2006

“Holy Grail” + LSD + Off-Duty Cop = Jail

Two Boulder teenagers, Robert Hibbs and Brad Boville, were arrested on July 6, 2006, for "menacing" people and possessing LSD and marijuana.  Probably they had done more than just "possess" it, I would guess. That's because they had taken up a…



Who Not to Steal From, #287

As in Who Not to Steal From, #165, the answer here is also "The judge presiding over your criminal hearing."  In #165, the item stolen was the judge’s gavel, which has a certain special comedy to it, but there the…





Sign-Switcher Convicted Anyway

I believe I reported a while ago on the case of John Hopwood, British motorist and speeder who was ticketed after a camera caught him driving 48 mph in a 30-mph zone. Hopwood did the obvious thing: go get your…


Lowering the Bar Cited as International Precedent

As many of you know, I have long had two primary goals for this enterprise: to provide some entertainment for myself and other attorneys (and friends of attorneys) slogging away at their various billing stations, and to be cited as…



$10 Parking Fine Spawns First-Amendment Brawl

What’s the memo line on your checks really for?  Robert Militzer put his to good use earlier this month when he wrote a check to pay the Berkley County (Michigan) District Court a $10 parking fine.  Militzer admits that during…