50,000 Volts Can’t Be Wrong

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

A Niagara County, New York, judge ruled here that when the police ask you nicely for a DNA cheek swab, you better open up your mouth and say “Ahhhh,” or you’ve got an awful shock coming.

When a prisoner said instead, “No way,” police zapped him with a 50,000-volt stun gun for encouragement. Judge Sara Sperrazza said that’s okay. She’s the only judge in the country who’s said that, but it must have likewise brought some encouragement to former VP Dick Cheney, who doesn’t understand why more people don’t climb on the torture bandwagon he’s worked so hard to put together.