Woman Faces Perjury Charges After Men Jailed In Bogus Attacks (Every single guy's worst nightmare)

Local 6 (Florida) ^ | February 4, 2005 | Tony Pipitone

[mo]

go check out exactly how many lawsuits your local county hospital has had to defend in the last year....they sure as heck DO get sued.

[Edward Watson]

I'm sorry, but I simply don't find this woman attractive - she reminds me of that thin-faced actress on 24, Jack Bauer's love interest.

[palmer]

I have to agree with Ivan on this one, maybe you mixed up laissez-faire and l'affaire

[iopscusa]

I am so upset by this travesty, I think I am going to sue the Orlando PD myself! Know any cheap Lawyers?
I married late, @ 39yrs and during 20+ years of dating I learned to rely on my internal BS Meter to alert me to whacked women and rarely wasted much time or energy with these types. This guy obviously ignored obvious problems with this witch.

[goldstategop]

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder. Every man's dream pin up woman is Catherine Deneuve or Liv Tyler.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[A. Pole]

Trason Brooks suspects another cause: "She wanted me in prison the rest of my life ... In her mind we're getting married, we're having kids, we're going to be happily ever after. I made it clear to her that's not what my intentions were."

Hmm, makes me wonder if the Islamic rule that two women witnesses equal one man in the court is so bad. It would be hard for her to share her dream with other lady. :)

[Mad Dawg]

This is an example of why you should be able to sue the police officers themselves, and not just a department.

How would this work? I come into lineup and am assigned to the team to pick up so-and-so. All I know is that there is a warrant. So we go pick him up. We get sued individually? Should we sue the magistrate who issued the warrant?

So the PD, prompted by the courts, changes procedure and requires corroborating evidence on every abuse charge. The new maxim is: "No witness means no probably cause, so no charge." Then a bunch of women are killed by abusers and, guess what, it's the fault of the police!

As to "lazy detectives", sure, I suppose there are some. It might be interesting to compare the amount of money spent on various social services and transfer payments with the amount of money spent on law enforcement, on LE personnel and training. How many detectives do jurisdictions pay for per number of reported crimes and what sort of technical and other support are they getting?

In the county where I live a staff of 22 is dealing with something over a hundred outstanding warrants. That's in addition to normal daily duties.

I think that communities are trying to do policing on the cheap and are often getting what they pay for.

[A. Pole]

She should receive the same sentence he would have gotten had he been guilty of the crime.

I guess something like that is in French system. (Also legal costs are paid by the false accuser or taxpayers if the accuser is not solvent).

Accusing someone of stealing a candy is less serious than accusing of robbing a bank.

[Condor51]

Yikes, this is from BIZZARO World.

That being said I see the makings here for an interesting episode of Law & Order SVU (where story ideas are "ripped" from the headlines) but with decidedly different atypical SVU ending and will be a "two-parter".

The following occurs in part two after the FUBAR arrest of the innocent BF and his successful lawsuit against the SVU cops which results in their wages being garnished:

1. Lt. Cragean goes back on the bottle
   
2. Detectives Stabler and Benson have an affair, get kicked off the force, then they start shooting horse -- Benson turns to prostitution with Stabler as her pimp.
   
3. Tutuola (Ice-t) leaves the SVU, returns to Narcotics and gets killed in a drug buy.
4. Do to all the above, Det Munch goes into an even deeper depression (is that humanly possible?), returns to Baltimore and 'eats his gun'.

Yep, good story line, its a winner.

Wait... that'd kill the show?!? Oh well I'm sick of the reruns anyway :-)

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Maybe this is how they date in Norway.

[sticker]

The police screwed up big time, but I think there are some things to remember before the tar and feathers are applied:
(1) Most states now have laws that require the police to arrest a man accused of domestic battery.
(2) The NOW crowd and the rest of the loonies have screamed for years that "all men are abusers and all women are victims"
(3) The people that buy their ink by the barrel and their paper by the boxcar, push the loony agenda, therefore a man is always guilty to the press if a woman accuses him..
(4) What would have happened if her charges had been true, the police had not done anything and then she was killed, would the same people screaming so loudly now yell just as loud?

[A. Pole]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." I guess this is one case where it was true. No guy should be around a woman's fury. What the fair sex lacks in physical toughness, it can make up for in feminine wiles.

See my comment about Islamic justice.

[Kay Ludlow]

but this woman was in the mental health field.

I with you there. Most (but not all) of the people I knew who majored in Psychology in college were looking for answers to their own problems. Once they graduate, they get work in the mental health/social work field and are still messed up. They're the ones accusing parents of abuse for giving their 5 year old a spank...

[A. Pole]

if only all police detectives could be like Lt. Columbo..

Tragically the majority are like Homer Simpson.

You mean like Chief Wiggum?

[yarddog]

I remember a case a few years ago, which took place near that same area in which a young man was convicted of rape.

The strange thing is he had absolute proof he was somewhere else and should not have even been arrested. The truth eventually came out and he was exonerated, but the whole affair was scary as all get out.

I also personally know of a guy who was head of a Federal Law Enforcement Agency, in a medium sized city, and a deacon in the church. He was arrested and charged with rape based solely on a womans seeing him and telling the cops he was the man. He also had an ironclad alibi and the cops did do their job in this case and caught the right one who didn' even look like him. He had the arrest completely removed from the records but the average guy would have gone through life with that arrest report still on their record.

[sgtbono2002]

Women trump men in every way when it comes to the law. Divorce one and see who gets the alimony and the kids. Believe me the last thing women want is equality in the courts. This woman is up on charges of perjury. Thats a joke. she might get 6 months. She deserves 10 years in prison.

[GraceCoolidge]

What about the clinic where she was treated and then worked? Talk about the patients running the asylum... but it seems like they should have some responsibility, too. Don't counselors have an obligation to report information if their patient is going to commit a crime? In this case, every day those men sat in jail based on her story was a crime.... I would think there was some responsibility on her counselors. I believe patient confidentiality yields if there is threat to someone else. In this case, seems worthwhile to see what obligation, if any, her counselor(s) had.....

[kanawa]

From 'She Stoops to Conquer'.

Hastings. Well, but you must allow her a little beauty.--Yes, you must allow her some beauty.

Tony. Bandbox! She's all a made-up thing, mun.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Kay Ludlow]

She deserves 10 years in prison.

I agree with you. I think the courts are filled with judges and prosecutors whose parents divorced in the 50's and 60's, where women often were abandoned and got little in return. Now, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. No fault divorce laws haven't helped either..