The Washington Court system used a burglary case to win the right to use dogs to make others testify against an accused in all manner of crimes. Against the truth of all human nature, the courts ruled juries should just ignore the dog in the window.
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There’s an old saying, “nice guys fiinsh last.” It doesn’t apply here.I read in today’s paper that the state-funded ombudsman office that conducts oversight of about 60 percent of care centers and homes for the elderly is losing all its federal funding. That money is critical to keeping it in operation. The ombudsman personnel and volunteers they recruit, organize and train work to prevent neglect, abuse and other problems for a bunch of extremely vulnerable people near the end of life. The federal funding was only a couple hundred thousand a year, as I recall.What’s this got to do with Rossi? I’d be willing to bet that if all the money Rossi has squandered on mean-spirited, dishonest attack ads against his various opponents over the last several years was put into that ombudsman program, it would be able to monitor 100 percent of facilities for 15-20 years.What.A.Waste.