Thursday Morning Miscellany: The 51-year-old juvenile offender, Rick Perry’s painkillers, and hipster sunglasses for defendants


Alicyn Packard is suing Belvedere Vodka for negligent infliction of emotional distress and misappropriation of likeness, claiming the image was taken from a comedy video produced by her company, and was used without her permission (some reactions to the ad itself).

New Jersey Police Solve 1976 Murder — but because the suspect, now 51 years old, was 15 at the time of the murder, they can’t legally release his name.

Was Rick Perry’s behavior during the primaries a result of heavy use of painkillers? So claims a just-published book

The new fashion trend for defendants: hipster eyeglasses

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6 Responses to Thursday Morning Miscellany: The 51-year-old juvenile offender, Rick Perry’s painkillers, and hipster sunglasses for defendants

  1. I watched the original video (and kind of wish I hadn’t — it was really bad) that image was taken from and I actually was close in my interpretation.

    She and the man are at least acquainted with one another, and she feels something in his pants that surprises her. I kept looking at that stupid ad trying to see fear in her face, and all I saw was surprise.

    If you feel like wasting three minutes of your life, there’s a link to the original video in this article from the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/belvedere-lawsuit-alicyn-packard_n_1396613.html

  2. Proginoskes Proginoskes says:

    So now Rick Perry is saying that his behavior was due to drugs? Doesn’t that make him look *worse*?

  3. Mark in Boston Mark in Boston says:

    Re the glasses: A study has shown that jurors view defendants differently when the defendants wear glasses: http://homepage.mac.com/psychresearch/Sites/site2/publications/manuscripts/ajfp_eyeglasses.PDF

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