too litigious. and there were otherral tesh toughs to deal with some of those problems. this was around the time of the mcdonald s coffee cup incident.nt a customer got a piping hot cup ocupof coffee and drove off witt in their lap and it spilled and burned them. this is actually the provision that got haley barber to buy in. all conservative republicans despise the trial lawyer, sue everybody. the commercial comes on and says hi, i bet you know somebody who should sue. why don t you call us. we think it s destructive of society. we think it s destructive of the
when there were other alternatives to try to deal with some of those problems. - this was around the time of the mcdonald s coffee cup incident, where a customer from a drive-through at mcdonald s got a piping hot cup of coffee in the morning, put the cup in their lap and drove off and it spilled onto their lap and burned them and they sued mcdonald s. these kinds of things were in the news, but it was a concern. litigation costs were a rising concern to small business owners. - this was actually the provision that got haley barbour to buy the ad in tv guide. all conservative republicans despise the trial, lawyer, sue everybody, the commercial that comes on and says, hi, i ll bet you know somebody we should sue. why don t you call and let us consult with you? we think it s destructive of society, we think it s destructive of the economy, we think it sets exactly the wrong tone for a free society.
test to validate her various claims. paula nawrocki also volunteered to take a lie detecter test hoping to clear her name after suspicions arose from the colonel klink reference and the coffee cup incident. one of the two failed on the most crucial question of all. you ve been staring at that for a while, huh?
coffee cup incident and the colonel klink reference in one of the threatening letters. for the defense, teachers from joanne chambers former school district testified that she made similar claims of harassment years earlier. but it was the dna evidence that stunned most courtroom observers. the dna was definitely the bombshell. to hear that joanne chambers saliva was found on the stamps of one of the threatening letters and the flap of another envelope, it was just unbelievable. but on the witness stand under oath, joanne chambers had an explanation. she said the prosecutor left her alone with the evidence and the stamps fell off one of the envelopes. she said she licked the stamps to reattach them and when they didn t work used a glue stick. dr. lichtenwalner testified that
the stamps and the envelope flap. you could see how all five genetic markers line up perfectly between the dna of joanne chambers and the dna from the back of the postage stamps. the odds of someone in the random u.s. population having the same combination of five genotypes tested was 1 in 14,925. the match was fairly significant in that that s a small community there, so it s unlikely that too many people are going to be walking around with a similar dna pattern. despite the second dna test, the prosecution refused once again to drop their case against paula nawrocki. during the trial, the prosecution presented the circumstantial evidence against paula nawrocki, including the coffee cup incident and the colonel klink reference in one