[Sabertooth]

You might want to read To Kill a Mockingbird sometime, I'm sure you'd fine that guy guilty as sin though.

Like a decades-old work of fiction about the Jim Crow South has any relevance here.

[Mick2000]

Like a decades-old work of fiction about the Jim Crow South has any relevance here.

The DA and sheriff's department is ordering and wearing t-shirts depicting a hanging Kobe and other clever comments, and there's no relevancy to the Jim Crow south. Right.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,102252,00.html
On the front of the T-shirts ordered by the county workers is a hanging man. On the back is a choice of two derogatory statements about the Los Angeles Lakers (search) basketball star.
An e-mail message ordering 76 shirts, obtained by Fox News, was written from the same sheriff's office that is investigating the case.

The message was written Thursday, Oct. 16 — one week before the case was sent to trial.

It specified an order for 76 of both types of the T-shirts, in sizes ranging from medium to triple-extra-large. It added that: "The order was for our office and the DA's office ... please give me a little more time to get with everyone to collect the $7 fee." The T-shirts cost $12.95 in single units, but the two Eagle County offices ordered so many that they got the discount rate.

But because of questions asked by Fox News regarding the issue, the orders were never completed.

Legal observers say none of this is against the law, but is definitely unethical.

"Playing around with these kinds of T-shirts shows bias," sad Larry Pozner, former president of the Defense Attorneys' Association (search). "The DA's office does nobody any favors by making a joke out of it and by making it a cartoon-character issue.