Comments on: Beverly Hills 78701

By: bryan simmons

bryan simmons — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:15:34 +0000

Looks like she got it off Google Cache, too.

By: bryan simmons

bryan simmons — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:09:47 +0000

I just heard yesterday from a prosecutor in the AG’s office that LAE was ‘disciplined’ but kept her job. I was glad to hear that. I must say I will miss her blogging.

By: Thomas R. Griffith (The Griffith Files - 1984 & Beyond)

Thomas R. Griffith (The Griffith Files - 1984 & Beyond) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:23:04 +0000

Mr. B.,
Your reply and summation is dead on, I don’t think anyone can say anything else. LaE & her petty criminal activities will soon be forgotten. She may very well be the first and only prosecutor to publicly confess to knowingly and willingly making a petty human mistake or (decision) while off duty.

Questions come to mind. How should we deal with the presentage of prosecutors that refuse to admit that they themselves are human and have knowingly made (felonious) mistakes while on duty? One might think the answer is in the court where they were allowed to dole out mistake after mistake or with the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles. The topic is hot & heavy in the newspaper & on TV just about every other week, but not one single reporter asks the question or deals with it.

I used to say fuck’em & feed’em fishheads, but that doesn’t deal with it head on. Any ideas to pass on would be appriciated. Thanks.

By: Soronel Haetir

Soronel Haetir — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:52:57 +0000

Even if the blogger is in fact informed about the libelous comment, there is no requirement that it be deleted.

Section 230 protects online fora to a much greater extent than is given to print media. Whether than was intentional or not, that is how courts have interpreted the provision.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:03:56 +0000

I don’t pretend to know what should happen to her.

I’m sorry to see her blog go; I’d like to think that in her shoes I’d've deleted the offending post and weathered the storm.

Should prosecutors possess some level of moral authority? Wouldn’t it be better for all involved that they admit that they are not better, but only more fortunate, than the people they are prosecuting?

But nooooo. Suggest to prosecutors that they’re no better than the accused, and they’ll jump all over you for being pedantic and judgmental.

Fuck ‘em. The path of the self-righteous is beset on all sides by the truth. I might have chosen to jump that fence if I’d been in LAE’s position (intoxicated in public, maybe ignorant of the law), and I’m happy to admit it. We’re all only human. We make mistakes. I’m not putting people in jail for mistakes that I, in the same position, might make.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:53:51 +0000

Even if the blogger chooses which comments to publish?

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:52:16 +0000

I was able to figure it out, but I had the benefit of her older posts and a DA Organizational Chart.

By: Clay S. Conrad

Clay S. Conrad — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:34:36 +0000

No, the hotel would NOT have to press charges. Since when did the “victim” have control over whether criminal charges were filed? If a cop had observed that, and arrested her (Oh! I can dream, can’t I?) and the hotel had later said “we don’t want our guests arrested,” the Travis County DA’s office would have been able to decide whether or not to prosecute, and could have proceeded, and gotten a conviction, without the hotel’s choosing to press charges.

By: Kay Lynch

Kay Lynch — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:15:01 +0000

I just had a look at the blog in question. Yikes.

Shouldn’t prosecutors possess some level of moral authority? or at least not talk about drinking in every single entry? She comes off as a bitchy lush.

I find her cutesy tone atrocious and offensive, considering her position. She has not been punished enough. She should lose her job for having had a blog like that. This wouldn’t fly in the corporate world. She would have been fired from any business that cared at all about their public image.

Well, I AM always hearing that prosecutors make shit for money. I guess you get what you pay for.

God help us all.

By: Tony Mann

Tony Mann — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:08:38 +0000

Ah! Interesting this gets. I was just thinking after reading everyones comments, that if she lived in Virginia the state would prosecute her and that Miranda would not apply as she made the statement before she was questioned by police. I was just thinking, oh by the way I did not mean not yo post my full name I am not ashamed of my views and I respect all others all so.