Posted on 02/16/2009 8:09:09 AM PST by Born Conservative
I really gotta learn to ignore you anarchist morons.
Ain't America great?
What are the odd? Two guys, both named Smith.
“Eric Smiths fingerprints matched the ones on file for Edgar Smith, patrolman Keith McAlarney wrote in court papers.”
Let’s see...Yep, little squiggly lines here and here...perfect match.
Sounds like perjury and/or incompetence.
The author is an idiot. When describing a case of mistaken identity, where the only name differentiators are the full first name (same initials) and middle name, the author drops down into shorthand where references to the individual who won the lawsuit are cribbed down to the last name - the very same last name as the other guy from Washington state.
When I have to read something three, four, or five times to make sure I’m understanding it correctly, then my firm belief is that the author needs remedial writing-for-comprehension coursework.
/rant
I’ve never been arrested.
If you don’t count my development.
Yeah, this fine, upstanding citizen would make a fine father:
“Smith was convicted in 1990 of assault with intent to rape, said an official in Prince Georges County, Md.”
And who is the clerk?
Guy should take $10 of his new found gains and go buy himself a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas.
Ummmm, excuse my ignorance, but just what reason did the officer have to arrest Smith? Certainly not his fingerprints, since I doubt there are very few fingerprinting/analysis/comparison machines in the field with the on-the-street officer. Only after arresting Smith, whose other names were completely different than those in the warrant (was the DOB the same- which is not reallly uncommon), and on a warrant issued clear across the whole country, exactly what were the grounds for arrest?
Obviously, we aren't getting/given the actual facts of the story here by the 'journalist' retard who was writing this story, so we can't make any determination. But the excuse of matching fingerprints for "probably cause" to arrest leaves me scratching my head.
Then again, we're getting to the point where the jackbooted thugs don't really need much of any reason, only an excuse, to detain, arrest and imprison most anyone. And in HNIC's reign, we'll see only more of this type of thing.
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