http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=lawyer Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:02:51 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=lawyer Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:24:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d0_1371684153 SAPD_HRT Video taken by a bystander on the San Diego Freeway shows two men dressed in business attire exiting their vehicles and engaging in a fist fight in the street until one finally subdues the other. Attorney Randalf Kincaid started the altercation when he exited his Volkswagon Beetle and approached the other driver - a retired LAPD officer - in his white BMW, according to KTLA . Kincaid hit the former officer, causing him to go after the attorney and subdue him, placing him under citizen's arrest until officers arrived on the scene and arrested Kincaid on suspicion of battery, according to the article. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=9142830 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d0_1371684153 SAPD_HRT LINK: Retired cop, <span class="highlight">lawyer</span> get in road rage brawl Retired, Cop, Officer, Police, Lawyer. Street, Fight Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:08:19 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=635_1371690328 ALah007 Everyone has now heard stories about conservatives who've been punished by "non-political" agencies like the IRS for their beliefs, but it happens at the state level, too. Back in 2011, I wrote about Rachel Alexander, who was targeted by the liberal State Bar of Arizona for having the audacity to work with other conservative lawyers to fight corruption in the state. Rachel Alexander was collateral damage in a liberal fight to ruin her former boss, then-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Thomas attempted in 2009 and 2010, with the help of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to stop corruption by some judges and county supervisors in Arizona by filing criminal charges and a racketeering lawsuit against them. Alexander, a Deputy County Attorney, performed some research and writing on the racketeering lawsuit after it had been filed. However, since she was one of the best known conservative bloggers in Arizona, running Intellectual Conservative and IC Arizona , she was dragged into the court even though she was a minor player in the case. The supervisors filed bar complaints against Thomas, Alexander, and another prosecutor. The left-wing Bar ran with the charges, demanding to know everything Alexander had ever blogged, anonymously or not, within the past five years and the corrupt liberal judiciary rubber-stamped the charges. That's not surprising considering the judiciary is under the Bar and can be disciplined by the Bar; so there is no way the judiciary would not do the Bar's bidding. Thomas and his other deputy prosecutor were disbarred and Alexander was suspended for six months plus one day, requiring her to retake the Bar exam again and reapply to the Bar. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice, which the Left had asked to investigate Thomas and Arpaio over abuse of power for going after the judges and supervisors, dropped the case, stating it had found no evidence. This completely refuted the Bar's case against the three, exonerating them, but the Bar would not budge. Thomas remains disbarred and his other deputy is appealing. The supervisors refused to pay for Alexander's appeal, which was unprecedented for a merit-protected Maricopa County employee. Alexander wrote up her appeal herself (A lawyer would have charged $60,000, to give you an idea of how much work this was). The Arizona State Supreme Court sat on her appeal for eight months; then just one week after Thomas announced he was running for governor, it issued the opinion which essentially upheld most of the suspension. The Arizona Supreme Court based most of its ruling upon statements of a former supervisor of Alexander's who was her supervisor in name only. He said he'd heard complaints about Alexander's performance in the office, but provided no evidence of these supposed complaints. The Supreme Court said this was evidence she wasn't competent enough to work on the racketeering complaint. The court ignored the fact that Alexander had never received a poor review in her entire five years at the County Attorney's Office and Thomas testified during the trial that he'd never received a complaint about her. At the same time, the Court stated several times in its opinion that it found no evidence of political bias by Alexander against the judges or supervisors. So essentially, Alexander is being suspended because liberals want to stick it to a conservative blogger. At this point, Rachel Alexander is being left with little recourse other than to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The problem is the Supreme Court only accepts about 80 of the 10,000 petitions it receives every year. Alexander has no attorney and cannot afford one, having been forced out of the legal profession into journalism, where she doesn't even make enough money to make payments on her law school loans. Alexander also has a federal claim against the Bar for selective prosecution. Several attorneys familiar with her case have told her she has a slam-dunk case, considering the Bar reached down through several layers of supervisors to single her out for discipline without even targeting her immediate supervisor, who was in charge of the racketeering case and who performed the bulk of the work on it. Worse yet, the Bar is trying to force her to pay $128,203 for the cost of its prosecuting just her. The Left targeted her because she may have been well known on the Arizona political scene, but she didn't have the connections or money to fight back. She is a weekly columnist for Townhall , The Christian Post , and Right Wing News , but not someone with enough star power to make this a huge story. This story of corruption at the state government level is no different than the corruption that is now coming out about the Obama Administration, but because it is on a smaller scale, it is more difficult to get people interested in it. Meanwhile, Alexander's reputation has been dragged through the mud and the abuse that she has had to endure is appalling. She has been smeared non-stop by liberal websites in Arizona. Her main website was hacked by an IP address associated with the county supervisors, but no law enforcement agency would investigate it even though it destroyed her traffic, got her website banned from Google -and she finally had to rebuild her website from scratch using a different platform in order to get back into Google. Her traffic has never recovered because she lost thousands of articles; she went from 5,000 unique visitors per day down to less than 1,000. Her bankruptcy business fell apart because potential clients would not hire her once they'd googled her. She lost her home to foreclosure last summer and moved in with her parents. This is even worse than the IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups because she's one person, without the resources to fight, without the national attention, without lawyers coming out of the woodwork to help her out. If anyone can help Alexander find legal counsel or provide more exposure for her plight, please contact her at rachel@intellectualconservative.com . This case needs all the sunlight it can get. The liberals have been doing this to many bloggers and if we don't stand up to them and stop this, they'll be coming for us next. Michelle Malkin has covered it here . http://www.rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/liberal-state-bar-spends-three-years-going-after-lawyer-for-being-conservative-blogger/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=635_1371690328 ALah007 &quot;Liberal state bar spends three years going after <span class="highlight">lawyer</span> for being conservative blogger&quot; by John Hawkins Conservative/lib/free speech Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:42:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e05_1371659875 socialism-rocks Who was the first president of the United States? Ask any school child and they will readily tell you "George Washington." And of course, they would be wrong-at least technically. Washington was not inaugurated until April 30, 1789. And yet, the United States continually had functioning governments from as early as September 5, 1774 and operated as a confederated nation from as early as July 4, 1776. During that nearly fifteen year interval, Congress-first the Continental Congress and then later the Confederation Congress-was always moderated by a duly elected president. As the chief executive officer of the government of the United States, the president was recognized as the head of state. Washington was thus the fifteenth in a long line of distinguished presidents-and he led the seventeenth administration-he just happened to be the first under the current constitution. So who were the luminaries who preceded him? The following brief biographies profile these "forgotten presidents." Peyton Randolph of Virginia (1723-1775) When delegates gathered in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, they promptly elected the former King's Attorney of Virginia as the moderator and president of their convocation. He was a propitious choice. He was a legal prodigy-having studied at the Inner Temple in London, served as his native colony's Attorney General, and tutored many of the most able men of the South at William and Mary College-including the young Patrick Henry. His home in Williamsburg was the gathering place for Virginia's legal and political gentry-and it remains a popular attraction in the restored colonial capital. He had served as a delegate in the Virginia House of Burgesses, and had been a commander under William Byrd in the colonial militia. He was a scholar of some renown-having begun a self-guided reading of the classics when he was thirteen. Despite suffering poor health served the Continental Congress as president twice, in 1774 from September 5 to October 21, and then again for a few days in 1775 from May 10 to May 23. He never lived to see independence, yet was numbered among the nation's most revered founders. Henry Middleton (1717-1784) America's second elected president was one of the wealthiest planters in the South, the patriarch of the most powerful families anywhere in the nation. His public spirit was evident from an early age. He was a member of his state's Common House from 1744-1747. During the last two years he served as the Speaker. During 1755 he was the King's Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He was a member of the South Carolina Council from 1755-1770. His valor in the War with the Cherokees during 1760-1761 earned him wide recognition throughout the colonies-and demonstrated his cool leadership abilities while under pressure. He was elected as a delegate to the first session of the Continental Congress and when Peyton Randolph was forced to resign the presidency, his peers immediately turned to Middleton to complete the term. He served as the fledgling coalition's president from October 22, 1774 until Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775. Afterward, he was a member of the Congressional Council of Safety and helped to establish the young nation's policy toward the encouragement and support of education. In February 1776 he resigned his political involvements in order to prepare his family and lands for what he believed was inevitable war-but he was replaced by his son Arthur who eventually became a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, served time as an English prisoner of war, and was twice elected Governor of his state. John Hancock (1737-1793) The third president was a patriot, rebel leader, merchant who signed his name into immortality in giant strokes on the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The boldness of his signature has made it live in American minds as a perfect expression of the strength and freedom-and defiance-of the individual in the face of British tyranny. As President of the Continental Congress during two widely spaced terms-the first from May 24 1775 to October 30 1777 and the second from November 23 1885 to June 5, 1786-Hancock was the presiding officer when the members approved the Declaration of Independence. Because of his position, it was his official duty to sign the document first-but not necessarily as dramatically as he did. Hancock figured prominently in another historic event-the battle at Lexington: British troops who fought there April 10, 1775, had known Hancock and Samuel Adams were in Lexington and had come there to capture these rebel leaders. And the two would have been captured, if they had not been warned by Paul Revere. As early as 1768, Hancock defied the British by refusing to pay customs charges on the cargo of one of his ships. One of Boston's wealthiest merchants, he was recognized by the citizens, as well as by the British, as a rebel leader-and was elected President of the first Massachusetts Provincial Congress. After he was chosen President of the Continental Congress in 1775, Hancock became known beyond the borders of Massachusetts, and, having served as colonel of the Massachusetts Governor's Guards he hoped to be named commander of the American forces-until John Adams nominated George Washington. In 1778 Hancock was commissioned Major General and took part in an unsuccessful campaign in Rhode Island. But it was as a political leader that his real distinction was earned-as the first Governor of Massachusetts, as President of Congress, and as President of the Massachusetts constitutional ratification convention. He helped win ratification in Massachusetts, gaining enough popular recognition to make him a contender for the newly created Presidency of the United States, but again he saw Washington gain the prize. Like his rival, George Washington, Hancock was a wealthy man who risked much for the cause of independence. He was the wealthiest New Englander supporting the patriotic cause, and, although he lacked the brilliance of John Adams or the capacity to inspire of Samuel Adams, he became one of the foremost leaders of the new nation-perhaps, in part, because he was willing to commit so much at such risk to the cause of freedom. Henry Laurens (1724-1792) The only American president ever to be held as a prisoner of war by a foreign power, Laurens was heralded after he was released as "the father of our country," by no less a personage than George Washington. He was of Huguenot extraction, his ancestors having come to America from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made the Reformed faith illegal. Raised and educated for a life of mercantilism at his home in Charleston, he also had the opportunity to spend more than a year in continental travel. It was while in Europe that he began to write revolutionary pamphlets-gaining him renown as a patriot. He served as vice-president of South Carolina in1776. He was then elected to the Continental Congress. He succeeded John Hancock as President of the newly independent but war beleaguered United States on November 1, 1777. He served until December 9, 1778 at which time he was appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands. Unfortunately for the cause of the young nation, he was captured by an English warship during his cross-Atlantic voyage and was confined to the Tower of London until the end of the war. After the Battle of Yorktown, the American government regained his freedom in a dramatic prisoner exchange-President Laurens for Lord Cornwallis. Ever the patriot, Laurens continued to serve his nation as one of the three representatives selected to negotiate terms at the Paris Peace Conference in 1782. John Jay (1745-1829) America's first Secretary of State, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, one of its first ambassadors, and author of some of the celebrated Federalist Papers, Jay was a Founding Father who, by a quirk of fate, missed signing the Declaration of Independence-at the time of the vote for independence and the signing, he had temporarily left the Continental Congress to serve in New York's revolutionary legislature. Nevertheless, he was chosen by his peers to succeed Henry Laurens as President of the United States-serving a term from December 10, 1778 to September 27, 1779. A conservative New York lawyer who was at first against the idea of independence for the colonies, the aristocratic Jay in 1776 turned into a patriot who was willing to give the next twenty-five years of his life to help establish the new nation. During those years, he won the regard of his peers as a dedicated and accomplished statesman and a man of unwavering principle. In the Continental Congress Jay prepared addresses to the people of Canada and Great Britain. In New York he drafted the State constitution and served as Chief Justice during the war. He was President of the Continental Congress before he undertook the difficult assignment, as ambassador, of trying to gain support and funds from Spain. After helping Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Laurens complete peace negotiations in Paris in 1783, Jay returned to become the first Secretary of State, called "Secretary of Foreign Affairs" under the Articles of Confederation. He negotiated valuable commercial treaties with Russia and Morocco, and dealt with the continuing controversy with Britain and Spain over the southern and western boundaries of the United States. He proposed that America and Britain establish a joint commission to arbitrate disputes that remained after the war-a proposal which, though not adopted, influenced the government's use of arbitration and diplomacy in settling later international problems. In this post Jay felt keenly the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and was one of the first to advocate a new governmental compact. He wrote five Federalist Papers supporting the Constitution, and he was a leader in the New York ratification convention. As first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Jay made the historic decision that a State could be sued by a citizen from another State, which led to the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution. On a special mission to London he concluded the "Jay Treaty," which helped avert a renewal of hostilities with Britain but won little popular favor at home-and it is probably for this treaty that this Founding Father is best remembered. Samuel Huntington (1732-1796) An industrious youth who mastered his studies of the law without the advantage of a school, a tutor, or a master-borrowing books and snatching opportunities to read and research between odd jobs-he was one of the greatest self-made men among the Founders. He was also one of the greatest legal minds of the age-all the more remarkable for his lack of advantage as a youth. In 1764, in recognition of his obvious abilities and initiative, he was elected to the General Assembly of Connecticut. The next year he was chosen to serve on the Executive Council. In 1774 he was appointed Associate Judge of the Superior Court and, as a delegate to the Continental Congress, was acknowledged to be a legal scholar of some respect. He served in Congress for five consecutive terms, during the last of which he was elected President. He served in that off ice from September 28, 1779 until ill health forced him to resign on July 9, 1781. He returned to his home in Connecticut-and as he recuperated, he accepted more Counciliar and Bench duties. He again took his seat in Congress in 1783, but left it to become Chief Justice of his state's Superior Court. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1785 and Governor in 1786. According to John Jay, he was "the most precisely trained Christian jurists ever to serve his country." Thomas McKean (1734-1817) During his astonishingly varied fifty-year career in public life he held almost every possible position-from deputy county attorney to President of the United States under the Confederation. Besides signing the Declaration of Independence, he contributed significantly to the development and establishment of constitutional government in both his home state of Delaware and the nation. At the Stamp Act Congress he proposed the voting procedure that Congress adopted: that each colony, regardless of size or population, have one vote-the practice adopted by the Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation, and the principle of state equality manifest in the composition of the Senate. And as county judge in 1765, he defied the British by ordering his court to work only with documents that did not bear the hated stamps. In June 1776, at the Continental Congress, McKean joined with Caesar Rodney to register Delaware's approval of the Declaration of Independence, over the negative vote of the third Delaware delegate, George Read-permitting it to be "The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States." And at a special Delaware convention, he drafted the constitution for that State. McKean also helped draft-and signed-the Articles of Confederation. It was during his tenure of service as President-from July 10, 1781 to November 4, 1782-when news arrived from General Washington in October 1781 that the British had surrendered following the Battle of Yorktown. As Chief Justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, he contributed to the establishment of the legal system in that State, and, in 1787, he strongly supported the Constitution at the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention, declaring it "the best the world has yet seen." At sixty-five, after over forty years of public service, McKean resigned from his post as Chief Justice. A candidate on the Democratic-Republican ticket in 1799, McKean was elected Governor of Pennsylvania. As Governor, he followed such a strict policy of appointing only fellow Republicans to office that he became the father of the spoils system in America. He served three tempestuous terms as Governor, completing one of the longest continuous careers of public service of any of the Founding Fathers. John Hanson (1715-1783) He was the heir of one of the greatest family traditions in the colonies and became the patriarch of a long line of American patriots-his great grandfather died at Lutzen beside the great King Gustavus Aldophus of Sweden; his grandfather was one of the founders of New Sweden along the Delaware River in Maryland; one of his nephews was the military secretary to George Washington; another was a signer of the Declaration; still another was a signer of the Constitution; yet another was Governor of Maryland during the Revolution; and still another was a member of the first Congress; two sons were killed in action with the Continental Army; a grandson served as a member of Congress under the new Constitution; and another grandson was a Maryland Senator. Thus, even if Hanson had not served as President himself, he would have greatly contributed to the life of the nation through his ancestry and progeny. As a youngster he began a self-guided reading of classics and rather quickly became an acknowledged expert in the juridicalism of Anselm and the practical philosophy of Seneca-both of which were influential in the development of the political philosophy of the great leaders of the Reformation. It was based upon these legal and theological studies that the young planter-his farm, Mulberry Grove was just across the Potomac from Mount Vernon-began to espouse the cause of the patriots. In 1775 he was elected to the Provincial Legislature of Maryland. Then in 1777, he became a member of Congress where he distinguished himself as a brilliant administrator. Thus, he was elected President in 1781. He served in that office from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. He was the first President to serve a full term after the full ratification of the Articles of Confederation-and like so many of the Southern and New England Founders, he was strongly opposed to the Constitution when it was first discussed. He remained a confirmed anti-federalist until his untimely death. Elias Boudinot (1741-1802) He did not sign the Declaration, the Articles, or the Constitution. He did not serve in the Continental Army with distinction. He was not renowned for his legal mind or his political skills. He was instead a man who spent his entire career in foreign diplomacy. He earned the respect of his fellow patriots during the dangerous days following the traitorous action of Benedict Arnold. His deft handling of relations with Canada also earned him great praise. After being elected to the Congress from his home state of New Jersey, he served as the new nation's Secretary for Foreign Affairs-managing the influx of aid from France, Spain, and Holland. The in 1783 he was elected to the Presidency. He served in that office from November 4, 1782 until November 2, 1783. Like so many of the other early presidents, he was a classically trained scholar, of the Reformed faith, and an anti-federalist in political matters. He was the father and grandfather of frontiersmen-and one of his grandchildren and namesakes eventually became a leader of the Cherokee nation in its bid for independence from the sprawling expansion of the United States. Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800) By an ironic sort of providence, Thomas Mifflin served as George Washington's first aide-de-camp at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and, when the war was over, he was the man, as President of the United States, who accepted Washington's resignation of his commission. In the years between, Mifflin greatly served the cause of freedom-and, apparently, his own cause-while serving as the first Quartermaster General of the Continental Army. He obtained desperately needed supplies for the new army-and was suspected of making excessive profit himself. Although experienced in business and successful in obtaining supplies for the war, Mifflin preferred the front lines, and he distinguished himself in military actions on Long Island and near Philadelphia. Born and reared a Quaker, he was excluded from their meetings for his military activities. A controversial figure, Mifflin lost favor with Washington and was part of the Conway Cabal-a rather notorious plan to replace Washington with General Horatio Gates. And Mifflin narrowly missed court-martial action over his handling of funds by resigning his commission in 1778. In spite of these problems-and of repeated charges that he was a drunkard-Mifflin continued to be elected to positions of responsibility-as President and Governor of Pennsylvania, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the highest office in the land-where he served from November 3, 1783 to November 29, 1784. Most of Mifflin's significant contributions occurred in his earlier years-in the First and Second Continental Congresses he was firm in his stand for independence and for fighting for it, and he helped obtain both men and supplies for Washington's army in the early critical period. In 1784, as President, he signed the treaty with Great Britain which ended the war. Although a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, he did not make a significant contribution-beyond signing the document. As Governor of Pennsylvania, although he was accused of negligence, he supported improvements of roads, and reformed the State penal and judicial systems. He had gradually become sympathetic to Jefferson's principles regarding State's rights, even so, he directed the Pennsylvania militia to support the Federal tax collectors in the Whiskey Rebellion. In spite of charges of corruption, the affable Mifflin remained a popular figure. A magnetic personality and an effective speaker, he managed to hold a variety of elective offices for almost thirty years of the critical Revolutionary period. Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) His resolution "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States," approved by the Continental Congress July 2, 1776, was the first official act of the United Colonies that set them irrevocably on the road to independence. It was not surprising that it came from Lee's pen-as early as 1768 he proposed the idea of committees of correspondence among the colonies, and in 1774 he proposed that the colonies meet in what became the Continental Congress. From the first, his eye was on independence. A wealthy Virginia planter whose ancestors had been granted extensive lands by King Charles II, Lee disdained the traditional aristocratic role and the aristocratic view. In the House of Burgesses he flatly denounced the practice of slavery. He saw independent America as "an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose." In 1764, when news of the proposed Stamp Act reached Virginia, Lee was a member of the committee of the House of Burgesses that drew up an address to the King, an official protest against such a tax. After the tax was established, Lee organized the citizens of his county into the Westmoreland Association, a group pledged to buy no British goods until the Stamp Act was repealed. At the First Continental Congress, Lee persuaded representatives from all the colonies to adopt this non-importation idea, leading to the formation of the Continental Association, which was one of the first steps toward union of the colonies. Lee also proposed to the First Continental Congress that a militia be organized and armed-the year before the first shots were fired at Lexington; but this and other proposals of his were considered too radical-at the time. Three days after Lee introduced his resolution, in June of 1776, he was appointed by Congress to the committee responsible for drafting a declaration of independence, but he was called home when his wife fell ill, and his place was taken by his young prot'eg'e, Thomas Jefferson. Thus Lee missed the chance to draft the document-though his influence greatly shaped it and he was able to return in time to sign it. He was elected President-serving from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785 when he was succeeded by the second administration of John Hancock. Elected to the Constitutional Convention, Lee refused to attend, but as a member of the Congress of the Confederation, he contributed to another great document, the Northwest Ordinance, which provided for the formation of new States from the Northwest Territory. When the completed Constitution was sent to the States for ratification, Lee opposed it as anti-democratic and anti-Christian. However, as one of Virginia's first Senators, he helped assure passage of the amendments that, he felt, corrected many of the document's gravest faults-the Bill of Rights. He was the great uncle of Robert E. Lee and the scion of a great family tradition. Nathaniel Gorham (1738-1796) Another self-made man, Gorham was one of the many successful Boston merchants who risked all he had for the cause of freedom. He was first elected to the Massachusetts General Court in 1771. His honesty and integrity won his acclaim and was thus among the first delegates chose to serve in the Continental Congress. He remained in public service throughout the war and into the Constitutional period, though his greatest contribution was his call for a stronger central government. But even though he was an avid federalist, he did not believe that the union could-or even should-be maintained peaceably for more than a hundred years. He was convinced that eventually, in order to avoid civil or cultural war, smaller regional interests should pursue an independent course. His support of a new constitution was rooted more in pragmatism than ideology. When John Hancock was unable to complete his second term as President, Gorham was elected to succeed him-serving from June 6, 1786 to February 1, 1787. It was during this time that the Congress actually entertained the idea of asking Prince Henry-the brother of Frederick II of Prussia-and Bonnie Prince Charlie-the leader of the ill-fated Scottish Jacobite Rising and heir of the Stuart royal line-to consider the possibility of establishing a constitutional monarch in America. It was a plan that had much to recommend it but eventually the advocates of republicanism held the day. During the final years of his life, Gorham was concerned with several speculative land deals which nearly cost him his entire fortune. Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) Born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland during the tumultuous days of the final Jacobite Rising and the Tartan Suppression, St. Clair was the only president of the United States born and bred on foreign soil. Though most of his family and friends abandoned their devastated homeland in the years following the Battle of Culloden-after which nearly a third of the land was depopulated through emigration to America-he stayed behind to learn the ways of the hated Hanoverian English in the Royal Navy. His plan was to learn of the enemy's military might in order to fight another day. During the global conflict of the Seven Years War-generally known as the French and Indian War-he was stationed in the American theater. Afterward, he decided to settle in Pennsylvania where many of his kin had established themselves. His civic-mindedness quickly became apparent: he helped to organize both the New Jersey and the Pennsylvania militias, led the Continental Army's Canadian expedition, and was elected Congress. His long years of training in the enemy camp was finally paying off. He was elected President in 1787-and he served from February 2 of that year until January 21 of the next. Following his term of duty in the highest office in the land, he became the first Governor of the Northwest Territory and the founder of Cincinnati. Though he briefly supported the idea of creating a constitutional monarchy under the Stuart's Bonnie Prince Charlie, he was a strident Anti-Federalist-believing that the proposed federal constitution would eventually allow for the intrusion of government into virtually every sphere and aspect of life. He even predicted that under the vastly expanded centralized power of the state the taxing powers of bureaucrats and other unelected officials would eventually confiscate as much as a quarter of the income of the citizens-a notion that seemed laughable at the time but that has proven to be ominously modest in light of our current governmental leviathan. St. Clair lived to see the hated English tyrants who destroyed his homeland defeated. But he despaired that his adopted home might actually create similar tyrannies and impose them upon themselves. Cyrus Griffin (1736-1796) Like Peyton Randolph, he was trained in London's Inner Temple to be a lawyer-and thus was counted among his nation's legal elite. Like so many other Virginians, he was an anti-federalist, though he eventually accepted the new Constitution with the promise of the Bill of Rights as a hedge against the establishment of an American monarchy-which still had a good deal of currency. The Articles of Confederation afforded such freedoms that he had become convinced that even with the incumbent loss of liberty, some new form of government would be required. A prot'eg'e of George Washington-having worked with him on several speculative land deals in the West-he was a reluctant supporter of the Constitutional ratifying process. It was during his term in the office of the Presidency-the last before the new national compact went into effect-that ratification was formalized and finalized. He served as the nation's chief executive from January 22, 1788 until George Washington's inauguration on April 30, 1789. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e05_1371659875 socialism-rocks The Forgotten Presidents (The presidents before George Washington) history Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:57:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f06_1371426832 SAPD_HRT A boozy Brooklyn lawyer tried to skip out on a $6 taxi fare - then was busted after stripping off her panties and tossing them at cops while screaming profanities, police said. Cops they found a very drunk Stephanie Hendricks, 39 - who has clerked for an Oregon Supreme Court justice and served as a Blackmun Fellow - in front of a Williamsburg deli after she bolted from a yellow cab at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The bawdy barrister, who lives with her churchgoing mom in Flatlands, pulled off her panties, showed cops her lady parts, then lunged at them and yelled, "Suck my p---y,'' and, "Eat my ass, you f--king pigs!" police said. "Normally we don't see people cursing a police officer," deli owner Mohammad Rahman, 54, told The Post. "But then she opened her clothes in front of the police officer, in front of us. She looked crazy," "She . . . showed everything to the cop . . . She had no panties. "The cops were saying, 'Calm down, lady. Calm down. Be cool,' " Rahman said. The incident was captured on the deli's surveillance video, which shows Hendricks charging out of the shop, her butt exposed, and lunging at officers. The lawyer, who runs a small private practice in Downtown Brooklyn, was slapped with a slew of charges, including theft of services, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and exposure. "My boyfriend broke up with me," an embarrassed Hendricks explained yesterday to The Post. "I went out. I got drunk. I had a bad night. "It was obviously an altercation, but I have no recollection from a certain point in the evening. "Everyone was in a festive mood," she said. "Things were flowing. Then things got out of control. I was wasted - all caps bold. You couldn't get bigger, all caps bold, wasted." She said she regrets her behavior and tried to apologize to police yesterday. She worries that her sloppy antics will sink her career. "I'm a sole practitioner," Hendricks said, sobbing. "I solicit business from the public." Two of her clients were befuddled by the wacky incident. "Wow, that's an absolutely bizarre story to hear," one said, while another added, "I'm completely shocked and appalled to hear this because that doesn't sound like her in the least." The client described Hendricks as a hardworking professional whom she has recommended to many business colleagues. According to Hendricks' Web site, she has given legal talks at several New York State Bar Association conferences and served on their committees. "Everybody has something like this happened to them," the lawyer reasoned, "Life will go on. I will survive." http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=nypost&amp;VID=24858008 * Picture NOT related http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f06_1371426832 SAPD_HRT Video: Drunk <span class="highlight">lawyer</span> takes off panties, lunges at cops Drunk, Lawyer, panties, Cops Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:31:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=43d_1371562002 Coffeemaker http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=43d_1371562002 Coffeemaker Inmate sucker punches his defence <span class="highlight">lawyer</span> Inmate Punches Defence Lawyer Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:27:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08e_1371126055 Detroit Iron By Valerie Boey, Reporter SANFORD, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) -During a news conference following Wednesday's jury selection proceedings, a lawyer for the family of Trayvon Martin stressed that the teenager George Zimmerman is accused of murdering is not the one on trial. Martin family attorney Ben Crump said at a short meeting with representatives of the media, "Trayvon Martin is not on trial here, he is the victim. George Zimmerman, his killer, is the man who is on trial."Crump also took issue with a comment made by former New York City police detective Harry Houck Tuesday on a FoxNews.com live panel, in which he said that Martin would still be alive if he didn't have a "street attitude." "This comment is reprehensible and extremely reminiscent of the victim-blaming rhetoric we saw a year ago," said Crump. "We all know,Trayvon Martin was unarmed. All he had was Skittles and can of iced tea.George Zimmerman was an armed adult. He profiled and chased Trayvon Martin and shot him in the heart." On a third day of juror questioning, the lawyers sought to whittle down the pool of hundreds of potential jurors to just six, plus four alternates, who will decide the fate of Zimmerman, a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer. In Florida, 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, when the death penalty is being considered. The day began with Circuit Judge Debra Nelson asking Zimmerman about the responses to questionnaires by potential jurors. "Have you had the opportunity to discuss with your attorney how you felt about the responses to those questionnaires?" she asked. "Yes, Your Honor," Zimmerman replied. Attorneys asked each potential juror what they thought of the news coverage of the case and whether or not it tainted their views. A potential white juror in his 20s, known at "R-39," had a strong opinion. "Murder is murder. Even if it's self-defense, it still doesn't make it right," he said. He was dismissed after acknowledging bias. A middle-aged white man, known as "E-7," said he was unemployed and wanted to be on the jury. "I can't form an opinion, because everything I have can be flushed with facts." Then, the judge asked him a question about a Facebook posting, after he had indicated that he had posted some thoughts about the case. "Did you post something on March 21st under the Coffee Party Progressives?" Judge Nelson asked. "That's possible, because they're on my list," E-7 replied. Then the judge handed the potential juror a piece a paper asking him to identify the post as his. "I don't need an explanation for what is posted, I just want to know if it is, in fact, your posting," said Judge Nelson. "Yes, yes that is," he responded. The postings were about Trayvon Martin and the Million Hoodie March and have since been deleted. Then "E-7" was asked to leave. Two potential black jurors were questioned on Wednesday. One woman criticized the Sanford Police Department for not making an arrest immediately after the shooting of Martin. The other woman said she is keeping an open mind, even though many of her relatives support Trayvon Martin. "But my immediate family that I see, they want to wait and see exactly how the trial progresses," she said. The judge has been strict with media and their equipment, but it was a bodyguard who caused a disruption in court when his cell phone went off. Attorneys had interviewed 18 potential jurors by lunch break Wednesday on the third day of selection. By the end of the day Tuesday, 75 jury candidates had been dismissed.There are now 20 candidates who have been questioned individually about pretrial exposure and have not been dismissed for cause or hardships. Once they have 30 jurors, they will be brought together as a group for broader questioning by lawyers on both sides. Zimmerman, 29, is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. If convicted, Zimmerman could face life in prison. Some information taken from wire sources. Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/22577152/george-zimmerman-trial-day-3-jury-selection#ixzz2W6AvIQwf http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08e_1371126055 Detroit Iron 'Trayvon Martin is not on trial here' says <span class="highlight">lawyer</span> for Martin family George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:35:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a61_1371626600 AnotherDayInAustin While walking to a concert I passed this lady who lost a game of chicken with a city bus. NO WORRIES - she ended up walking away after a lawyer and medics arrived. Morale of the story? Make sure the street is not a one-way street if you're only going to look to one side before crossing! SUBSCRIBE here on LiveLeak for more raw videos of Austin! -AnotherDayInAustin http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a61_1371626600 AnotherDayInAustin Random lady hit by city bus in downtown Austin, Texas Hit, Bus, Austin, Texas, Lady, City, Lawyer, Medic, Lawsuit, Police, Street, Pedestrian, Driver Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:37:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed2_1371447376 SAPD_HRT Bakersfield DUI attorney Mark Joseph Madrigali pleaded not guilty to three felonies in Kern County Superior Court Friday in connection with the shooting of his wife. Judge Michael Bush set bail at $2 million, nearly four times the $550,000 bail set at his booking at the downtown jail Wednesday. Police were dispatched to the couple's home at 1220 Telegraph Ave. in northeast Bakersfield at 3:44 a.m. Wednesday and found Madrigali's wife, 51, inside the house suffering from a gunshot wound to her upper torso. Kern Medical Center has not provided any updates on her condition since she was last said to be critical but stable following surgery Thursday. Madrigali, 58, faces life in prison if convicted. He's charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and infliction of corporal injury on a spouse, with enhancements for premeditation. The suspect didn't speak except to correct the court's misspelling of his last name. Outside court, Deputy District Attorney Gina Pearl said she asked for higher bail because of the serious nature of the alleged crimes and because Madrigali owns several firearms. "We're concerned for public safety in this case," she said. The weapon in the shooting was a shotgun, Pearl said. Defense attorney Mark Anthony Raimondo said after the arraignment that his client had been generally quiet and remorseful since the incident. Raimondo added that Madrigali was a friend he had known for several years and was a "well-respected attorney." Raimondo said he hoped the public would "keep an open mind until all the facts come out." Madrigali had a private practice as a defense attorney for driving under the influence charges and traffic tickets. He was disciplined by the state bar after he was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol in 2008. Madrigali's wife had sued for divorce last fall, citing irreconcilable differences, but the case lapsed. The Californian has a policy not to name the victims of alleged spousal abuse. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed2_1371447376 SAPD_HRT Attorney pleads not guilty to attempted murder of wife Bakersfield, California, Lawyer, Attempted, Murder, Wife Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:47:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fb_1371594766 dcdirectactionnews Lynne Stewart is a famed attorney who was imprisoned supposedly for helping a client defeat communications restrictions. Now she is dying of cancer, ever her former judge has cleared her for release-but she is chained to a hospital bed. On the 18th of June, the first-ever protest on behalf of a Federal prisoner at the Bureau of Prisons DC office demanded her release. Suit-and-tie businessmen and yuppies studiously ignored the protest, while Bureau of Prisons staffers ran the gauntlet of protesters to enter or leave for lunch. It is not known how many stayed in for lunch or used the back door. Two different Federal Protective Services/Homeland Security cops showed up, they acted "friendly" but it seemed they were nervous about this issue being raised in front of the BofP office. Nobody running a prison likes it when friends of one of their prisoners show up at the warden's office. On the other hand, chaining someone dying of cancer to a hospital bed because they allegedly defied "special administration measures" to restrict a client's communication with the outside world is beyond outrageous. Most likely prosecutors simply sought any available means to remove a lawyer who was just too effective against them in major cases from the table. That, in turn, is a frank demonstration of the fact that "rule of law," meaning predictable rules of engagement used by government, is dead in the United States. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fb_1371594766 dcdirectactionnews Protest at Bureau of Prisons demands release for imprisoned atty Lynne Stewart dcdirectactionnews, Lynn Stewart, Bureau of Prisons Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:10:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c95_1371578836 MrSlave German Courts Begin Ruling According to Sharia Law An encroachment of Islamic law into the German legal system sets a dangerous precedent in Europe. An appeals court in northwestern Germany has decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law. The ruling is the latest in a growing number of court cases in Germany in which judges refer or defer to Islamic law because either the plaintiffs or the defendants are Muslim. Critics say the cases -- especially those in which German law has taken a back seat to Sharia law -- reflect a dangerous encroachment of Islamic law into the German legal system. In the latest case, the Appeals Court in Hamm, a city in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, ruled on June 2 that whoever marries according to Islamic law in a Muslim country and later seeks a divorce in Germany must abide by the original terms set forth by Sharia law. The case involved a 23-year-old Iranian woman who married a 31-year-old Iranian man in Iran according Sharia law in 2009. The couple later immigrated to the German city of Essen, gave birth to a daughter but then separated in 2011. A lower court in Essen granted the woman a divorce in November 2012 and the husband appealed the decision. The appeals court in Hamm sided with the woman because, according to the German judge, the couple agreed to abide by the principles of Sharia law at the time they were married and thus the case should be decided according to Islamic law, regardless of whether the couple was now living in Germany. The court ruled that the woman was legally entitled to talaq, an Islamic means of obtaining a divorce by reciting the phrase "I divorce you" three times. The court also said the husband had violated the original terms of the Islamic marriage agreement by failing to provide financial support for his wife for a period of six months. The ruling has opened another round in a long-running debate about the role of Islam in German jurisprudence. Supporters of the decision say it is fair and consistent with Article 14 of the Introductory Statute to the Civil Code , which states that the law governing a marriage generally should be the law of the country in which the marriage took place. But critics of the ruling say it should not be the role of German courts to enforce the arcane provisions of Sharia law. In a similar but separate case, the appeals court in Hamm announced in April 2013 that it had overturned a previous decision by a lower court in Dortmund and ordered a 33-year-old Iranian man to pay his estranged 29-year-old wife (also an Iranian) the equivalent of 800 gold coins as part of a divorce settlement. That case revolved around a couple who were married in Iran in 2001, immigrated to Dortmund and later obtained German citizenship. The couple separated in 2007. As part of the marriage agreement, the husband had promised to pay his wife a dower of 800 Bahar Azadi gold coins payable upon demand. The court ordered the husband to pay EUR213,000 ($280,000), the current equivalent value of the coins, in compliance with a marriage contract he signed in accordance with Islamic law, despite the fact that both individuals are now German citizens. In February 2011, Germany's Federal Labor Court in Erfurt ruled that a Muslim supermarket employee was legally entitled to refuse to handle bottles of alcohol on religious grounds. The case in question involved a 47-year-old Turkish man who had been employed at a supermarket in the northern German city of Kiel since 1994. The problem had begun in 2003, when the man was assigned to work in the beverages department, but refused to stock the store's shelves with alcoholic drinks, based on the argument that Islam forbade him from any contact with alcohol. In response, the store manager reassigned the employee to stock milk bottles in the dairy department, but the man complained that he was not accustomed to working in a refrigerated environment, so he frequently called in sick. The man was eventually sent back to work in the beverages department, where the conflict over the alcohol bottles intensified. The employee was eventually fired in March 2008. In a decision that generated considerable controversy in Germany, the court ruled that the supermarket was unjust in firing the employee and was obliged to offer him an alternative position that did not conflict with his religious beliefs. The court rejected the argument set forth by lawyers representing the supermarket that the man should have been able to do his job without a fuss because Sharia law forbids only the drinking of alcohol, not the touching of bottles. The court noted that the employee had become increasingly religious and that any direct or indirect contact with alcohol would have been offensive to him. In another case, in March 2007, Christa Datz-Winter, a judge at the Family Court in Frankfurt, cited the Koran in a divorce case involving a 26-year-old German woman of Moroccan origin who had been repeatedly beaten by her Moroccan husband. Although police had ordered the man to stay away from his estranged wife, he continued to abuse her and at one point threatened to kill her. While not denying the facts, Judge Datz-Winter nevertheless refused to grant the divorce, arguing that a woman who marries a Muslim man should know what she is getting herself into. In her ruling, the judge quoted Sura 4, Verse 34 of the Koran, which justifies "both the husband's right to use corporal punishment against a disobedient wife and the establishment of the husband's superiority over the wife." The ruling generated so much outrage that the judge was removed from the case. In Kassel, the Federal Social Court approved the claim of a second wife for half of her dead Moroccan husband's pension payments, which the man's first wife wanted to keep all to herself. Although polygamy is illegal in Germany, the judge ruled that according to Sharia law, the two wives must share the pension. In Koblenz, the Administrative Appeals Court granted the second wife of an Iraqi living in Germany the right to remain permanently in the country. The court ruled that after five years of a polygamous marriage in Germany, it would be unfair to expect her to return to Iraq. In D"usseldorf, an Appeals Court ordered a Turkish man to repay a EUR30,000 ($40,000) dowry to his former daughter-in-law, in accordance with Sharia law. In Cologne, a judge ruled that an Iranian man must repay his ex-wife's dowry of 600 gold coins, based on the Sharia law followed in Iran. In Munich, a Local Court decided that a German widow was entitled to only one-quarter of the estate left by her deceased husband, who was born in Iran. The other three-quarters of the inheritance should go to relatives in Tehran. The court ruled that because the man did not have German citizenship, Sharia law applies to the division of the inheritance. A growing number of German legal experts are now sounding the alarm about the rise of a parallel Islamic justice system in Germany. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt , Mathias Rohe, an expert in Sharia law at the University of Erlangen, discusses the rapid spread of Islamic law in German jurisprudence. He describes Sharia law as a "highly complex system of Islamic religious and legal norms" and warns, "We must be careful that we are not creating parallel structures." According to Joachim Wagner, a German legal expert and former investigative journalist for ARD German public television, Sharia law in Germany is far more widespread than most people realize, and that this "parallel justice system" is undermining the rule of law in Germany. In a 236-page book entitled " Judges Without Law: Islamic Parallel Justice Endangers Our Constitutional State ," Wagner writes that, in addition to the use of Sharia law in German courts, Muslims are also establishing a shadow justice system, with Islamic Sharia courts now operating in all major German cities. Wagner writes that Muslim jurists often seek to settle criminal cases out of court -- without the involvement of German prosecutors or lawyers -- before law enforcement can bring the cases to a German court. Settlements reached by the Muslim mediators often mean perpetrators are able to avoid long prison sentences, while victims receive compensation in line with Sharia law. When cases are tried in German courts, victims are often pressured to make sure their testimony in court does not lead to a conviction, according to Wagner. In an interview with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Wagner describes the Islamic shadow justice system in Germany as "very foreign, and for a German lawyer, completely incomprehensible at first. It follows its own rules. The Islamic arbitrators aren't interested in evidence when they deliver a judgment, and unlike in German criminal law, the question of who is at fault doesn't play much of a role." When Der Spiegel asked why it was wrong for two parties to try to resolve a dispute among themselves, Wagner replied: "The problem starts when the arbitrators force the justice system out of the picture, especially in the case of criminal offenses. At that point they undermine the state monopoly on violence. Islamic conflict resolution in particular, as I've experienced it, is often achieved through violence and threats. It's often a dictate of power on the part of the stronger family." Wagner says political correctness is contributing to the rise of Sharia law in Germany. In an interview with the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Wager states: "I've studied 16 recent crime cases here with Muslim citizens involved. In almost 90% of all cases where Muslim arbitrators were commissioned, the perpetrators were acquitted by German courts or the cases were dropped altogether by the prosecution for lack of evidence. It's an alarming finding, and it throws a bad light on our courts." Source: http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/german-courts-ruling-according-sharia-law Here is the report of the newspaper ' Die Welt ' in german http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13845521/Scharia-haelt-Einzug-in-deutsche-Gerichtssaele.html Thanks to EP33 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c95_1371578836 MrSlave Sharia law is seeping slowly into the german judical system Islam, Muslims, Sharia, religious fascism, parasites, exploitation of hospitality Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:36:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ee1_1371571155 aydeo (Ultra-Orthodox) Shas chairman and Knesset Member Aryeh Deri arrived at Abu Gosh village on Tuesday after vandals slashed car tires and sprayed graffiti reading "Arabs out" in the village. "The hands that spelled out this sentence 'Arabs out' needs to remember that the hands of our greatest haters wrote 'Jews out'. It's the same thing." "We need to take responsibility; there are Jews all over the world. We can't be shocked to see this in Europe and cry 'anti-Semitism' while not condemning it here at home. It's not Judaism, it's the opposite of Judaism and Torah. Whoever did this, has hurt the Torah." Deri said that the perpetrators of the act are on the fringes. "This is not a phenomenon within religious Zionism or in the haredi sector. The people at whom this was directed have lived with us for centuries. They even fought in our ranks." Musa Ibrahim from the Caravan restaurant started the morning listening to reports about the "price tag" attack. "I believe that whoever did this does not represent the Jewish people. There are Jews who are closer to us than family. Every Saturday there is a gathering and we meet. One shouldn't judge the Jews based on a few incidents, especially as the state denounced those." Ibrahim went to a Jewish primary school and says he still has many friendships that date back to those days. "I got over 50 phone calls from people who offered us empathy and support. A Jewish girl called me and started crying and I told her that everything was okay." A young Jew living in the village with his partner came to the restaurant and said - "I think whoever did it tried to sabotage the good relations and the fact that many Jews live over here. I don't think this would compromise the fabric of the relations over here. It's clearly the work of extremists. Life over here will go on." In geographical terms, 'price tag' attacks were reported in a wide array of areas, from the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, to Deir Istiya in the West Bank and even in the peace oriented community of Nave Shalom (literally Oasis of Peace), to name a few; mosques were reportedly torched near Ramallah, Hebron and Latrun; and hatful graffiti was reported in Jaffa as well as Safed and Afula in the north. Police representatives stressed that such incidents are considered 'nationalistic crimes' and, according to them, top the law enforcement body's priorities. However, in spite of recommendations made by the attorney general, the justice and internal security ministers, and even the Shin Bet, the governmental cabinet has decided not to deem 'price tag' attacks as acts of terror, rather opting to enhance the defense minister's ability to curb such attacks by deeming their organizers as illegal associations. Despite falling short of the recommendations, the move does significantly extend the defense establishment's legal toolbox for combating these types of attacks and the individuals and organization which stand behind them. The Defense Minister will now be able to use his emergency hour authorities to extend the remand of those suspected of such hate crimes, as well as increasing the severity of their punishment. It additionally allows the minister to detain suspects without meeting a lawyer and foreclose banks accounts and private property belonging to them. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4393944,00.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4394072,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ee1_1371571155 aydeo Ultra-Orthodox chairman Deri: 'Arabs out' is the same as 'Jews out' Ultra-Orthodox,Deri,,Arabs out,Price tag Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:22:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=722_1371524850 Andooresu A car fell from the fifth floor of a parking building in the center of Barranquilla, causing the death of lawyer Horacio Martinez, who was inside the vehicle. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=722_1371524850 Andooresu Aftermath: Car Falls from 5th floor [Volume Warning] car, fall, fell, 5th, fifth, floor, barranquilla, parking, lot, zone, colombia