Zach Matthews
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I saw a good looking straw Panama at Little River Outfitters last time I was down there. It actually looked good. There’s a guy on the Clinch who wears a modified Vietnamese rice paddy hat – looks like a wizard out there, particularly when he’s catching more fish than I am!
Yeah, blame Steve Obermann for that; he gave us a great lecture in the Clinic on beating DUI convictions (not meant for public consumption, one would hope), and I specifically remember him saying you can’t be made to give blood; that must be in the implied consent context where the goal is to postpone the test until you’ve had more time to sober up. (That is, you can’t be made to give blood without a warrant.) I think Obermann was getting at forcing the police to get that warrant – his advice was; if you are being asked to blow into a breathalyzer the police already have probably cause to haul you downtown, so if you know you have been drinking you should decline the breathalyzer and go with them, then decline the blood test and force them to wake a judge and get a warrant to give you time to sober up. As I recall TN also has some kind of burden of proof switch when you do refuse the blood test even if they don’t get the warrant and force you to submit to it.
The exigency analysis is a new one to me. I wouldn’t think getting an ordinary DUI conviction would be sufficient to secure an exigency exception to the warrant requirement for the police and that if they forced a warrantless blood test in those circumstances it would get tossed. Did State v. Jordan deal with alcohol-related vehicular homicide, bd? I could see the need where a murderer might get off.
I had no idea we had so many lawyers on this board.
Zach
PS I always study before tests. *G*
PPS I had Dr. Aarons for Criminal Law, and sadly we stopped discussing criminal law and moved into social justice right about midway through kidnapping – his advice was ‘Don’t worry, Barbri will cover it.’ *sigh*There are people who can break 130′ with a #5.
Mike to be honest with you I don’t think the rod makes much difference.
Mike –
Sorry to do this to you buddy but maybe it will help.
See where your hand is? It is well forward of your shoulder, but held *high*. This is creep at work; your hand is pushing forward rather than rotating down. This pushes the butt of the rod in front of the tip so that the turnover doesn’t occur until too late in the cast to convey enough power to stack the lines over each other without the top falling down and tailing.
Creep and punch cause tailing loops. Start with shorter lengths of line and work up until you have the creeping problem setting in, then repair it there rather than trying to fix it at 100′. If you creep at 65′, start at 65′ and work up.
Zach
Mike –
If you were trying to hit 100 yards with a 90 foot line you might have been attempting the impossible.
You know Mike, I certainly respect your opinion on that but I wonder the extent to which you are applying your usual conventional-gear thinking to the need for the bigger boat for stripers.
One other thing:
The graphic I drew is not perfectly symmetrical. If it appears slightly off-center it may be that the tip top of the graphic is a little off the axis, so please be sure to measure your shirt if you think they printed it wrong.
I just measured the one XL I have left and it is 21″ across the shirt, and 10.5″ to the middle of the design, but the top of the design is a quarter inch off to the left.
This is my fault a bit, guys, I simply hadn’t blown the graphic up as big as the shirt and didn’t realize I wasn’t right on the vertical line. However, if you feel the shirt was misprinted, please let me know.
Zach
The Box –
You can’t unwillingly be made to give bodily fluid for a test (though there are harsh penalties if you don’t), so if there has been a DNA test, you can bet the DNA sample was taken one of two ways 1) with permission or 2) from fluids left outside the body.