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Weird Criminal Law Stories by Leonard Birdsong #Excerpt
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Weird Criminal Law Stories by Leonard Birdsong #Excerpt


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365 weird criminal  bannerProfesso365 weird criminal law storiesr Birdsong’s Weird 365: Weird Criminal Law Stories for Every day of the Year

This time the professor uses his expertise and experience in criminal law to bring forth his “365,” weird criminal law stories for each day of the year. This is his funniest volume of criminal law stories mostly from around the States to date. This book covers more than a lot of silly and unlawful conduct one could imagine. Full of his witty “Birdsong” commentary and observations the book is sure to deliver some great laughs. There’s a story about the 54-year-old man who attempts to perform an exorcism on his 80-year-old girlfriend to get the devil out of her; a story about a Czech man who uses a chain saw to slice his way back into a restaurant after closing time; a story of an alleged child pornographer caught downloading child porn on his phone while being question at police headquarters; a story about a Tennessee man who had a stroke who thought he was dying confessed to a 1977 murder – he didn’t die and now is facing a murder charge; a “drunken dummy” or two; and a wide variety of just plain, stupid criminals that make this anthology worth reading.

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 STORIES FOR JANUARY

 

JANUARY 1

FLORIDA: The power of Christ commands you! Police in the town of Holiday arrested a 54-year-old man after a fight with his 80-year-old live in girlfriend got out of hand and he attempted to perform an exorcism on her. David Benes held her down and told her he was trying to “get the devil out of her.”

JANUARY 2

CZECH REPUBLIC: Petr Svacha, 26, is facing a possible year in jail after using a chainsaw to slice his way back into a restaurant in the town of Zlin after closing time. Svacha just wanted to finish eating his pudding. Waiters at the restaurant had kicked Svacha out midway through his dessert because the restaurant was closing for the night.Must have been some really good pudding!

JANUARY 3

BRAZIL: Prisoners in Brazil have a new way to win early release – knitting. The cons at Arisvaldo de Campos Pires prison are being allowed to perform work knitting clothes for a local fashion designer. The prisoners get a day shaved off their sentence for every three days of knitting. Do they really want convicts to have knitting needles?

JANUARY 4

FLORIDA: Yep, that’s her story and she is sticking with it. The bomb squad in Jensen Beach was shocked to learn that the suspicious package they were set to dismantle was only a sex toy. “It was a pink plastic adult novelty item, with some type of a plastic rabbit attached to it,” the sheriff told reporters. The woman who received the package maintained she never ordered it.

JANUARY 5

NEW YORK CITY: An ex-marine who plotted to behead Federal Judge Joseph Bianco and a prosecutor – to avenge his Ponzi scheme convicted buddy, sobbed and begged a Brooklyn federal judge to “give him a second chance in life, that’s all I am asking,” he said at sentencing. Judge John Keenan was not moved and sentenced Djevid Mirkovic, 38, to 24 years in prison. An appropriate sentence for plotting to behead a federal judge, crybaby!

JANUARY 6

INDIA: Four men were arrested for trying to smuggle $100,000 in gold into the country – in their stomachs. The men had swallowed a banquet of small gold bars and coins to avoid customs. That’s $25,000 in each of them. Wonder what would’ve happened if one of them had to take a dump?

JANUARY 7

ARIZONA: Police on underage drinking patrol singled out a father at a Cardinals NFL preseason football game that had asked his fifteen year old son to hold his beer while the father took photographs of the action on the field. The police officers kicked the whole family out of the stadium, and state liquor officials said that if they had been stricter, the father could have received two years in jail. OK, some states have just become ridiculous with their anti-alcohol campaigns.

JANUARY 8

NEW MEXICO: A violent woman was arrested after police said she attacked her boyfriend with a boot, a tire iron and a screwdriver – while he was behind the wheel with car moving. The Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect is being held in jail on battery charges. The boyfriend must have cheated on her and she found out about it!

JANUARY 9

GEORGIA: a Newton County sheriff’s deputy crossed the line and allegedly started selling marijuana out of his patrol car. Deputy Darrell Mathis allegedly told a pal that he would never be caught because he was police officer. Unfortunately, he was wrong. The pal went to the FBI. There’s a song titled “A Policeman’s Work is Never Done,” but this policeman’s job is certainly finished.

JANUARY 10

OREGON: It was easy for authorities to discover the counterfeit $20 bills that Michael Dietrich allegedly turned out. Why? Well, they all had the same serial number. His lack of imagination was discovered by a gun dealer in the town of Keizer who spotted the duplicate 20’s. This case is even weirder because at the time of Dietrich’s arrest he was the manager of the Oregon State Department of Revenue. Perhaps, he was not paid enough at the Department of Revenue!

About the author:

Professor Birdsong received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Howard University. He teaches law in Orlando, Florida. After graduation from law school he worked four years at the law firm of Baker Hostetler. He then entered into a varied and distinguished career in government service. He served as a diplomat with the U.S. State Department with various postings in Nigeria, Germany and the Bahamas. Professor Birdsong later served as a federal prosecutor. After leaving government service, and before he began teaching, Professor Birdsong was in private law practice in Washington, D.C.

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