Aims, some court records are public and can be accessed online.
This weekend is putting up the tree and Christmas shopping.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Dec 12, 2008 8:50:31 am PST #5750 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Aims - Dec 12, 2008 8:52:44 am PST #5751 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I found out what the charge was.
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2008 8:54:57 am PST #5752 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm really hoping that this administration can do away with some of the "nah-nah-nah-nah I can't HEAR you" in American politics. Someone fire that fuck.
If they keep Griffin around until the Moon Base is done, I bet Griffin goes there. Then he'd be all, "Nay-nah-nah you can't fire me because I'm on the Moon!!"
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2008 8:57:24 am PST #5753 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
An article on the online availability of court records: Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free
If you want to search federal court documents, it's not a problem. Just apply online for an account, and the government will issue you a user name and password.
Through the postal service.
And once you log in, the government's courthouse search engine known as Public Access to Court Electronic Records or PACER, will charge you 8 cents a page to read documents that are in the public domain — a fee that earned the federal judiciary $50 million in profits in 2006.
With its high cost and limited functionality, critics call the system an absurdity in the era of Google, blogs and Wikipedia, where information is free and bandwidth, disk space and processing power are nearly so.
"The PACER system is the most broken part of our federal legal mechanism," says Carl Malamud, who runs the nonprofit open-government group Public.Resource.Org ."They have a mainframe mentality."
Now Malamud is doing something about it. He's asking lawyers to donate their PACER documents one by one, which he then classifies and bundles into ZIP files published for free at his organization's website. The one-year-old effort has garnered him 20 percent of all the files on PACER, including all decisions from federal appeals courts over the last 50 years.
Cashmere - Dec 12, 2008 8:57:40 am PST #5754 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Spill, Aims!
sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 8:57:54 am PST #5755 of 10002
Griffin's response: [link]
DavidS - Dec 12, 2008 8:59:37 am PST #5756 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I found out what the charge was.
How would you rate the juiciness of the charge?
a) Unpaid traffic tickets
b) Snorted coke of tranny hookers ass
c) White slavery
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2008 9:01:30 am PST #5757 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How would you rate the juiciness of the charge?
d) Shoplifted My Little Pony box set
Aims - Dec 12, 2008 9:02:14 am PST #5758 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Spill, Aims!
Ok - current co-worker had a court date in November. While she was there, a case was called - State of Michigan vs. Former Boss.
I found the docket number and did a search. Found out he had been arraigned in October.
I did more digging, and found out he was charged with assault or assault and battery!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sparky1 - Dec 12, 2008 9:05:41 am PST #5759 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
Sorry I can't help you more, Aims.
I like PACER, and you can get a password right away if you register with a credit card. Also, I think they only send you a bill when you run up $10 worth of charges (it used to be $30), so you can look at 800 pages without paying a dime, and the accounts used to reset every Jan 1 -- I dunno if they still do.