Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: "I'm hungry and colored" excuse for vehicle collision
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:46:14 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <vs9f5m$217fk$2@dont-email.me>
References: <vs99tu$1rt1g$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:46:14 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d9f188196f86dad19b0333c3220feeb7";
	logging-data="2137588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/6pFCVfFLveTOUavOaT22x"
User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS
Cancel-Lock: sha1:axsAjbE81DoR40luq6TDkAxIu0g=

On Mar 29, 2025 at 10:16:46 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

> Various YouTube channels feature video clips from the courtroom of David
> Fleischer, Harris County, TX, former defense attorney who takes the
> arraignment process seriously and applies the probable cause standard
> with expertise. In applying the law, he's fair to both sides.
> 
> While he will construe facts favorably to the defendant, he won't put up
> with defendants who act arrogant and entitled.
> 
> "I'm hungry and colored" was the excuse the defendant gave to the police
> officer arresting her for the hit and run accident. After the victim
> followed her to get her to stop and exchange insurance, she still
> refused to cooperate and backed her vehicle toward the victim's vehicle
> and collided, which was NOT accidental.
> 
> She's on two different felony probations. This judge has no tolerance
> for violations of probation, parole, and bond conditions.
> 
> Her attorney, seeing the judge's reaction to the statement she made
> to police, can't get her client to shut the fuck up. To the judge, she
> says, "I'm colored. You don't understand me. If I was a different color,
> you would." Despite thinking that the defendant is entirely immature,
> the judge is still empathetic and tries to get her to understand that
> she's responsible for her own behavior.
> 
> However, the judge should have stuck to his guns in setting bond at
> $1,000 in lieu of raising it to $5,000 per her entitled attitude. At
> least he ordered her not to drive. She has a CDL!

What's the over-under on her being pulled over by the cops within 24 hours?