"And ye shall know the Truth,..."

"... and the Truth shall make you free." John 8.32




Update: Guess what, folks? God spoke to me last night. And He said: "Jiiiiiiim! Chinchillllla Jiiiiiiiim! Make screen caps of the "Harlow's My Friend" blog."

And I said: "But why, Lord?"

And He said: "Ha ha, you'll see! This is gonna be a laugh riot..."

And sure enough...God was right! I got the whole blog he just tried to delete, preserved here on SOTC for all eternity. God was a day ahead of preacher George, LOL:

New Brent Interview

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Barry Taylor in the News (Again)

As if the recently published jailhouse confessions of Joe Kerekes weren't problems enough for Mr. Taylor; he is also still facing contempt charges over a document altering incident.

While the article here states correctly states that his conviction was overturned, Mr. Taylor is not out of hot water. He won appeal on the rather technical grounds that he should have had a lawyer present when the summary contempt citation was handed down, so, the matter will now be re-tried in Circuit Court.

Appeals court overturns convictions of Virginia Beach attorneys
By Duane Bourne
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 3, 2008
The state Court of Appeals has tossed out the convictions of two attorneys and their law clerk who were jailed in Virginia Beach more than a year ago for allegedly trying to enter fake and offensive documents into the record.

Judge Larry Elder wrote that defense attorneys Claude Scialdone and Barry Taylor and law student Edward Jones were denied their right to obtain counsel or prepare a defense. In July 2006, Circuit Judge Patricia West found all three in contempt of court during the trial of Frankie Dulyea, who was convicted of trying to entice a minor to send sexually explicit material over the Internet.

The case now will be heard in Circuit Court.

During the trial, Scialdone tried to admit into evidence a document about the age-limit rules for an online chatroom in effect at the time Dulyea conversed with an undercover detective. West contended that the computer printout was fraudulent because the copyright and date information appeared to be removed. Scialdone and Taylor denied altering the document, saying the mistake amounted more to negligence than contempt.

West then questioned a screen name with the words “West is a Nazi” on a copy of another document. Jones said he chose the screen name “westisanazi” as a joke because “I was upset about some of the rulings, and I thought it was unfair to the client,” according to court records.

All three men were sentenced to 10 days in jail and ordered to pay fines.

A .pdf of this April 29 decision can be found here, Barry R. Taylor v. Commonwealth of Virginia (case #1738061).

Bantering On About Plea Deals

"KEREKES stated; “...I’ll get out in five years and make tons of money off of this”. RODDEN hypothesized that KEREKES was going to testify against CUADRA and, “get a deal”...RODDEN further hypothesized that KEREKES “probably put the kid (CUADRA) up to it, and now he’s gonna try to hang him out to dry."

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"...it was apparent that KEREKES was attempting to make CUADRA appear to be more criminally culpable in this case to “take the fall” if someone was going to."


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"...KEREKES kept saying, “him (KEREKES) and the other guy killed the guy in Pennsylvania.” KEREKES also said he was turning States evidence against the other Dude."

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Another Important Announcement From Angel Skye

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Clarification...

Whether or not I authorize an interview does not mean it is not legit. I have verified and the interview with Mr Pam on that blog is 100% legit. The pictures are pics I did not even have until the people behind that blog got them from Mr Pam herself. I do not get involved in the war you guys have, but out of respect to that publisher of the LTBT blog I have to clarify that he DID in fact get an exclusive interview and behind the scenes pics from mr pam that is all I will say about that so please people keep things civilized!

Posted by ***Confessions and Retaliations*** at 5:24 PM

This should have a similar impact on certain credibility perceptions as the last important announcement from Angel Skye posted here a ways back.

Happy Arrest Day 2008!

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Words Fail Me

I've like, written, edited, re-edited, scrapped, re-written, re-re-written...and I'm still almost speechless.

Bud, we'll miss ya!

As a consequence of my reclusiveness, I don't think I knew you as well as most of the other bloggers here; I only knew you through your postings online. But from what I did know, I'll always remember your passion. And be inspired by it.

Jim

Update: Because we were all pretty shaken up by the events of this weekend, I think I will push back the day for nominations on all the contests until May 13. Then Voting will begin.

Essay Contest: "Where Were You On 5/15?"

This is the essay contest, and since it is in honor of the approaching day of celebration, I guess we'll stick with the theme I originally suggested: Where were you on 5/15?

I'll give you my own mini essay right here. When I awoke on May 15, 2007, I was in a relatively glum mood. This was part of a prolonged spell of glumness, stemming back to the beginning of May and the first blog posts (with pictures) of Harlow and Brent romping together on Black's Beach.

Well, they weren't exactly "romping." In fact, in the blog comment storm following the Black's Beach visit, the one thing almost everyone agreed on was that Brent looked uncomfortable in those pictures. The dark glasses, wan smiles...Brent looked like he wanted to romp AWAY from Harlow at the soonest possible opportunity. Many bloggers from all the various "camps," from Cad to me, noted this.

But despite this glimmering that something here might be amiss...these photos when they came out plunged me into despair. Again, backing up in time to explain things: For MONTHS prior to this, ever since the murder and the revelation of the Drake/Harlow connection, I was one of a VERY small band of stalwarts that had been saying all along that Harlow was the murderer. It's hard to imagine this now, but before Arrest Day this was a VERY VERY minority opinion. The leading theories were that 1) Grant and/or Brent did it; 2) Aaron aka Robert Wagner did it 3) "bb" did it (LOL, ok, only one person thought this); 4) the "15 y/o" did this; 5) a random Brent fan did this; 6) Luzerne County did this, etc etc etc. All of these dominent theories had a common thread: poor innocent little Harlow being framed.

So, back then, whenever I tried to point out that based on what we know, it was near impossible for Harlow to have been framed, therefore, he must be the murderer (ie, Occam's Razor), I would get passionately drowned out by the majority opiners enumerated above.

So, Blacks Beach Day, yeah, that was a dark day for us Harlow-did-it stalwarts. I personally was stunned; I could not believe Brent and Grant were so stupid as to give a murderering thug a photo op like this. Did they not realize the obvious, as I did? OR PERHAPS...they knew he was a murderer, because they were all in it together? But, if that were the case...this was not only a stupid move on their part, it was a STUPENDOUSLY stupid move. It made them all look guilty! The whole thing...it was incomprehensible to me back then.

But the most depressing aspect of it all was (from my point of view) was that it indicated that the police APPARANTLY no longer had interest in Harlow and Joe as a suspect. How else could one explain Brent and Grant and Harlow and Joe's fearless decision to associate with one another so openly like this? I was crestfallen.

So, after two weeks of brooding in the aftermath of this...you all can now imagine my mood when I awoke on 5/15 of last year.

I had been thinking the past two weeks about just stepping away from all the blogs about this case, cold turkey. "What was the point?" I thought. So when I got up that day, I did not even bother to check in with Jason Curious or Elm (the two main sources for Kocis case chinwagging back then). I recall that I feared that I might read a "Mark@www.boisrus.com" post, and I simply did not want to go into work with the mild nausea such posts inflicted on me back then.

I go to work. It's a busy day, and I'm working on a big project, which at the time help take my mind off of all things Kocis. During my lunch break, I think to myself, do I really want to distract myself, checking in with the blogs? Naw. In fact, maybe this'll be the day I decide to simply quit them cold turkey? Naw...not today. I'll check in later. Maybe...

I throw myself back into my work. Theraputically distracting work! Late in the afternoon, I decide to take a break. Hmmm, maybe I'll take a quick 5 second peek at Elm blog, see if he's still whining about people not taking his stupid "Should Brent and Harlow film together?" poll...yeah a quick peek could do no harm...

I have been told by my coworkers that I let out a bloodcurdling shriek at this point. Honestly, I do not recall this. So, you'll have to take their word on this, not mine.

What I do recall is reading comment after comment after comment...with my glee increasing moment after moment after moment. I recall many of the comments saying "gee, where is jim?" and "yeah, I wonder why jim is not commenting on this" and such...LOL!

UNFORTUNATELY that work project which was a few moments ago so theraputic was now a roadblock. And it was calling me back...so I could only participate lightly in the discussion at this point. I dashed off a quick post, informing my fans that "I'm coming, don't worry, gloatfest on the way...!" or some such, and then went into a meeting.

I go to this meeting. People are saying stuff. I nod my head occasionally, when people say things to me. All my mental efforts are directed towards bottling up the pent up TEARS OF JOY from bursting out of my head!

I went home. I blogged. I saw many congratulatory comments directed to me. Sweet!

And that was my 5/15 story!

Nominations close on the 12th, then voting, winners announced on the 15th. The GLORIOUS 15th of May!

Update: Because we were all pretty shaken up by the events of this weekend, I think I will push back the day for nominations on all the contests until May 13. Then Voting will begin.

Poetry Contest

In this thread we choose
the blogger here whose
poetical muse
on Kocisphere news
preem'nence accrues.

What you got to lose?

Nominations open until May 12, then winners chosen by poll closing on the 15th.

Good luck!

Update: Because we were all pretty shaken up by the events of this weekend, I think I will push back the day for nominations on all the contests until May 13. Then Voting will begin.

Most Embarrassing Pre-Arrest Quote Contest

OK guys, here's the Quote contest. Place your nominees for the most hysterically funny, embarrassing-in-hindsight, and/or ironic pre-5/15 quote here. Both original blog posts or comments are eligible.

And to make this contest actually interesting...quotes from the blogger whose real name is Kent Barclay are not eligible. That goes for his major alias, as well as his numerous minor ones as well.

It actually pains me to do this. But the problem is, if I allow Kent quotes in...he will literally own this contest. I mean, seriously folks, how can any other quote compare with this:

"May 14, 2007...Harlow is the SUCCESSFUL version of Brent Corrigan...Tonight, an overview and analysis of Cuadra with comparison to the career of BRENT CORRIGAN to date."

Fast foward 24 hours to May 15, and now...it's comparison time! Harlow: IN JAIL. Brent: NOT in jail. LOL! x 1,000,000,000,000,000....

Lets face it folks, THIS quote, if I were to allow it in, would be the 800 lb gorilla in the contest. It could not possibly lose, making this whole contest a bit of a snoozer.

And the problem is compounded by the fact that Kent said SO many stupid things prior to the arrest, that not only would the above take the gold, but other quotes by him would easily take the silver and the bronze (and the copper and the iron and the lead...) as well.

So, in the interests of actually having an interesting competition here, I am going to simply have to exclude Kent entries entirely.

Like I said, I do feel kinda bad about this, really. Excluding the best and brightest from a contest, even with the best of motives...I see and feel the fundamental unfairness in this, yes. Perhaps we can create some sort of Limetime Achievement for Idiotic Kocis Blogging award, and bestow it upon him on Arrest Day to partly make up for this.

Anyways, with that said and done...on to the nominations! Send them via comment to the thread; include the actual quote, the screenname of who posted it and (if possible) a link to it. We'll close nominations on May 12, and then I'll set up a poll to determine the winner, which will be announced of course on May 15.

If there are any questions (or comments on the nominees), post them over on the Party Planning thread, so the nominations here will be easier to read and compare.

Good luck everyone!

Update: Because we were all pretty shaken up by the events of this weekend, I think I will push back the day for nominations on all the contests until May 13. Then Voting will begin.

"Arrest Day" Party Planning Thread!

Well gang, it's May 1, which means it is exactly 2 weeks until the one year anniversary of that most glorious day...Arrest Day! May 15...the day when cops in Virginia Beach swarmed around Harlow and Joe, and slammed their faces onto the hood of "Old [edit: Black, aka the Beemer]!"

Oh gawd...just imagining the scene is causing shivers of ecstacy to run up and down my spine! Oooooooohhh! Awwwwwwwwww!

Anyways, we need to plan some very special activities for this blog on that day...and I am open to suggestions. Let this comment thread be the "party planning committee" for Arrest Day 2008. Any ideas you might have for honoring this upcoming sacred and wonderous day, post them here please!

Things off the top of my head: An essay contest (ie, "Where Were You on 5/15"), a trivia contest, a "most hysterically ironic pre-arrest comment by a blogger" contest (oh lordy, SO many worthy candidates!), and/or a poetry contest (Rob may enjoy this).

So lets shoot those festivities ideas in people; come May 15, on this blog we are gonna party like it's 1999! Wooo!

Update: Angela, the honorary chairperson of our Party Planning Committee (PPC):

Update 2: The Sword checks in with us, quoting this very post. I think I'll resist the urge to go on a multi-page, multi-colored rant about how this prooves me legimate and relevant (thus in reality showing me to be pathologically insecure, as well as illegitimate and irrelevant). Instead, I think I'll just say "thanks!" to The Sword (a favorite of mine).

Update 3: Because we were all pretty shaken up by the events of this weekend, I think I will push back the day for nominations on all the contests until May 13. Then Voting will begin.