As the World Turns.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a mistrial occurs in the Phil Spector trial.

How anybody could possibly come to a conclusion of "not guilty" is beyond me.
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It's hard to put a finger on why Anna Ayala may get out of prison early, but it's not hard to point a finger as to who is responsible.
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There's a hell of a custody fight going on over seven-year-old Carl:

A lawyer for a Dillingham couple entangled in a custody fight over a 7-year-old orange tabby cat named Carl opened his defense today, the second of a planned four-day trial in civil court.

A former employee of Fosselman & Associates, where Carl lived for six years before fire consumed the building in February 2006, testified the cat wasn’t really considered a “company cat.”

Employees voted to keep Carl at the South Baily Street accounting firm, former employee Patricia Arnold testified. But under questioning by the Fiesers’ attorney, Eric Conard, she testified that she understood that Carl belonged to a former partner in the firm, Traci Weiland.

Catherine Fosselman, owner of the accounting firm, is suing a former employee, Staci Fieser, and her husband, Jason Fieser, for the return of Carl, along with $100,000 in punitive damages. Trial started Wednesday with selection of a 12-member jury. Fosselman testified Thursday, and her lawyer, Andrew Robinson, has concluded his case.

According to employees, Fosselman retrieved Carl from the burning building, neglecting other items of value to her and her company, and gave him to Fieser for safekeeping. Fieser took him home, and he’s lived with the Fiesers ever since.

The Fiesers currently live in Dillingham, where Jason Fieser, a state trooper, is posted. He testified Thursday that his superiors threatened him with “internal consequences” and possible criminal charges unless his wife handed over the cat.

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Tye Hilmo's dad insists his son was too much of an animal lover to feed kittens to his pit bulls.

"He's a good boy," and all of those other excuses.
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A noted serial killer received a second life sentence but expired before his first life sentence did.
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A judge denies the release of Mychal Bell in the Jena Six case.
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A sixth man involved in the most recent O.J. case has surrendered.
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Miscellaneous News.

What a sick son of a bitch.
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Did Luciano Pavarotti waste his talent?
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Alan Greenspan desperately tries to cover his ass over the mess he helped create.
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A revival of the old 1960s marches can be seen in the Jena Six protests:

Bell and four other teenagers initially were booked with attempted murder, and those four still face aggravated battery charges. Charges against a sixth person, a juvenile, haven't been made public. The case stems from the six students allegedly beating a white classmate in the wake of other white students hanging nooses from a tree in the school courtyard.

Critics of Walters' handling of the case have said the six teenagers were the victims of an overzealous prosecutor and that they were treated unfairly because they are black. They say some of racial attitudes that persist in Jena are reflective of how the justice system handles black and poor defendants in other parts of the country.

Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader, described the scene as reminiscent of previous civil rights struggles. He said punishment of some sort might be in order for the six defendants, but "the justice system isn't applied the same to all crimes and all people."

Some background in case people haven't paid attention to this case:

The December beating was the culmination of racial taunts and confrontations involving Robert Bailey Jr., one of the accused teens, after black students sat under an oak tree in the school courtyard where for two decades white students traditionally gathered. A day later, the black students found nooses hanging from the tree. The white students who put them there were given only in-school suspensions by the schools superintendent, even though the high school's principal had recommended they be expelled.

Walters said he didn't charge the white students accused of hanging the nooses because he could find no state law under which they could be charged.

Bean said parents met in a Baptist church after the nooses incident. The next day, Bailey and several friends decided to stand under the tree in protest, Bean said.

In an emergency assembly called at the school, black students say Walters warned students he could "take away their lives with a stroke of my pen." Walters has denied making the comment.

Bean said sporadic skirmishes between black and white students sparked even more tension between the students who hung the nooses and the Jena Six, a group of close football players. Last November, an arsonist burned a wing of the school, heightening tensions even more. That case remains unsolved.

More at the link.
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Floyd Landis is shit out of luck.
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