Apparently, what happens on MySpace doesn't always float in Vegas: A substitute judge in the North Las Vegas Justice Court got sacked last week because of some nasty stuff he said on his social-networking profile about prosecutors.
The 34-year-old criminal defense attorney, Jonathan MacArthur, had been appointed as a judge pro tempore in anticipation of a full judicial post that would be available in 2009. Unfortunately, MacArthur wrote on his MySpace profile that his interests included "Breaking my foot off in a prosecutor's a**...and improving my ability to break my foot off in a prosecutor's a**." That line caught the attention of the Clark County District Attorney, who alerted the administrator for the court where MacArthur served. The aspiring judge said he was just being tongue-in-cheek, but the court didn't take it as a laughing matter, and MacArthur was promptly sacked from his pro-tem gig.
"A judge's job is to be unbiased in all matters," commented Natalie Tyrrell, North Las Vegas Justice of the Peace. "On that MySpace page, it appears he definitely has a bias against prosecutors."
MacArthur's other MySpace interests allegedly included "anything relating to the NFL, video games, sex," and he professed to being a Denver Broncos fan. Yikes, talk about biased!
For more in MySpace lesson-learning, read about 'Smokey McBlunt'--no, it wasn't a pot bust.
(Las Vegas Review-Journal via Techdirt via Valleywag)
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It's a classroom-warning-video-worthy example of "be careful what you put on your Facebook profile"--or at least that's what it looks like on the surface. Slate columnist Lucy Morrow Campbell was tipped off to the fact that Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's daughter, Caroline, had semi-openly declared on the social-networking site that her political views are "liberal" (OK, that'd be more shocking if it were Mitt Romney's kid) and that she's a Barack Obama supporter.
Yes, really.
Giuliani, who is 17 and uses a slight variation on her last name for her Facebook profile, had been a member of the "One Million Strong for Barack" Facebook group, something that was visible to all Facebook members in the "networks" she'd joined (the elite Trinity School in Manhattan, as well as Harvard, which she will enter in the fall). After a Slate inquiry--it appears that someone on staff was also a member of the Harvard network--the younger Giuliani withdrew her membership from the Obama supporters' group.
There's been a lot of press gossip, especially in the New York media, over reports that Rudy Giuliani doesn't get along with his kids (in addition to Caroline, he has a 21-year-old son who attends Duke University). That still doesn't mean the whole thing wasn't a joke in the first place--albeit not a very smart one, considering the levels of online political scrutiny these days.
Either way, Jon Stewart will likely have some fun with it--probably involving the notorious "Obama Girl" YouTube video in one way or another.
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