Chutzpah on Parade

It's been said that the definition of chutzpah is killing your parents, then pleading for mercy from the court because you are an orphan. A supreme court case is pretty damn close to that.

Basically, this dude was found guilty of killing his girlfriend. He admits shooting her, but says it was in self-defense. He's taking his case to the highest court in the land because a lower court allowed testimony from her in the form of a police report she filed a few weeks earlier when he threatened her with a knife. His argument is that this was inadmissible because she can't be cross-examined. Of course, that's an incomplete sentence that should read, "she can't be cross-examined because I killed her."

I'm not a lawyer. I do understand that an underpinning of our legal system is that the accused have the right to face those who accuse them. But, imagine the precedent of disallowing evidence of the victim because s/he was killed by the accused. That's just wrong. Off to the slammer for you, dude.

We also have another case of liberal, upper middle class white women wanting to be exempt from the law. This chick bolted from a Michigan prison where she was serving time on a drug charge. She's been on the lam, got married, raised her kids, etc. She says basically, "Hey, I've been a good person since then, why should I have to go back?" Umb, because you were sent to jail for what you did, not what you might do?

Let's forget for a moment how dumb it is to lock up people for non-violent drug charges. This woman has such huge stones to suggest that she, unlike the thousands of people who have since served their time in Michigan, is above the law. It's not like she's been spending her time since her escape trying to spring them. It's like Sara Jane Olson. If ya do the crime, ya gotta do the time.