The Lindsay Clancy jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision, so the judge declared a hung jury/mistrial after a week of jury deliberation. A lone male juror was the holdout that stuck to his guns that Clancy should be declared guilty. Otherwise, she would have been acquitted, which would have been insane.
JM: It looks like we’ll probably have to sit through another trial being at the top of the daily news whenever it happens. Yay. It looks like we are also already getting copycat crimes…
JM: There is something seriously wrong with this world.
JM: So, Missouri, like so many other states, redrew their district voting maps based on the last census. They had primary elections about a month ago based on the new maps. Democrats sued. Even though Democrats started all of this redistricting nonsense in other states, they sued in Missouri to stop it. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the new map was unconstitutional and decided that the state must hold elections this November based on the OLD map. Huh? This is Crazy Town stuff. Republicans in Missouri were quick to react to this decision and the Attorney General of the state of Missouri vowed to appeal immediately to the United States Supreme Court.
JM: If Missouri voters are forced to vote using a new map in November after voting on a completely different map for the primaries, it will be the first time in American history that it was allowed to happen that way. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Basically, Republicans were poised to gain a Congressional seat in Missouri with the new map, and will lose that seat if the old map is used. Stay tuned.
JM: I can’t argue with that.
JM: Thornton was fired from Wheel of Fortune today because of this incident. He claims he accidentally clicked into the wrong chat room, but as the photos prove, he was logged into it and chatting for about an hour. I wonder how the other passenger was alerted to what he was doing? Were they spying on what he was doing and saw some unsettling messages, so they got their phone out and started taking pictures? What a weird story.
JM: Every. Damn. Day.
JM: There are not only pictures, but there is video of the flight crew duct taping this guy to his seat. Looks like freaking overkill to me, but what do I know?
Have a good Labor Day weekend!