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I pity you big City lawyers; chances are you never will get to practice law in front of a Justice of the Peace (JP). They go by other names in other places, but we’ll stick with the English Common Law. A JP is not necessarily a lawyer, the further out you go from the big city; the less likely the local JP has seen a law school. Go out far enough, and there is a good possibility the local JP has never seen the inside of a courtroom. That is not all bad, one JP I knew cooked the best brisket. You could order 1/2 pound of brisket, crackers, a link, Big Red and plead guilty to speeding all in the same transaction. The judge would even break out the fine from the meal; he didn’t think it was right to calculate the tip with the fine included. At any rate, this story isn’t about that Judge.

It’s about the Sheriff’s Captain and the Detective who led a judge in Georgia astray and an ex-wife with the feisty girlfriend who caused the Captain and Detective to set out on the journey of self-destruction.

It seems baby mama and ex-wife of the Captain is stuck at home with a house full of sick kids. She calls him up and asks him to go to the pharmacy and pick up some medicine. He refuses, after all, what has she done for him lately? There are no sick kids where he has been laying his head.

Baby Mama complains to the feisty girlfriend who agrees to pick up the medicine and fix baby daddy. Girlfriend, before she sets out on her odyssey updates her Facebook page to reflect that baby daddy, the Captain, is a POS. I don’t know why he would object to being a “point of sale” because “piece of shit” seems to be a well-settled name that he can wear with pride.

Next thing Baby Mama and feisty girlfriend know they are in custody at the Sheriff’s office. This is not hard for a Sheriff’s Captain to do, he just needs a subordinate dumber than he is to act like an investigator that has reached an independent conclusion. The detective will make all that follows seem above board and without bias or favor. Next, they had to come up with a charge. There is no word as to whether Desecration of a venerated object, Contempt of Cop, or Character Assassination was considered.

What they came up with is: The warrant ordered by “Magistrate” Todd charged King for something that, on its face, is not and cannot be a crime. Georgia used to have a criminal defamation statute, But the Georgia Supreme Court found the statute unconstitutional in 1982, and Georgia took the dead-letter law off the books in 2015. Even if the statute survived, Anne King’s Facebook post could not constitutionally be prosecuted under it. This was a lawless charge. This is not a close call.

Everything is about computers these days. Want to book somebody into a jail for Aggravated Moping 21763? If it isn’t on the computerized list with its own five-digit code, it doesn’t exist. Needless to say, neither charge is on the jail list of acceptable charges. Does anybody want to take a slightly wild assed guess what POS baby daddy assignment is? You betcha, Captain assigned to the jail.

The charges were dismissed at the first court appearance. Feisty girlfriend has sued and Piece of Shit Captain is still threatening. But it will all come to not, not enough blood and gore for the FBI to pursue a Civil Rights Charge. The lawsuit will be settled for the price of a Hyundai, 70″ plasma, a dinette set and a bottle of Hennessy Brandy.