Taking Over the World Part 3

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-29-2002, 11:30 PM

sergeantsafrit- Asst. DA, magastrate, and leader of evil police!

**redDragon** · 07-29-2002, 11:33 PM

::enters:: I'm the executioner you folks hired. When you want the execution done just give me a holler. ::finds a nice corner comfy chair and goes to sleep in it::

**Borg4of3** · 07-29-2002, 11:40 PM

::Wandering off from Box Drink's swamp in the Squirt Gun Wars, Borg believes he's finally found peace. However, a letter attached to his door says otherwise::

JURY SUMMONS

The law provides penalties for failure to answer a jury summons. Your service is required.

You are summoned to appear personally before Judge GS at the TZ Municipal Court on...

::Borg starts to cry::

**Depth Charge** · 07-30-2002, 12:18 AM

*DC is sitting in his chair... starring at these 'legal' papers*

.... (i'm going against Maxie Zeus, I'm dead) Looks like I running to a book store and getting a Law For Dummies book... Dark Spider, my fellow prosecutor.. are you ready for the fight of your life...

...man o man... look at all this evidence we collected... what a mess.... I hope Jack likes surprises.. cause something stinks in this case, something fowl and downright immoral...

...*calls Spaz on cell-phone* Did you leave some leftover turkey around? *hangs up*

hmm... better send a cookie to Borf40f3 and redDragon....

**Allen's Nickname.** · 07-30-2002, 12:32 AM

I got all the turkey you could want man. How much you willing to pay?

**Depth Charge** · 07-30-2002, 12:52 AM

at this point... i'll pay 1 million dollars

**Allen's Nickname.** · 07-30-2002, 12:54 AM

I'll send some over with Kiyonie.

**Depth Charge** · 07-30-2002, 12:56 AM

oh, i thought Wat would be delivering.... oh, that's right, she has that appointment...

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-30-2002, 07:05 AM

Good Morning! Oh TURKEY!!!!

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-30-2002, 07:54 AM

Here is all the legal papers i have obtained so far:
They might try to use habeas corpus but they can't because we haven't caught him yet:

habeas corpus [Lat.,=you should have the body], writ directed by a judge to some person who is detaining another, commanding him to bring the body of the person in his custody at a specified time to a specified place for a specified purpose. The writ's sole function is to release an individual from unlawful imprisonment; through this use it has come to be regarded as the great writ of liberty. The writ tests only whether a prisoner has been accorded due process, not whether he is guilty. The most common present-day usage of the writ is to appeal state criminal convictions to the federal courts when the petitioner believes his constitutional rights were violated by state procedure. An individual incarcerated in a state prison is expected to exhaust all possible routes available before applying to a federal judge for habeas corpus. The term is mentioned as early as the 14th cent. in England, and was formalized in the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. The privilege of the use of this writ as a safeguard against illegal imprisonment was highly regarded by the British colonists in America, and wrongful refusals to issue the writ were one of the grievances before the American Revolution. As a result, the Constitution of the United States provides that “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it” (Article 1, Section 9). President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in 1861 at the beginning of the Civil War, and his decision was upheld by Congress—despite protests by Chief Justice Roger Taney that such suspension was not within the powers of the President. The Supreme Court's liberal decisions in the 1950s and 1960s in the area of prisoners' rights encouraged many incarcerated persons to file writs challenging their convictions. In recent years, the Court under William Rehnquist has limited multiple habeas corpus filings, particularly from prisoners on death row.

Everyone knows the miranda rights?:
Miranda v. Arizona, U.S. Supreme Court case (1966) in the area of due process of law (see Fourteenth Amendment). The decision reversed an Arizona court's conviction of Ernesto Miranda on kidnapping and rape charges. Identified in a police lineup, Miranda had been questioned, had confessed, and had signed a written statement without being told that he had a right to a lawyer; his confession was used at trial. In overturning Miranda's conviction, Chief Justice Earl Warren held that the prosecution may not use statements made by a person in police custody unless certain minimum procedural safeguards were in place. Before questioning, persons must be given what came to be known as “Miranda warnings”: that they have the right to remain silent; that anything they say may be used as evidence against them; that they may request the presence of an attorney, either retained by themselves or appointed by the court; and that they have the right, even after beginning to answer questions, to stop answering or request an attorney. The Miranda decision was one of the most controversial of the Warren Court; under Chief Justices Warren Burger and William Rehnquist (who as a legal spokesman for the Nixon administration had proposed that Miranda be overturned), a Court more friendly to police operations has limited its scope several times, although failing to reverse its central holding. Civil liberties groups have continued to protest that police routinely omit Miranda warnings.

thats all for now!

**Bob...SpongeBob** · 07-30-2002, 08:03 AM

Legal papers...yes...excellent job, Sarge. Hopefully there will be no messy bits to deal with in this trial, and the proceedings will go about smoothly. We will need witnesses to testify, so perhaps we should find some volunteers...

**Watagashi** · 07-30-2002, 08:05 AM

*rushes in the court room* Sorry, I'm late! That appointment took longer than I thought.... *sits down on the bench* So... what's my job supposed to be?

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-30-2002, 08:20 AM

Ok bsb oh by the way my police haven't caught him yet.

**Bob...SpongeBob** · 07-30-2002, 08:21 AM

hey wat, you wanna be a witness?

**Watagashi** · 07-30-2002, 08:23 AM

Sure.

That'll work.

**Bob...SpongeBob** · 07-30-2002, 08:28 AM

hey, does anyone know if we've got a judge yet?

**Watagashi** · 07-30-2002, 08:40 AM

Yeah, Guitar Slayer's supposed to be the judge.

Let's see, so we have....

Depth Charge- Lawyer/ Attorney of Prosecution
Red Giant- Bailiff
Red Dragon- Executioner
Spaz13_88- Vigilante Justice Person
Dark Spider- Bounty Hunter
Borg4of3- Juror
Guitar Slayer- Judge
SegeantSafrit- Assistant DA and Police
Maxie Zeus- Lawyer of Defence
Joe Tully - Juror
Barb Gordon - Juror

EDIT: This is GS. I'll be updating this as we go along. Thanks, Watagashi, for starting this off.

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-30-2002, 08:42 AM

yep thats about it. should i give jack a court summons when he logs on?

**Bob...SpongeBob** · 07-30-2002, 08:47 AM

<cusses out MS paint for messing with the trial avatar>

Cool. Do you think Spaz could be a witness too? We need a couple of those, and people who were posting at that time would be the best choice...or wasn't he posting?

**SergeantSafrit** · 07-30-2002, 08:49 AM

maybe but when will we have this case? because i need to get the court summons.

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