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A Sure Way To Get No Offered: Spitting Blood on a CopBut don't tase him, bro!

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This seems to be the summer of spitting-mad law school students. Perhaps economic pressures and Biglaw angst are to blame for flaring tempers.
In July, the UVA Law Student Spitter tangled with the police after a night of drinking. Now, a Stetson Law student working at a Tampa law firm has one-upped her.
From the St. Petersburg Times:

John H. Moran, 26, is charged with resisting an officer with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, assault and battery and is being held at the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $10,400 bail.
Moran spit blood on police officer Daniel Godsall while he was restrained in the emergency room. Moran struck Godsall in the face while proclaiming that he had AIDS, HIV and hepatitis, police said.
Moran continued to kick at officers as he was doused with pepper spray and subdued with a Taser, police said.

Moron Moran had just started working for Keefe Law Group. How’d he get into this mess, and what’s his future with the firm?


Apparently, Moran was having a rough weekend. On Sunday, he walked into a Starbucks while shirtless and bloody, and proceeded to assault a mother:

Moran entered the coffee shop at 199 1st Ave. N shirtless and bloody, then knocked over a table reaching for a child in a stroller, witnesses said. The child’s mother stepped between them and Moran grabbed her by the arm, witnesses said. Moran fled after being yelled at by the mother and was later arrested at BayWalk.

After being arrested, Moran issued the bloody spit at the officers as well as the STD claims.
So, to recap: possible STDs; violence, battery, and assault & battery charges; and a lost shirt. And now to make matters worse, he’s losing his job:

Moran had just begun working at Keefe Law Group in St. Petersburg and was moving from Tarpon Springs, said firm owner Ken Keefe. Moran had answered an ad Keefe placed at Stetson for a “summer associate.” He will not be allowed to return, Keefe said.
“I knew he was having some personal issues as he was moving from Tarpon Springs, kind of getting the lay of the land,” Keefe said. “Obviously, that’s all changed.”

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“Personal issues” is a bit of an understatement.
Law student pepper sprayed and Tasered at hospital after arrest on assault charge [St. Petersburg Times]
Earlier: Law Student of the Day: UVA Law Student Spitter

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