For those of you who read my post Thursday on the Orange County gang rape case, the O.C. Weekly has been doing a good job following the case. (And taking advantage of the fact that, as an alt weekly, they can publish all the bad words the O.C. Register won’t.)
First, this piece, which does a convincing job showing was a bunch of drunken teenaged goons these rapists are.
But this piece is the one to read. The first half is about a (probably minor) courtroom screwup by the prosecution. But the last two paragraphs may be the a new low for the legal profession. How these defense attorneys can sleep at night, I’ll never know.
The victim in the case, known only as Jane Doe, testifies tomorrow.
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harpy
Today’s Word That Should Be Used More Often: harpy.
suze orman crazy
Since this web site was long ago established as the source for photos of Suze Orman looking bite-the-head-off-a-puppy crazy, I present this ad taken from Yahoo Mail today.
Crazy, I tell you! She’s crazy!
car commercial
I love this car commercial.
pitchfork, rich dork
A fun parody of Pitchfork. I loved the band names for the fake album titles (Ed Neilson and His Fantastic Broken Casio Keyboard, Dreams of Motorbikes and Stew, J.E.R.K., Underground Indie Band, Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero One).
school fin session story
Here’s my story from page 2 today, on educator reactions to yesterday’s collapse of the legislature’s school finance special session.
blame the victim rape case
You hear a lot about blame-the-victim strategies in rape trials, but this seems to take the cake. (It’s a case where three teen boys — one of them the son of an assistant sheriff — are charged with gang-raping an unconscious girl and videotaping the act.)
In just his opening statement, a pacing, finger-pointing [defense attorney Joseph] Cavallo told the jury that the girl
austin roller derby
I think I know what I’ll be doing next time I’m in Austin.
fiona engaged!
Huge, epic, sweeping congratulations to one of the world’s most wonderful people, Fiona Havers, for getting engaged. Stephen is a very lucky man. Their offspring will someday rule our planet.
babysit the guv
I had to babysit the governor yesterday, and here’s the story that came out of it.
(For the record, “to babysit” is not a derogatory term in the journo world. It just means “to attend and cover a function at which an important person is expected to attend — even if no news is expected to be generated.”)