Comments on: AAB - Don’t go to jail in a small Texas county.

by: Smokey

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:34:14 +0000

Carol, trust me, IF he starts actually whining, I will be the first to say something, but as long as legitimate grievances are there and are ignored by the county, I won’t stop trying to bring the county’s failures to light. thanks for visiting.

by: Carol

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:01:17 +0000

Our jails of full of folks just like your friend. My own son at the age of 14 was stopped by a police officer and asked to empty his pockets because the officer thought he had bought a pack of cigarettes-a criminal offense for a juevenile in the state of Virginia. My son didn’t have cigarettes but he had a glass pipe in his pocket. My daughter’s boyfriend sent it to him from Amsterdam where he and some other kids went upon graduation. The officer brought my son home and confiscated the pipe. My son submitted to a blood test that was also negative for drugs. A week later my son was arrested because residue -marijuana residue was found in the pipe. You couldn’t make this stuff up. He was charged with possession. Under federal law my son cannot get a federally funded student loan for college because he has a marijuana conviction. I am not stupid. My son was off to show the pipe to his friends. If any of them had had something to put in it they would have smoked it. So my son goes to school part time and works full time to help pay for his education. It will take him a little longer-well a lot longer but that is the price he must pay. I don’t put up with his whining about the injustice of it all and you should learn to take your friend’s stories with a grain of salt and tell him to quit whinning too.

by: The Smoke Eater

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:21:48 +0000

First, Alec, I feel very sorry for those people whom you call friends, if you are willing to drop them when they are in trouble. Second, you know NOTHING about this case. Due to my decision to pursue a law degree, and having declared pre-law at my university, I try to follow any case I can, so I can get a feel for what my job will be soon. With this case being as close to home as it is, I have followed it from day one.

The arrest - My friend was driving to the store for sodas in a friend’s car, and the owner even verified that fact for the police. When the officer pulled my friend over for a busted tail light, he asked (almost immediately) to search the car. My friend, knowing he had not done anything wrong, stepped out and agreed. The officer then found an INCREDIBLY SMALL amount of marijuana in the car. My friend’s breathalizer, FST, and all subsequent tests WERE NEGATIVE for canabis. The thing that clenched for the DA, the arresting officer ADVISED my friend to write a “letter of apology” to the judge. This being the first time for this situation, he did, which is a defacto admission of guilt, and NO OFFICER OF THE LAW, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, is to advise a suspect to plead one way or another, they are simply to read the Miranda rights, THEN SHUT UP!

The county’s subsequent ambivolence toward this situation has only made matters worse, such as telling him to silence his own mother because she was concerned FOR HIS HEALTH and the lack of care being given.

Lastly, as to the comment you made about the food, I HAVE done this job, at a hotel, but it’s the same job. The water being used is HIGHLY pressurized, and is heated to near boiling temperatures. The steam actually does burn dish washers quite often, as it did me. I was REQUIRED to wear eye protection in that situation, even though I didn’t want to as I (used to) think that it was no big deal. As to my friend’s situation, for A CONTRACTOR to actually use the words “you don’t have the right” when denying him the ability to try to protect his eyes, is nothing short of IDIOTIC on his part.

Now, any further comments, or are you willing to accept that you do NOT know about this case, and I do, therefore I will NEVER let you speak ill of my friend again! He made mistakes in the past, such as driving a car he knew to be owned by a drug addict. He has admitted that the situation was his doing, as he chose to go to that person’s home, and drive that car. He has accepted that he needs to face the consequences of his actions, and has been a “model inmate”, yet the county seems DEAD SET to get another charge against him, therefore I will not rest until he is away from that county and never has to go back.

by: Alec

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:26:24 +0000

I think you should stop worrying about your criminal friend. 1) His being allowed to work as a trustee is a privlege and is volluntary on his part. If he doesn’t want to spray trays without eye protection, he doesn’t have to. (And who the hell needs eye protection from BOUNCE-BACK spray?) 2) Speculative concerns about less than ideal interview procedures that DID NOT go awry hardly seem like anything to get upset about. 3) Your friend sounds like a first-class whiner. He is a frickin criminal! Quit cutting him so much slack.

It sounds like because this person is your friend, you are looking at this in ways you would never indulge otherwise.