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WEIRDNUZ.425 (News of the Weird, March 29, 1996)
by Chuck Shepherd
LEAD STORY
* Two notorious prisoners have been productive behind bars
recently. The film "Child, This Is Just a Test by God" opened
successfully in the Philippines starring the popular Robin "Bad
Boy" Padilla. The movie was shot on location in prison because
Padilla couldn't get work-release from his 21-year sentence on
weapons charges; producers got cooperation by handing out on-
camera roles to prison administrators and guards. And rap singer
X Raided, who has been in jail for four years awaiting trial for
murder, released a new album "Xorcist," which he recorded over
a Sacramento, Calif., county jail pay phone while listening to
music tracks on an adjacent pay phone. [Sacramento Bee-AP, 1-
13-96] [Option, March-April 1996]
LATEST SURGES OF TESTOSTERONE
* Francis J. Pezzuto, 29, was arrested in February in Sayville,
N. Y., on sexual abuse charges. According to police, Pezzuto
showed pictures of himself nude to several adolescent boys and
paid some $20 to $30 to write their initials on his buttocks with a
felt marker and take Polaroid snapshots of their work. [Columbus
Dispatch-AP, 2-21-96]
* Police in Urbandale, Iowa, arrested one of their own in
January: Cop, part-time anti-drug crusader, and part-time girls'
basketball coach James R. Trimble, 43, was charged with
trafficking in marijuana and methamphetamine. According to the
Des Moines Register, Trimble was driving around with "scores"
of sex videotapes in his car and had a "sexual device inserted into
his body"--a device that "was connected to a battery pack." (No
other details were revealed.) [Des Moines Register, 1-3-96]
* Acting on the complaint of a 59-year-old female motorist in
Bloomington, Minn., in January, police stopped a driver whom
she said had pulled alongside her on the highway and pressed a
nude photograph of himself against his window so she would see
it. [Bloomington Sun-Current, 1-17-96]
* In Redondo Beach, Calif., hairdresser Joseph R. "Jay" Middleton,
56, was sentenced to 60 days' community service in February on a
charge that he masturbated while doing a female customer's hair.
Middleton had removed his pants and worked on her hair with his
free hand, completing the job because the customer was too
frightened to object. Middleton apparently talked to himself during
the episode, saying, "This is so bad, I can't believe I'm doing this"
and "Bad Jay, bad Jay," while slapping himself on the wrist as
punishment. [The Daily Breeze (Torrance, Calif.), 3-5-96]
* In Burbank, Calif., in February, a 55-year-old man who had
placed an ad in a local bondage and discipline magazine arranged a
liaison in his home with another man. When the man answered his
door, the date forced him to crawl through his house to his bondage
room, where the man was tied, nude, to a "proctologist table."
According to police, the date and his accomplice, waiting outside,
then stole the man's sofa, leather chair, TV set, and other items.
[Burbank Leader, 2-25-96]
* Southbury, Conn., pharmacist Robert Trocki, 59, was arrested in
October and charged with several counts of illegal sale of
prescription drugs , including what police said were two instances
of giving women birth control pills and pain relievers in exchange
for their letting him kiss their feet and sneakers. [New Haven
Register-AP, 1-19-96]
COURTROOM ANTICS
* James Mascetta, 40, was charged with dispensing a narcotic in
December in Nashua, N. H. Bailiffs caught Mascetta handing a
packet of heroin to a woman sitting at the defendants' table in a
courtroom while she was awaiting arraignment on another drug
charge. [Keene Sentinel, Dec95]
* Kevin C. Maben, 28, filed a $2 million lawsuit in February
against Ripley, Tenn., county judge Billy Wayne Williams, who
is a retired highway patrolman without legal training, elected to
the bench in 1990. Maben said Judge Williams summarily jailed
him for missing car payments despite Tennessee law that clearly
gives Maben the right to a jury trial. Said Judge Williams, "No,
I do not pull [out] the [statute] book on every case that comes up.
I'd be sitting over there [in the law library] 24 hours a day." [The
Tennessean-AP, 2-23-96]
* In January Judge Joel Gehrke found Stewart Marshall guilty in
Stanton, Mich., of throwing his wife to the floor in a domestic
quarrel. As punishment, Gehrke ordered Marshall to hold out his
arm, and Gehrke slapped him on the wrist, saying, "Don't do
that." (Judge Gehrke thought the punishment was appropriate
because the fight was in response to Mrs. Marshall's having had
an affair with Marshall's brother and having borne their son.)
[Tampa Tribune-AP, 1-18-96]
* Valdamair Morelos, 35, confessed to murder in 1994 in San
Jose, Calif., and told the judge he wanted the death penalty, but
he was forced to trial because California law requires one in
capital cases. Consequently, at the trial in January, Morelos
occasionally tried to help the prosecution. For instance, after the
prosecutor described the killing to the judge, Morelos added, "I
blindfolded him, too." [San Francisco Examiner-AP, Jan96]
* The U. S. Supreme Court in January rejected the appeal of a
convicted drug possessor in Arizona who had claimed he did not
receive a fair trial because there were no fat people on the jury.
[Mesa Tribune-AP, 1-9-96]
* In March, the U. S. Court of Appeals in New York upheld an
order for a new trial for Dale Tippins, who was convicted on
drug charges in 1986 and sentenced to 18 years in prison, but
who has been complaining since then that his lawyer napped
during the trial. (One juror said he heard the lawyer, Louis
Tirelli, snoring several times, and another said Tirelli slept
through "65%" of the testimony of a key prosecution witness.)
The court granted the new trial but was also somewhat skeptical:
"There are states of drowsiness that come over everyone from
time to time during [a trial]." [Tampa Tribune-AP, 3-9-96]
* In Albuquerque, N. Mex., county judge Joann Birge dismissed
DUI charges against Joseph Chiado in February even though he
had tested at more than double the permissible alcohol level--
because two officers were in on the arrest when guidelines call
for only one on misdemeanors. [Albuquerque Journal, 2-10-96]
Copyright 1996, Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved.
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