Jonathan MacArthur's MySpace Page Used as an Excuse to Fire the African-American Criminal Defense Attorney and Pro tem Judge
by Paula Neal Mooney Pro tem Judge Jonathan MacArthur has been recused (boy, I'm learning a lot of legalese) from his position purportedly because of his MySpace page . Jonathan MacArthur's MySpace page has been set to private, but here's the lowdown: The controversial " Breaking my foot off in a prosecutor's ass... " comments at the crux of getting Jonathan MacArthur dooced actually lead to a post created on Friday, June 15, 2007, titled "The Ballad of Jamal Verde ," wherein MacArthur takes us average readers inside a drive-by shooting, and lists the reasons why MacArthur defends ogres like that: "Sometimes otherwise decent people do terrible things. And we hate them for it," MacArthur wrote. "The victim's little girl will probably never feel like Jamal will suffer enough for taking her father away. But if Jamal were your son, you'd want me to do this job the best that I could. (Especially if he wasn't guilty.)...