A 47 year old investment banker tried to kill himself by jumping from his 7th Floor New York apartment this weekend.
Police say Adam Silberman survived the fall, partly because he hit a canopy on the second floor. Silberman was in several disputes with his co-op board over an 18,000 judgment, and most recently because of complaints about barking from his three French poodles.
I think I told you June 24 that there was a stench rising over the Arizona State Capitol. Blondie Jan Brewer is responsible for signing the budget into law. But the beguiling ‘Cute Young Thing’ (Representative Michelle Ugenti) decided to slip a few unconstitutional things into the verbiage so Blondie didn’t have time to see it. Dirt floor, finger-crushing politics, but that’s what she got away with.
With all the madness surrounding the George Zimmerman verdict Americans are having to deal with a whole series of tragedies. First and foremost is the death of Trayvon Martin. The second tragedy is that the Sanford Police department, inexperienced at handling complex crime scenes, just did a poor job of thoroughly processing the area of the murder. They should have canvassed the entire neighborhood looking for every possible witness. They simply didn’t have all the evidence that could have been gathered and presented to prosecutors.
But there were more tragedies: The political involvement of Florida Governor Rick Scott, who was pressured to appoint a special prosecutor, Angela Corey.
Having worked 44 years in news, and 40 of those years in television news, I can personally tell you, DON’T TRUST THE NEWS! Oh, believe me, I worked my heart out to get the facts straight and to write provocative stories but stories that were absolutely true, not shaded, varnished or tilted to one side or the other. Were there mistakes? Sure. But once a mistake was detected, we went overboard trying to get the accurate information out there. For many years, a banner hung over our assignment desk that read “Be First, But Be Right!”
Trayvon Martin
A young man is dead, and that certainly is a massive tragedy. But another man’s life was ruined with all the racial allegations connected with the ‘murder’ of another man, and possibly ruined by a vengeful prosecutor who went to the bar with no evidence.
My big question is, should the prosecutor have charged Zimmerman in the first place? I’ll speak to some of the reasons he should not have, but first let’s look at a case of prosecutorial misconduct that happened at Duke University. Yes, the Duke Lacrosse team.
