Whipped Cream Difficulties

California seems to be the home of that defense. I can’t find the post where I wrote about the teacher who had guns and drugs planted in his car (on school property) by his ex-wife and her boyfriend, but I do recall mentioning that.

Now we have a private detective agency that was allegedly taking money to set up ex-husbands on DUI charges.

I’ve got to admit that I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the way the LAT spins the story. I understand two chicks lured you to a bar, I understand one of them showed some cleavage; however, keeping under the legal limit is still your responsibility. There’s no evidence (and no accusation) that they drugged this poor guy’s drinks or anything like that.

On  the other hand:

In addition to setting up at least five DUIs, [Christopher Butler, the PI in question – DB] sold drugs for law enforcement officers and helped them open and operate a brothel, collecting and delivering the profits, according to prosecutors and a statement Butler gave them after his arrest.

That puts a different spin on things, but you don’t find out about these accusations until about halfway through the article.

Interesting legal note:

…prosecutors said Butler’s stings violated a little-used 19th century law that makes it a felony to conspire to subject another person to arrest. The female decoys have not been charged.

I wonder if Texas has a similar law?

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