"His Principal Crime Is That He Cheered for the Boston Red Sox"

In his soon-to-be published memoir, True Compass, Senator Ted Kennedy writes about his first case as young Boston prosecutor. He was going after a man charged with downing 26 drinks while watching a Yankees-Red Sox doubleheader, who then crashed his car near Fenway Park. (Ed. Note: the defendant was not, in fact, a Kennedy, or a Doyle, for that matter.) Kennedy writes that he figured the case was a slam dunk. But the hometown jury acquitted the defendant minutes after the man's attorney argued his client's "principal crime is that he cheered for the Boston Red Sox." It's hard to argue with that. 

(Via the Daily News)