tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72071016901270678032011-06-08T00:26:39.816-06:00My observations on the use and abuse of the law in this part of Texas.texasdirthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06609933463069480082noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207101690127067803.post-22630254648550022912007-04-01T17:06:00.000-06:002008-12-09T07:09:21.120-07:00

I have borrowed a friend's account for one final post: David Josephssen is dead. He was hanged about an hour ago from Diagon's famous white oak tree in the park at the corner of Diagon Alley and Lonesome Valley Road.Technically, this was not a lynching. It was performed in daylight by Sheriff Grayson and his deputies as instructed by an Emergency Execution Order from Judge Bean.I think the judge

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I'm grounded. This is my last post (at least for a long, long time). I should have known that the DA and all those three-piece suits would wonder how the ACLU found out about the case of David Josephssen, and that it wouldn't take them very long with Google to find my blog. Diagon's such a small town that anyone seeing the blog would know it was me.So the DA came around to the house today. I'm

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I just got an email from the American Civil Liberties Union saying that they will have an attorney investigate the case, and if my blog is accurate (and it is!) they think there's a strong case for habeas corpus in a federal court that will take the case completely out of Diagon. No way that was a fair trial.So there's hope for David Josephssen. And I guess some folks in Diagon are going to find

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I made sure to get to court early this morning to catch the sentencing hearing for David Josephssen, dvdjo. It was worse than I imagined, even after Friday's day in court. Somebody's got to save this kid.The sentencing hearing started promptly at 9:00, with the judge asking the DA and public defender for their recommendations on sentences. The DA wanted to throw the book at him: 10 years each for

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As I was going to school yesterday morning, I noticed that there were more black cars than I'd ever seen in front of the courthouse, and a Ranger car. I decided to cut classes and see what was going on. What I saw made me sick, and just about too mad to type straight.When I got inside, they were just starting to arraign the suspect. He's not a lot older than me (17, I found out), and he was

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I've noticed that when there are a bunch of Lincoln limousines in front of the courthouse, and a bunch of lawyers in three-piece suits, there's certainly an out of town case being tried.I've heard lawyers saying they like to bring urgent cases here because there's no waiting, juries are very pro-plaintiff and pro-DA, and because Diagon is such an out of the way place. (Diagon doesn't even show up

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There isn't much to do in Diagon, so I like to hang around the county courthouse. People don't pay much attention to a kid of 14 (little do they realize that I'm the blogger texasdirt), so I get to eavesdrop on some pretty amazing conversations and see the crap that goes on inside and outside the courtroom.I sit in the back with my PowerBook, and people assume that I'm playing a computer game. (

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