I wish those things were true. Common law is case law. And William THORNTON was a let-down. He spent a weekend trying to import California policy to Colorado which are two very different beasts since California became a state before the War Between the States. I sat with him for lunch and discovered his origins with Richard MacDONALD and Sri David Conrad ROBERTS, which is a book in itself. Mostly though, as he was giving his Bicycle Helmet case for an example of his methods, I realized that it was going for ten years without results! I mentioned that and the whole seminar really took on a different flavor.
The fellow promoting William, who made arrangements was coming out to Black Forest Sunday morning and was stopped. He tried a direct Refusal for Cause, where you just write it on the Uniform Summons, Complaint and Penalty Assessment and it worked so well, the officer made him surrender his copy and wrote a new one! That is pretty revealing. When the officer presented the second one he walked slowly up to the minivan and lunged forward, stuffed it in the window and ran back to his car! Unbelievable! Well, this confused the suitor to throw the presentment back out of the window. I suppose it would be a bit disconcerting.
The cop was back in his car so the suitor left. He was captured by about six cars from two counties, maybe eight LEOs with guns trained on him. I left the seminar early to go bail him out. He got his bail back with no hearings after I drew up this Order and Decree. It was a strange Refusal for Cause though, because of the unusual arrest and I suppose the cop wanted nothing to do with it actually - it was such a clerical mess!
That was an interesting ride though; while it lasted. Memories! I remember when that is what I thought though.
Regards,
David Merrill.