Source: Roger Eritja / Getty Next time you need a lawyer, make sure that his pantsuit isn’t swarming with bed bugs — like one Oklahoma lawyer who showed up to the courthouse with the pesky insects jumping off of his clothes. Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton told reporters : “I was told the individual that had them also shook his jacket over the prosecutors files. Hard to imagine someone doesn’t know, you know that some bed bugs are crawling all over them certainly in abundance.” Courthouse officials had a meeting and decided to close the courthouse on Monday at noon. Exterminators were called to get rid of the bugs and the building was reopened early Tuesday morning. Visitors and employees were urged to seek treatment immediately. Gross.
In news that would have been unthinkable a year or two ago, a judge ended Lindsay Lohan’s probation stemming from her infamous necklace theft case. He said that the oft-troubled celebrity is doing well and plans to complete community service and counseling requirements in another criminal matter. Who is this girl and what did she do with Lindsay Lohan? James R. Dabney said LiLo had received favorable reports from her counselor and an agency in London that works with neglected children and disabled people. Lohan is performing community service there while starring in the play Speed-the-Plow, and she has “picked up the pace” recently while doing her labor. The actress has completed 102 hours of her 240-hour community service sentence so far. Not a small amount of time. Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Holley, said: “The judge was pleased, the prosecutors were pleased and of course I’m pleased that Lindsay’s doing well on probation , with her career, and generally with her life.” The Mean Girls cast member had been on probation for a 2011 case, in which she was accused of taking a $2,500 necklace from a Venice, Calif., store. Lohan has been on probation since 2007, for one case or another, an astonishing run dating back to her teens. That year, she was arrested twice for DUI. Even now, she remains on reckless driving and lying to police, stemming from a car crash she was in en route to the set of Lifetime’s Liz & Dick in 2012. 17 Celebrities Who Became Unrecognizable 1. Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan compared to what she looked like as a fresh-faced teenager, not even 10 full years ago? Pretty astounding and not in a good way. Since she moved to London, though, she’s been more or less out of the limelight and out of trouble. At least by her standards. Take what you can get. The last we heard from LiLo over there, she was … Possibly sort of dating Mohammed Al-Turki Faking illnesses and calling in sick to work Loving Brazilian politics and possibly coke Posing topless and shirtless a lot Good times.
Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense attorney has told jurors that the personal physician to Michael Jackson gave him a modest 25 milligrams of Propofol on June 25, 2009. Reports suggest the star had significantly higher levels of the powerful anesthetic in his system, however. Of course, Murray’s defense also has an answer for that. Dr. Murray’s lawyers contend that when the cardiologist left the room briefly, Michael Jackson killed himself , unintentionally, by taking a lethal dose himself. Among the problems with Murray’s controversial defense theory: Michael Jackson’s fingerprints were NOT on any Propofol Murray’s girlfriends cast doubt on his timeline of events As testimony in the involuntary manslaughter trial continues, medical professionals are expected to reveal “toxic and lethal levels of Propofol in his system,” reports say . The levels of Propofol were reportedly extremely high, which if so, plays into the prosecutors’ case that Murray negligent in his actions before and after MJ died. Two paramedics and two doctors that treated Jackson at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center told jurors Murray never revealed he gave Jackson Propofol.
They realized it would be a controversial decision to acquit Casey Anthony of murder. Heck, they even hated the girl personally. But the 12-member Orlando-area jury did what they felt was right and let her walk. The public outrage that followed was not what they expected. The Casey Anthony jury has received death threats , been barred from restaurants, been shunned by family, even been forced to flee in fear of backlash. Their names remain closely guarded, but one male juror consented to speak with People under the condition of complete and utter anonymity. His basic take? Casey Anthony sucks, but what are you gonna do? “We all tried hard to separate emotions from the evidence,” he says. “Generally, none of us liked Casey Anthony at all. She frankly seems like a horrible person. But the prosecutors did not give us enough evidence to convict.” “They gave us a lot of stuff that makes us think that [Casey Anthony] probably did something wrong, but that is not beyond a reasonable doubt.” Now that the trial is over, life “has been a nightmare,” says the juror. “I have been living in fear that someone will find out who I am. I Google my name every single day to see if anyone has figured out who I am.” “The few people that do know [my true identity] haven’t said anything, but one of my friends told me that his wife forbid him to talk to me.” “My own sister cussed me out. It has ruined my life.” Did the jury get it right?
An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/netflix-privacy-lawsuit/?utm_source=fee..
