Alternate Juror #1: February 2006

Tough neighborhood

Unidentified man's head bashed elsewhere and dumped in West Houston:

Houston police are investigating the apparent beating death of a man found in the 4500 block of Palo Pinto about 5 a.m. today.

Houston Chronicle

Michael Morales escapes gallows

This is ridiculous. Its been over twenty years since Morales raped, bludgeoned and stabbed to death 17-year-old Terri Winchell .

Where is the fucking justice? Why does justice always have to be the principle that is pushed aside when these court squabbles erupt? Terri Winchell deserves justice. Terri's family deserves justice.Where is the outrage for Terri?

Why does the person who shoots the drugs into the condemned man have to be a licensed doctor? It's a pretty straighforward procedure, isn't it? Fly me out there on a red-eye, give me some brief instructions, and I'll dispatch this piece of shit and probably be able to sleep on the red-eye home.

Five dead in Mesa home

Five people were found dead in an upscale Mesa, Arizona home. Cops were responding to a shots fired call when the bodies were found in the home.

AP reports that it was several hours after the first cops arrived before SWAT entered the house. No other information has been released at this time.

It's either mass murder suicide, or a crime-related retaliation of some kind.

We'll see.

Who did the decorating?

I like the colors of this theme, but the little flowers must go!

Not a Newbie

For those who have stumbled upon this blog at random... Though it may seem like it, I am not a complete newbie to blogging. My original blog is called enormous iNCoNgrUiTieS and is where I started blogging over two years ago.

For about five years before I started blogging in ernest, I was a moderator of and heavy contributor to Repoman.com, a forum-style discussion board whose subject matter was skip-tracing, fraud investigations, repossessions, concealed carry, general business, and legal issues regarding all of the above. So I have quite an extensive background in writing on the Internet over the last seven years.

In enormous iNCoNGrUiTieS there is a varied assortment of subject matter with well over one thousand posts. My thinking today is that I can split the blog in to about four or five broad categories and make a new blog for each broad category. Why have one blog when I can have four with about the same amount of work?

This is my initial stab at the new broad categories:

Politics and culture - enormous iNCoNgrUiTieS
Crime and Punishment - Alternate Juror #1
Technical adventures - The Garage
Photo blogging - Gulf Coast Texas

I think there might be one more by the time all is said and done but that is the gist of it.

Fornow, if you are interested in some of my previous work, here is a link to my writings on crime and justice and here is a link to my coverage of sensational murder trials, including Erica Ruiz, James Wiley, Joan Shannon, Jenny Eisenman, Rice Lake murders (Chai Soua Vang,) and others are also over at my other blog.

Put the salad down, or else...

I don't know about you all, but the cops seem a bit out of control? Don't they?

Danon Gale, 29, agreed to drop his $500,000 civil-rights lawsuit in exchange for prosecutors dropping five of six charges filed against him. He pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace.

The city will pay his legal and medical bills -- but Gale still has to pay a fine. "I was wrongfully arrested, beat up, Tasered, and now a $500 fine," he said.

If I was on a jury, I'd have given the guy $500,000 for some bull like that. I bet there was about two or three car loads of cops there to do all that too. I wonder if anyone was robbed or raped while those cops were beating the shit out of a guy for using the wrong plate at Chuck-e Cheese?