Top Cop Bristles at Special Law for Lawyers

[The Straight Story]

Top Cop Bristles at Special Law for Lawyers

CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - The county police chief bristled at two lawmaking lawyers' proposed law that would exempt attorneys from going through metal detectors at the St. Louis County Courthouse, which has a history of violence.

State Representatives Timothy Jones, R-Eureka, and Mike Colona, D-St. Louis, both attorneys, proposed a bill that would apply only to the St. Louis County Courthouse. It would allow attorneys to bypass the security checkpoint.

The bipartisan duo claims it would ease congestion and spare members of the Bar from partially disrobing before arguing a case.
Though St. Louis County officials deny it, the court's metal detectors are a sensitive topic for those who go through them regularly.

Lawyers, members of the media and others with business in the court routinely have to remove belts, shoes and jewelry, and empty their pockets. The disrobing is so pronounced there is a designated area beyond the metal detectors where court-goers can sit and put their clothes back on before moving on to the courts.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/02/43567.htm

[Broderick]

1. Those Lawyers here in Virginia like to line jump to the front.

[gopiscrap]

2. For once in my life I agree with a cop

there have been a couple of lawyers here in te Seattl area who have gone off the deep end a few times...why should they get special status...that goes for judges, mayors, cops not on duty etc

[avaistheone1]

4. I do too.

No exception for lawyers. Lawyers have more than their share of unsavory characters.

[COLGATE4]

3. Lawyers should follow the same rules re

going thru metal detectors as Judges, since Lawyers are also Officers of the Court.