Archive for March 23rd, 2012

Roundup from the police blotter.

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

A Smith County man busted for making his own liquor claims he was inspired by the cable TV series, ”Moonshiners,” authorities said.

Helpfully, the HouChron story includes an embedded commercial for “Moonshiners”.

“I don’t want to sound like I’m a chemist or anything, but the first alcohol that comes off the still is going to be a methane gas,” Stokke said. “You can’t drink it, and it’s probably more flammable than gasoline.”

Huh? Is he perhaps talking about methanol, not methane gas?

In other news: I really haven’t been paying attention to the trial of John Goodman (mostly because he seems to be FARK’s favorite d’bag, so my coverage would be redundant), but I am happy to report that he has been found guilty of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter. More coverage here. I’m hoping he gets the full 30 years and does every day of that time.

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Burn it to the ground and start over. (Part 4)

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Bad news: Karl F. Thompson Jr. still has not been sentenced for beating Otto Zehm to death.

Good news: It looks like two more officers with the Spokane PD are going to be charged with crimes related to Zehm’s death.

Attorneys representing Officers Sandra McIntyre and Tim Moses both confirmed today that they have entered discussions with federal prosecutors about potential obstruction of justice charges relating to their clients’ testimony during the investigation that led to the Nov. 3 conviction of former Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr.

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McIntyre testified three times before the grand jury in 2009. She admitted during her testimony at the 2011 trial that she met with an assistant city attorney who suggested that she answer “I don’t recall” to questions about the incident when in fact she did remember some portions of the event.

Question: if McIntyre is being charged with obstruction of justice, aren’t similar charges justified against the city attorney who suggested she lie under oath? Isn’t that, at the very least, subornation of perjury? And can’t you be disbarred for that, in addition to getting hard time in a federal prison?

(Hattip: the Injustice News Feed, by way of TJIC on the Twitter.)

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