Like any category of crime in Indiana, those of a sexual nature cover a broad spectrum. To be considered a “sex offender” is to be lumped into a group with persons who may have forcibly raped their victim, may have lured children into sex slavery, or who may have engaged in sexual activity with a […]
Meet “David”, age 32 I had a feeling something bad was going to happen the second I got out of my car. I ignored it. The house where the party was happening was in kind of a run-down neighborhood. It was a wet winter. I remember stepping in a wide crack in the pavement into […]
Meet “Oscar”, age 29 and his father, “Jose”, age 51 I discovered my dad was a thief when I was five years old. I remember the day I figured it out. At first he tried to hide it from me, the deodorant, the can of soup, the wool cap he stuffed into his coat at […]
Your shoplifting days are over. You haven’t jacked a car in over a decade. You wouldn’t even pick up a candy bar if it fell out of a vending machine. The thief you once were is gone, but the black mark on your record carries on. Felon. That’s what they called you. It’s a label […]
Don’t Worry About Me, I’m NOT Guilty of Murder How would you react if someone walked up to you, shook your hand and said, “Hello. I want you to know, no matter what people might say, I didn’t kill anybody.” What’s the first thought that runs through your mind? If you have ever been accused […]
You Did the Crime, You Did Your Time – 5 Facts About Indiana’s Second Chance Law Back in the dark ages in Indiana (before July, 2013), it didn’t matter what you did. If you were convicted of a crime it was on your permanent record. You were screwed. Maybe once in your rough past you […]
Meet “Jason”, age 26 I’ll never forget that party after Jenny’s graduation open house. It should have been all happy memories. God, I wish they were. I liked Jenny’s friend Sarah. Sarah was beautiful, and fun. We would go cruising with friends on the backroads and when it was Sarah’s turn to drive, she would […]
Regret is a tough emotion to tackle. We go over the mistakes we made in the past over and over again, and we ask ourselves why we didn’t keep our mouths shut, or say no to that last drink, or stay away from those people. We’ve all made mistakes. Usually we deal with the regret, […]
I.B.S. (Irritable Bruce Syndrome) I’ll keep this short and sweet. It seems like every day that I see someone on Facebook trashing some private citizen about some purely personal matter. Let me just say this: Doing so says more about the trash-or than it does the trash-ee. Biofuel, esoteric numbers, and alleged fraud U.S. Attorney Joe […]
Has a Muncie musician/bar owner been unfairly Snoped? I’m not sure I’ve ever before personally known someone who has been the subject of a Snopes item. (Snopes.com purports to arbitrate the truth or falsity of various rumors, theories and urban legends.) Mike Martin, owner of Muncie’s FOLLY MOON bar and grill, has discontinued live music […]