[DuncanWaring]

Nifong West.

[robomatik]

disgusting story. i feel ill.

[SmithL]

How about a link to this story?

[longtermmemmory]

SOP for prosecutors.

Sadly Nifong is the rule not the exception.

[longtermmemmory]

link to original story?

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It was explained to me that because the Queen’s were young, uneducated, and could not afford an attorney, the DA considered them “low hanging fruit”. They would be an easy win and notch for the DA that would not take too much effort. Justice be damned the point is to win.

The Nifong award for miscarriage of justice. Thank God for a fair-minded judge.

[Caramelgal]

He has since been told by the neurologist that he is not cleared to go back to work, by the state of California that is not eligible for disability and by the owner of the Dominos Pizza that since they did not pay any of their worker’s compensation insurance, he will not be collecting worker’s comp. An attorney is sorting it all out now.

I’m guessing CA is saying your nephew is not eligible for disability payments because it isn’t a permanent disability. But if indeed, the owner of the Domino’s franchise did not pay any part of their workman’s compensation insurance, I’d think they would be in big trouble. Not only with the state but possibly with the parent company as I would imagine there is probably something in the franchisee contract with Domino’s about legal compliance with all applicable local, state and federal laws. Perhaps that’s why they are making the “took to long; no longer technically at work” argument to cover themselves. Hopefully your nephew’s attorney is well versed and experienced in this area of the law. If the franchisee hasn’t paid workman’s compensation insurance, which I believe is mandated in most if not all states, it should be easy to prove and if so, they should be held liable for his medical expenses and whatever workman’s comp would have paid for lost wages. I hope that works out.

In family court the CPS recommended and the judge concurred that sometimes young children escape their homes.

When I was a teenager (mid 70’s), my brother and his wife and three year-old daughter lived down the street from my parents and me. It was about 11:00 PM, my dad had already gone to bed and my mom and I were watching the 11:00 news when we heard a faint knock at the door of our apartment. My mother looked out the peep whole and didn’t see anyone. Then there was another knock and a little voice saying “Granny?”

My mother opened the door and there was my three-year old niece in her nightgown and bare feet and smiling. My mother asked her “Where are your parents?” She said, “I don’t know.” “Can I have some cookies or a snack?” We brought her into the apartment and my mother called my brother and sent me down the street to see if everything was OK.

When my brother answered the phone my mother angrily asked him “Do you know where your daughter is?” He was groggy from just waking up and said “She’s in bed!” My mother lit into him saying no she wasn’t, she showed up at our door in nothing more than a nightgown and walked up here in her bare feet on a 20 degree night. Then my brother and his wife panicked.

It turned out that her parents had tucked her into bed and turned in early themselves. At some point my niece woke up and for whatever reason decided not to wake her parents up and decided it was just as good a time as any to visit her Granny and her favorite aunt.

My niece had not only figured out how to unlock the door and the deadbolt but used a nearby chair to undo the door chain.

It sounds like the judge and CPS has lease have some common sense but that doesn’t make up for the actions of some over jealous police and DA. What a nightmare. I really hope this all gets resolved very quickly.

[wastedyears]

Somebody ought to take care of that judge.

Paging Henry Bowman

[art_rocks]

“In family court the CPS recommended and the judge concurred that sometimes young children escape their homes. They suggested that the parents put more secure locks on the doors. The conclusion was that the parents should never have been arrested in the first place. The family court case will be dismissed as soon as the parents are able to appear (they were still in jail). “

I’m shocked that CPS did the right thing this time.

[Auntie Mame]

Have you tried getting a local reporter interested in this story? I know the whole thing is terrible and traumatic for you all, but it’s a wow of a story.

You are a very good writer.

I’m so sorry you all have to go through all this.

I KNOW it’s all going to work out.

[spunkets]

"Apparently the DA was simply fabricating evidence for the benefit of the judge."

I hope Potter is a good atty and if Chang really did this, it should have all been documented and ready to forward to the court disciplinary committee out there. Don't let Potter drop that and y'all should file your own complaint about Chang's false and malicious prosecution.

It looks to be as you say. The kids got out and the parents were arrested later that day. The woman that found them is apparently cluless... and mean. Me and the bros used to do that and so did my grandkids. Here's the charge, it's ridiculous:

273a. (a) Any person who, under circumstances or conditions likely to produce great bodily harm or death, willfully causes or permits any child to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any child, willfully causes or permits the person or health of that child to be injured, or willfully causes or permits that child to be placed in a situation where his or her person or health is endangered, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for two, four, or six years.

[CaliGirl-R]

Your FR post has been posted by someone at Topix.

http://www.topix.net/city/hemet-ca/2008/05/don-t-oversleep-in-hemet-it-s-a-felony