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10 Jan 2006, 22:28
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For Those of You Who Wondered
For those of you who wondered if I were truly a DDA, here is my name in my home town paper. Not much really but it is always fun to see your name in print.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.d...25/1001/NEWS01
Have any of you ever been in the news? If so what for? If not, what do you think you might someday be in the news for.
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10 Jan 2006, 22:31
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
Is it possible you can spend the entire trial making jokes about the defence attorney being called Ralph, throwing in the occasional Happy Days reference, and ending your sentences in "Ayyyyyyyyyy" for extra bonus points?
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It was matter for general remark,
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10 Jan 2006, 22:33
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by dda
Have any of you ever been in the news? If so what for? If not, what do you think you might someday be in the news for.
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My being in the news may be good or it may be crummy, but Mrs Lawrence didn't raise any children dippy enough to talk about it in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer.
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10 Jan 2006, 22:36
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark
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10 Jan 2006, 23:07
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
Lester Fleming....
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10 Jan 2006, 23:11
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by HAL-9000
Yeah I been all over the news and on TV. Google "Steve Bond"+"Spruce Moose". People are talking about me in italy, canada and brazil for crying out loud. Bizarre. I still think that it's rediculous and all respect i (might have) had for the media has dissipated. You are in the news for a slightly more serious reason! So, you are enjoying your fame?
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did you edit wikipedia yourself?
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10 Jan 2006, 23:19
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
Ive been in the media three times I think.
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10 Jan 2006, 23:23
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
whats with the weird bail amount ?
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11 Jan 2006, 00:08
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
Lester Fleming is a good name for a lawyer. I can envision someone called lester fleming getting me off one or two murder charges in the future.
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11 Jan 2006, 00:26
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Has Soup On His Head
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Lester Fleming is a good name for a lawyer. I can envision someone called lester fleming getting me off one or two murder charges in the future.
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I can envisage someone called Lester Fleming defending you on a D&D / BOTP case in the near future, but not murder.
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It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
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11 Jan 2006, 02:16
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
whats with the weird bail amount ?
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Normal bail for murder in this county is $1 million. However, there is no way this guy is going to run away and he has a reasonably good chance of winning the case. I agreed that the bail could be set at $200,000 but the judge didn't want to seem like he was being too soft on this guy just because he was a businessman. So he set it at 1/3 of a million.
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11 Jan 2006, 02:43
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
From that newsclip it doesnt seem like the guy has a lot of chance to me.
But I guess you more of the finer details than us.
Care to elaborate (if you are allowed)?
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11 Jan 2006, 03:08
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
I have been in the Dutch news quite a while ago..
After a joyride that ended by driving trough a tree and a brick wall
then the car launched, it flew a few meters and bounced a bit
and it eventually landed upside down
That vehicle was as safe as a tank..
I didn't even get a scratch
Thank god for Insurance Companies
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11 Jan 2006, 03:14
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
I've been in the local paper quite a few times for things like St. Davids day school photos and I was mentioned in my schools A level results. The only really half newsworthy reason though was when I was a kid I won some trophy with Beavers for helping my mother after the living room ceiling collapsed on her which made the local paper.
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11 Jan 2006, 03:16
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
My reputation in the neighberhood went skyrocket after that
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11 Jan 2006, 21:55
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
i am in a local paper on a regular basis advertising our art gallery and different exhibitions
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11 Jan 2006, 22:31
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
I was on the front page of a few national papers and so on. There was a massive fishkill when an entire river here was polluted and wiped just about everything out for 150miles.
And I was the face of that fishkill, pulling a dead salmon out of the water at the age of 14.
I'm surprised the modeling contracts didn't come rolling in.
To be honest, I couldn't give a toss. Getting my name known, mentioned etc is not something that I seek. Only that my alias 'Doctor Doominator' will be known soon enough....
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11 Jan 2006, 23:13
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by G.K Zhukov
From that newsclip it doesnt seem like the guy has a lot of chance to me.
But I guess you more of the finer details than us.
Care to elaborate (if you are allowed)?
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It really is going to be an unusual case. Just to give you a few of the salient facts:
What started this was that the defendant, who owns a burglar alarm company, discovered a car that he believe had been involved in a rural burglary of an agricultural building from which tools and petroleum products were stolen.
The defendant went driving around his neighborhood (it is a rural area of farms and vinyards) and spotted what he felt was the suspect vehicle parked near the victim's driveway. He called the sheriffs who responded.
A check of the registration came back to a man who had a warrant out for his arrest for violating the terms of his parole.
The sheriffs contacted the victim (home owner) and asked who else should be on the property and whether or not the car was his. He replied that the car wasn't his and that there was one hispanic gentleman who was staying in a motor home on the rear of his property.
The sheriffs went to the motor home and found a non-hispanic individual in the motor home who they ran a warrants check on and found out that he had various warrants for non-violent type offenses. He was arrested on the warrants.
When he was being taken off, the sherrif's deputy asked the victim (homeowner) if he knew the person being arrested. He hesitated (it was 4 am and he had been awakened and the lighting was fairly poor at the time). The person being arrested spoke and said, "Hey, Mark. Tell them who I am." At this point the victim (home owner) said, "Oh, yeah. I know him."
The alarm company owner was allowed to wander around and observe all of this. One of the deputies even told him that the owner of the car, who was not located at that time, was a parolee-at -large and should be considered armed and dangerous. The alarm company owner was also carrying a 9mm, semi-automatic handgun in a holster on his hip. He did not have a permit to carry such a weapon but the deputies, although aware of it never questioned his carrying it. A truly stupid thing to allow.
The defendant (alarm company owner) went home mad at the sheriffs thinking that they had let a dangerous criminal get away. He also left convinced that the victim (home owner) was involved in the rash of neighborhood burglaries.
The victim (home owner) went back to bed irritated with the alarm company guy for bringing the sheriffs out to his house.
The next day the defendant (alarm company owner) contacted the Rural Crimes Task Force detectives who returned to the victim (home owner)'s house and, the victim (home owner) being at work (he was a painter) the detectives asked the victim's wife if they could look around as there might be stuff from a burglary on her property. She cooperated and let them look in those places they asked if they could look. They found nothing.
When the victim came home from work, his wife told him that the detectives had been over and had made a partial search of their property. The victim got angry and, over the next hour or two, got in his pick up and drove past the defendant's home (about 1.5 miles away). He squeeled his tires going around the corner where the defendant lives.
At some point, the defendant, instead of calling the sherrif's office and reporting what was happening, decided to strap his gun and holster on his belt and to drive over to the property across the street from the victim's house. (The defendant's company was installing a burglar alarm at a house (read that mansion) that was being built across the street from the victim's house.
The victim made one last pass by the defendant's house and started home. He could see that the defendant was parked on the property. However, where he was parked by this time was headed off of the property onto another street, not toward the victim's house. However, the angry victim decided to stop and confront the defendant.
The two men are the same height and the victim was 7 pounds heavier than the defendant. The victim was 43 and the defendant 42. A fair fight.
There was about 75 yards between the defendant and the victim when the victim got out of his truck and started approaching the defendant.
The defendant claims that the victim went back into his truck and got a knife out of it and came toward him with a knife in his hand. Witnesses in the area didn't see a knife but may have been far enough away that they might have missed it. A knife was never found but there were people, including friends and relatives of the victim who showed up before the sherrifs got there. The defendant claims that one of them must have pocketed the knife. A 4-inch knife was found in the victim's pickup truck afterwards but he was a painter and had numerous knives, box cutters, etc. that were part of his stock in trade.
The defendant claims that the victim charged him and that he only shot the victim (twice) when the victim lunged at him from five feet away.
Witness confirm that the defendant backed away from the victim and told him several time to stop and come no closer before shooting him. However, they say that while the victim was obviously angry, they didn't see him do anything physically threatening before the shots were fired while the two were 10-15 feet apart.
One witness said that there was a pause between the first and second shot during which the victim clutched his chest, began to turn away from the defendant, and was then shot the second time. Forensic evidence (the angles of the wound) appear to confirm this story.
It is all going to be about self-defense. If the jury believes that the victim was coming at the defendant with a knife, he will be found not guilty. If they feel that the defendant is lying and that there was no knife they will convict him of either murder or manslaughter.
There will be a lot of jury sympathy for the business man defendant.
Oh, by the way, while I don't believe that the victim was part of it, the victim's wife, some of her friends and relatives were in fact responsible for the burglaries of the agricultural buildings in the area and a large amount of stolen property was recovered from the victim's property. This wasn't discovered until several weeks after his death. Hopefully, the judge will not allow the defense to put this into evidence.
We shall see.
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12 Jan 2006, 00:59
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Sounds extremely interesting, wouldn't mind being updated as to what happened after that case completes trial. It'll all be about witness credibility, as you said.
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"Put to him by the Evening Standard that there had been a lot of concern about the Government not having a Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the PMOS said that he was indebted to the Evening Standard for selflessly reflecting the concern of others and he was sure it had been the cause of many sleepless nights. He would pass on those concerns to the person concerned."
Classic.
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Reason: no actual edit...but why the hell did someone want to neg rep me for this post? :((((
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12 Jan 2006, 01:54
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Cool. We know someone important. \o/
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12 Jan 2006, 02:25
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
He knows Tony Blair, T&F ftw.
I guess in certain areas of America, you'd be seen as St. Peter to Tony's Jesus. Except for the french maid's outfit stuff. It'd be cool in San Francisco but less so in the Bible Belt
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12 Jan 2006, 03:16
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
I was on national TV once.
Naked.
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Originally Posted by blink 182
Breathing deeply, walking backwards,
finding strength to call and ask her
Roller coaster favorite ride,
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12 Jan 2006, 10:12
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
The world's first Noir Press Officer.
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12 Jan 2006, 11:01
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
Journalist: I don't like your manners.
T&F: And I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
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Clam it honeycheecks, I'll decide what the situation is. All I know is, this looks like a case for Toccata & Fugue.
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12 Jan 2006, 14:36
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
And that's why they'll never let you back in The Crucible.
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That wasn't me though.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blink 182
Breathing deeply, walking backwards,
finding strength to call and ask her
Roller coaster favorite ride,
let me kiss you one last time.
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12 Jan 2006, 20:42
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
That's right I'm out there laying it on the line every day.
T&F: You want answers?
Press Officer: I think I'm entitled to them.
T&F: You want answers?
Press Officer: I want the truth!
Jessep: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has photocopiers, and those photocopiers have to be operated by men with nothing better to do. Who's gonna do it? You? You? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for your Green paper press release and you curse the Admin staff. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that doing the press notice double sided , while tragic, probably saved paper. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves paper. You don't want the truth because deep down, in places you don't talk about at cocktail parties, you want me answering the phone. You need me answering the phone. We use words like honor, code, loyalty... We use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up the phone and answer idiotic questions by retarded journalists. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Press Officer: Did you photocopy the Green paper press notice double sided?
T&F: (quietly) I did the job you sent me to do.
Press Officer: Did you photocopy the Green paper press notice double sided?
T&F: You're goddamn right I did!!
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I don't know how to cut and paste for quote of the month. Would someone please nominate this who knows how?
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12 Jan 2006, 20:55
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
Done.
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12 Jan 2006, 20:56
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Re: For Those of You Who Wondered
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Done.
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Go back to the thread...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blink 182
Breathing deeply, walking backwards,
finding strength to call and ask her
Roller coaster favorite ride,
let me kiss you one last time.
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