Covington, KY —A federal court jury just awarded former Cincinnati Bengal’s cheerleader, Sarah Jones $338,000 over anonymous third-party comments posted to a Scottsdale based website, thedirty.com . The site operator, Nik Richie took a well-deserved litigation beating when he did not screen or delete the nasty comments.   The posts defamed the woman with malicious and unfounded allegations of sexual activities with the entire football team. Richie’s unsuccessful defense was to suggest that Jones should have take the unknown third part posters to court instead of him.   Bloggers everywhere have been watching his case.   Jones had a rather sticky brush with the law related to a sexual relationship with an underage student when she was a teacher.   Reportedly Jones is still in a relationship lad who is now 18 and plans to marry him.   Often people post allegations about others that I cannot or won’t try and verify.   Some are true...

Drew Peterson    Photo by Paul Huebl Joliet, IL —A jury convicted retired Bolingbrook police sergeant Drew Peterson of murder yesterday.   Peterson very publicly proclaimed his innocence and in the process became an absolute public pariah.   The media he used to assert his innocence redundantly exposed Peterson’s troubled marriages with much younger women.  The self-generated publicity backfired. Police and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to take action against Peterson under existing law.   There was no way to proceed with a prosecution. Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow quickly lobbied a special legislative bill that would retroactively allow him to use normally outlawed hearsay testimony as evidence in court.  Additionally, it was a special law that was designed and promulgated just for the prosecution of him and was given the popular moniker of The Drew Peterson Law . The Constitution provides thre...