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It turned out he wasn't a suspect, and eventually had a long career in the NFL. But that guy got royally screwed on draft day.
- Published by D Magazine this morning. I've wondered about this, too. (h/t to BagOfNothing.)
- The Ashlee Long case in Dallas is going to be a mess. Yesterday there was a bond reduction hearing where the full surveillance video of the shooting was shown. Only bits and pieces of it were aired on the local news stations, but the whole unedited hearing is preserved, for now, on YouTube. I've got it cued up to when the prosecutors walked the judge through the video. By the way, the victim's boyfriend is moron.
- Dateline Arizona: Ok, things are getting weird.
- The story describes it as a "Victim Impact Statement", but unlike Texas where victim statements are allowed after sentencing, this came before the judge imposed the sentence. Legal nerdy stuff: There is a serious 6th Amendment confrontation clause issue here.
- Just when you're processing that Trump called the head of the Federal Reserve a fool, you are buried in an avalanche of lies this morning.
- Weird and goofy things the Texas legislature is currently doing:
- Making it a crime to release a balloon outside. Really. It passed the House yesterday 97-40.
- Setting up a Texas Star Chamber to decide if a federal law or action is, in their opinion, constitutional and, if not, then referring it to the legislature as a whole to "invalidate" it. Anyone down there ever heard of Separation of Powers? It doesn't work that way. If it did, the South sure could have used such a law after Brown v. Board of Education. The bill passed 94-53.
- This bill is not to be confused with the one mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every school.
- Legal crazy stuff: The Fifth Circuit saw nothing wrong with a trial judge ordering criminal defendants in his court to obtain a GPS ankle monitor device and directing them to get it, at a cost of $300 a month, to a business ("ETOH") owned by his former law partner and current campaign donor.
- Messenger - Above the Fold
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