One Trick Pony: Douglas Tinker, Defender
“Douglas Tinker died on November 10, 2008….”
Someone “tweeted” the link to Douglas’s obituary. I tried reading it out loud to my wife and actually made it almost three-quarters of the way through before breaking down.
My wife paid me a great compliment. And I hope I truly find a way to live up to it. She said, “He sounds like you.”
Rest in peace, Douglas. Although I never knew you, I miss you. I really miss you.
Last Night I Was Arrested For Drunk Driving
Last night you were celebrating the new year with friends. You didn’t think you’d had too much to drink, but on the way home, you were arrested for driving under the influence.
Now what?
Building a Nastier World Through Law
Yesterday’s Fresno Bee contained several Letters to the Editor which help to demonstrate why the world is becoming a nastier place. Now, to be clear, I don’t believe the people who wrote those letters want the world to be a nastier place. It’s clear from reading them that they combine a lack of understanding with a belief that their position will contribute to — so they impliedly appear to believe — making the world a better place.
Truth is, this lack of understanding helps make the world nastier. And not just for the targets of the wrath of these Law & Order types.
Submitizens II
Nicole Black’s recent article in The Daily Record may help snap me out of the funk I’ve been in since the day I wrote Submitizens.
The funk started not so much because of the rules implemented by the court — the day California courts honor the United States Constitution will be a surprising day indeed! — but rather because of the reaction of other defense attorneys to my opinions regarding the newly-implemented rules.
Submitizens
Approaching the courthouse doors, I was puzzled to see a small line at the attorneys’ door. “That’s odd,” I thought. “There’s never a line here.” And the line wasn’t moving very fast; in fact, as I and a couple of others approached, it was clearly getting longer.
As the line moved forward and I got close enough, I felt anger rising as I realized why there was a line.
Not Enough Crime, Police Resort to Decoys
A story in yesterday’s Fresno Bee reveals the Fresno Police Department apparently has been becalmed by a serious decrease in crime.
In what looks like a move to avoid layoffs at the police department, the Fresno police have “assigned plainclothes minors to ask adults to buy them liquor at liquor stores and other sellers of alcohol over the holidays.” (News Briefs (November 29, 2008) Fresno Bee, p. B2, col. 3.)
The police department is currently so overstaffed that they were forced to work at four establishments selling alcohol and will continue entrapment proceedings around town “to see whether adults will break the law for youths.” (Id.)
Fresno Criminal Defense attorney Rick Horowitz hopes citizens will do their part to ensure our police department does not suffer significant layoffs heading into the holiday season.
Under New Management
FresnoCriminalDefense.com was purchased by the Fresno criminal defense lawyer Rick Horowitz on November 27, 2008.
The site is currently being designed and should hopefully be built within the next week or two.
