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SyVyN11 wrote:
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>> SyVyN11 wrote:
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>>>> SyVyN11 wrote:
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>>>>>> Senator Larry Craig of Idaho is gambling everything on a little
>>>>>> known and even less used precedent established in the case of
>>>>>> Irving K. Krupmeyer versus Ypsilanti in which Mr. Krupmeyer, who
>>>>>> weighs in at a hefty 365 pounds and is 5'8" tall, used it to
>>>>>> successfully beat a charge of lewd conduct in a public restroom
>>>>>> brought by the District Attorney of Ypsilanti, Michigan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mr. Krupmeyer was arrested in a public restroom stall at
>>>>>> Riverside Park by an undercover police officer who was on a
>>>>>> stakeout looking for toilet paper thieves working the greater
>>>>>> Ypsilanti area. The purloined rolls had been showing up on eBay
>>>>>> at half their value, being sold by someone located on a small
>>>>>> island in The Caribbean. Ypsilanti residents had taken to
>>>>>> carrying their own toilet paper with them when visiting public
>>>>>> facilities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The arresting officer claimed that while on stakeout in one of
>>>>>> the two stalls in the restroom, Mr. Krupmeyer entered the
>>>>>> adjacent stall and immediately slid his left foot onto the
>>>>>> officers side of the partition and that it touched the officer's
>>>>>> right foot. The officer took this as a signal that Mr. Krupmeyer
>>>>>> wished to engage in illicit sexual conduct and attempted to take
>>>>>> Mr. Krupmeyer immediately into custody. Mr. Krupmeyer protested
>>>>>> vigorously that he was in the middle of bowel movement and then
>>>>>> proceeded to ask the arresting officer for some toilet paper, as
>>>>>> he was not from Ypsilanti and was unaware of the toilet paper
>>>>>> shortage plaguing the town's public facilities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When the case was finally brought to trial, Mr. Krupmeyer's
>>>>>> attorney, Melvin Knippel, had a mockup of the public restroom
>>>>>> stall, in which Mr. Krupmeyer had been arrested, contructed in
>>>>>> the courtroom, and then proceeded to demonstrate the it was
>>>>>> virtually impossible for Mr. Krupmeyer to seat himself on the
>>>>>> commode without assuming the 'Wide Stance', and that in assuming
>>>>>> the 'Wide Stance', Mr. Krupmeyer's feet projected from both
>>>>>> sides of the stall. The jury deliberated for only twelve minutes
>>>>>> before finding Mr. Krupmeyer innocent of the charges against him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Senator Craig is taking a chance by relying on the 'Wide Stance'
>>>>>> defense as the Senator weighs only 195 pounds and is 6' 3" tall.
>>>>> He has no defense. He pled guilty, he should own up to it and
>>>>> accept his plea and punishment. He had a lawyer to protect his
>>>>> rights and he knew what pleading guilty meant.
>>>> No, according to Sen. Craig himself, he did *not* have a lawyer
>>>> with him when he pled guilty.
>>>
>>> Police reports and court docs (according to Fox News) says he had a
>>> lawyer to represent his rights present.
>>
>> From Fox News website:
>>
>> "The years of charges and allegations remained unsubstantiated until
>> Aug. 8, when Craig pleaded guilty in a Hennepin County, Minn. court.
>> Craig claims he is innocent of anything untoward,
>>
>> *but he should have consulted a lawyer*
>>
>> rather than trying to brush the June incident under the rug. He paid
>> a $575 fine and was given a stay on a 10-day prison sentence barring
>> no further violations during one year of unsupervised probation."
>>
>> /story/0,2933,294953,
>
> So you are supporting the criminal republican?
>
> And the republicans want to get rid of him. Irony.

Just like Studds.
LOL


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John R. Carroll