Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers

chareverie writes "With how the internet has become, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become a tool for crime solvers, employers, and now, lawyers. Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunk driving case, the college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner, with the words 'jail bird' on his costume. Not surprisingly, his prosecutor was able to obtain photos of him at the party that were posted on Facebook, and claimed he was an 'unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital.' The photos were presented in a slideshow, with one of them showing Lipton holding a can of Red Bull in one hand, and an arm draped around a girl bearing sorority letters. The judge agreed with the prosecutor, and changed Lipton's sentence to two years in prison. The article also cites other instances of people getting harsher sentences from pictures of them posted online."

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Leftists are more stable

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

They don't let facts interfere with their policies. Just look at Obama :

2006 : "We must withdraw because it has no chance of success"
2007 : "I was always in favor of the surge"

Obama. Will screw up everything a lot worse than McCain could ever hope to do, but, on the plus side : he'll deny it afterwards.

And if you're wondering how deep the rabbit hole of leftist ideology versus facts goes, you might want to check who they supported until July 1941 and why. Not that the guy they supported after July 1941 was much better (a russian, take a wild guess who), but, on the plus side, he lied about it too.

And let's not forget that these minorities get "free passes" from the left over their own "little" transgressions : muslims applying a genocidally racist law (well the actual translation of sharia is "the path of a good muslim", it isn't a law, it's just a series of crimes, including paedophilia, that a good muslim should commit*) in Iran and Saudi arabia, Blacks in Zimbabwe (and a large part of South Africa), ... these are not nice guys and what they do is not excuseable in any way.

* in the words of arguably the most important islamic figure of the 20th century :

"A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister." - Ayatollah Khomeini, personal friend of Jimmy Carter, personally responsible for the killings of at least 50.000 people merely for disagreeing with him, and another 500.000

(if you wish to ascertain the source of the quote and it's authenticiy, just google the words)

Re:This was just on the news in Philly

[Anonymous Coward]

Your password is "Ihearthotbuttsecks". Write it down.

Re:This is Stupid

[cheekyboy]

what if you drive at 10mph?

that is safe, takes longer to get home, but do able if drunk.

How about ----- govt free taxis to drive drunk people home.

Im sure the cost of that would be 50x lower than drunk drives. Or like in europe, cheap public transport, that doesnt finish at 6pm, but 3am.

We need uber geeks in charge, and get rid of all those lawyers.

Mr. Orwell had a similar experience..

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to the mods: This is not a copy-and-paste troll, but a passage from Orwell's essay 'Such, Such Were the Joys'. I thought it was slightly pertinent (granted that a child's bet-wetting isn't comparable to drink-driving).

When I arrived to report myself, Bingo was doing something or other at
the long shiny table in the ante-room to the study. Her uneasy eyes
searched me as I went past. In the study Mr. Simpson, nicknamed Sim, was
waiting. Sim was a round-shouldered curiously oafish-looking man, not
large but shambling in gait, with a chubby face which was like that of an
overgrown baby, and which was capable of good humor. He knew, of course,
why I had been sent to him, and had already taken a bone-handled riding
crop out of the cupboard, but it was part of the punishment of reporting
yourself that you had to proclaim your offense with your own lips. When I
had said my say, he read me a short but pompous lecture, then seized me
by the scruff of the neck, twisted me over and began beating me with the
riding crop. He had a habit of continuing his lecture while he flogged
you, and I remember the words 'you dirty little boy' keeping time with
the blows. The beating did not hurt (perhaps as it was the first time, he
was not hitting me very hard), and I walked out feeling very much better.
The fact that the beating had not hurt was a sort of victory and
partially wiped out the shame of the bed-wetting. I was even incautious
enough to wear a grin on my face. Some small boys were hanging about in
the passage outside the door of the ante-room.

'D'you get the cane?'

'It didn't hurt,' I said proudly.

Bingo had heard everything. Instantly her voice came screaming after me:

'Come here! Come here this instant! What was that you said?'

'I said it didn't hurt,' I faltered out.

'How dare you say a thing like that? Do you think that is a proper thing
to say? Go in and REPORT YOURSELF AGAIN!'

This time Sim laid on in real earnest. He continued for a length of time
that frightened and astonished me--about five minutes, it seemed--
ending up by breaking the riding crop. The bone handle went flying across
the room.

HEY YO FUCKING JEW FAG

[lbane]

I see your last name is "klein". That confirms your identity.

Most fucking Jew fag want to be a lawyer so they can screw up the system. No wonder now 90% of the lawyers are kikes.

This guy deserve everything going his way. And we don't need any Jew fags to defend them.