On the beat with Ann Marie Ames
Man, I hate the first blog.
It looms blankly overhead for days. You know you’ve got to write it, but you just can’t possibly think of anything witty enough to set the bar for what you hope will be a useful, well read blog.
In the meantime, the ideas for second and third blogs waft in and out of your mind.
After I spent a few days trying to think how to impress you, the GazetteXtra reader, I realized you don’t need to be impressed. You know what a good cops and courts blog looks like, because you used to read reporter Ted Sullivan’s blog.
You don’t need to get to know me, because you know I used to blog about agricultural and environmental issues in Rock County. In August, my job shifted from covering local governments and agriculture to the cops and courts beat.
For a day or two, we considered an interim farm crime blog. I probably missed a great opportunity there.
The purpose of a cops and courts beat in any newspaper is to report about public safety. As I work on news stories, I will put some leftover information or thoughts here in this blog. I welcome your input and feedback.
Thanks for reading.
(Whew! Checking first blog off list.)
Read Ann Marie’s tweets from the newsroom on here.
Dec 18, 2011 at 12:09 a.m.
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Congratulations on the assumption that everyone knows who you are and what you have previously done.
Dec 16, 2011 at 11:17 a.m.
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Do you mean physically cuffed as in arrested? I think I looked at a speeding ticket once and it mentioned "arrested" on it although I wasn't cuffed.
I suppose you could be taken into court for proceeding if not arrested especailly civil court.
Dec 13, 2011 at 9:22 a.m.
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Thank you everyone. Just yesterday, a Rock County ADA explained you don't have to be arrested to be charged with a crime.
Legal terms would be a great blog subject. I need the practice, anyway.
Ann Marie
Dec 13, 2011 at 8:39 a.m.
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"days, the cops released the wrong suspect "
that sounds funny. Should have worded it differently.
Okay guy shoots another guy in a Jeep. Says he is not guilty???
Did the guy that shot the women on the porch and who fliped off the reportes also say not guilty?
"can sometimes mean you really did something bad but they couldn't prove it, but legally it means you committed no crime"
like I said got away with it. You kill somebody and somebody sees you but you destroy the body you get off because " no body".
QUILTY and got away with it!
Dec 13, 2011 at 1:40 a.m.
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<-----there went a cantaloupe ;)
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:55 p.m.
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Ted Sullivan took a job in Bozeman.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/sta...
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frogger, even if people saw you do something it does not mean that it was a crime. That is why we have courts -- to determine whether charges are proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Acquittal -- "not guilty" -- can sometimes mean you really did something bad but they couldn't prove it, but legally it means you committed no crime. We are all innocent until proven guilty, a principle that goes back in English common law hundreds of years, and may have its basis in the Bible and Ancient Greece.
Dec 12, 2011 at 10:27 p.m.
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frogger, not always. Consider this from 2007:
Police initially arrested the wrong man in the late September robbery of a teenage Janesville couple and the rape of the girl.
But within five days, the cops released the wrong suspect ... and arrested Kenneth D. Jarrett, 20, of Janesville.
(Jarrett was eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison).
Dec 12, 2011 at 8:30 p.m.
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Someone stole an ear of corn thataway---->
;)
Dec 12, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.
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fschult-
my thoughts
charged and got away with!
I am not a good jury member.
If you are "alledged" and people SAW you do it how are you NOT guilty. Again "not guilty means got away with"
Dec 12, 2011 at 5:43 p.m.
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my guess yes-
I heard hi took a job in another state- promotion
Dec 12, 2011 at 2:26 p.m.
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Replace - sorry.
Dec 12, 2011 at 2:24 p.m.
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Question, does this blog replacing Sullivan's?
Dec 12, 2011 at 1:29 p.m.
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Good luck, AMA. Here's a topic to address sometime: "Charged" or "arrested: do not mean "guilty."
Dec 12, 2011 at 1:13 p.m.
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Ditto.
Dec 12, 2011 at 11:50 a.m.
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Looking forward to it!
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