Poor abused kids found working at Berry farms

Okay, now that y’all are worked up thinking that kids shouldn’t be working at such a tender age, you’ll be really worked up to know I was being facetious about the “poor abused kids”.  

From the ages of  5 to 8 years old I was picking potatoes in the potato fields of Maine, that was before harvesters were ever thought. 

We got the huge wage of 30 cents a barrel, I repeat, a barrel, we would fill up bushel baskets and dumped them into the barrels, being so small I would fill up my basket and wait for someone to come and empty it for me. 

By the time I finished working as a potato picker I had saved up the $36 I needed for my new green Rollfast bike,  the bike my siblings would tease me about, “can’t that Rollfast roll any faster than that?”. While they had Schwinn’s and Columbia’s I preferred my green Rollfast with no basket or light, it beat the hell out of my ice cream truck tricycle. 

Anyway, back to the potatoes, it taught all of us kids a work ethic and didn’t manage to kill or maim a single one of us.  In Maine they used to close school during potato pickin’ season just so they could have the kids work the fields, don’t know if they still do.

Our kids are so pampered and spoiled these days, no wonder they grow up to be part of the entitlement crowd with no work ethic. 

Berry Farms Fined For Hiring Kids As Young As 6

First Posted: 8/5/11 10:01 AM ET Updated: 8/5/11 10:11 AM ET

http://www.aol.com/2011/08/05/berry-farms-hire-kids_n_919284.html?test=latestnewsPORTLAND, Ore. (Associated Press) — The U.S. Labor Department has fined three Washington state strawberry farms a total of $73,000 for employing children as young as 6 years old as pickers.The department’s Portland, Ore., office says Thursday the violations include failing to maintain proof-of-age records and pay minimum wage. A total of nine underage workers were found during a child labor investigation in June at farms in Woodland, Wash., and Ridgefield, Wash.

The department says all three employers removed the underage workers and agreed to attend wage and hour training for the next three years.

Proposed U.N. Treaty to Regulate Global Firearms Trade Raising Concerns for U.S. Gun Makers

By Maxim Lott

Published August 05, 2011

A controversial U.N. proposed treaty aimed at regulating guns worldwide has been shrouded by confusion and misinformation.

Known informally as the ‘Small Arms Treaty,’ its detractors have charged the proposed agreement with secretly trying to take guns out of the hands of Americans and circumventing the 2nd Amendment.

While that is unlikely, a working draft proposal obtained by FoxNews.com contains language that some gun advocates say could have a real impact on American gun makers.

Last month a U.N. committee met in New York and signed off on several provisions, including the creation of a new U.N. agency to regulate international weapon sales, and require countries that host firearms manufacturers to set up a compensation fund for victims of gun violence worldwide.

Tom Mason, who represented the World Forum on the Future of Sports Shooting at the U.N. conference, told FoxNews.com the provisions are worrying.

“No, there are no black helicopters. There is no secret treaty that Hillary Clinton has signed,” Mason said. “But on the other hand, the treaty is a significant threat to gun owners. I think the biggest threat may be the body that would administer the treaty,” he added, referring to a new U.N agency the treaty would create, to be called the “Implementation Support Unit.”

Under the latest draft of the treaty, every country would be required to submit a report to the ISU outlining “all activities undertaken in order to accomplish the implementation of this Treaty, including… domestic laws, regulations and administrative measures.”

It also requires countries to set up their own government agencies to track any guns that could be exported. “Parties shall take all necessary measures to control brokering activities taking place within its territories … to prevent the diversion of exported arms into the illicit market or to unintended end users,” the draft reads.

The vague wording leaves room for interpretation, and a U.N. representative for a major U.S. gun manufacturer who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity told FoxNews.com that he believed it left room for the ISU to declare the registration of all American-made guns to prevent illegal exportation.

“Does this mean it’s going to impose some international gun registration scheme? That could happen here, under the treaty,” said the gun manufacturer representative.

Daniel Prins, chief of the Conventional Arms Branch for the U.N.’s Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told FoxNews.com that no provisions have been finalized.

“All the issues remain on the table,” said Prins.

Other gun control supporters who attended the U.N. conference say that American gun owners have nothing to worry about.

“People within the U.S. should not be worried about it unless they sell arms internationally,” Collin Goddard, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told FoxNews.com. “The whole treaty is to prevent countries from selling guns to other countries that have gross violations of human rights.”

Goddard said that concerns about a possible national gun registry is ridiculous because the intent of the treaty was only to restrict arms sales between countries. “This does not cover weapons that are kept internally,” he said, adding that the ISU would be kept efficient.

“They are just trying to establish a regulatory board… Everyone’s worried about another big bureaucracy, and I can understand that. But the committee is trying to keep it small and lean,” said Goddard.

The gun manufacturer representative said his client doesn’t buy that. “It’s pretty clear that it’s going to impose major new administrative burdens.”

An especially costly potential regulation discussed at the conference last month would require gun makers to engrave sequential tracings on every one of some 3 billion bullets produced in the U.S. each year.

And that, he said, would make guns more expensive for everyone.

“Manufacturers would have to pass on the cost to civilian customers.” Another controversial part of the treaty draft establishes a compensation fund for victims of gun violence, which would transfer money from countries that export weapons to countries that had suffered gun violence.

“Countries should support victims of any kind of victimization,” Goddard said, noting that it was a big issue at the July treaty conference. But it is included in the draft treaty only as a voluntary provision for each country.

Goddard added that he did not believe that the fund would make it into the final version of the treaty, in part because the U.S. delegation opposed the measure. The U.S. government’s delegation has opposed restrictions on civilian weapons in general. Canada has done the same.

The State Department did not respond to calls for comment.

But Versnel said that the vast majority of countries support additional regulations on civilian weapons.

“Just about everybody is pushing for more,” Julianne Versnel, the director of operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, who also attended the conference, told FoxNews.com. “It’s Europe, it’s Africa, it’s the Caribbean, it’s South America. Mexico has been at the forefront.”

Regardless of what regulations other countries agree to, the treaty only becomes law in the U.S. if it gets a two-thirds majority in the Senate.

And last month, more than 50 senators signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Clinton saying that they will not vote for any treaty that restricts civilian arms.

The NRA is confident that the treaty will not be ratified in the U.S.

“The U.N. can pass it if they want it,” NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told FoxNews.com.

“But for it to have domestic effect, it needs to pass us senate by a two-thirds vote — and clearly that will not happen in this make up of the U.S. senate, regardless of what the administration does.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/05/proposed-un-treaty-to-regulate-global-firearms-trade-raising-concerns-for-us/#ixzz1UD5DMqcM

 

BREAKING: U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P

And so it begins.

NEW YORK | Fri Aug 5, 2011 8:31pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.

S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about growing budget deficits.

U.S. Treasuries, once undisputedly seen as the safest investment in the world, are now rated lower than bonds issued by countries such as the UK, Germany, France or Canada.

The outlook on the new U.S. credit rating is negative, S&P said in a statement, a sign that another downgrade is possible in the next 12 to 18 months.

(Reporting by Walter Brandimarte; Editing by Jan Paschal)

Breaking News: S&P says can lower U.S. rating again in next 2 years if sees less spending reduction than agreed, higher interest rates, new fiscal pressures

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806

Dow avoids Black Friday …..barely

The Dow jumped a modest 60 points as markets closed Friday, following a turbulent session with stocks swinging wildly throughout the day trying to rebound from Thursday’s 500-point plunge.  (modest?  I’d say it was more like pitiful.  S&P ready to downgrade as early as tonight.)

John Kerry: Media Has “Responsibility” To “Not Give Equal Time” To Tea Party

Nothing like a representative of our government to call for the disenfranchising of American citizens. 

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday that the media has the responsibility to not give equal time or credence to the Tea Party’s views:

SEN. JOHN KERRY: “And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.”

“It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/05/john_kerry_media_has_responsibility_to_not_give_equal_time_to_tea_party.html

Food stamp use rises to record 45.8 million

By Blake Ellis August 4, 2011: 5:03 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

The number of Americans using the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — more commonly referred to as food stamps — shot to an all-time high of 45.8 million in May, the USDA reported. That’s up 12% from a year ago, and 34% higher than two years ago.

The program provides monthly benefits to low-income individuals and families, which they can use at stores that accept SNAP benefits.

To qualify for food stamps, an individual’s income can’t exceed $1,174 a month or $14,088 a year — an amount that is 130% of the national poverty level.

The average food stamp benefit was $133.80 per person and $283.65 per household in May.

The highest concentration of food stamp users were in California, Florida, New York and Texas — where more than 3 million residents in each state received food stamps in May.

0:00 / 3:36 Healthy eating on $1 per meal: impossible?

The rise in food stamp use comes as the U.S. job market continues to sputter, and food prices across the country climb.

Unemployment benefits at risk

But a spike in food stamp users in Alabama may have been responsible for pushing total usage unusually higher in May. Following a series of devastating storms, many residents received disaster assistance under the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the USDA said. Food stamp use in the state surged from 868,813 in April to 1,762,481 in May.

“USDA does not anticipate that trend of increase to continue, given that it appears to represent a response to a single disaster,” the USDA said.

Are you a new food stamp user? If you’re interested in sharing your story about how you get by on food stamps and budget your costs, e-mail blake.ellis@turner.com for the chance to be included in an upcoming story on CNNMoney.com. 

First Published: August 4, 2011: 12:21 PM ET

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/pf/food_stamps_record_high/index.htm?iid=HP_River

Gingrich: Obama “Most Effective Food Stamp President In History”

GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reacts to the news that the number of those who use food stamps has jumped to 45,800,000 or nearly 15% of the nation’s population.

“You don’t get out of 9.2% unemployment, you don’t get out of — today it was announced [that] the largest number of Americans [are] on food stamps in history. I’ve said now for six months, this is the most effective food stamp President in history. That sounds like it is an attack, it’s just a statement of fact. It’s just that his administration kills jobs. They are driving Americans onto food stamps. Most Americans would rather have a paycheck,” Gingrich told FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren in an interview on Thursday night.

Gingrich says Obama’s upcoming Midwest bus tour is a “fantasy tour.”

http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/05/gingrich_obama_most_effective_food_stamp_president_in_history.html

 

 

 

 

Another Black Mob … Wisconsin State Fair

Wonder what they would do if everyone started carrying guns and use them, nevermind, people are too stupid and liberal to protect themselves.

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State Patrol called in, youth policy imposed after violence at State Fair

By Don Walker and Mike Johnson of the Journal Sentinel

Updated: Aug. 5, 2011 2:58 p.m.

Gov. Scott Walker has ordered the Wisconsin State Patrol to provide additional law enforcement help at the Wisconsin State Fair after several incidents involving rampaging youths broke out on the fairgrounds and on the streets outside Thursday nig

Cullen Werwie, Walker’s spokesman, said the governor made the decision after reviewing the events from Thursday night, in which at least 24 people were arrested.

“We will continue to evaluate the situation and make any adjustments necessary to ensure a successful and safe event. We will be doing everything in our power to ensure that parents feel that it is safe to bring their children to the world’s best fair,” Werwie said in a statement.

Also, Rick Frenette, CEO of the fair, announced that, because of the violence overnight, the fair would immediately implement a policy in which no youths under 18 years of age would be allowed onto the grounds after 5 p.m. without a parent or guardian who is at least 21 years of age. There will be no changes at the Midway.  (What good is that going to do, these teenage thugs will just go in with a homey aged 21 as their guardian.)

Frenette, a veteran of 40 years in the fair management business, said he had never implemented such a policy before. The International Association of Fairs and Expositions said there is only one other fair in the country — the South Carolina State Fair — that has such a policy.

On Friday afternoon, Mayor Tom Barrett announced an increase in police presence at community events planned for the week. He said there would be no tolerance for violence at festivals and that perpetrators will be prosecuted — regardless of race.

“Two years ago I was a victim of a random attack at State Fair… last night’s events took place at State Fair that I don’t believe are random,” he said at a City Hall news conference.

Barrett didn’t indicate if he believed the events were racially charged.

Barrett said this weekend is of special importance because of the Historic Third Association Jazz festival, the African World Festival and the Milwaukee Comedy Festival in addition to the fair. He said police presence will be increased at all events.

Alds. Bob Donovan and Joe Dudzik issued a joint statement in reaction to the violence: “Let’s face it, it also has much to do with a deteriorating African American culture in our city. Are large groups of Hispanics or Hmong going out in large mobs and viciously attacking whites? No.”

On Friday, police from three jurisdictions – West Allis, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair – were piecing together a series of incidents late Thursday night at the fair in which large groups of youths rampaged through the midway and outside the grounds after closing. At least 24 were arrested, and seven officers were hurt, a State Fair official said.

Tom Struebing, chief of the State Fair Police, said two of the seven injured officers were hospitalized. One was hit in the face with an improvised weapon; the other suffered a concussion.

Struebing said the fights that broke out in the midway area involved black youths fighting other black youths. He said those fights were not racially motivated.

The incidents at the fair also caused confusion among police agencies. Anne E. Schwartz, the Milwaukee police spokeswoman, said West Allis police did not request mutual aid from the Milwaukee Police Department.

Schwartz said Milwaukee police responded to four incidents connected to the fair incidents, but those came from citizens calling police directly. She said one person was arrested by Milwaukee police on a warrant.

Officials could not say what started what witnesses said was a series of racially charged incidents that apparently began as early as 7 p.m. in the midway. The midway is located just east of the Pettit National Ice Center and adjacent to the Hank Aaron State Trail.

Milwaukee police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair as the fair was closing down. The fair closes at 11 p.m.

A State Fair official said most of those arrested were cited for disorderly conduct.

Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn scheduled a news conference later Friday afternoon to discuss the incidents and his department’s involvement. He is expected to be joined by officials of the NAACP and the Historic Third Ward Association, which is sponsoring Saturday’s Historic Third Ward Jazz Festival.

Common Council President Willie Hines said he was at the fair Thursday night and witnessed black on black crime, but did not see any blacks attack whites.

He said that if there was, those individuals should be charged with the crime as well as a hate crime.

“They should be penalized for the prime incident and we should have a racial enhancer,” Hines said.

Hines said State Fair Police acted appropriately and professionally. “They were working hard to control the chaos,” Hines said.

He said there may have been some coordination problems with other police departments outside the grounds of the fair.

Witnesses report attacks

Witnesses told WTMJ-AM (620) that dozens to hundreds of young black people were beating white people as they left the fair late Thursday night. Patrice Harris, a spokeswoman for the fair, said a police alert she was given indicated four people were hurt.

“It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people,” Norb Roffers of Wind Lake told WTMJ. He said he left the State Fair entrance near the corner of S. 84th St. and W. Schlinger Ave. in West Allis.

One eyewitness, a concession worker who works near the midway area, told the Journal Sentinel that large groups of African-American youths ran through the midway area, knocking over young children and adults, disrupting midway rides and tearing signs up.

“I have never seen anything like it,” the worker said. “It was mob mentality.”

The concession worker said the incidents began at 7 p.m. “All of a sudden a wave of kids were running through the midway,” he said.

The worker said there was police, including officers on horseback, as well as other security, but it was not enough.

“All of a sudden we were hearing whistles,” the worker said.

A 34-year-old Muskego man said he was riding on the Ferris wheel in the midway with one of his children when he heard shouts of “fight.”

“The trouble really started somewhere between 7 and 8 p.m.,” said the man, who did not want to be identified because he was worried about the safety of his family. “We just heard this roar start. It was almost like you’re at a football game and a touchdown is scored and you just hear the crowd start roaring.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. There were hundreds – like 200 to 300 would be my guess. It wasn’t like 10 or 20. There was definitely a fight going on in the middle. There were so many people you couldn’t see who was fighting. There was just this big group that kept growing and chanting, ‘fight, fight, fight.’ ”

“That lasted for one to two minutes. Then when security showed up blowing some whistles, all of this mob started running. It was like a herd of cattle,” he said.

The man described the crowd gathered around the fight as African-American, predominantly male and mainly 15- to 20-year-olds.

Fights break out

Another eyewitness, a Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin worker who was with his wife, a daughter, a friend of his daughter’s, a brother and a sister-in-law, said they arrived at the midway at 9:15 p.m.

At about 9:40 p.m., he said he saw the first of two fights break out.

“I couldn’t see who was fighting but there was an incredible mob mentality,” he said. The eyewitness estimated the mob at between 30 to 50 black youths.

“We felt threatened. Without a doubt,” the eyewitness said.

He said a game-booth operator allowed his group to seek shelter in the booth while fights broke out.

“Fortunately, the police on horses arrived quite quickly,” the eyewitness said.

The eyewitness said he was the recipient of several racially charged comments from the black youths. At one point, he said, he approached a security guard and told him he had better get more security to the scene. He said he told the security officer that “trouble was brewing.”

“The scariest part is that we were trapped between the midway and the exits by the mob, we had no way out. It was very frightening,” the hospital worker said. “It was glaringly obvious something was going to happen long before it did,” the hospital worker said.

One woman, a Marquette University employee, had left the fair with a friend. She said they had just turned onto S. 84th St., across the street from the fair and were headed north toward I-94 when they saw young black youths running between cars on the street.

“Then groups of kids began surging, all running at cars,” she said. “Some kids ran up on the hood of the car in front of us, bounced on it and jumped off. That guy looked like he got out of the car. When he came back his face was bloody.”

She said she wasn’t sure if the man was able to get medical attention. “I saw somebody in the car with cellphones, probably calling police.”

“It was scary and it was confusing,” she added. “We didn’t know what was happening. We didn’t see any law enforcement officer.”

She said she and her friend were concerned that somebody would try to break into their car. “There were so many people coming at you. Yes, it was scary.”

Another woman said she and her boyfriend were leaving the fair on a motorcycle about 11:30 p.m. Thursday when she saw a “mob of black teens picking on a very tall white teen” around S. 84th St. and W. Greenfield Ave.

“I stated to my boyfriend that there is going to be problems over there and I hope the cops are watching this and within seconds I saw the white teen attempting to punch his way out of a circle of black teens,” the woman said in an e-mail to the newspaper. “My heart just fell for him. As we turned, I saw security at the entrance to the State Fair and I yelled get over there! They are beating up a kid! We turned, as we went toward the expressway we then had to witness the police involved in multiple stops and incidents down 84th.”

Harris said Friday that police officers were involved in breaking up numerous fights at the midway. She could not immediately provide a number, but said a number of arrests were made. Most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct.

“Throughout the night we had fights, but that’s not atypical,” Harris said.

Rick Pries of Milwaukee had spent the entire day at the fair with a friend and her two grandchildren.

“We were in the midway and it was very crowded. While the kids were waiting in line I noticed large groups of black males running through the very crowded midway, yelling there was a fight,” Pries said. “There were several of these large groups all converging to this location.”

Pries said he decided to take the two children he was watching out of a line they were waiting in and leave the fair.

“There was very little security,” he said. “And the few that were there would have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of troublemakers,” Pries said.

The concession worker said he was not personally hassled, but he was concerned the youths would attempt to take his cash register. He closed his concession stand early for safety reasons.

“I was planning to take my kids to the fair tonight,” he said Friday morning. “I definitely won’t now.”

The Wisconsin State Fair is located in different jurisdictions. The north side of the fairgrounds from the Hank Aaron State Trail north is in the city of Milwaukee. The rest of the fair is in West Allis. Adding to the confusion is that the Wisconsin State Fair Park police has jurisdiction only on the fairgrounds, not outside of it.

Similar disturbances

The fair incidents are similar to mob-like disturbances that occurred over the Fourth of July weekend in Milwaukee.

About 60 young people beat and robbed a smaller group that had been watching fireworks from Kilbourn Reservoir Park. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said.

Another group looted a convenience store at a gas station at the corner E. North Ave. and N. Humboldt Blvd.

The incidents Thursday night come as the State Fair board over the last decade has worked to increase diversity at the annual fair, expanding its entertainment lineup and marketing to appeal to a younger, more multicultural audience. Diversity was a priority for State Fair Park Chairman Martin Greenberg, who spoke often of making it “truly the people’s park” – a “place of inclusion, not exclusion.”

Thursday night’s Main Stage performer was rapper MC Hammer, but a number of people who attended the concert said the show wasn’t to blame at all for the disturbances at the fair. One woman said the crowd watching Hammer was mostly white and adult and any children there seemed to be with parents.

Another woman said the concert was “very laid back and had no craziness that we witnessed at all. The craziness was in the midway,” she said.

Journal Sentinel staff writers Rustin Fakheri, Breann Schossow and Annysa Johnson contributed to this report.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/126828998.html

Philadelphia College Professor Killed Himself During Class, Police Say

2:11 PM 8/5/2011
Philadelphia College Professor Killed Himself During Class, Police Say

Published August 05, 2011

PHILADELPHIA — Police say a Philadelphia college professor killed himself by diving over a second-floor railing inside a campus building during class.

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that the instructor was Rudolf Alexandrov, an adjunct professor who taught math at Chestnut Hill College.

The newspaper says the 71-year-old professor walked out of his class Wednesday, returned briefly, yelled and then ran to a second-floor railing outside the classroom. Police say campus security was summoned and Alexandrov dived over the railing and hit the floor, some 20 to 30 feet below.

Lt. Robert Zaffino, a Philadelphia detective, says Alexandrov had had a history of depression and had been having suicidal thoughts.

The private four-year college canceled classes and made counselors available to students and others.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/05/college-professor-kills-himself-during-class/#ixzz1UBBKZcv8

 

Judge Perry calls Casey Anthony case a “legal maze”

Florida Judge Defers Ruling in Casey Anthony Case

Published August 05, 2011

| Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla –  A judge deciding whether Casey Anthony has to return to Florida to serve probation for check fraud ended a hearing Friday without a ruling, calling the case “a mess.”

“The best I can say is this is a legal maze,” Judge Belvin Perry said.

A court spokeswoman said Perry likely would issue a ruling next week. Anthony didn’t attend the hearing, which involves a case separate from her high-profile murder trial that ended with her acquittal last month.

Anthony has disappeared from the public eye since a jury found her not guilty in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, and she was released from the Orange County Jail. Her lawyers have not disclosed her location except to say she was out of state earlier this week.

Another judge sentenced her in January 2010 to one year of probation after she pleaded guilty to using checks stolen from a friend. Judge Stan Strickland said during that sentencing hearing that Anthony should serve the probation upon her release from prison or jail. But those instructions never made it into a written order and corrections officials interpreted the sentence to mean Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail awaiting her murder trial.

Strickland issued an amended order earlier this week, clarifying that Anthony needs to start serving probation now that she is out of jail.

Perry said he has to consider whether he has jurisdiction to correct “a scrivener’s error,” or the mistake that was made when Strickland’s oral instructions were omitted from the written order.

“So far, I have not been able to find anything that has dealt with this particular situation … anywhere,” Perry said. “This is a legal morass. If anything could go wrong, it went wrong here.”

Anthony’s attorneys argued at the hearing that Anthony already has served the probation and to do so again would be double jeopardy. They also argued that Strickland didn’t have jurisdiction over the case anymore and that his original sentencing order could not be corrected more than 60 days after it was issued. A probation supervisor testified by telephone that Anthony completed her probation in jail without any problems.

“She has completed and already served the sentence,” said defense attorney Lisabeth Fryer. “This is done. This is over.”

Prosecutor Frank George told Perry that the judge has the power to amend the probation order and that there would be no double jeopardy if he did so.

“It would be a jeopardy issue if modification had a punitive effect,” George said. “Judge Strickland isn’t adding any sentence. He is merely correcting a scrivener’s error.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/05/fla-judge-defers-ruling-in-casey-anthony-case/#ixzz1UB9sWGDM