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Your comments here.                elevated to a felony by an
Late note: Former Supreme          ensuing scuffle with the
Court Justice John I. Purtle       police, and he was sentenced
has died at 87. I'd last seen      to 15 years in prison, a
him at Jim Powell's funeral.       conviction the majority
Purtle's colorful career,          upheld..
including a successful             ''Over 125 years ago, Victor
defense of an arson-for-           Hugo, in 'Les Miserables,'
profit charge, predates the        attacked the injustice of a
Internet for the most part.        system that sentenced a man
Happily, a  piece on the           to imprisonment for stealing
justice after he left the          a loaf of bread,'' Judge
court is available from the        Purtle wrote. ''Surely we
New York Times. It captures        have made a little progress
his maverick essence; his          since that time.''
raging populism.                   And this just in:  Has the
In one dissent, John Purtle        bedraggled Pulaski County
wrote, ''I may march to the        School Board, overseeing a
beat of a different drummer,       financially strapped district
but I have never marched with      short on textbooks, really
a goose step.''                    bought a round of new iPads
And dissenting was something       for Board members?
he often did. In 1988, he was      NEWS UPDATE: The anti-
the author of nearly half of       masturbation Tea Party
the dissenting opinions filed      candidate has won the
by the court. He wrote so          Republican nomination for U.S.
many dissents - and wrote          Senate in Delaware. This is
them by hand -that he              great news no matter what. A
developed carpal tunnel            lightly considered Democrat
syndrome in his right wrist.       has a chance to win now, if
One particularly bitter            sanity prevails. A good short-
opinion came in the case of a      term outcome. Or else a
Little Rock man who stole a        'bagger will soon be showing
package of sliced ham from a       her rear in the U.S. Senate
grocery store. The offense,        amd. over the long haul,
originally a misdemeanor, was      that's not a bad thing.       

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