Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 09:45 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> 
> 
> Pima County is a crazy place.
> 
> All we have to look at is Isabella Garcia, the head public defender
> organizing an participating in the beating and beheading of a pinata
> created in the likeness of Joe Arpaio.  The county refused to sanction
> Isabella Garcia.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5t-Nzhvb4
> 
> 
> Then read about how the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the
> Tucson Police arrested the wrong person, paraded him in front of the
> local media then systematically violated his 5th amendment rights.  An
> ID tech who knew Cooper pulled his latent finger prints and compared
> them to a serial rapist.   She felt they matched.  Her supervisor did
> a comparison and both agreed Coopers finger prints matched the crime
> scene prints.  The problem is both had failed the the test to become
> certified in latent fingerprint analysis.
> 
> They ruined Cooper's life.
> 
> http://www.texas-justice.com/aele/cooper963f2d1220.html
> 
> I live in Tucson and find it a scary place.
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> Keith Smith
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> 
> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         From: Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the
>         political backstory
>         To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
>         <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>         Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 9:10 AM
>         
>         On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Craig White
>         <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 22:44 -0700, Jim March wrote:
>         >
>         >> Diebold put the audit log into the MS-Access database as
>         just another table.
>         >>
>         >> In other words, they weren't even trying.
>         > ----
>         > bradblog.com has been covering issues with electronic voting
>         for many,
>         > many years and long before this story.
>         >
>         > At the point where you called Pima County Elections Director
>         a lunatic,
>         > you pretty much lost me. Not that I might not agree with
>         your
>         > conclusion, only that I don't know a thing about the guy and
>         your
>         > opinion of him seems entirely relevant to your mission.
>         >
>         > Personally, I have a lot of faith in Terry Goddard.
>         >
>         > Craig
>         
>         Craig,
>         
>         First point: one of Goddard's people asked me point-blank
>         Monday why
>         Pima County hasn't gotten rid of Brad Nelson.  So I'm hardly
>         the only
>         critic of him.
>         
>         As to his being a lunatic, that may seem a bit strong but
>         hell, I have
>         videotaped proof:
>         
>         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpDFUjUILrs
>         
>         Jim
> 
>         
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Keith, it would be really nice if you could fix the e-mail client you
are using to make it easier to reply to your e-mails.

A public defender mocking law enforcement? Seems to be an everyday
occurrence.

Wrongful accusations and convictions obtained by unqualified law
enforcement personnel? Happens everywhere, daily.

I suppose the fact law enforcement personnel do the latter is cause for
the former...they seem to go hand in hand.

Craig


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