Law & Ethics - March 2007

What is your brother-in-law's name?



Borofkin.



What's his first name?



I can't remember.



He's been your brother-in-law for years, and you can't remember his first name?



No. I tell you I'm too excited. (Rising from the witness chair and pointing to Mr. Borofkin.) Nathan, for God's sake, tell them your first name!







Did you ever stay all night with this man in New York?



I refuse to answer that question.



Did you ever stay all night with this man in Chicago?



I refuse to answer that question.



Did you ever stay all night with this man in Miami?



No.







Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?



By death.



And by whose death was it terminated?







Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?



No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.







What is your name?



Ernestine McDowell.



And what is your marital status?



Fair.







Are you married?



No, I'm divorced.



And what did your husband do before you divorced him?



A lot of things I didn't know about.







And who is this person you are speaking of?



My ex-widow said it.







How did you happen to go to Dr. Cherney?



Well, a gal down the road had had several of her children by Dr. Cherney, and said he was really good.

2007-03-26 22:34:59 · 1 answers · asked by Jason O 3

if your child is taken from you for substance abuse allegations and you pass the required drug test will cps return your child even when they have set up a court date to attempt to terminate your rights as a parent?

2007-03-26 22:34:32 · 6 answers · asked by alan c 1

2007-03-26 22:09:09 · 4 answers · asked by dav20cobh 1

2007-03-26 21:55:27 · 9 answers · asked by StingRay 2

Can a felon with a violent offense be a registered acupuncturist in Oregon or anywhere in the U.S.A?

2007-03-26 21:46:22 · 2 answers · asked by Melissa Y 1

THREE girls who were imprisoned by their mother in a house of indescribable filth for seven years may never recover from the ordeal, experts said last night.

The girls were shut away from the outside world, existing in almost complete darkness, playing only with mice and communicating in their own language.

When they were discovered, their home in a smart, upper middle-class suburb had no running water and was filled with waste and excrement a metre high. The floor was corroded by mice urine.

The case has stunned Austria, still reeling from the Natascha Kampusch kidnapping, and the authorities were struggling last night to explain how such a horror story could have gone unnoticed.

The girls’ ordeal was apparently sparked by their parents’ divorce, after which their mother, a 53-year-old lawyer, suffered a breakdown. But she won custody of the girls — then aged 7, 11 and 13 — and withdrew them from school, claiming that she would give them private tuition at home.

Her husband, a local judge in Linz, Upper Austria, named only as Andreas M, was not allowed to see them once, despite his claims for access reaching court nine times.

The girls, Viktoria, Katharina and Elisabeth, were rescued only when police broke into the house after a neighbour, who had reported his suspicions several times, threatened a local council official with a lawsuit.

Although that was in October 2005, and the three have been in a specialised therapy centre since, the scandal was only revealed at the weekend.

The mother is now being held in a special remand prison branch for the mentally unstable. She will appear in court in a few weeks on charges of grievous bodily harm and torture, and is facing between five months and five years in prison.

She had ensured that the blinds were constantly shut, and that all but one light bulb had been removed in the house. When they were released, the three victims had white skin and could not endure exposure to natural light.

Authorities are now under fire for failing to have intervened sooner, despite repeated complaints by neighbours in the well-to-do Poestlingberg.

The mother was said to have been summoned to court nine times during the seven years after complaints by the father and neighbours, but officials never found a reason to investigate the case more closely.

Waltraud Kubelka, a therapist who is now treating the three girls, said that their psycho-social and physical development was “catastrophic”.

“The oldest one is doing very badly and has no prospects of recovery. She was severely undernourished and practically anorexic after her release. The two younger ones will need years to come to terms with their horrific childhood.

“In the first weeks after their release they were hiding under a bench in the kitchen (in the therapy centre) because that was the darkest spot. They could not endure light . . . they had not felt sunlight or fresh air for years.”

It is believed that the children had contact only with their mother during the seven years of captivity and, as a consequence, developed an almost unintelligible language of their own, described as a “singing-like” form of German.

Even after a year of therapy the oldest daughter, Elisabeth, now 21, is said to be so disturbed that she stands only on one foot for long periods staring at the floor. She often bursts into tears.

She and her two sisters also reportedly finish all sentences with the word “but”.

But according to her carers, the youngest of the three, Viktoria, could soon be discharged from therapy to join her father, who now is in constant contact with his daughters.

A council official said that authorities had had no knowledge of the “truly catastrophic” conditions.

The mother’s legal training and knowledge of the law has reportedly enabled her to postpone the trial. The case will he heard in front of a court in Klagenfurt in the next weeks, as both she and her husband are well known in the legal community of Linz.

Natascha Kampusch was held for eight years by Wolf-gang Priklopil, before escaping. Priklopil snatched her on her way to school when she was ten and kept her captive in a subterranean dungeon under his house near Vienna for eight years.

Professor Max Friedrich, a child psychiatrist who treated Ms Kampusch, said that the two cases should not be compared.

“This is entirely different, when the mother herself is the captor. It is tragic that the one person that commands full trust is misguided in that way. I do not envy their therapists.”

2007-03-26 21:46:15 · 9 answers · asked by Go For Broke 3

Hillary goes to a school to talk about the 08 election. She offers question time. a boy raises his hand.
"I'm Kenneth. I have 3 questions.
1- what happened to your health care plan?
2- why run for President after your
husband shamed the office?
3- what happened to the things you took
when you left the White House?"
Just then the bell rang for recess. When they return, Hillary asks for more questions. A different boy raises his hand.
"I'm Larry. I have 5 questions.
1- what happened to your health care plan?
2- why run for President after your
husband shamed the office?
3- what happened to the things you took
when you left the White House?
4- why did the recess bell ring 20 min.
early?
5- what happened to Kenneth?"

2007-03-26 21:45:42 · 3 answers · asked by DixeVil 5

Although I've advised the person to get the will drafted by a solicitor, hey don't want to do that so I'm helping them to draft it. They want to leave a specified lump sum of money (it's not in property)in their will to an individual, how do I draft that bit so that it will be valid in the eyes of a court and unlikely to be contestable?

2007-03-26 21:41:21 · 6 answers · asked by Lawlotr 1

is there a link?

2007-03-26 21:41:17 · 3 answers · asked by little.clown 2

I am in a club committee and need to remove one of the committee members from for reasons of conflict of personalities and disruption from this person within the club/committee and need to know how it is carried out correctly.

2007-03-26 21:36:56 · 2 answers · asked by emyelli 2

13-month-old scalded to death
Child's parents charged with neglect
BY RUTHANN ROBINSON and ELIZABETH EAKEN
Times Staff Writers



CROWN POINT | The parents of five children have been charged with neglect after their youngest, a 13-month-old girl, died Sunday from hot water burns that covered 85 percent of her body.

Robert Bozeman II, 29, and Tiffany Roby, 27, of 2185 Taney St., Gary, each face a maximum prison sentence of 50 years if convicted. They are in custody in lieu of $50,000 bond each.

Their daughter, Jada Bozeman, also was small for her age, said Jeff Wells, of the Lake County coroner's office.
The couple's four other children are in the custody of Child Protective Services, Gary police Sgt. Jack Arnold said. There were no obvious signs of neglect or abuse of those children, Arnold said.

The parents initially told police Jada fell into a bathtub full of hot water while they were in Indianapolis, and they sought treatment there for her injuries. Investigators found no hospital records to substantiate that story. They then said it happened Friday at home and they treated the injuries with cocoa butter, which seemed to relieve the pain, Wells said.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Roby made a statement to a Gary police investigator saying on Friday she was at her home in Gary when Jada fell into a bathtub filled with hot water. Roby said of bath water that she "runs it hot and lets it cool," according to the affidavit. After filling the tub, she reportedly left the bathroom and returned to see Jada in the tub "with her legs flapping up and down," according to the affidavit.

Roby reportedly said she pulled her daughter out of the water and put ointment on the burns, but the top layer of her skin started to come off. The problem continued to worsen as she applied more ointment. She told investigators she planned to take Jada to the doctor Monday.

"I was scared they would think that I did it on purpose, plus I thought she would be OK, her behavior didn't change," Roby told an investigator.

The affidavit says Bozeman told Gary Detective William Fazekas that about 1 p.m. Friday he was at home when he heard a scream and found Roby in the bathroom visibly upset and holding their crying daughter. He said Roby told him Jada fell into the bathtub. Bozeman reportedly said he used a towel to dry off the child and helped Roby put ointment on Jada's burns.

He then left for work and promised to purchase some burn medication on his way home. When he returned home, Bozeman reportedly helped put the burn ointment on his daughter and the next day he went to work. Bozeman said he returned home about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the affidavit.

Roby said she held Jada for most of the day Friday and stayed home Saturday. She "thought everything was fine in her heart," according to the affidavit.

At around 9 a.m. Sunday, Roby woke up and said she noticed Jada wasn't breathing. Bozeman called 911. Paramedics found no signs of life but transported Jada to the Methodist Hospitals' Gary campus, where medical personnel were unable to revive her, Arnold said.

An autopsy performed Monday showed someone submerged Jada into scalding water, Wells said. The burn pattern on her legs was consistent with the response a child would have to being dipped in something hot -- a drawing up of her legs to avoid the pain, Wells said.

The autopsy report by Dr. John Cavanaugh, a pathologist, listed "child abuse, child neglect," as significant conditions contributing to Jada's death, according to the affidavit. Jada suffered scalding on her lower face, jaw, base of head, neck, upper chest, left shoulder, entire back, the back of her upper arms, the back of her forearms and the front and back of her shins and calves, the affidavit says.

The official coroner's ruling said Jada died of an irregular heartbeat brought on by an electrolyte imbalance due to dehydration from the extensive scalding.

2007-03-26 21:33:09 · 5 answers · asked by Holla 1

and why? what are her policies? (please no generic garbage, what is she going to go on record and say?), please, please, if you are going to say o'bama, why? and not simply because either of these "canadates" is not gw. (all answers applying to wmd's need not apply, the die is cast, GET OVER IT). remember, I asked for the REASONS WHY YOU WOULD VOTE FOR CLINTON, AND NOT BUSH BASHING.


SOMETHING ALREADY TELLS ME THAT I'M GOING TO GET NOTHING BUT THE REASONS TO VOTE FOR CLINTON. i.e. GW is evil, vote for clinton

keep in mind: I have every right to speak my mind, and you do have the right to be offended. so go ahead and flag this question as "a dangerous idea" and do not answer the question.

keep in mind this question is pertaining to why "so called American citizens" would vote for clinton or o'bama.

yet again, (I already know what I am going to face, so I keep repeating) why would you vote clinton?
please, please, don't answer with, well she's not Bush.

2007-03-26 21:30:43 · 7 answers · asked by B0NER 3

First off I am a 21 year old college kid. I was at a party and road the neighbors bike home, on my way home I was arrested with Class A misdemeanor theft, my attorney told me that since it was my first offense that I can get the ruling deferred what exactly is a deference, and will the charge stay on my record?

2007-03-26 21:06:44 · 1 answers · asked by tom_baer 1

performed during c section

2007-03-26 21:03:06 · 9 answers · asked by chingonSD 1

2007-03-26 20:36:00 · 4 answers · asked by rdex2856 1

It is we the public and not the politician and govt who can stop corruption. if the public wants every thing to be done as per rule. i think the corruption can be stopped. we want the officers to do them favours by going against the law and rules and they charge fee for that. am i right or wrong?

2007-03-26 20:19:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-26 20:14:23 · 9 answers · asked by smokesha 3

Using torture as a tool for dealing with terrorists is very controversial, but I think that this one might be effective and a bit more humane than most traditional methods. My idea is to use this method of torture for the terrorists in the Middle East in order to get information out of them to potentially save many lives.

Here is my plan. When it may be beneficial to use torture on a terrorism prisoner, take this prisoner to a cell and strap him in a chair sitting in front of a big screen monitor, be it a television or a projection. Then, force him to watch a loop of all of MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" episodes ever released.

I do not believe that I can think of any greater method of torture for the American hating terrorists. I think that they may confess to anything in order to be relieved from watching the show.

If you have not seen this program, please watch it at your own risk. It is truly embarassing to American society.

2007-03-26 20:02:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you are pointing a gun at a man, and I shout "let him have it" at you and you do kill him, then who is guilty, you or me?

2007-03-26 20:00:07 · 19 answers · asked by Jo Bass 1

A little over a year ago, I backed into my 23 month old daughter with the our car. A few months later our car insurance called and offered to settle her claim for $850. We were suprised that my daughter would get anything since I was the one that hit her. Our insurance explained that it was just like her getting hit by someone else, or me hitting another child. We wanted to make sure all her medical bills were being taken care of and our car insurance said yes they would. But we found out they didn't know everything she had been through and what her injuries were. Now our car insurance has all the bills and the medical reports from the hospitals that she went to. Tomorrow they are suppose to call and offer a new settlement. My wife called around to both hospitals and both ambulance companies that we used and all the bills were about $10,000. Were not greedy, but we want to make sure my daughter gets all the money she should. That's what the insurance is for after all.

2007-03-26 19:38:17 · 5 answers · asked by Jake W 3

repeatedly I hear the 1st amendment being questioned
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSyx4lvBBlg), at the end this woman basically says that mr. richards should pay the "victims" a settlement. to me this is utter nonsense. I am an American ( not a hyphnetated American, just a plain old American, that loves my Country to the death). I was just wondering what other nonhyphenated Americans thought about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPhje8wepyg
DO LIBERALS WANT THE FIRST AMENDEMENT TO BE CAST ASIDE WHEN SOMEONE'S FEELINGS ARE HURT?

2007-03-26 19:29:45 · 5 answers · asked by B0NER 3

Regarding an unliquidated debt, the sending of a check in an amount for less than the balance owed and on which the debtor writes "payment in full" will discharge the debt if the check is cashed by the creditor.

2007-03-26 19:18:48 · 12 answers · asked by the ramonanizer 1

2007-03-26 19:10:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Looking to find out the FCC guidlines are for billboard advertising (specifically in California if possible). What exactly can you get away with on a billboard? Are they privately owned? Need to know ASAP....writing a research paper.
Thanks for any help

2007-03-26 19:04:05 · 3 answers · asked by daddielovesmuffin 1

When getting hired as a studio musician for a possible up and coming performer is it important to seek out legal representation? Why or why not?
I think it is! If you want your name on the CD ie: Joe blow appears courtesy of joe blow music inc.
What do you think?

2007-03-26 18:58:55 · 4 answers · asked by DRNoraSarasin 3

Or for that matter the citizen of any country apart from the USA? British soldiers capture creates alarm while innocent civilians of various countries are locked up in Guatanamo for reasons unknown? How do we know they are not tortured into submission through violent/emabarrassing force used in Iraq by the many military trained officials? Is this where all hard -earned money of American labor & sweat goes to through taxes? Are so-called civilized first world Americans funding this injustice?

2007-03-26 18:58:38 · 12 answers · asked by LibraCrazyVirgo 3

I purchased a property that was foreclosed on and had a DIP in the property. We never had a lease. She agreed to pay and did for a couple months. A month ago I gave here verbal notice to vacate the property. Because of willful neglect of the property. Said she needed 30-days. She has since changed her mind and has decided to stay. What are the actual steps? I have already pulled Missouri law 441.060. Seems like a written notice is in order, does an officer need to be present or to serve her with the notice.

2007-03-26 18:54:21 · 2 answers · asked by Mugleedone 2

K, I'm a 19 year old guy. Moving out of my house around june and one possible option is staying with a friend who is being emancipted from "HER" parents. She's 16, doing highschool, getting a job, starting a small business, etc. I'm sorta just a poor luck sort working hard at the communitee college and trying to find a job. I dont have a bad record, personality, or anything, interviewers say they're impressed but later dont hire me (except for one which later I turned down due to it being a sales job that would not keep up with minimum wage and money I need to pay for stuff).

Anyways me and her have been friends for abit more than a year, also my fiance's friend. My fiance is taking care of her mom up in oregan while Im in south california.

Anyways me and the emancipating girl decided that if I get kicked out, we could room up and work together in getting jobs, paying rent, school, etc. for the time being.

Any laws against rooming w/ emancipated minors?

2007-03-26 18:53:20 · 12 answers · asked by rezruf 3

for a perfectly healthy individual who fakes a disability in order to live a life of luxury at taxpayers' expense, and if that person feels true remorse for his misdeed, how could he repay society and regain a modicum of decency and self respect?

2007-03-26 18:51:57 · 11 answers · asked by finishedfaking 1

I am currently disputing a claim that I am a co-debtor. I was an authorized user on my ex-wifes credit card and could not have my name removed from the account, because I am not the primary account holder. I have not received any gain from the use of the card. Regardless, it is on my credit report and I have been trying to resolve this issue with the credit collection agency. They suggested I file a fraud affidavid. I recently found out that my ex's bankrupcy will go into affect in two months. Will I be held liable for paying the debt even though I was an authorized user? Should I still file the fraud affidavid with the Federal Trade Commission even though she explained to me that her lawyer was taking care of the co-debt situation?

2007-03-26 18:45:58 · 14 answers · asked by Sparks 1