Alger County Prosecutor, Karen Bahrman has been at her job for close to 10 years and as the only county prosecutor, with a staff of just 2 secretaries, her judicial plate can be pretty full. She operates from the courthouse complex in Munising, Michigan, where the snows of winter can stay on the ground until May, when the black fly's and mosquito's take over, and can dominate the conversation.
Usually the worst thing that happens in this sleepy eastern Upper Peninsula community of 2500 is the occasional drunk driving arrest, or a domestic violence case. But a murder case, like the one back in 2008 is an occasion seldom seen and much interest is created simply by the sheer importance of the proceedings.
The case involved Thomas and Juanita Richardson, a rocky marriage and a 140 foot fall from a cliff at Pictured Rock National Lakeshore, causing the death of Mrs. Richardson. Thomas Richardson was accused of murdering his wife and a subsequent trail found him guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
An appeal, citing misconduct by the Alger County Prosecutor, Karen Bahrman to the Michigan Supreme Court was not allowed, and the verdict was upheld, likely ending any further legal action in the case.
In a rather interesting twist in the case, a case that had many twists, the 7 member Michigan Supreme Court admonished the Alger County Prosecutor for a variety of unprofessional remarks during the course of the trail.
The prosecutor's retort was directly to the point and completely unapologetic, "if they only found a few remarks that were unprofessional in the more then 6000 pages of testimony, I'm underwhelmed, I'm not devastated by the characterization."
No matter the outcome of the trial, calling a witness for the defense a "whore," or saying the the children of the Richardson family that testified on behalf of their father as "betraying their mother, or calling another defense witness a "bottom feeder," and referring to the murder case as, "as important as September 11th. 2001 terrorist attack is, well.....laughable.
I hate to say it, but I think Ms. Bahrman might be a candidate for the "Mega Bitch" of the Upper Peninsula and I would advise everybody to stay out of her court room, oh and by the way, don't try your antics in a real trial in front of a real jury, in a real city, they won't work.
NEED A JOB, TRY FLIPPING BURGERS, (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
This is simply fascinating, I now know where my wife can work after retirement.....McDonald's, I never knew. In this economy of hard knocks, where jobs are at a premium, people are showing up at Micky "D's" in three piece suites, brief case in hand, filling out applications as line cooks, french fry makers, or orders takers at the drive-through windows.
Pretty soon, McDonald management positions will be filled by PHD's, computer programmers or doctorates, holy burger and fries. As times seem to be getting tougher, restaurants can be more picky, as the competition for every opening heats up.
It's not that working in a McDonald's is degrading, well, actually it is.....degrading, working at a burger joint really does offer a man or women the chance to pick up some much needed cash. These "burger" jobs were once viewed as places for young people to experience their first jobs and to learn about applying themselves and to take responsibility for their efforts and actions.
To bad the Micky "D" jobs still pay less then $10 an hour, although managers can make quite a decent living, if they are unmarried, have no children and live alone. "Hey baby, it's tough out there, a persons gotta take what he can."
SARAH, SARAH AND HER MAGICAL RIDE TO? (Frazer Chronicles)
Sarah Palin is at it again, hell I love this girl, she sure knows how to march to a different drummer. Her she is, on her bus tour, why I'll never know, traveling through Boston, she makes a stop at Paul Revere's house, possibly to use the bathroom.
In case you don't know the history of Paul Revere, he's the dude who rode from Boston harbor to warn John Hancock, "or was it Herbie Hancock," and Samuel Adams of the impending approach of the British army.
Ms.Sarah somehow had her own take on his ride, "He who warned, uh the.....British that they weren't gonna be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and, um, by making sure that as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and were gonna be free.....and we were gonna be armed."
Sarah also had a somewhat different take on the debt that President Obama has rolled up during his first two years in office, and it starts out as follows, "Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years," Palin told Greta VanSusteren in a Fox interview, "it's more debt under this president, then all those other presidents combined.
I won't waste my time refuting this weak allegation, and I certainly won't dispute her her view of what Paul Revere was tyring to accomplish on his ride on that long ago night. I for one hope Palin decides to run for President, although another bus tour might be just as good.
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