[PRCo] Fighting Crime On PATransit

[Herb Brannon]

Phillip,
You had mentioned earlier how the newspapers used to print the addresses of
everyone involved in any given news story.

Note that by 1973 the Press listed only the "general" addresses of the "bad
guys" by indicating the block number of the street they lived on. The
reporter made no reference to my address at all.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> He was a "public defender". He thought he had a quick ticket to spring
> those two little "tarts" by making me sound guilty of something.
>
> It was kind of a surreal moment in the courtroom when he asked the
> question of me. The whole room, which was packed to standing room only,
> became silent and I could tell "all ears" were waiting for my answer. I
> just had to go with the moment with a little (just a little, NON-overt)
> drama. So I looked the defense attorney in the eye as he asked the question
> (with a little smirk on his face I might add), "how did you know it was
> marijuana?" Then I looked, just for a second, at the PATransit attorney,
> then at the City Attorney.  The silence in the room was to be believed and
> "my moment" had arrived. I then said, "I knew it was marijuana because,
> before moving to Pittsburgh, I was a police officer for the City of Akron,
> Ohio and drug identification was thoroughly taught to all officers in the
> Akron Police Academy." This was not the answer the defense wanted to hear.
> He threw up his arms into the air and had a look of defeat on his face. His
> smirk was definitely gone. The courtroom (packed to the gills like all
> big-city arraignment courts) burst into Ohs, ahs and laughter.
>
> Smoke your weed at home, not on my bus !!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Some attorney did not do his homework did he?
>>
>> This must have been a very short and quick trial.
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 1/21/13, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>> Subject: [PRCo] Fighting Crime On PATransit
>> To: "Pittsburgh Railways Group" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>> Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 11:19 AM
>>
>> As long as we're reading Pittsburgh newspapers, check out this
>> article..................
>>
>> Fighting Crime On
>> PATransit<
>> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BwkcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AlUEAAAAIBAJ&dq=herbert%20brannon&pg=4960%2C1058694
>> >
>>
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>> Herb Brannon
>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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