My apologies to Peni, Honoria, Amber and, oh yes, Michu, but I'm not feeling fondly inclined towards Texas today.
I'm not holding George W. Bush against you. I'm well aware that he's a New England aristocrat whose claim to being a Texan rests on his having bought a weekend play ranch. But you're going to have to take the rap for Christopher Amox, Dallas Stone, John Wesley Owens and James Hicks of Linden. And those jurors, too.
Amox, Stone and Owens duped mentally disabled (and black) Billy Ray Johnson into attending an otherwise all-white party where they picked a fight with him, beat him unconscious, then got Cass County jailer Hicks to help them stake Johnson out on a fire ant hill at a dump, where they hoped he would not be found.
The jurors found them guilty but apparently were too tender-hearted to recommend any jail time for the four (after all, Johnson survived, and is merely crippled for life), but Judge Ralph K. Burgess overruled them, and handed out nice stiff 30-day sentences.
//The Magic 8-Ball says, "Please, don't talk to me just now."\\
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