Everyone is writing me about the latest Sunny Hostin episode, and frankly, I don’t understand it at all so far. “The View” co-host, who is arguably the most annoying Dunning-Kruger sufferer on that joke of an ABC “news” program, was in a discussion about Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense and Clancy’s lawyer’s attack on the holdout juror. Hostin, a lawyer who constantly reveals that she is a dim bulb with a law license, claimed that she was the lone holdout juror in the 1991 trial of the notorious Daniel Rakowitz,, known as the “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.” Asserting that she was the sole juror who felt he was not guilty by reason of insanity, Hostin claimed she eventually convinced the jurors to vote her way. Rakowitz apparently killed his girl friend in an argument by accident, and subsequently ate some of her to conceal the evidence. Good plan!

“That’s how much I believe in the insanity defense,” Hostin said. noting that he fed her body parts to the “unhoused.” I admit to being biased against anyone so reflexively woke that they immediately adopt the latest politically correct lingo, especially one as stupid as “unhoused.” The New York jury, which was sequestered, became so angry with Hostin’s stubbornness, she claimed, that one of them threw a chair at her. ” One-by-one, I picked them off and said, ‘What about this? What about that?'” Hostin recalled. The jury eventually found Rakowitz not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.

The argument that Rakowitz was insane isn’t exactly a tough one to make: he cut up the body of a woman he had lived with, boiled her remains and made her into a soup, then chowed down on some of it and handed it out to homeless people. Yeah, he was as sane as the day is long…

Yet for once Hostin had the right analysis of something: she told the View Crew that the defense lawyer’s attacks on the lone juror in the Clancy case undermines the jury system. Correct! See, a blind squirrel can find a nut now and then.

The crazy part is this: several social media users tracked down a contemporary Daily News article that says that Asunción “Sunny” Cummings Hostin was upset with the holdout juror, who was a man, saying she believed the cannibal defendant was aware of his actions and that the Not Guilty verdict wasn’t justified. So she wasn’t the hold-out juror? She made up the tale she told The View?

The early Open Forum today was because I had to complete my annual ordeal driving to Richmond last night to make an early morning three-hour CLE ethics seminar for my oldest client organization (but not my longest continuous client because they’ve fired me twice, always to come crawling back…). The thing was a challenge when my late wife was helping me get organized, packed, get other work in order and so on: now it’s almost impossible, especially last night when late breaking issues from client lawyers, a printer break-down, a need pit bull and a torn suit delayed my preparation for hours.

I began the drive to Richmond at 11:45 pm, and most of it was in heavy rain surrounded by trucks, with me expecting to die at any moment. I arrived at my hotel at 1:30 am, got to bed about an hour later, and woke up at six for final prep only to discover that I had managed to do something to my back over-night and could barely straighten up. Once I did, it became clear that sitting aggravated the injury, triggering back spasms, so I needed to stay standing during my three hour presentation, the break, and the usual discussions with attendees afterwards.

One attendee said he had been retired from law for a decade, but after listening to me, he had decided to renew his license to start practicing again. He said I convinced him that lawyers really could be a positive influence on society, and that it was time for him to use his experience and skills to do that.

Yeah, this is what I love.

It’s worth the hassle, and money has nothing to do with it.

I was going to write about another one of the aspiring Incompetent Elected Officials (probably this idiot) but decided that a current incompetent in the House needs another call out. Yes, it’s Nancy Mace. Again.

Mace, in an interview with TMZ, called for Lindsay Clancy not only to be executed but publicly executed.

Incidentally, it’s also incompetent to agree to be interviewed by TMZ.

“Her children are dead, she should be dead too,” said Mace, a 48-year-old mother of two who was not in the courtroom and has no business shooting off her mouth about a criminal trial in which the accused is supposed to be fairly tried without public figures trying to sway the jury pools and render a verdict without evidence. “She should get the death penalty. It should be public. It should be a public execution.” She also said Clancy “deserves nothing less.”

Uh, Nancy? How does a public execution punish the condemned any more than any other execution? A public execution punishes the public and society, by lowering the standards of civilization to those of the 19th Century, or the Middle Ages. “It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair, I don’t really care,” this lunatic ranted. “She’s a serial killer” and such an execution would serve as a “warning to women everywhere — you don’t kill your kids.”

Can we get technical for a minute, not that Mace cares about little details like the law and vocabulary? Killing three people, adult or child, in the same incident is not a serial killing. I also don’t think an obviously disturbed, though not necessarily legally insane, woman is the correct vehicle for the “Don’t kill your kids” message. Now, public executions of serial killers of their unborn babies, women who have multiple abortions, would send that message, but it would be, you know, unconstitutional in multiple ways.

Also, several news sources, like this one, wrote that Clancy “allegedly” killed her three children. No, she did it, guys, there’s no dispute about it. There is no “allegedly.” Oh, and back to TMZ: do you know what that “news for dumb 15-year -olds” outlet took away from Mace’s interview? “Nancy Mace Uses Offensive Slur While Calling For Lindsay Clancy’s Public Execution.” Guess what the “slur” was?

“Retarded.” The Horror.

A Congresswoman calls for public executions, but what was really outrageous is that she used a politically incorrect term to do it.

Maybe Mace is competent enough to be a leader in this increasingly silly and ignorant country.