Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Forty-one-year old Michelle Astumian sure has moxie. Facing a sentencing hearing in a San Luis Obispo, CA court for two counts of forging drug prescriptions and one of passing a fraudulent check, she presented Judge Barry LaBarbera with a doctor’s note in an effort to delay the proceeding. The savvy Judge dispatched a deputy DA to verify the note and was quickly told it was a fake. Nonplussed, Astumian collapsed when the Judge ordered the $45,000.00 bond revoked and her into custody. No word on the nature of her mysterious ailment, but her trip to the hospital granted her wish to delay the sentencing. I’d call that winning the battle only to insure losing the war.
Source: KVEC
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Ahhh, the fainting couch … a real necessity when corsets were all the rage … according to my grandmother, one felt the faint coming on, found the couch and positioned oneself to fall with style. Honest to god
That lady has some real stones! I wonder if the doctor’s note was signed by Mrs. Epstein?
Well, in the interests of equality among the sexes, the last time Tex was in the hospital a man was brought into his room in the middle of the night. The curtain was drawn between the two beds but Tex could hear everything being said. Suffice it to say the man had a list of symptoms that went on and on and on. At the end of the conversation the man told the nurse, “Oh, by the way, I’m supposed to be in court tomorrow. Could you get it postponed?”
Yeah, the dude was gone in the morning.
I suspect this gal is thinking of the immortal words of Mae West when she said, “I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.”
” The savvy Judge dispatched a deputy DA to verify the note and was quickly told it was a fake. Nonplussed, Astumian collapsed when the Judge ordered the $45,000.00 bond revoked and her into custody.”
She tried.
And a Lady never tells….
But never forget….she’s always a lady….