Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously observed that “the life of the law has not been logic, but experience.” One adherent to this principle appears to be Paul Baldwin, 48, who was arrested for the 153rd time and told a New Hampshire judge “I don’t need a lawyer – I’ve been in this court more than you have.”
Baldwin’s latest arrest came after he allegedly punched a man in the face. He had only been out of jail for a week (for stealing a can of beer) when he was arrested for the new offense. He is being held at the Rockingham County Jail on charges of simple assault and two counts of criminal trespass. He appeared by video in a surgical mask because of fears that he was contagious due to a respiratory ailment. 
Of course, J.D.’s are not normally awarded under a frequent felon program.
how is it that my significant other is always stepping in it. God knows I have tried.
Now you all know why I like to bake cakes, but damn those files are getting to be expensive.
Why haven’t U.S. universities given him an honorary doctor of laws degree like criminals Biden and Obama have been receiving? Maybe, as they, you have to be a supreme War Criminal or he hasn’t broken enough laws yet.
Oh JT,
You must of missed the one where a person in Arizona was convicted of Murder and earned his JD while incarcerated. His only problem was the Character review portion. I am unsure if he ever got his Bar Card but he did pass the exam.
I have had clients like this man.
JT,
I’d like you to track who is posting this garbage and trying to pass it off as mine, please. Once and for all.
Thanks,
Patty C
Mr. Baldwin may never earn a degree, but he’s a cinch for the Claude Rains Usual Suspects Lifetime Achievement Award.
Patty C:
I did not realize that there was someone falsely identifying themselves as you. I did check and confirmed that the last entry was indeed made by one of our regulars, who also adopted other identities. I have banned him from the site. I am very disappointed, obviously. We have a fairly unique site here that allows for civil and honest discussion. When I look at the nasty personal attacks prevalent on other sites, I am not sure why some many people want to come to this small island of civility to post nasty or bad faith entries. While we respect anonymity, I will bar anyone who is assuming the identity of another poster to mislead or embarrass people.
Jonathan
Thank you Professor Turley.
touche!
Without consensus one man’s law is another man’s crime.
And just as applicable here “it is not the hearers of the law but rather the doer’s of the law who are justified” (James).
Thanks, Prof.
Graci.
I did not wish to trouble you with this, but it’s been getting out of hand. I’m sorry it was one of the ‘regulars’, as well, but also as I suspected.
I appreciate your kind attention.
So what’s cooking at the Turley Compound this summer?
Thank you too.
Prof. Turley,
While I think most of us can assume what ‘regular’ was responsible for posting as “Patty C.” (with a period), you *might* consider exposing the person’s screen name so that others do not make the wrong assumption about a regular who might not post for awhile and therefore people might erroneously think that person was the guilty party.
We discussed the “Patty C.” imposter a week or more ago, others and I noticed several imposter posts, and one was just yesterday (someone falsely posted as Jim Byrne, who is not a regular). Exposing the name is not to embarrass or give other regulars the opportunity to say ‘I told you so.’ Posting the name might also prevent others from using someone else’s nom de plume by sheer potential embarrassment alone.
If you do not post the name, I can see this thread growing quite long with “it was not me!” type posts; that is, for those who read this section. For those regulars who miss reading this thread and then go on vacation or have a computer failure, etc. they might unfairly become a suspect of being the imposter/cheat/charlatan/fraud/sham/phony.
This is just a suggestion to prevent any unfair speculation and lessening the opportunity for other peoples’ guessing whom the culprit was while posting in other, unrelated threads.
Patty C:
I did not realize that there was someone falsely identifying themselves as you. I did check and confirmed that the last entry was indeed made by one of our regulars, who also adopted other identities. I have banned him from the site…. While we respect anonymity, I will bar anyone who is assuming the identity of another poster to mislead or embarrass people.
Jonathan
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It was not I, at least this time. LOL. So now the cats out of the bag and I did not do it. I generally have no problem saying what I think to the person that is offensive and when I am called down. I too will acknowledge it when I am wrong.
AY I am glad it wasn’t you. Keep coming back it works.
Guess I’d better chime in too. I only go by my name–or occasionally under Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but that’s a long story and way too many tequila’s ago. Ole’
Paul Baldwin is the grandson of Otis Campbell.
Also Otis was never a violent drunk.
AY: You gonna quit scratchin that thick ol skin of yours?
Yeehahhhhahahahah! Andalay! Andalay! Yehah! Yehah!
http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Speedy_Gonzales/ltsg_012.mp3
Thank you Swartzmore mom.
I do keepp coming back and back. Sometimes work interferes with these posts.
Mike S., FF LEO, and anyone else that thought I did it.
See, I did not do it, this time at least for now.
Another University Betrays America
Wake Forest University School of Law Sold Out like a Street Whore.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC — Wake Forest University disgraced it’s name and shamed Winston-Salem and North Carolina in honoring supreme Warmonger Joe Biden at it’s commencement May 18th with an honorary doctor of laws degree. Biden has been an international War Criminal for years in selling, initiating, funding, conspiring and waging Wars of Aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wake Forest University Biden, Wake Forest University honors War Crimes.
Biden in on the level with Bush, Cheney, Obama and Hitler as supreme War Criminals.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5492
BVM,
Dog-gone-it! Please quit posting irrelevant topics.
BVM:
Are you even registered to vote? Your posts suggest you haven’t a clue as to what it takes to support a candidate for an elected office, at any level.
I’m certain there is a forum where your replies are relevant, but they have the frequency of white noise here.
just so there is no infighting among the regulars I posted as Patty C. this one time I did not do the others.
I also posted the Jim Bryne as Nixon farewell address the other day. And I have posted as Agapetus.
So hopefully this will quell any suspicions and allow you all to relax and continue your commentary in peace.
Bron98:
Is that really you?
Without the dual pill avatar?
Thanks for coming clean.
FFLEO:
I was hoping that Bron98 would come forward on his own, which I appreciate.
Jonathan
Bron98,
Thank you for exposing the source.
Now, the rest of us should never use more than 1 nom de plume on this site–for whatever reason–and realize that our posts as regulars are capable of helping to cause others to act out of character.
CCD:
yes it was me, I wanted to come forward for 2 reasons:
1. to allow you all to blog w/o suspicion
2. to allow Prof. Turley to keep his word about anonynimity of posters
I knew Turley had the wisdom of Solomon. Cut the blogger in two, indeed. Bron98, you prodigal son you, — now back to work solving the problems of our time. I’m feeling very Biblical today, apparently.
Hey, no one told me I could have a nom de plume. I thought my only choices were to hold myself up to public ridicule or keep quiet.
lol
Something tells me keeping quiet isn’t in your personality, Mike A, teleprompter or not.
Bron,
Shame on you, knuckle head.
Thank you JT.
AY I apologize for my suspicions of you, I am truly sorry. On the other hand I’m glad it wasn’t you because I like your stuff.
Bron thank you for coming clean. Such posting, as you are now aware, destroys the integrity of what we all are trying to accomplish here. While I dislike what you did and imagine it was done in a misguided spirit of fun, I still have enjoyed your posting and the person you purport to be.
To everyone of the regulars,
The reason I use my own name is because of the fact that on the Web so many use the anonymity as an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the mythology of their lives. I sometimes fret that I am exposing myself to being tracked by bad people, but then I am not without resources of self protection and a paranoid life is not fulfilling. The haven for intelligent interaction that Professor Turley has provided us is well appreciated. I feel like I have made many new friends, if only in Cyberspace and appreciate the opportunities to display my thoughts.
I am not saying that people shouldn’t use pseudonyms, because I understand that while I’m retired, with no further career aspirations, most of you are not and for various reasons need the anonymity. What is unacceptable is for any of us site regulars to advance our arguments, or dislikes, by
falsifying entries. If we can’t do it in our real persona, then it is not worth being done. Part of the reason this site works so well is because unlike the big, money-making powerhouse sites, this one is the personal domain of our host. I read Huff Post for instance daily, but never comment there, because the level of discourse is intolerable. While we get our occasional trolls here, mostly we get intelligent people, honestly discussing their viewpoints.
Anyway, where else can a verbose old codger like me, endlessly restate the obvious and yet get people to read his
wordy contributions?
I thank you all for the kindness you’ve shown me.
Mike
One of the few reasons I post on this site is the anonymous nature of the dialogue. Thanks to our host for helping maintain the security.
Bron:
I’m going Senator Keeley on you for impersonating family.
Mike S.
I appreciate what you said. Remember, I said I owned up to it because, I wanted to have the focus on me as opposed to anyone else. I can handle the snerky remarks and snarliness easily. Some others may be fair skinned.
When I have been called down, I have apologized without hesitation.
I have learned something and its pretty appropriate here. It is none of my business what you think of me. And if you think I am paranoid, in your mind I am. So why should I fight you and me at the same time.
I only post as Dredd … hopefully that is not too much.
This is a good blog.
Mike S:
“I feel like I have made many new friends, if only in Cyberspace and appreciate the opportunities to display my thoughts. … The reason I use my own name is because of the fact that on the Web so many use the anonymity as an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the mythology of their lives.”
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Right back at you, young fella’ and if you can’t figure out my true identity from my past posts I need to get into that Clark Kent/Superman business. Personally, I want to avoid being accused of using the blog as some sort of marketing vehicle. This is just a personal choice, and I certainly don’t intend to imply or cast any aspersions at those lawyers who do use their real names. In my corner of the law, self-promotion is seemingly a way of life. Placet cuique suum.
mespo727272 1, June 4, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Mike S:
“I feel like I have made many new friends, if only in Cyberspace and appreciate the opportunities to display my thoughts. … The reason I use my own name is because of the fact that on the Web so many use the anonymity as an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the mythology of their lives.”
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Right back at you, young fella’ and if you can’t figure out my true identity from my past posts I need to get into that Clark Kent/Superman business. Personally, I want to avoid being accused of using the blog as some sort of marketing vehicle. This is just a personal choice, and I certainly don’t intend to imply or cast any aspersions at those lawyers who do use their real names. In my corner of the law, self-promotion is seemingly a way of life. Placet cuique suum.
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So how do you suppose we could exchange emails without notifying the world?
Mespo and Mike and others. Clark Kent I am not, Bruce Wayne I could be but the batcave was forsaken. I was lost and now I may want to be found selectively.
Now that you know I did not do the Patty C. this time, which I still think is funny. I will not admit nor deny the other ones but they were equally as funny.
My friend that I invited here thinks this is a pretty good site.
‘Now that you know I did not do the Patty C. this time, which I still think is funny. I will not admit nor deny the other ones but they were equally as funny.’
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I hope JT bans you, too…
and
‘Remember, I said I owned up to it because, I wanted to have the focus on me as opposed to anyone else.’
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Now, this I believe!
and
‘When I have been called down, I have apologized without hesitation.’
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Not, to me you haven’t and neither has Bron 98
- not today.
AnonY wrote:
“Now that you know I did not do the Patty C. this time, which I still think is funny. I will not admit nor deny the other ones but they were equally as funny.”
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There is no way what you and Bron did was funny. Trust, even within this online blawg, is critical.
My last reply on this subject. Thanks.
Well Patty C.
Is that you? Get over it and be pleasant, you are a guest like the rest of us.
I do think its funny. Don’t you? You being “nice and apologetic” that is what I think is funny. Just like we don’t expect Dick Cheney to be any different, he at least is sounding like he may realize he has made a mistake.
Did not you get cautioned by the Professor for Rudeness? Are there not some other people on this list that have said the same thing to you? Can’t you get a clue? You too can be banned so keep it up dear lady.
Former Federal LEO 1, June 4, 2009 at 9:12 pm
AnonY wrote:
“Now that you know I did not do the Patty C. this time, which I still think is funny. I will not admit nor deny the other ones but they were equally as funny.”
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There is no way what you and Bron did was funny. Trust, even within this online blawg, is critical.
My last reply on this subject. Thanks.
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Thank you and I did not do it. I do not think I did it. I may have done it but I don’t recall. I will neither admit nor deny it and I leave Patty C to her proofs.
Patty C. being nice, no one could mistake that for the real patty C, can’t you see the humor in that? I can and I get a smirk. I wish I had thought of it before.
AY, allow me to be blunt. I wasn’t trying to be ‘nice’.
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you also said:
“It was not I, at least this time. LOL. So now the cats out of the bag and I did not do it. I generally have no problem saying what I think to the person that is offensive and when I am called down. I too will acknowledge it when I am wrong.”
No, you don’t. If you ever ‘understood’, you wouldn’t say half the things you do say, much less in incomplete thoughts and poorly constructed sentences.
Patty C 1, June 4, 2009 at 8:58 pm
‘Now that you know I did not do the Patty C. this time, which I still think is funny. I will not admit nor deny the other ones but they were equally as funny.’
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For these admissions alone, AY, I hope JT bans you, as well.
and
‘Remember, I said I owned up to it because, I wanted to have the focus on me as opposed to anyone else.’
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Now, THIS I believe, AY…
and
‘When I have been called down, I have apologized without hesitation.’
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Not to me you haven’t, AY, and neither has Bron 98
- and certainly not today.
p.s. mespo, I would stay at arm’s length, at the very least.
This BS has been going on for a full year – since Bartlebee…
I don’t care what either of them say. The ‘names’ have changed, but most things, if not precisely the same, DEFINITELY overlap.
Like peas in a pod.
AY: “Patty C. being nice, no one could mistake that for the real patty C, can’t you see the humor in that? I can and I get a smirk. I wish I had thought of it before.”
I thought it was Patty. I haven’t seen her humor but I assume she has some so I assumed it was her.
People don’t exist beyond their postings on a blog and their nom de plume is all we really have to go on or they have to hang their reputation on. Stealing an identity is uncool in the extreme. There wasn’t anything funny about the hijacking on that other thread; those postings only fostered conflict.
It’s like visiting someones house and stealing another guest’s hat, it infers that everyone at the party is untrustworthy. It lowers the general level of repute of all the posters. JT should ban hijackers.
lottakatz 1, June 5, 2009 at 12:21 am
AY: “Patty C. being nice, no one could mistake that for the real patty C, can’t you see the humor in that? I can and I get a smirk. I wish I had thought of it before.”
I thought it was Patty. I haven’t seen her humor but I assume she has some so I assumed it was her.
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I would hope that she has a sense of humor but I have yet to see it.
JT should ban hijackers.
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I agree and I sincerely hope JT reconsiders with respect to Anonymously Yours (and Bron98) for similar infractions since April 24, in particular.
Anyone meeting my sweetie of a partner donning surgical garb or dressed plainly, would certainly understand why.
I would NEVER suggest such derogatory things about him, not even jokingly and I am insulted for both of us by the two ‘cretins’, mentioned, who did.
Mespo and I have been swatting flies from the turlee blawg, together, pretty much since the beginning and so this is not much different really. It is getting pretty tired for me, though.
I plan to be around in the coming weeks, but consider me on ‘Shore Leave’ for the duration of the famously brief Maine summer. Time to have some warm outdoor FUN…!
I will indeed continue to ban hijackers (as well as trolls) from this site in the future. The use of someone else’s identity to mislead other readers or embarrass one of our regulars is entirely unacceptable and intolerable on this site. I will continue to try to keep this was a troll-free, hijack-free zone as well as a place free of name calling. It is all sophomoric and adolescent behavior. If people cannot engage their opponents without assuming their identities or name calling, they need to move on to the majority of site that seem to relish in such playground discourse. While I cannot police the comments with regularity, I have been impressed how our regulars have kept the discourse civil while passionate. This site is enormously in their debt and indeed the greatest value of this site are not the postings, but the comments to the postings. I view my job as primarily starting discussions and sometimes adding my own views. However, it is primarily a site that exists for the exchange of our regulars and occasional visitors that include a great array of interesting and polite people. While we have great differences on some issues (beyond Mespo’s curious bias regarding certain animals and movies — particularly goats), we share a common interest in the law and policy and societal issues. Please help preserve this resource and refrain from name-calling and hijacking.
“[The good man] wishes himself to live and be preserved, and especially the element by virtue of which he thinks. For existence is good to the virtuous man . . . And such a man wishes to live with himself; for he does so with pleasure, since the memories of his past acts are delightful and his hopes for the future are good.”
[Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, IX, 4.]
Patty C:
I tender my apology to you and your significant other.
Sincerely,
The Cretin
Bron98
To BuenaVistaMall;
Please, PLEASE learn and practice the correct use of apostophes. The only correct use of “it’s” is when the word is used as a contraction for “it is.” Otherwise, no apostrophe. Ever.
“While we have great differences on some issues (beyond Mespo’s curious bias regarding certain animals and movies — particularly goats),…”
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Vive la différence. By the way, I have never advocated a “goat” movie save maybe the upcoming George Clooney film “Men Who Stare at Goats.”
Queen of Sheba: Thanks
It’s a fine day; justice is on its way.
Queen of Sheba,
Thank you for the apostrophe lesson. Unfortunately, in my elementary school years I used to tune out English grammar and never learned some of the elemental rules. In fact there was a lot I tuned out. I learned to write from reading extensively and as you well know some writers eschew grammar, so my education wasn’t perfect. What about apostrophes after “its” as a possessive, I truly have never figured out that one?
Queen of Sheba: apostrophe lesson.
Thanks.
My postings must be a distasteful labor for anyone that understands the proper use of punctuation. The running joke in my office was that I obviously thought more was better than less, correct or not, when it came to punctuation.
It got to the point that when the secretary (and secret master of the office) would say ‘I’m not sure I understand the construction of this sentence’ I would just reply with, ‘well, use more punctuation!’ This was usually after she had corrected it to the best of her ability. I miss her terribly, as must the readers of my postings
To me, most of the regulars here are masters of the English language and a joy to read. Why worry about a few misspelled words, for goodness’ sake. I hope one day me talk pretty, too.
Now, New Hampshire’s courts certainly spend far too much time with this Baldwin fellow. It seems he has a love/hate relationship with the law.
He does resemble Otis! Here’s a fun fact about Mayberry’s favorite drunk.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Campbell
Once, Sheriff Taylor locked a dynamite-laden goat in a padded jail cell to prevent an explosion. Predictably, Otis stumbled in after a night of drinking, and let himself into the same cell, only to find the mattress nailed to the wall (curiously, along with the blanket). Otis attempted to climb into the bed anyway, and naturally fell on the floor. Believing the peculiarity to be a result of his intoxication he proclaimed, “First time I ever fell off a bed onto the wall.”
This evening we are hosting a Maine seafood grille outdoors in seasonal departure from our famous ‘wintah-steamah’ which is, likewise, concocted by all manner of available indoor high temperatures, preferably including fire and fruity wood smoke, for an array of Ivy League surgical, and by many accounts, in fact, societal, losers in honor our longtime mutual friend and recently relocated colleague in observance of our formerly acute and now, chronic,’gay’ dx with attendant blissful pathology, as it were.
We see this. They’re happy.
Continuing breaking news, but the real ‘party’ is definitely
going to be in…
… New England, this summer… (sigh)
In tandem with the Tiller tragedy, which no doubt we will also be discussing, I thought it might be entertaining if Bron98 and Anonymously ‘His’ could lightly touch on just ‘WHAT IT IS’ about doctors in each of their minds, individually, or between the two of them, generally, which justifies the plethora of snipes on a law blog , and largely aimed in my direction, and especially moreso, lately.
Also, with regard to the recent escalations, also between the two, to hijacking my turlee identity in attempts at casting aspersions not only towards me, but on my on my partner, no less, who just so happens to be a brilliant surgeon himself, having trained literally hundreds of other successful surgeons, and someone I’ve only rarely ever eluded to, here, as one of the very first turlees .
By the way, I’ll be serving a flambe for dessert!
p.s. mespo, I’m telling you, it’s deja vu, all over again…
No doubt in my mind.
‘Was it something I said…?’ LOL
As I noted last year, I hope your wife STILL knows how lucky she is
- as I do… : )
Patty C:
Coincidentally, I am off to secure some Maryland blue crabs this morning for a little seafood feast of my own. My “crab steamer pot” is now powering to “full propane” mode.
My best to you and yours, and yes, it does seem like we’ve crossed this path before.
Flambe’ seems other worldly. Bon appétit!