My newest post over at The Shark is about a Stanford law graduate who took an alternative route and used her JD to launch a high-end call-girl service.
Highest hourly rate? $1,300. Read the post here.
Alternative Legal Career: Hooker
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Category Archives: pop-law
Mornin: Grease drownin’
I read the most bizarre article this morning:
CHARDON, Ohio – A woman pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool.
The 41 year-old woman pulled her 71 year-old husband around the pool and prevented him from leaving 43 times. He had a heart attack and died.
The article reads like a bizarre Lifetime/wife-loses-it story until we get to this part:
He knew her as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993 and changed her name. They married in 2006.
S/he changed her sex and chose the last name Newton-John? Seriously? The Huffington Post version of the story confirmed by fear:
He knew her as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993 and changed her name in honor of the singer and star of the hit movie version of the musical “Grease.”
My goodness. I wonder how Olivia feels about this.
Bike groper caught!
The mystery bike groper has been caught! The University just emailed this out:
On 1/30, UMPD issued a public safety alert in response to a series of criminal sexual contacts around campus. Today’s Star Tribune is reporting an arrest in the case:
Man arrested in groping of 9 women at U
February 4, 2009
A man suspected of groping several women on the University of Minnesota campus was arrested Tuesday night and jailed on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct.
University police arrested the 41-year-old man on the East Bank campus after a woman complained that she had been molested about 8:30 p.m.
She was at least the ninth woman, most of them students, who have grabbed in the genital area by a man who sometimes was riding a bicycle.
The first assaults occurred in December, when two women were groped, and resumed last Thursday, when three women were victimized.
After two more women were groped this week, Minneapolis police issued a crime alert and university police increased patrols on the campus.
About 8:30 p.m., university police dispatchers received a call about a woman who had been touched inappropriately by a man in front of the McNamara Alumni Center.
Police said the suspect was last seen observed running towards the Aquatics Center, but after checking the East Bank and Dinkytown areas, officers spotted a man who matched the description offered by the victim on the West Bank campus.
As the officers were arresting the man, dispatchers told them about another groping that had occurred about 20 minutes earlier on Washington Avenue SE in front of Moos Tower. Both victims, who are students at the university, were brought to the suspect, where they identified the man as their attacker.
While the man was being told of the charges he was facing, he confessed, police said.
The suspect, with a listed address in Brooklyn Center, was booked into the Hennepin County Jail at 11:30 p.m. He has “no known affiliation” with the university, police said.
– BOB VON STERNBERG
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