I'll have another

 
Imagine you walk downstairs in the middle of the night to take a leak and a complete stranger is sleeping on your couch...


NEWSTEAD — State police said they arrested a Grand Island man early Sunday after he accidentally walked into the wrong house and flopped onto the couch for a snooze.


Lee A. Schuster, 20, was charged with criminal trespass after troopers were called to a home on North Millgrove Road at 4:30 a.m.


The homeowners said they called police after finding Schuster, whom they did not know, asleep on their couch and were unable to wake him, police said.


According to troopers, Schuster was "highly intoxicated" and told police he somehow thought he had walked into a friend's home on Grand Island, which is more than 25 miles from Newstead.


With everyone and their brother in Newstead owning a gun, this guy's lucky he didn't end up as somebody's farm fertilizer.
Drunken man falls asleep in wrong house

It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it, listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive...

Charity begins in DA's office

It looks like another entitled Niagara County resident got away with a drinking and driving offense. The nephew of District Attorney Michael Violente was allowed to take a plea without having to surrender his driver's license...

State troopers responded to the crash and charged Timothy L. Violante with driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit for intoxication.

The younger Violante was never convicted of any alcohol-related offense. Instead, less than three weeks after the crash, he was allowed to plead guilty in Lewiston Town Court to driving at a speed not reasonably prudent and disobeying a traffic device.

The thing that bothers me is not the fact that two spoiled brats got off unpunished. (The daughter of a North Tonawanda Alderwoman was the other.)Whenever you go to traffic court for speeding or not having your car inspected properly, these same judges and DA's talk to you like you're a third grader. And they describe how sacred they hold the law. Then, we hear stories like this...

Persinger, the arresting officer, reported that Violante, then 22 and of Porter, appeared to be impaired by alcohol when they arrived. He wrote in a DWI deposition that Violante "was insistent with me about not having anything to drink."

After Timothy Violante "was swaying" during a field sobriety test, missed his nose with his finger four times and aborted an effort to recite the alphabet at the letter "I," he acknowledged that he "had a few drinks and that he is probably over the legal limit," Persinger wrote.

If that was a relative of you or I, the same judge would scold them at their hearing and lecture them on the dangers of DWI. I'd like to hear MADD's take on this story. Remember, residents of Niagara County. Michael Violente works for you. It is you that decides whether or not this is the type of government you want.

Plea deal by Niagara DA's nephew is source of questions in DWI case - Niagara County - The Buffalo N

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Murder defendant rips judge in Niagara County

If you're a defendant in a murder trial, it's probably not a good idea to rip the judge right before sentencing. 19 year old Anthony Allen, convicted of murdering 24 year old group home worker Renee Greco, did just that against the advice of his attorneys...

"Your actions are worse than most of the people who you sentence in this courtroom on a regular basis. You made the changes that you did so that you could have the satisfaction to sentence an innocent man to 25 years to life on television. But it doesn't matter to you whether I'm guilty or not as long as you get the privilege to be heard and seen. You disgrace the title "honorable" and you don't deserve to have it in front of your name," said Allen.

Judge Sperrazza responded by sentencing him to 25-years to life.

The young man is actually a very articulate speaker, which makes it sad that he chose the path he did in life. He and another defendant murdered Greco in cold blood to cover up a $160 theft. I still find it hard to believe that the agency left Greco alone to supervise violent criminals...

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