What in hell is going on in Newark?
Jul. 7th, 2004 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ganainmWhat I'm told:
She (let's call her Alice) got in an argument with someone who parked across her driveway, blocking her car in. The argument escalated to spitting on both sides. Six months later, she learned that there was a warrant out for her arrest; the police cuffed her hands behind her back, although she insisted she was not resisting arrest. So she was tried for assault, and convicted. The case is on appeal, perhaps partly because at one point the judge, remarking on the appearance of an expert witness on her behalf, said, "We didn't think you could afford that."
Another highlight of the trial was when the prosecutor--not the defense attorney, the prosecutor--was examining the arresting officer, and the officer said, "She wouldn't walk to the [patrol] car."
"Did you carry her?"
"No."
"Did you drag her?"
"No."
"So how did she get to the car?"
". . . ."
What's puzzling me: Who did the judge mean when he said "We"? And is crime so rare in Newark now that the cops spend their time on cases of assault by spitting?
She (let's call her Alice) got in an argument with someone who parked across her driveway, blocking her car in. The argument escalated to spitting on both sides. Six months later, she learned that there was a warrant out for her arrest; the police cuffed her hands behind her back, although she insisted she was not resisting arrest. So she was tried for assault, and convicted. The case is on appeal, perhaps partly because at one point the judge, remarking on the appearance of an expert witness on her behalf, said, "We didn't think you could afford that."
Another highlight of the trial was when the prosecutor--not the defense attorney, the prosecutor--was examining the arresting officer, and the officer said, "She wouldn't walk to the [patrol] car."
"Did you carry her?"
"No."
"Did you drag her?"
"No."
"So how did she get to the car?"
". . . ."
What's puzzling me: Who did the judge mean when he said "We"? And is crime so rare in Newark now that the cops spend their time on cases of assault by spitting?
