Jackson Jambalaya

Isn't he married? Where was his wife if these things happened at home?

I had the same question, 10:45. I saw them dining together a month or two ago. We won't see him on TV any more unless he's wearing stripes.

There is a young lady who should have been singing "Can't Touch This'....
Now, Eric has a clear meaning of the term "jail bait".

um, I am not a lawyer (thank gawd!!) but methinks he will claim that car wreck he and his wife were involved in a couple of years ago caused brain damage therefor he can't be at fault for his bad behavior.

Actually, this is the way it will go.
Eric Law "I did NOT do this. She made it up".
Prosecutor "Did you send the e-mails and facebook messages?"
Eric Law "yes I did but I was just messin' around, they meant nothing, I love my wife too much to do anything like this".
Prosecutor "Did she spend the night in your house?"
Eric Law "Yes, many times, but she stayed in a different room. I was with my wife, who I love very much. I want to add that if I was doing anything wrong, why would she keep coming over?"

And because this will be a high profile case, the prosecutor will make a lot of hand gestures and wave his arms around, kinda like Matlock did.

Meanwhile, the defense attorney, who will hold numerous press briefings, will declare there is no proof to these false accusations and Eric will return to work where he will be incorrectly predicting the weather as usual.

Hmmm...lets see if Michael Guest goes after him with the gusto he went after Tyshuna Ross. Still burns me up that she got 18 years when murderers get less than that! He's such a jerk.

Well, since RCSO handled the initial investigation, we can probably assume Vicky Currie didn't fabricate anything.

My question is, if this girl was a minor, 15 or 16 years old, where was her PARENTAL supervision?

No call for that comment KF. Are you playing the role of investigative journalist or sensational editorialist?

He can play both if he wants.

I guess the fact it was in the comments and not the post escaped your attention.

Better submit this to The Smoking Gun.

What kind of twisted, perverted things did they act out in the Law and Order room?

"Hey baby, put down your Barbie dolls, it's time to play Law and Order. This time you can be Lennie Briscoe and I'll play S. Epatha Merkerson!"

Ew.

Who is Vicky Currie????

Vicky Currie is a detective from the Madison Police Department,If only Rankin had been involved I would believe this whole story more, but Madison makes it up as they go a long. Ask them how they charged a poor man at St. D accussing him of being the bank robber. He had dark hair and that was about the only simalarity I could see! Then Remember Stuart Irby twisted his way out of something similar or it was all made up, whose to know

Can you imagine a phone conversation between these two?

"Hey, baby. It's the Lawman. How was Jr. High today? Yeah, I know Driver's Ed is boring, but it pays off, trust me. I know Cindy's being snobby, but she only dates the quarterback, not a studly meteorologist like you, babe. So, I hear there's a big Pokemon event over at Game Stop. I can take you over there after school. Maybe then we can head to the house. I feel a strong warm front ready move into your low lying areas! Yes, yes we can play Justin Bieber on the iPod in the Law and Order room this time!"

I mean, the jokes just write themselves!

I should post Jim Rome's monologues about Michael Jackson.

I am not approving comments that are designed to hijack this thread onto another subject. This post is about Mr. Law and his arrest. Stick to it.

While Eric Law certainly knew better and broke the law anyway- so did the girl.

I feel she should also face charges of willingly and knowingly being an accessory to this crime.

Of course, my opinion is based only on the information released thus far.

Both should be held accountable. Adults already know what they face for charges such as this- send a message to the younger crowd, too, that they also are breaking the law by participating in such a crime.

Fifteen years old black girls do this and drop cubs all the time, and no one cares. The fact that she/he is white suddenly makes this a big story. Get a grip.

Way to go, 3:32, in accusing the victim, a minor, in a sexual assault case. What a moron. You probably think women who wear short skirts are asking for it.

WOW, ignorance really doesn't know any bounds.

I have a daughter. Most of you must not. Some of you are adolescents or either adults with the mind of an adolescent.

This guy should be strung up by his testicles. And several of you ought to be receiving the same punishment, it appears.

@4:39; Since I am female and, once upon a time, I was 14, then 15, then 16, etc., I am 100% qualified to respond to you...chronological age has absolutely NOTHING to do with sexual experience. There's hardly a sixteen year old girl alive these days who is not sexually active. Who knows, it could very well have been this "child" who was the aggressor. Statutory rape is the biggest farce ever to make the law books. Mama and Daddy want to keep their little girl "a baby" as long as they can. They can't stomach the idea that their "baby" is sexually active unless they convince themselves that the other person took advantage of her. All the while, "baby" is sleeping with half the football team and two or three of their girlfriends daddies...and loving every minute of it.

@5:54 - While that may be true of some 15 year olds, it's certainly not true of all of them. And you have absolutely no basis whatsoever for your ridiculous assumptions. If this was a girl he met through working with the youth at his church, it could very well be that the girl was naive coming into it. Even if she wasn't, your comments are completely asinine.

@5.54: my "ridiculous assumptions" are based on numerous studies and surveys conducted in schools all across this country. Google it. It is reinforced by candid conversations with my own children and with my grandchildren. Get your head out of the sand. Mississippi didn't get to having the highest teenage birth in the country by having only a tiny handful of girls participating in sex.

@8:32 - Unless you know this particular girl, you just really need to shut up.

Not to be stupid or anything, but what exactly is a "law and order" room? I know it is a TV show of course, but why on earth is a room named after it?

A quote from Mr. Law in his bio on his website:

"In spare time, I enjoy watching TV, especially any Law & Order episode. I've seen them all, many dozens of times."

Just curious ... How did you access the public records for this case ... I have a few I would like to look up !!! Do you know how long back they are accessible ?

5:54 pm , you need to read more .

Yes, teenagers are sexually active. They always have been.

They are, as Twain , said, " hormones on legs".

You have ignored the research on brain development and maturity and what ages males and female sexually peak.

We expect better decisions from adults and hold them more responsible for their behaviors for a reason.

You also seem to buy into the myth that adult males lack the judgment and maturity to resist advances from an attractive woman of any age.

I, too, was a teenager girl, mother of girls and am a grandmother of girls. I also have brothers and sons and grandsons .

I don't however suffer from memory loss nor did I listen with great seriousness to the exaggerated stories of either my girlfriends or daughters or granddaughters about how " bad" the other girls in school were. Nor did I underestimate how young girls romanticize and enjoy their new found effect on boys or envy others when they couldn't be successful in attracting male attention. Some girls always seem more desperate for male attention and there's research about why that is so that you should read.

Yes,our young people are indeed more active and more open about being active.

In our generation, there were plenty of girls in cars with fogged up windows ( drive-ins and " parking", remember?).And, when the condom didn't work, they went to stay with " relatives" so they could " go to a better school" or help out a sick aunt.

And, yes, there were girls in our generation and now who are too afraid of the consequences or who never have the bad luck of thinking they are " in love forever" with some pimply faced boy. Some even do find " the love of their life" in junior high or high school. Rare, but it happens.

Biology hasn't changed , society has.

Excusing adultery and approving of old men with young " trophies" is more of a problem in society to me than the certainty of teenage stupidity and high hormone levels!

Why was she spending the night at his home? Where was his wife?

Thank God we presume a person innocent...What would this board look like otherwise?

Society changes with every generation and over years. Once long ago a 18 or older woman was an "old maid" now a 13 or 15 year old is a "baby". Wake up fools. Go online, there are several websites full of 18 year old girls nude and masturbating for all to see. I doubt they woke up at age 18 and became this adventurous. Do you?

And in floods the pedophile apologists... sickening

@2:30- What is sickening is your odd response to 1:05's words.
What is your basis for insinuating that this person is a pedophile apologist?
I don't believe most reading this column interpreted, or should I say twisted, the words as you obviously did.
You have a strange way of participating in a discussion.

How do you know that 2:30 was responding to 1:05?

What a poke in the eye. All he had to do was wait til her next birthday. She woulda been 16 and good to go.

No, 4:18; he's probably been grooming her for three or more years, with her mother's permission.

@3:40- Simple logic is easy to apply when the obvious is right before your eyes.
Also, comparative analysis works rather well, also.

@5:12- You have a strange way of participating in a discussion.

As does 5:19. That's twice.

Ok. It appears that quite of few of you are reading challenged. First of all, ZERO judgment has been passed by me (or anyone) else on the girl involved with Eric Law. How COULD I when I have absolutely NO IDEA who she is. My comment, as is stated very clearly, was about statutory rape laws. Period. It is, in my opinion, RIDICULOUS to assume that a person with the higher chronological age is also the more sexually experienced OR the aggressor in a sexual encounter. It is also WRONG to assume that the person with the higher chronological age is the more emotional mature. It is completely ASSININE to assume that, just because she is less than 16 years old that the girl involved with Eric Law was some innocent child. Maybe she was. MAYBE, just MAYBE, she's been sexually active since she was 12. Maybe, just MAYBE she has had more sexual partners than Eric Law. I don't know ...and neither do you. But, YES, it matters. And, as for the argument that, simply because of her age, she is too young to be held responsible, BULL CRAP. We aren't afraid to hold 12 year old boys responsible for robbery and lock them away until they are middle aged so why do we coddle promiscuous teenager girls instead of holding THEM responsible for their sexual encounters (without regard for the age of their partners)?? And why can't we even have this discussion without some dingbat accusing me of being a pedophile apologist???

Did that young girl's parents know she was at the Law's home? Some "young people" will lie to their parents and say they will be at one place when actually they end up at another. Why did they allow her spend the night there anyway, if they knew she was there. I'm not taking up for Mr. Law, but, it isn't all his fault.

... ZERO judgment has been passed by me ...

My comment, as is stated very clearly ...

It is, in my opinion ...

I don't know ...and neither do you.

... why can't we even have this discussion without some dingbat accusing me ...

WHO exactly are you? You are anonymous dummy.

I still wonder how this young lady was allowed to spend the night. Maybe she was a "baby sitter". I understand all of the emotions displayed by my fellow bloggers...but, we must remember, regardless of what we think of a law...it stands until it is changed by the people its meant to protect.

If Law did sleep with this young lady...shame on him! He should go away for a very long time. I just think of it as it if were my 14 y.o. Physical and emotional maturity are not the same.

9:01; While several here could be 'reading challenged', you're the one who seems challenged in a basic understanding of the applicable laws. Regardless of 'who' she is or what level of 'experience' she has or how 'active' she may or may not be, what she wore or why she spent the night there....none of those factors is addressed in the law. In terms you can understand, simply, none of that matters since she is a minor. Now, go back to The Playboy Channel.......

Lucy Weber of the Clarion Ledger really needs to learn how to cite sources. Pathetic and typical of a ganet "journalist". Even WAPT cited JJ yesterday.

Thank you Kingfish for all you do.

@7:42....KF, is that you?

Perhaps JJ was NOT Lucy Weber's source. Just because he 'broke' that particular tidbit doesn't mean he gets credit for all subsequent reporting.

Snore........ZZZzzz.

They didn't copy anyone. CL and the others got it from the city. WAPT didn't do that but instead decided to just give me credit. The result was WAPT had a lead on the story for 8-12 hours over everyone else while the media waited on the city.

Perhaps JJ was NOT Lucy Weber's source.

Yes but reading it here first is what sent Lucy scurrying after the fact for the information.

At least KF doesn't whine and gripe in these instances like the Fondren Harpy.

Mr. and Mrs. Law often hosted parties at their house for the young girls that attended their church. I would assume that's why the young girl was over there.

What church was the youth group affiliated with?

I'm not sure. I'd like to know as well. I read that on one of their blogs. It may have been on both of them.

Shouldn't that be "Law and Order SVU"?.....just asking...

9:01- I KNOW what the law says. It says, if one is under 16 and the other is over 18, the one who is over 18 is AUTOMATICALLY GUILTY of statutory rape REGARDLESS of whether the one under 16 consented, REGARDLESS of whether the one under 16 had already had sex HUNDREDS of times and the one OVER 18 was, until that moment, a virgin. The LAW says a 16 year old boy can and will he tried AS AN ADULT for raping a 16 year old girl if said 16 year old girl "changes her mind" because the LAW, in its infinite wisdom, thinks sixteen year old boys are ALWAYS mature enough to know how to properly respond in such a situation BUT 16 year old GIRLS are NEVER mature enough to even give consent. In other words, the LAW is hypocritical, at best. THAT is why statutory rape laws are ridiculous. Even more ridiculous though is the absolute refusal of some people to give thoughtful consideration to the point I just made and the immature, six-grade name calling responses from others.

7:15; are you quoting the law or on a rampage? Your exercise period is over. Get back in your cell. Maybe your momma will get picked for the grand jury.

Like most pedophiles, Mr Law probably played the Father role initially for this girl. the Laws' of this world prey on young girls with no Fathers.

Even if this girl slept with every male in the state, she is still only fifteen. A 32-year old man should know better.

As for Eric, he will soon discover why jail is called the "pokey".

No,...as 'sleezy " as mom's of boy's think these girls are, and act,...the loss of Fathers and family values are real. A man in authority, whether it be a coach, teacher or TV personality. These are immature girls who will not realize the permanent effects of "feeling the love of a man",however gross it feels to them,.. and yes, they feel important and special for pleasing him, getting what they think is love,...hell,..they write in journals, poems,...wishes and dreams,.They need guidance from both Parent's ...which is sadly being so discouraged and missing in today's world today. Why, if these two, have no children, was a young teen spending the night?! Were they related,.if not so many questions need answers,....And where did they go to church? Many unanswered questions. And yes, there are "sluts,.loose and lost little girls,..whose fault is that? Where was the parental oversight?

I cannot freaking believe this. How can some of you not think that it's his fault?? I don't care how much the girl agrees, he's the adult and knows the law. It is his fault. He is a discusting pervert who deserves every bit of jail time and more!!!

Ok just to clear things up....

1.) The victim is not related to Eric in any way.

2.) The story of how they met is pretty funny. All right, so when he was still a meteorologist, Eric would visit local middle schools and talk about his occupation on career day. The victim happened to be one of the students in the classroom and she was especially "interested" in Mr. Law's job and started face-booking him to ask further questions regarding "his career". The initial encounter was incited by the victim, not Eric. Well, one thing led to another and a formal relationship soon evolved into a sexual one.

3.) The sexual encounters occurred in Mr. Law's law and order room. The law and order room was an upstairs room in Eric's house that commemorated his love for the show, law and order. It was full of memorabilia and copy props from the set, as well as cast photos from every season. It's safe to say, he was a SUPER fan.

4.) Eric is still married to his wife, Kristina. She had no idea this shit was going down in her house. Eric would "do" it whenever Kristina was out of town.

5.) Where are these fifteen year olds parents? Why was there no parental supervision? How does something like this even happen? Well, that's what it all comes down to, doesn't it? Look, I don't know the girl personally, but I have met her and I'll tell u this much: a minor who initiates this kind of inappropriate behavior with a grown adult and then continues to do it for months, has either been abused in the past, has some kind of serious mental illness like chronic clinical depression, or lives in an UNSTABLE home environment, as in she has probably witnessed abuse firsthand and/or some form of illicit sex at a young age which probably traumatized her. Either way, she's still a victim-but a victim who was probably scarred before she even met Eric.

6.) Now, you're probably wondering how I know all of this information. Well, Mr. and Mrs. Law have been my neighbors for quite some time now and I knew them very well... Before he lost his job, friends, and dignity of course. Eric has always been a very cordial, respected, admirable guy in the community. But I always saw a void in him- an emptiness that consumed him, as though he himself had been abused...which I learned to be true from Eric himself. His father had abused him when he was a young boy and his mother took Eric away to save him from the tortuous grasp of his father. None of this surprised me because if any of you have personally met this man, you would know that there is something pitiful about him-something hollow-a characteristic many victims share, which ultimately transforms them into the abuser. I say all this because I'm tired of all the bull shit on this blog..honestly, it doesn't change a thing if you think Eric should be punished for the rest of his life or not. The point is that even the most evidently flawless people on this planet can become criminals, sinners, etc.. We all have problems we can fix about ourselves, so let's use this otherwise pointless news headline as inspiration to work on ourselves and stop judging others. Sure we might not be abusers, but we sure as hell aren't perfect. How can anyone of us really know what kind of people we would be today if our fathers had abused us and we had to live in a motel for months on end because our single mother couldn't find work. Look I'm not making excuses for the man but I want society to know the whole story so they can understand the world isn't strictly right and wrong. Most of the time, it is the victim who turns into the abuser, so instead of pointing fingers, let's open up our hearts and ears to someone in pain who has no one to talk to. Who knows, maybe if Eric had someone to talk to, all of this could have been avoided.

2:46:

i have special information too. i know you have brown eyes. how would i know this? because you are so full of crap!

@skisgirl. tyshunna Ross raped and gave a 1 year old alchohol. She deserved every bit of 18 years. I got one applaud Michael Guest for putting her away. I don't care if you are male or female, you rape someone you go to jail for a LONG TIME