This is the kind of crap that happens when you let lawyers run things. Our benevolent government has fostered the idea that you aren’t responsible for yourself or anything you do, to such a degree, that people destroy their health, don’t work or support themselves or their families, have children out of wedlock, and otherwise disregard all the morals and ethics that make people human: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
The other great thing about the U.S., other than not having to take responsibility for your actions and their consequences, is you can BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE, and then you can sue them and try to win millions! The legal lottery system in the U.S. is such a joke it’s mind boggling.
Well, five bozos are suing booze companies, blaming them for their crimes and being in jail. Yea, it couldn’t be their fault they committed the crimes, they aren’t responsible, it’s boozes fault. People don’t rape, kill, and rob, booze does. The fucking lawyers (and criminal politician/lawyers) and legal system have destroyed this country.
Five Idaho inmates are blaming alcohol for the crimes that put them in prison and are suing some of the nation’s top liquor and wine companies for $1 billion.
Keith Allen Brown, Steven Thompson, Woodrow Grant, Cory Baugh and Jeremy Brown all claim that alcohol led them to their crimes and they should have been warned of the beverages’ addictive nature.
“If I was not an alcoholic, the shooting would never have happened,” Jeremy Brown said in his affidavit. Brown, 34, is serving a 20- to 30-year sentence for a 2001 shooting that seriously injured a man.
The plaintiffs’ crimes range from manslaughter to grand theft. They are currently serving time at Idaho’s Kuna facility.
Their lawsuit, filed in Boise’s U.S. District Court last month, targets eight defendants, including Anheuser-Busch, Coors, Miller Brewing and the owner of Jim Beam whiskey, American Brands. The inmates claim the companies are responsible for their crimes and should have put warning labels on their products.
“I have spent a great deal of that time in prison because of situations that have arose because of people being drunk, or because of situations in which alcohol played a major role,” Jeremy Brown said in his affidavit. “At no time in my life, prior to me becoming an alcoholic, was I ever informed that alcohol was habit forming and addictive.”
Keith Brown is serving a 15-year prison sentence after shooting a man to death five years ago. Baugh and Thompson are both serving 3 to 7-years for grand theft and drug convictions. And Grant is serving up to 7-years for drug and aggravated battery convictions.
All five men share the same story about booze.
“I fear the day I am released from prison,” Grant, 27, said in his affidavit. “I do not know if I can be a productive member of society and still control the desires and craving to use alcohol.”
The inmates do not have an attorney, but Boise attorney Joe Filicetti told ABC News affiliate KIVI that alcohol addiction and it’s side effects are pretty common knowledge.
“If you put these guys through depositions and you ask them ‘What do you know about alcohol?’ I think it’s pretty common knowledge that it’s addictive,” Filicetti told KIVI. “It’s well known to be addictive. It’s well known to be something that causes you to reduce your inhibitions and to do things you otherwise wouldn’t do.”
KaD says:
I see this attitude ALL the time-in dog owners. They’re not responsible for their dog keeping the whole neighborhood awake, not responsible when their dog runs loose and mauls another persons pet, another person, or even kills someone. This arrogant prick is taking his case to the Supreme Court-he was walking his dog UNleashed when it went off and savaged a police horse and caused injury to the cop. But he wants his mauler back-and over 100,000 knuckledragging mouthbreathers signed a petition for the poor nice man and his 1 1/2 year old puppy wuppy. I think when drunk drivers maim and kill people they don’t get any pity, I don’t think the owners of dangerous or vicious dogs should either: http://sfist.com/2013/01/02/pitbull_sentenced_to_death_in_horse.php
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5th January 2013 at 11:14 am
AWD says:
In other news, a murderer in prison was awarded a sex change operation at taxpayer expense. His/her filthy shitbag lawyers made $700,000, also at taxpayer expense.
“A Republican appointed Federal Judge awards $700,000 in legal fees to attorneys representing a transsexual murderer
We live in a world gone mad when murderers are given taxpayer funded sex change operations.
A Federal judge awarded more than $700,000 in legal fees to the team of lawyers who represented Michelle Kosilek, the convicted murderer who sued the state for a sex change operation to treat her gender identity disorder.
Chief US District Judge Mark L. Wolf said from the bench in court in Boston that he recognized the cost to taxpayers, but he said the costs derived from a hard-fought lawsuit to preserve Kosilek’s constitutional rights.
He noted that while the state Department of Correction is appealing his decision to order the surgery, Kosilek’s legal team has offered to dismiss their request for legal fees if the state drops the appeal and pays for the surgery.
“Resistance at all costs can end up costing the taxpayers quite a lot,” the judge said, adding that the Department of Correction has had to pay hundreds of thousands in legal fees to lawyers in other cases in which the department violated prisoners’ constitutional rights.
“The repeated violation of constitutional rights of prisoners … costs taxpayers money that is needed for other purposes,” he said”
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5th January 2013 at 11:21 am
AWD says:
Florida A.G.’s Top 10 Frivolous Prison Inmate Lawsuits
10) Prisoner claims discrimination because he was not given a Department of Corrections raincoat like other inmates. (Walker v. DOC)
9) Prisoner sues to be served fresh rather than reconstituted milk. (Gerteisen v. Bowers)
8) Prisoner sues for right to conduct martial arts sparring and full- contact fighting as part of his religion. (Gibson v. Miller)
7) Prisoner sues over being served three cheese sandwiches a day for one week while in disciplinary confinement. (Derks v. Perrin, Jr.)
6) Prisoner sues because he was required to eat off of a paper plate. (Procup v. Strickland, et al)
5) Prisoner who has filed more than 140 actions in state and federal court sues over finding gristle in his turkey leg. (Attwood v. Bowers)
4) Prisoner sues to be served fruit juice at meals and three pancakes instead of two. (Spradley v.Rathman)
3) Prisoner who murdered five people sues after lightning knocks out the prison’s TV satellite dish and he must watch network programs which he says contain violence, profanity and other objectionable material. (Jackson v. Barton)
2) Prisoner sues to be given Reeboks, Adidas, Pony or Avia brand hightops rather than inferior brand sneakers issued by prison. (Brown v. Singletary)
1) Prisoner who lost a lawsuit claiming his rights as a Muslim were violated because the prison put “essence of swine” in his food announces his conversion to Satanism and sues for tarot cards and doves’ blood. (Marshall v. DOC)
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5th January 2013 at 11:25 am
AWD says:
A couple more for your entertainment:
* (U.S. v. Bottoson): Bottoson, convicted of federal firearms charges and postal fraud, and faced state court charges for the kidnapping and murder of a female postal employee. The defendant sought post-conviction relief in the federal court, and in a letter to the court said: “This defendant is accused of murder in the state of Florida, this defendant goes to a church which believes in the raising of the dead, which is the defendants right under the Constitution of the United States. This defendant wrote a letter … stating his religious belief that if the body of the deceased [postal employee] were to be taken from the ground and brought into the defendants church the Lord of life would bring back the deceased. … The defendant feels his ‘Religious Freedom’ under the constitution were violated, anyone has the right to his/her own belief under Freedom of Religion. Defendant now asks this court to uphold his rights under the constitution of the United States.”
* A suit by a prisoner who claimed that the Department of Corrections planted an electronic device in his brain. (Calif.)
* (Moody v. Miller): A Texas inmate filed twenty-two complaints, alleging civil rights violations, including violations of his right to use the telephone, his right not to be required to walk barefoot across a cold floor, his right not to be issued pants that are too small.
* A suit by Lee Barnett challenging the stamping of his mail to indicate it was sent from a state prison. (Calif.)
* A Georgia inmate filed petition alleging that he was a victim of a “Behavior Modification Program” conducted by the prison, and that the “controlling system is a watchful eye of the State through electronic suveillance of the human body …” The system, he claimed, “combs” his body and “wantonly monitors and picks up sounds and voices, but is also tuned directly to plaintiff’s brain.” The plaintiff sought $500,000 in damages, claiming the State had “no right without any permission from plaintiff to probe his mind and body with electric current or parabolic sound waves.” (Jones v. Ault)
* A prisoner in Idaho filed suit after guards refused to “tidy up” his cell after a search.
* Beaty v. Bury: A death-row inmate sues corrections officials for taking away his Gameboy electronic game. (Arizona)
* (Demos v. Kincheloe…): This inmate filed 184 separate actions in a little more than three yearsincluding ones alleging: all Washington State law is unconstitutional because statutes subsequent to the 1881 code were not ratified by Congress; a claim for damages because prison guards refused to address him by his Islamic name; a request to require Congress to redraft language in the Declaration of Independence; a claim of unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex because the State would not honor his request to be transferred to an all-women correctional institution; and a claim that the U.S. Treasury Dept violated his civil rights by discontinuing the practice of backing treasury notes by silver.
* Trice v. Reynolds: Ex-chef sues because the food was bad, yet he wanted bigger portions. (Oklahoma)
* Searight v. N.J.: Searight claimed he was taken to the Eye, Ear and Speech Clinic, where the State of New Jersey unlawfully injected him in the left eye with a radium electric beam, and that someone now talks to him on the inside of his brain. He sought $12 million in damages
* Murderer sues for $25,000, claiming a “defective” haircut resulted in lost sleep, headaches, and chest pains. (New York)
* Sir Keenan Kester Cofield an Alabama inmate was creative. Besides filing over a hundred actions against prison officials in various Alabama courts.. One court said “Cofield is an overly litigious fellow. Among the many suits he has brought from his jail cell are suits against both McDonald’s and Burger King for using pork fat in the oil used to fry french fried potatoes, thereby poisoning his body, mind and soul. He has brought at least three libel actions against various newspapers for prematurely printing his obituary. He also brought an action against Coca-Cola alleging that a bottle of Coke he drank was filled with ground glass. He has threatened or sued various restaurants in various cities alleging food poisoning; it was later discovered that Cofield was incarcerated at the time he supposedly was eating in these restaurants.”
* Young v. Murphy: Prisoner sues for not receiving scheduled parole hearing, though he was out on escape when the hearing was held. (Mississippi)
* Inmate, calling himself a sports fanatic, complains that, as a result of cruel and unusual punishment, he was forced to miss the NFL playoffs, especially between Miami and San Diego, San Diego and Pittsburgh, and Dallas and San Francisco. (Arkansas)
* Carter v. Ingalls: Inmate filed suit against the Georgia State Prison hospital administrator, alleging receiving improper medication for his ailments, which included “blue ink and glass in the General sensory area” of his brain, along with amnesia and failing eyesight and claimed the proper medication was “Cocane of Porcane.” In a letter to the court,he claimed the hospital had put the blue ink and glass in his brain, had put his head in a sack with a rattlesnake which bit his face and cracked his skull, and that he was forced to have sexual contact with the snake. In a separate action against the warden and an inmate, Carter alleged that the warden had “gave hisreliable informers fake Pictures of me haveing [sic] sex with a dog …”
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5th January 2013 at 11:32 am
underfire says:
Does anyone else consider what a fantastic turn in the evolution of homo sapiens the last generations have seen? We are the result of millions of years of genetic selection, survival of the fittest, selection of the most intelligent. 70,000 years since modern man arose in Africa.
And than we can devolve into what we are now in such a ridiculously short time span? The insanity that is beginning to define us is mind numbing.
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5th January 2013 at 12:15 pm
snapperhead says:
Par for the course in a cuntry where the state wants to sue a sperm donor (who donated free sperm to a pair of rug munchers) for child support.
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5th January 2013 at 1:12 pm
IndenturedServant says:
Years back, a group of American Indian prisoners in Boise sued the state for not providing a sweat lodge in accordance with their religious beliefs. They won. The funny part was that they had to find someone to explain the proper use of the sweat lodge to the plaintiffs after they won as they had no experience with sweat lodges. Religious beliefs…….yeah…….riiight! I wish they would let me run the prison system.
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5th January 2013 at 1:42 pm
Stucky says:
You remember the Twinkie Defense? It was a term of ridicule coined by reporters covering the 1979 San Francisco murder trial of county supervisor Dan White. The right-wing White had assassinated both fellow supervisor Harvey Milk, a heroic figure in San Francisco’s gay community, and Mayor George Moscone. Lawyers for White claimed that he overdosed on Twinkies, and was acting under the delusional influence of a sugar high.
Also, I am fucking sick and tired of explaining the real meaning behind “first, kill all the lawyers” … which you, AWD, have again taken completely out of context …. so I won’t.
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5th January 2013 at 2:11 pm
AKAnon says:
Fuckity fuck. Like I needed more evidence that we are fucking doomed. Fuck.
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5th January 2013 at 5:02 pm
Scott says:
AWD
No responsibility anymore. That bottle of booze looks pretty harmless sitting on the shelf behind the bar. Hey, let’s also sue the bar tender who served us the drinks since it was his job to cut us off when we had to much to drink. What kind of lawyers would take this case?
Suing the alcohol companies saying there should have been warning labels on their products is ridiculous. That’s like the cigarette companies now having to have warnings on their packs of smokes.
This inmate Woodrow Grant doesn’t know if he will be able to stay sober when he gets out. Take a guess how that is going to turn out. I hope the high power lawyers at Anheuser-Busch, Jim Beam and Coors-Miller have this lawsuit thrown out as frivolous. I used to drink a little Whisky and bourbon and about 10 years ago I went down to Lynchburg Tennessee to tour the Jack Daniel’s Distillery. You can’t buy alcohol there where it’s made. It ‘s in a dry county. Go figure!
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5th January 2013 at 7:20 pm
crazyivan says:
Ah come on Stuck tell us again. I haven’t heard it yet.
“Also, I am fucking sick and tired of explaining the real meaning behind “first, kill all the lawyers” … which you, AWD, have again taken completely out of context …. so I won’t.”
Seems to me to be a straightforward suggestion.
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5th January 2013 at 7:33 pm
Novista says:
Scott
Here’s better: Labrot and Graham Distillery: Woodford Reserve – Versailles, KY.
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5th January 2013 at 9:39 pm
Luke says:
You seem to imply that anyone under criminal suspicion or conviction does not deserve legal representation. Furthermore, perhaps more troublesome, why do seem to advocate killing lawyers? These men do not have an attorney, you know?
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5th January 2013 at 12:51 am
AWD says:
Stuck,
I just like the idea of getting rid of every single scum-sucking POS lawyer. I prefer the literal meaning. Lawyers are parasites and create more parasites (see government, criminal lawyer-politicians, and people that get rich from falling at Wal Mart and suing).
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5th January 2013 at 9:20 am
AWD says:
Did you know?
Doctors that work for the Federal government (federal rural health clinics, the military, the VA etc.) can’t be sued for malpractice?
For everyone else, it’s open season. So, doctors have to practice “defensive medicine” which costs upwards of $100 billion every year, just to protect themselves from lawsuits. In the end, the costs are passed on to you in the form of high healthcare costs and increased premiums.
The American Trial lawyers association (now renamed American association for justice) used to be the #1 contributor to the democratic party (now edged out by Wall street/banksters). Democrats support lawyers and bullshit lawsuits with their every breath.
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5th January 2013 at 9:32 am