I'm sitting here listening to Ed Bradley's Jazz Live from Lincoln Center - this show's feature is Duke Ellington - while I wait to head out to Tiger Stadium for a day of fun and see Auburn get its ass kicked tonight. Here we go.
Lil Michael Taylor will finally appear in court.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771019053
Justice does move slowly but eventually it does move. Taylor will finally start to face some justice. Thankfully, he is still in jail where he can not terrorize the rest of Jackson while on Melton's/Jackson's dime. The CL reported:
"A young ward of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton will appear in court in January to be arraigned on charges of armed carjacking and extortion. Court documents show Michael Taylor, 18, was indicted on the two felony charges by a grand jury in August. The charges stem from accusations in November that Taylor pointed a handgun at a woman and stole her silver 2001 Saturn at the intersection of Bailey Avenue and Maple Street. Investigators said Taylor later attempted to sell the car back to the woman.Taylor's address was listed on court papers as Melton's northeast Jackson home, but Taylor has been held in the Hinds County Detention Center since July." These charges are in addition to the armed robbery charges he faced earlier this year. For an earlier discussion of Taylor and Melton, see: http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2007/07/meltons-protege-set-free-to-terrorize.html
Judge stands up to Melton's antics
Judge Breland Hilburn said enough is enough. Melton gave promotions to his bodyguards, including one Michael Recio to Assistant Chief, who just happens to be the son-in-law of former Chief and "consultant" to Melton and JPD Bracey Coleman while ignoring much more highly qualified police officers. Melton said earlier this week he had no use for tests for promotion. This follows Melton's pattern of hiring people who are grossly unqualified for jobs for which they are appointed. His typical response is they have a great attitude or some similar reason. Its never about how strong their resume is or how qualified they are.
Judge Hilburn said:
"The Civil Service Commission is going to make it very aware to management of the city of Jackson that the failure to recognize the protocol and rules of Civil Service no longer will be tolerated," said Breland Hilburn, a specially appointed Hinds County circuit judge and Civil Service Commission chairman. If rules continue to be broken, city administrators could "find themselves before the commission," he said. There are 15 "acting" lieutenants and sergeants within Jackson Police Department. All have received promotions without going through the regular competitive process. Those, plus recent promotions of Melton bodyguards Micheal Recio and Marcus Wright and others constitute "widespread disregard for the clear mandates for promotion," Hilburn said.
Melton's moves have garnered complaints in recent weeks from rank-and-file officers, who say the promotions are blatant examples of favoritism. Promotions are supposed to be based on "established qualifications, examinations, records of efficiency, character, conduct and seniority," according to Civil Service Rules for the city of Jackson....."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071019/NEWS/710190379
Its nice to see someone with some balls when it comes to Melton. I'm sure Melton will call him corrupt.....or say he is not going to listen to some judge who has no clue what is going on in the city, and the idiot supporters will write in saying "let him do his job!" That is just it, he IS doing his job and its a total disaster.
Viagra makes you deaf?
WJTV reported: Popular impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will come with a new and serious warning.The FDA is calling for labels cautioning men about the risk of sudden hearing loss that may be associated with taking the drug. So far 29 cases have been reported all within two days of taking one of the drugs.
http://www.wjtv.com/gulfcoastwest/jtv/news.apx.-content-articles-JTV-2007-10-19-0010.html
This is a bad thing? Did they think this might be an intended benefit for the drug? Now you take the pill, do your thing, and don't have to hear her gripe about how she didn't get hers or you can just roll over and go straight to sleep without listening to her bitching about your going to sleep.
Meanwhile, Melton announces CRIME IS DOWN!
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=15218_0_27_0_C
In a statement released this week, Melton states:
PROGRESS IN THE CITY OF JACKSON...
STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE
Mayor FrankE . Melton said he is pleased to announce that the City of Jackson presently has
several hundred million dollars in construction currently underway with more to come next
month. Cranes and bulldozers can be seen all over town. The Mayor also announced that crime is down and he gives credit to the efforts of the City's public safety officers.
Mayor Meltons adds there is still much work to be done especially in the following areas:
-Truancy, which leads to drop outs in our school system
-The illegal consumption and distribution of narcotics
-Weapons in the wrong hands and used to hurt human beings
He said these are the three critical issues that led to recent changes and more changes may be made in order to achieve the desired results and that is for everyone in the City of Jackson to feel.
This press release is so bad it almost doesn't deserve comment. Crime is down? Really? WHERE? It's also rather funny how crime skyrocketed almost immediately after he took office when it has been down nationwide. This press release could have been written by a high school student. What proof or evidence is there crime is down? No statistics are cited. One must wonder what the purpose of such a stupid press release is. Hmmm...I'm starting to wonder....maybe Melton really IS that stupid and we all have been assuming for years he had some brains. http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/foi_pdfs/Crimeisdown.pdf
Bible Thumpers' Favorite Prophet at it again....
Never mind how many times Hal Lindsay is wrong, THIS time he will get it right. In the 70's he used to say the United States was fading and that Russia and China would rule the world until the time of the anti-Christ. Then in the 80's he said demons would appear as aliens to us and the whole UFO thing was Satanic. Wikipedia has a pretty interesting and funny account of him and his writings. The fact is, they are usually wrong and his knowledge of prophecy and history is pretty bad.
This time, he is SURE that Bush and Condi discussing Israeli-Palestinian peace is the fulfillment of yet another Biblical prophecy, never mind he has missed on the other hundreds or thousands or so-called prophecieces he has claimed to divine. Enjoy: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58215
Meanwhile, D.A.-Elect Robert Smith is questioned
By the JFP for having, gasp, unresolved cases when he assumed office. There are only two types of lawyers that run for D.A.: prosecutors and defense attorneys. Defense attorneys become D.A.s all the time and most of them know how to wrap up their caseloads, and as they have to pass an ethics exam, are pretty familiar with conflicts of interest rules. The few lawyers which attempt to inject some reason into the discussion are subjected to some nastier treatment as they refuse to follow the party line. http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=15211_0_67_0_C
Meanwhile, no mention is made of Faye Peterson dropping cases this week against three alleged killers and also a former JPD cop accused of sexual battery against a minor (separate cases) for lack of evidence. One can imagine the criticism made if it was Mr. Smith dropping these cases.
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Appears that Smith will be tested early in his tenure since Taylor's trial will be in January. Will he allow Taylor to cop a plea? Politically he would be smart to take Taylor to the mat and let a jury decide. Smith will catch mucho media flak -- especially from the Ladd cult -- if there is any appearance whatsoever that he pulled punches on Taylor's prosecution.
Re: Peterson. I'd like to know who will be running the daily operations in her office once she departs Nov 1 for her two month vacation, er, I mean surgery and rehabilitation leave.
I was one of the lawyers pointing out that Robert Smith's having cases which would present a conflict upon him switching sides was no big deal. The ethical rules recognize that lawyers face these conflicts as they make career choices and the rules have provisions for such. There are few other professions, if any, that require these type rules.
Anyway, as usual, I got the snide treatment from Ms. Know-it-all. But if you look at the thread on the Shavers case ("Melton lied"), Ms. Know-it-all disagreed with me about the law that would govern any case by the Shavers' family against the City. Then Robert Johnson jumped in to say that I was correct. Needless to say, that stopped all further conversation on that issue.
And as an aside - when Ms. Know-it-all made the condescending comment "some of my best friends are lawyers" but that "there are lawyers and then there are lawyers", I was sorely tempted to reply that "some of my best friends are black people but that there are black people and then there are black people."
What a first class bitch.
How come it is rare that lawyers come on that site to correct lawyers who disagree with her?
My favorite was when they were raising hell about Webster not allowing testinomy about Melton supposedly being drunk during the Ridgeway incident. Um, part of the crime is intent and drunkenness usually weakens the intent element so wouldn't it have HURT Faye's case? But no, they were all trying to get it into court.
On the whole conflict "issue", much like the Shavers case, she is only showing how biased and ignorant she is. She'll dump all over Smith for a non-issue but fail to mention that Faye is dropping cases left and right and the fact Faye is dropping out of sight as of the end of October.
Like I said, first class bitch.
see my post earlier in the week about Jena 6.
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