Full Text Search of US Court records

photonthug

I've searched for "sandwich murder" and did not find what I was looking for, but the way the elisions line up are sometimes pretty funny. I've also learned that Subway shops are among the most dangerous eateries and that bologna especially seems to make people irritable enough to open fire. A few highlights for your consideration, redacted to protect the innocent, guilty, or hungry bystanders

  - that the evidence that defendant fired the murder weapon during the sandwich
  - bologna sandwich found at the crime scene
  - presence in sandwich the morning of the murder
  - ways in which they could murder her mother. these included the sandwich ... sandwich incident could not be used
  - crime of capital murder. as a habitual offender, sentenced to life ... to the "bologna sandwich" constituted reversible error
  - coroner testified that victim had eaten a fish sandwich within 2 hours ... prior to his death
  - it was not first degree murder, and the court should have ... sandwich. he paid for the sandwich, but did not pay for the coffee
  - convicted of malice murder and possession of a ... sandwich
  - she was shot and that she had some change in one hand and a sandwich in the other ... sandwich in your hand kind of slow your progress down in getting a gun out of your ... sandwich

xeromal

I grew up in a small town of 5000 in rural US and the first murder in the city that I remember was a guy who killed another guy in a subway. It was one of 2 that I remember in about 18 years

ww520

Search my name got the traffic infraction records, but none of the briefs and deposition I filed during discovery.

nemobius

classic

pvg

Some big Show HN threads a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702

hoten

I searched my name. It gave me a hit for someone (criminal trespass) in Texas, in a year I lived there, with my exact same height and ~same weight, and the arraignment date is my birthday. Wasn't me. Spooky!

qingcharles

I just helped a guy get 14 crimes removed from his record that he didn't commit. Someone in Texas just continuously committed heinous crimes over a decade or more and they were all just added to this other guy's criminal record. They seemingly had the same first name/initial/last name (fairly common name). I'm assuming dude in Texas was allowed to commit a crime spree because every time he was pulled in front of the court it looked like he was a first time offender.

CobrastanJorji

If that other guy is a from anywhere in Central or South America, I would not go back to Texas any time in the next four years.

m463

Entire search system is a long-con for a "clear your name" business.

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thelittleone

Sleep walker per chance?

IIAOPSW

I appreciate that "we both reached for the gun" and "he had it coming" both turn up more than a handful of hits. "and all that jazz".

NoboruWataya

"I'd do it again" -> 740 million+ hits.

dizhn

My name is coming a bunch of times. They are all patents (?) citing something I wrote. What does this mean? Oh. article cited by patent applicant. I didn't know I inspired a bunch of Microsoft patents in the 2010s :D

calderwoodra

What kind of database is this using and how is the search so performant?

almosthere

Didn't the guy that did this last time get in trouble

bdangubic

it the same guy, same website :)

hnfong

Any further details?

wizerno

https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol...

mikewarot

Apparently it has Patent records as well... here's one of mine.

https://www.judyrecords.com/record/qfwy5i5yb1e9

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jonsagara

Searching up family members is a dangerous game to play on a Friday night

breadchris

would love this even more if the search query ended up in the URL

fancyswimtime

the search pattern implemented is strange; I'd guess to push certain users to using the api

miltonlaxer

Yeah we need to be able to pass query to share ?q=mysearch

paustint

All of the five searches I tried had Tennessee court documents as the top result, anyone else experience this?

raegis

Same here. I lived there 30 years ago, and my one speeding ticket in TN shows up first. I've had 2 or 3 "rolling stop sign" tickets in CA and can not find them.