A Jack McCoy Day

Even though I don't really have any desire to go into criminal law, there are just some days when you just want to prosecute people, Law & Order style. I seriously wonder if I should keep reading the news because I'm getting these desires to lock up people, for maybe even things that they can't be prosecuted for. Based on today's news, here's who I would put on trial in my own little world with my own little laws:

• OJ Simpson & Fox for having absolutely no souls: Before class this morning someone mentioned how OJ Simpson wrote a book called "If I did it: Here's How it Happened." I didn't believe it, but lo and behond, I find the article on the front page of the Washington Post. OJ wrote a hypothetical confession and Fox is doing a special on it. I honestly don't know who's worse. OJ, someone who obviously has no shame and doesn't appear at all to care about the psychological effects that this will have on his children or the Goldman family. Or Fox, who has no shame either and will do anything for ratings and dollars. Unfortunately OJ's already been through the judicial system and they found him not guilty criminally (thank goodness for the civil system making him dish out the dough).

• Some members of the UCPD for acting just like some of their big brothers at the LAPD*: Since I don't know all the facts about this case, this is only speculation based on this article I saw online. But in a nutshell, it seemed like the police tasered a student who was leaving the library not once but five times. Whether he had ID card or not, this seems like a very extreme measure to take to get a college student, even with an attitude, out of the library. What's worse is that the police threatened to taser students around who were just telling them to stop because the student was on the ground screaming and telling a girl to back off who asked for their name and badge numbers. *I amended this to "some UCPD members" rather than all of UCPD. After reading my friend's LJ, I remembered that there are good UCPD members out there who have been extrodinarily nice to me, especially with my many LaRouche incidents. I think and hope that these officers who tasered the student are anomoly to the rest, and that UCPD punishes them accordingly.
  

• A California Couple for trying to join the "mile high club." Ok, I wasn't as outraged with this article as the first two but since I like to put examples in groups of three, I decided to include this CNN story. As someone who's had to sit by a couple expressing personal displays of affection, I can see why the flight attendants had police meet this couple at the arrival gate.

On a happier note, my memo is finally done and turned in! To celebrate, we all went back to someone's house and had a nice little bbq. Who says law students have no fun.