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- Hostage-Taker Updates Facebook Status, Adds Friends During Standoff
- The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions
| Hostage-Taker Updates Facebook Status, Adds Friends During Standoff | Top |
| It strikes me that the 21st century equivalent of "did I just say that out loud" is "did I just post that to Facebook?" And this seems to be particularly true lately for people engaged in violent felonies. As Paula Martersteck noted here last month, alleged bank robbers are already tripping themselves up and being arrested after posting things such as "I'm rich, b*tch" and "WIPE MY TEETH WITH HUNDEREDS" on Facebook. But that is just "after-the-fact" stuff. What about the people in the news this month who actually incorporated Facebook into their alleged crimes? Take 20-year-old mother London Eley, for example. Philadelphia police allege that Eley went on to Facebook and offered $1,000 to anyone who would be willing to kill her ex-boyfriend, the Daily Mail reports. "I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father," she allegedly wrote. The word 'stack' is reportedly slang for $1,000. Police say a man responded to the posting and arranged to meet Eley, but this master scheme was undone when the ex-boyfriend/potential victim's aunt saw the messages on Facebook and alerted authorities. That was quickly followed by reports Tuesday of a bizarre incident in which an "armed man held a... | |
| The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions | Top |
| Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm a defendant in a serious criminal trial, and I'm pretty sure one of the jurors deciding my fate has a crush on the prosecutor! She just wrote a note calling him a "cutie!" This has to be a mistrial, right? Answer: Nope! (Times Union, Court rules juror's crush on lawyer is fine) (via Bad Lawyer) 2) Question: I work as a bank teller. A bank robber just came in and demanded that I give him one dollar and said that he would be waiting for the police in a chair near the entrance. This was not covered in the training -- what am I supposed to do here? Answer: Sometimes people rob banks for one dollar so that they can be arrested and receive prison medical treatment. It happens. (Consumerist, Man Holds Up Bank For $1 And Free Prison Medical Care) 3) Question: If another shopper at Trader Joe's and I get into a fight because we reach for the last box of frozen vegan Pad Thai at the same time, and I slap the other shopper in her face, can I... | |
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