Take Out The Trash, MN Tuesday Edition

Larry Craig Wide-Stance Bathroom (h/t Mark Hogan)

Let’s see. If there was a situation . . . ahem . . . where I had to file some court papers in an embarrassing case . . . cough, cough . . . and I didn’t want them to be on the front page, yesterday might have been a good day to file them.

From the AP, courtesy of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

Seeking to have his guilty plea in a bathroom sex sting erased, the attorneys for Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho argue in a new court filing that the underlying act wasn’t criminal because it didn’t involve multiple victims.

An appeals brief filed Tuesday contends that Minnesota’s disorderly conduct law "requires that the conduct at issue have a tendency to alarm or anger ‘others’" _ underscoring the plural nature of the term.

Craig’s brief goes on to cite other convictions that were overturned because the multiple-victim test wasn’t met. His lawyers apply the same logic to his case.

Poor Larry. Even the NH primary wasn’t enough to knock this completely off the media’s radar. But he can look on the bright side — the Writer’s Guild is still on strike. Of course, with the way his luck is running, the strike will be settled just when his case comes to the Appeals Court for its hearing.

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