Mishka Zena

I served on the jury for Mr. Bahl’s trial last week.  As you may guess from my entry to this blog, it was a moving experience for me. 
I have no doubt in our guilty verdict of Obstructing Legal Process.  We deliberated for 2 days, so certainly we did not treat this case lightly.  In the […]

From Doug:
 
I was found NOT guilty of obstructing legal process with force. The jury didn’t find that I forcibly resisted arrest and it didn’t find that I bit or hit the officer.
Now I am convicted for my speech - - requesting to write instead of lipreading.
I requested that the officer communicate in writing because I […]

Remember Chris Lambert?  He’s the deaf ex-boyfriend arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of Tallie Antolin (her body was stored at a balcony outside her apartment for four days in the sweltering heat in North Carolina).
 
This horrendous murder took place in May of 2004. To this day, his trial has yet to begin.
 
Daphne Wright killed and dismembered an […]

State attorney general sues PCC
Skills of interpreters are questioned in aiding hearing-impaired student
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.28.2006
PHOENIX — The state Attorney General’s Office is suing Pima Community College, charging it didn’t provide the help a hearing-impaired student needed.
Legal papers filed in Maricopa County Superior Court say the college did provide […]

Ricky shared with us his experience being interviewed by a prospective employer at Community Center for the Deaf and hard of Hearing (CCDHH) in Richmond:
“You will get the voice mails and recording machines from hearing individuals, how do you plan to retrieve it?”I answered that this building (where the CCDHH is affilitated with Commonwealth Catholic Charities […]