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Should the Delaware DOC consider the Monty Python "it's resting" defense?

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from Delaware, headlined "Lawsuit begins with end of parrot: Inmates' rights questioned after man not allowed to make call," was just made for blogging. As detailed below, the story has a serious side (even though it also demands spending time watching this classic comedy video): The death of Freddy the parrot could be debated in federal courts. It also could raise questions about the right of the accused to get "one phone call" after being arrested. Thomas Goodrich charges in a lawsuit he filed this month that he never got that call, causing his expensive and beloved blue and gold macaw to starve to death.  Goodrich alleges he was held on a misdemeanor warrant in Young Correctional Institution for 12 days, unable to get word out to anyone to help him post bail or get food to his pet parrots...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).