The law and the jungle

Well, good luck on getting any police cooperation with your investigation in the future:

Another case of one thoughtless miscreant spoiling it for everybody else:

HOUSTON — For decades, Texas inmates scheduled to be executed had at least one thing to look forward to: a last meal. Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. ordered two breaded pork chops and three scrambled eggs in 2000. Frank Basil McFarland asked for a heaping portion of lettuce and four celery stalks in 1998. Doyle Skillern ate a sirloin steak in 1985. 

The Greenwood police chief is trying to figure out how to get rid of six new fully automatic handguns that he says the department doesn't need and which he refuses to pay for because there's no record of the order and no one can determine why the guns were sent to the department in the first place.

Police Chief Rick McQueary says they're too dangerous to use for officers who must carefully consider every shot.

You know, I think most of us out here in civilian land would also

Those who hoped the Indiana Supreme Court would rethink and perhaps soften its recent invalidation of the Castle Doctrine will be disappointed at this:

The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed its earlier ruling in a controversial case involving unlawful police entry.

So the gun owner was within the law, but people were upset by his actions so he's the problem?

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police and a gun-rights expert say a man who caused a commotion by carrying a holstered handgun on his hip at Evansville's zoo was within his rights under Indiana law, which now largely prohibits local governments from limiting gun possession.

Granted, it's tricky trying to second-guess the prosecution in a given case, because we don't have the intimate knowledge of all the facts and the prosecutor's experience in weighing those facts. But some actions appear more unjustified that others. This particular deal seems like the kind that gives plea bargaining a bad name:

OMG, Sarah Palin snorted cocaine!

How magnanimous of the state:

The US poker players have been gravely affected by the Black Friday incident which took place in April, cutting off many spectacular poker tourney offers. Replacing them, is a tiny home game which proves to be a decent alternative and the Indiana Government has agreed to let go these small games and catch hold of many big gambling concerns instead.

This is just nuts:

Country music stars Sugarland have been accused of "gross negligence and/or recklessness" by the family of a fan who was killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August (11).

The duo, comprised of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, have been named as defendants in a notice for a possible lawsuit over the catastrophe, which claimed a total of seven lives and left 40 injured.

I hate it when I have mixed feelings about the ACLU:

A new Florida law that requires welfare recipients to pass a drug test violates their constitutional rights, the American Civil Liberties Union is charging in a lawsuit.

The suit asserts that the mandatory drug testing is a violation of the right against unreasonable search and seizure.