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Re:Taco and I talked IRL, this is what happened.
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WTF DOES Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. MEAN????????
Re:Taco and I talked IRL, this is what happened.
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seeing that the links are goatse...
I dont think you want to know
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Hello. I am a 24 year old right-handed male. Up until now, I have been wiping my ass exclusively with my right hand holding the paper. Now I have decided to start alternating hands to hold the paper when I wipe my ass, so I can get an equal workout with both arms (I am a computer geek, so wiping my ass is about as much exercise as I get).
My efforts have been less than optimal. Holding the paper in my left hand just doesn't feel *right*, and I take almost twice as long to wipe. Do any Slashdoot readers have advice for transitioning from main-hand to off-hand wiping?
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Most of you must have noticed that the majority of the intelligent people have left Slashdot. There is a great thing happening underground - a completely new discussion forum for intelligent individuals. Hackers will need to request access to discussion forums and those who troll, will be kicked out and banned. It's the quality - not the quantity that matters. One could call this a secret society for hackers. Keep your eyes open!
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Heteros will need to request access to discussion forums...
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Re:Taco and I talked IRL, this is what happened.
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"Is it sweet and fitting to die for the country"
Not that it has anything to do with our current space porn topic.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitten as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
(Wilfred Owen)
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Daddy." Lisa grinned coquettishly and stretched out on her bed.
"Well, you have grown into quite a fuckable *DOH*! Er.. I mean attractive young lady. Said Homer. He awkwardly tried to position his paunch to hide his bulging hardon. His eyes travelled hungrily over Lisa's body. Her firm, perky breasts, long sleek legs, her smooth, lemony-yellow skin, the enticing sharp points of her hair.
Lisa giggled girlishly, her eyes crossing, "Daaad! Did you just say fuckable?" In her mind, she rejoiced. Her plan was coming to fruition. A lifetime of rebelling against the constraints of society was reaching a high point. Vegetarianism, Union Agitation, Animal Rights, Jazz , none of these acts compared in terms of social transgression to seducing her own father! "You weren't thinking about this, were you? Lisa turned the taut rumps of her pert young ass in Homer's direction.Homer drooled: "Aagggggh...Mmmmmm... sweet cheeks... NO! I love Marge... Must resist..."
"Awww cummeeerre..." Crooned Lisa, rolling slinkily over and leaning forward so Homer could see down her cleavage: "Daaad, I think you've got a present for me, hehehehee!" She reached out and unzipped
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Okay, CT, stop posting under other nicks--you've had too much manga today, so just settle down...:)
Re:Taco and I talked IRL, this is what happened.
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So are you saying Taco is telling the AC to die for Christmas Island? I should've known CmdrTaco was a traitor.
MOD UP, hilarious parody
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hahahaha this was right on
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Do you wash your forearms after wiping your ass? Wiping with your right hand transfers some fæces on to your arm hairs, but wiping with the unaccustomed hand really saturates the arm with fæcal matter. You'd be surprised at the number of people who neglect washing this important area.
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What12/03/96
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
NO. 94-KA-01226 COA
ROOSEVELT ANTHONY CROCKETT
APPELLANT
v.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
APPELLEE
THIS OPINION IS NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION AND
MAY NOT BE CITED, PURSUANT TO M.R.A.P. 35-B
TRIAL JUDGE: HON. KOSTA N. VLAHOS
COURT FROM WHICH APPEALED: HARRISON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT:
STEPHEN J. MAGGIO
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE:
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
BY: W.GLENN WATTS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY: MARK WARD
NATURE OF THE CASE: CRIMINAL: SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
TRIAL COURT DISPOSITION: SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: SENTENCED AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER TO A TERM OF 30 YRS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MDOC WITHOUT HOPE OF PAROLE OR PROBATION
BEFORE BRIDGES, P.J., KING, AND PAYNE, JJ.
BRIDGES, P.J., FOR THE COURT:
Roosevelt Crockett was convicted of selling a controlled substance as a habitual offender in Harrison County Circuit Court. From his conviction and sentence of thirty years, Crockett appeals to this Court on two issues: (1) whether the trial court erred in restricting the cross-examination of a witness, and (2) whether the trial court erred in denying a jury instruction on the issue of entrapment.
FACTS
On September 1, 1993, undercover agent Sean O'Neil drove to an area off Highway 49 in North Gulfport in a truck that had been previously fitted with a concealed camera and tape recorder. On reaching the corner of Alabama and Tyler, he saw several males standing at the corner. He slowed his truck and rolled down his window; Crockett then approached his car, and asked what he needed. Officer O'Neil explained that he needed a "twenty dollar piece." Crockett asked him for the money, to which O'Neil replied that he would not give him the money until he had the crack cocaine. Crockett jumped in the back of O'Neil's pick-up truck and directed him where to go in order to make the purchase. O'Neil drove there, Crockett got out of the pick-up, and returned a few minutes later with the crack cocaine.
ARGUMENT AND DISCUSSION OF THE LAW
I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING THE APPELLANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CROSS-EXAMINE A WITNESS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AN ENTRAPMENT DEFENSE.
During trial, the court refused to let Crockett develop the defense of entrapment while cross-examining Officer O'Neill. Crockett alleged that the multi-jurisdictional drug task force operated mostly in economically depressed areas, and its main purpose was to induce poor people and specific individuals to sell drugs.
The State explained that the task force was designed for the purpose of providing an opportunity for people already selling or wanting to sell drugs to do so, whether in North Gulfport or in any other area of Harrison County. Consistent with the State's argument, was testimony proving that Crockett approached the car on his own volition. He approached the car and asked what the officer needed. The officer did not verbally or physically ask Crockett to come over; he merely slowed the car.
During Officer O'Neil's cross-examination, testimony was proffered that proved that the undercover task force targeted both high and low economic areas and did not operate to isolate or entrap specific individuals.
Q. Did you in your two months with the narcotics Task Force, did y'all ever formulate plans to go to an area like Windance (a higher income area of Gulfport) and cruise that neighborhood and try to induce people to sell you drugs?
A. Yes, sir
Q. You did?
A. Uh, huh.
Q. And again, your plans were in fact to get somebody, your whole goal at this point was to get somebody, anybody, to sell you drugs that day, correct?
A. I wouldn't use the word 'get' myself. We would, you know, see the area, see if somebody would approach the vehicle for the possibility of buying narcotics.
Q. Was this going to be done telepathically, the communication, or by mind reading? How was it going to be done?
A. By cruising the area.
After having a bench conference, the trial judge sustained the State's objection to the entrapment line of questioning, and ruled that the theory of entrapment could not be developed on cross-examination.
With regard to the scope of cross-examination, the Supreme Court of Mississippi has stated that although the scope of cross-examination is usually very broad, it is within the sound discretion of the trial court to limit cross-examination to relevant matters. Hewlett v. State, 607 So. 2d 1097, 1100 (Miss. 1992). However, the discretion of the trial court is not without limits; the court has reversed where the trial court exceeded the limits in an area proper for cross-examination. Hewlett 607 So. 2d at 1100; Carr v. State, 655 So. 2d 824, 847 (Miss. 1995). Yet, "cross-examination on an irrelevant point is not permitted." Sayles v. State, 552 So. 2d 1383, 1386 (Miss. 1989).
Using his discretion, the trial judge ruled that prolonged cross-examination on the point of where the task force operated was irrelevant. As illustrated in Hewlett, Carr, and Sayles, the judge has the inherent power to limit cross-examination to relevant matters. For this reason, we believe this issue is without merit, and we affirm the lower court.
II. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING A JURY INSTRUCTION ON THE ISSUE OF ENTRAPMENT.
Crockett contends that the refusal to grant his requested jury instruction on entrapment was erroneous. Consistent with the standard of review for the denial of other instructions, the Mississippi Supreme Court requires in reviewing whether an entrapment instruction should have been given, that the accused "be given the benefit of all doubts about the evidence." King v. State, 530 So. 2d 1356, 1359 (Miss. 1988). Entrapment is an affirmative defense and, to secure an instruction on the defense, the accused is obligated to make a prima facie case of entrapment, and an instruction should only be refused when "the evidence is so one-sided that no reasonable juror could find" entrapment. King, 530 So. 2d at 1358-59; see Bush v. State, 585 So. 2d 1262, 1264 (Miss. 1991).
As for Crockett's requested jury instruction, the trial court ruled that there was no factual basis to allow for an entrapment instruction. Because the court restricted Crockett's cross-examination of Officer O'Neil to relevant matters, the defense was not able to expound on the entrapment theory and thus, was not able to make a prima facie case of entrapment, a prerequisite to a jury instruction on entrapment. As discussed above, the trial court ruled that the entrapment line of questioning was irrelevant and because of this, not a proper affirmative defense. Finding no assignment of error which warrants reversal, we affirm the lower court.
THE JUDGMENT OF THE HARRISON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT OF SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND SENTENCE AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER FOR A TERM OF THIRTY YEARS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS AFFIRMED. HARRISON COUNTY IS TAXED WITH ALL COSTS OF THIS APPEAL.
FRAISER, C.J., BARBER, COLEMAN, DIAZ, KING, McMILLIN, PAYNE, AND SOUTHWICK, JJ., CONCUR. THOMAS, P.J., NOT PARTICIPATING.
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oh yea right that's gonna work
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1. add camera 2. link posted on/. on launch day 3. server fries before launch 4. profit?
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WTF DOES Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. MEAN????????
seeing that the links are goatse...
I dont think you want to know
My efforts have been less than optimal. Holding the paper in my left hand just doesn't feel *right*, and I take almost twice as long to wipe. Do any Slashdoot readers have advice for transitioning from main-hand to off-hand wiping?
Most of you must have noticed that the majority of the intelligent people have left Slashdot. There is a great thing happening underground - a completely new discussion forum for intelligent individuals. Hackers will need to request access to discussion forums and those who troll, will be kicked out and banned. It's the quality - not the quantity that matters. One could call this a secret society for hackers. Keep your eyes open!
"Is it sweet and fitting to die for the country"
Not that it has anything to do with our current space porn topic.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitten as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Wilfred Owen)
"Well, you have grown into quite a fuckable *DOH*! Er.. I mean attractive young lady. Said Homer. He awkwardly tried to position his paunch to hide his bulging hardon. His eyes travelled hungrily over Lisa's body. Her firm, perky breasts, long sleek legs, her smooth, lemony-yellow skin, the enticing sharp points of her hair.
Lisa giggled girlishly, her eyes crossing, "Daaad! Did you just say fuckable?" In her mind, she rejoiced. Her plan was coming to fruition. A lifetime of rebelling against the constraints of society was reaching a high point. Vegetarianism, Union Agitation, Animal Rights, Jazz , none of these acts compared in terms of social transgression to seducing her own father! "You weren't thinking about this, were you? Lisa turned the taut rumps of her pert young ass in Homer's direction.Homer drooled: "Aagggggh...Mmmmmm... sweet cheeks... NO! I love Marge... Must resist..."
"Awww cummeeerre..." Crooned Lisa, rolling slinkily over and leaning forward so Homer could see down her cleavage: "Daaad, I think you've got a present for me, hehehehee!" She reached out and unzipped
Okay, CT, stop posting under other nicks--you've had too much manga today, so just settle down... :)
Jeezus: Simpsons Pr0n?
Is nothing sacred?
So are you saying Taco is telling the AC to die for Christmas Island? I should've known CmdrTaco was a traitor.
hahahaha this was right on
Do you wash your forearms after wiping your ass? Wiping with your right hand transfers some fæces on to your arm hairs, but wiping with the unaccustomed hand really saturates the arm with fæcal matter. You'd be surprised at the number of people who neglect washing this important area.
What12/03/96 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI NO. 94-KA-01226 COA ROOSEVELT ANTHONY CROCKETT APPELLANT v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI APPELLEE THIS OPINION IS NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION AND MAY NOT BE CITED, PURSUANT TO M.R.A.P. 35-B TRIAL JUDGE: HON. KOSTA N. VLAHOS COURT FROM WHICH APPEALED: HARRISON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT: STEPHEN J. MAGGIO ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BY: W.GLENN WATTS DISTRICT ATTORNEY: MARK WARD NATURE OF THE CASE: CRIMINAL: SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TRIAL COURT DISPOSITION: SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: SENTENCED AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER TO A TERM OF 30 YRS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MDOC WITHOUT HOPE OF PAROLE OR PROBATION BEFORE BRIDGES, P.J., KING, AND PAYNE, JJ. BRIDGES, P.J., FOR THE COURT: Roosevelt Crockett was convicted of selling a controlled substance as a habitual offender in Harrison County Circuit Court. From his conviction and sentence of thirty years, Crockett appeals to this Court on two issues: (1) whether the trial court erred in restricting the cross-examination of a witness, and (2) whether the trial court erred in denying a jury instruction on the issue of entrapment. FACTS On September 1, 1993, undercover agent Sean O'Neil drove to an area off Highway 49 in North Gulfport in a truck that had been previously fitted with a concealed camera and tape recorder. On reaching the corner of Alabama and Tyler, he saw several males standing at the corner. He slowed his truck and rolled down his window; Crockett then approached his car, and asked what he needed. Officer O'Neil explained that he needed a "twenty dollar piece." Crockett asked him for the money, to which O'Neil replied that he would not give him the money until he had the crack cocaine. Crockett jumped in the back of O'Neil's pick-up truck and directed him where to go in order to make the purchase. O'Neil drove there, Crockett got out of the pick-up, and returned a few minutes later with the crack cocaine. ARGUMENT AND DISCUSSION OF THE LAW I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING THE APPELLANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CROSS-EXAMINE A WITNESS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AN ENTRAPMENT DEFENSE. During trial, the court refused to let Crockett develop the defense of entrapment while cross-examining Officer O'Neill. Crockett alleged that the multi-jurisdictional drug task force operated mostly in economically depressed areas, and its main purpose was to induce poor people and specific individuals to sell drugs. The State explained that the task force was designed for the purpose of providing an opportunity for people already selling or wanting to sell drugs to do so, whether in North Gulfport or in any other area of Harrison County. Consistent with the State's argument, was testimony proving that Crockett approached the car on his own volition. He approached the car and asked what the officer needed. The officer did not verbally or physically ask Crockett to come over; he merely slowed the car. During Officer O'Neil's cross-examination, testimony was proffered that proved that the undercover task force targeted both high and low economic areas and did not operate to isolate or entrap specific individuals. Q. Did you in your two months with the narcotics Task Force, did y'all ever formulate plans to go to an area like Windance (a higher income area of Gulfport) and cruise that neighborhood and try to induce people to sell you drugs? A. Yes, sir Q. You did? A. Uh, huh. Q. And again, your plans were in fact to get somebody, your whole goal at this point was to get somebody, anybody, to sell you drugs that day, correct? A. I wouldn't use the word 'get' myself. We would, you know, see the area, see if somebody would approach the vehicle for the possibility of buying narcotics. Q. Was this going to be done telepathically, the communication, or by mind reading? How was it going to be done? A. By cruising the area. After having a bench conference, the trial judge sustained the State's objection to the entrapment line of questioning, and ruled that the theory of entrapment could not be developed on cross-examination. With regard to the scope of cross-examination, the Supreme Court of Mississippi has stated that although the scope of cross-examination is usually very broad, it is within the sound discretion of the trial court to limit cross-examination to relevant matters. Hewlett v. State, 607 So. 2d 1097, 1100 (Miss. 1992). However, the discretion of the trial court is not without limits; the court has reversed where the trial court exceeded the limits in an area proper for cross-examination. Hewlett 607 So. 2d at 1100; Carr v. State, 655 So. 2d 824, 847 (Miss. 1995). Yet, "cross-examination on an irrelevant point is not permitted." Sayles v. State, 552 So. 2d 1383, 1386 (Miss. 1989). Using his discretion, the trial judge ruled that prolonged cross-examination on the point of where the task force operated was irrelevant. As illustrated in Hewlett, Carr, and Sayles, the judge has the inherent power to limit cross-examination to relevant matters. For this reason, we believe this issue is without merit, and we affirm the lower court. II. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING A JURY INSTRUCTION ON THE ISSUE OF ENTRAPMENT. Crockett contends that the refusal to grant his requested jury instruction on entrapment was erroneous. Consistent with the standard of review for the denial of other instructions, the Mississippi Supreme Court requires in reviewing whether an entrapment instruction should have been given, that the accused "be given the benefit of all doubts about the evidence." King v. State, 530 So. 2d 1356, 1359 (Miss. 1988). Entrapment is an affirmative defense and, to secure an instruction on the defense, the accused is obligated to make a prima facie case of entrapment, and an instruction should only be refused when "the evidence is so one-sided that no reasonable juror could find" entrapment. King, 530 So. 2d at 1358-59; see Bush v. State, 585 So. 2d 1262, 1264 (Miss. 1991). As for Crockett's requested jury instruction, the trial court ruled that there was no factual basis to allow for an entrapment instruction. Because the court restricted Crockett's cross-examination of Officer O'Neil to relevant matters, the defense was not able to expound on the entrapment theory and thus, was not able to make a prima facie case of entrapment, a prerequisite to a jury instruction on entrapment. As discussed above, the trial court ruled that the entrapment line of questioning was irrelevant and because of this, not a proper affirmative defense. Finding no assignment of error which warrants reversal, we affirm the lower court. THE JUDGMENT OF THE HARRISON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT OF SALE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND SENTENCE AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER FOR A TERM OF THIRTY YEARS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS AFFIRMED. HARRISON COUNTY IS TAXED WITH ALL COSTS OF THIS APPEAL. FRAISER, C.J., BARBER, COLEMAN, DIAZ, KING, McMILLIN, PAYNE, AND SOUTHWICK, JJ., CONCUR. THOMAS, P.J., NOT PARTICIPATING. 's this? I don't get it!
1. add camera /. on launch day
2. link posted on
3. server fries before launch
4. profit?
We get signal.
What happen?
Somebody set us up the slashdot.
IT'S YOU!
CmdrTaco: How are you, gentlemen?
All your shuttle are belong to us... (etc)
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