MyPain in the Ass
A substitute judge lost his position with the North Las Vegas Justice Court last week because of hostile comments aimed at prosecutors on his MySpace page.
Among the personal interests listed by Jonathan MacArthur, a 34-year-old criminal defense attorney, was: “Breaking my foot off in a prosecutor’s ass … and improving my ability to break my foot off in a prosecutor’s ass.”
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[Prosecutors] also reeled at MacArthur’s definition of a substitute judge.
“What’s a pro-tem?” MacArthur wrote. “Imagine a substitute teacher with a black choir robe and a disconcerting amount of authority.”
MacArthur said that, as a defense attorney, he often feels that some prosecutors, especially during negotiations, “act like the world revolves around them and their job is not to do justice but to make sure the defendant suffers as much as possible.”
Those are the type of prosecutors MacArthur said he likes to “break my foot off in.”
But he emphasized the statement referred only to his job as a defense attorney in a process that is designed to be adversarial.
“Breaking your foot off in someone’s ass means to soundly defeat somebody or to overwhelm someone with enthusiasm or competence,” MacArthur said.
It’s most often used “among blacks, people who associate with blacks or in a sports context,” MacArthur said.
His parents should really keep a better eye on his Internet usage.