Posted on 03/19/2006 8:13:42 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Man, 21, jailed for having disorderly house
BY LORI PILGER / Lincoln Journal Star Sunday, March 19, 2006
Mike Herchenbach was sure he would get a fine. He’d pay a couple hundred dollars, like his roommates, and go on with his life, even if it wasn’t his party that got out of hand. After all, his name was on the lease.
But what he didn’t expect, and hardly believed, was what Lancaster County Court Judge Gale Pokorny had in mind as his punishment for maintaining a disorderly house last Oct. 2.
Herchenbach remembered his attorney from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reaching for a work-release form.
He didn’t need it. It’s only a weekend, he remembered saying.
But Pokorny didn’t say three days in jail. He said 30.
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Moral:
If you name is on the lease, you're responsible.
He gets out on the 25. That's six months. Good behavior I suppose. But still more actual prison time that a child molester serves.
Oops, that's not right. He was pulled over and arrested a month later. It doesn't say when his actual trial was. But he gets out on the 25.
One such sentencing is not an example, will not be taken to heart by anyone. It needs to be done thus to everyone who maintains such a house. After the consistency of the punishment is established the problem will cease. Doing it once without followup establishes the judge and the justice system as capricious and unserious- not a threat to collegiate disorderly lifestyles..
6 months? I thought we were talking 30 days. What did I miss?
Uh, oh. Better get out the vacuum cleaner.
If you 'clean up' your own messes - quickly, quietly, cleanly - there's no reason the cops should even get called...
At the last condo complex I lived in, there were some guys in a rental unit (most people own, there's a small number who rent) who were making everybody's life hell. It took many letters to the condo association and phone calls to the cops to finally get those guys evicted (they were in there for about 4 months). They worked the night shift on odd days, so their "weekend" parties would keep everybody up on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Aside from their obnoxious parties, a lot of cars were getting broken into and a lot of vandalism was happening. Nothing was ever proven, but all of that vandalism and burglary left when they did, go figure. As far as I'm concerned, the guys in that house all should've done some jail time for their antics. In the movies, it's lovable to be a drunken public nuisance. In real life, it's nothing but a pain in the ass.
I don't take real kindly to be woken up at 2 AM with the sound of breaking glass, people screaming, and being threatened when I come out on my front lawn to see what's going on. That's why I left that part of town even though the landlord became a lot more selective about who he rents to and the condo association drew up a bunch of new rules.
Served on weekends...
Looks like Mike received a lesson in responsibility.
"On Friday, he said he was at his parents’ home in Lindsay when Lincoln police went to the house he shares with Mike Ternus and Ken Jensen at 1518 SW 15th St. and found music blaring from the garage and 170 or so people drinking beer. When the cops came, they dropped their beer cups and ran."
He wasn't even at the wild party and got arrested and jailed?
Weird.
That's the way I read it too...and the roommates that were in on the "party" were only hit with fines. There is something about this story that doesn't sit right with me. Oh well.
Wonder if he could prove he wasn't even there? He pleaded no contest because his name was on the lease also from what it says. I bet he wouldn't do that again given the opportunity.
illuded??
Good grief!
Does the judge even know the law? I thought "disorderly house" was a legal term referring to a house of prostitution. This sounds like Humpty-Dumpty jurisprudence.
The charge was keeping a disorderly house, not disorderly conduct. It was his house. He accepted responsibility for that trash when he signed the lease and permitted his house to be "disorderly."
I am not trying to rationalize away his responsibility, but when there are multiple, unrelated "adults" sharing a dwelling, it seems to me that holding each responsible for the actions of the others can get a bit dicey from a common sense standpoint.
Lesson to be learned: Make sure anyone you choose as a roommate won't do something that will get you into hot water.
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