at his June 23, 2008, trial.

Bradley or Chelsea, you're still a traitor:

Here's a good argument starter from Charles Krauthammer:

I don't think this is as big a deal as some people will make it out to be:

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The members of the Supreme Court continue to communicate with one another through memos printed on ivory paper even as they face the prospect of hearing cases related to emerging technology and electronic snooping in the years to come, Justice Elena Kagan said Tuesday.

Oh, darn, I was hoping I could be a member of one of the new ones so I, too, could feel special:

The U.S. Supreme Court is making decisions that should be left to Congress or the people, from wiretapping to "inventing" new classes of minorities, Justice Antonin Scalia said Monday.

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