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James Melvin: Do you have to be related for special favors?

What a relief. Now if I am caught out with my friends and the police won’t believe I was a hitchhiker and didn’t know the car was stolen, or there was a gun under my seat; when they refuse to believe the drugs in my pocket aren’t really mine because the pants are really someone else’s that I borrowed, and if they seem doubtful I wasn’t aware the merchandise I am carrying (as I run away from Best Buy) was stolen, I can ask the DA to take a closer look at the arresting officer’s timecard. I’m not asking for special treatment, am I?

Oh wait, I’m not related to the DA. What was I thinking?

James A. Melvin, Merced

This story was originally published December 1, 2014 at 1:29 PM with the headline "James Melvin: Do you have to be related for special favors?."

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