I bet there's another lesson that the cops would have liked to have given her...A drunken, belligerent law student who lectured police on the law after being kicked out of a Wollongong hotel has lost her bid to have charges against her dismissed.
"F... off, pig, I'm a lawyer. I got 94 in my UAI and I'm sorry you are so inferior and don't know the law," Morgan Elderfield allegedly told police in the lead-up to her arrest on November 13 last year.
However, the 22-year-old's apparent legal expertise was little help to her yesterday, when she was convicted of a number of charges relating to her booze-fuelled outburst.
Advertisement: Story continues below Wollongong Local Court heard earlier that Elderfield had gone out with friends to the North Wollongong Hotel and consumed a number of drinks before being asked to leave by security.
Instead of walking out the front as directed, the Wollongong woman kicked up a fuss, throwing a beer over a security guard before sitting on the ground and refusing to leave.
Eventually two guards had to grab Elderfield by the wrists and pull her out, as she struggled against them.
When they finally had her out the front she continued being aggressive and argumentative, this time directing the verbal onslaught at police.
Police gave her numerous warnings to go home but she was finally arrested after she stuck up her finger and allegedly abused an officer before stumbling stomach-first into a taxi.
During the arrest she thrashed and screamed at police, scratching one of them on the neck, drawing blood.
Elderfield had strongly denied the allegations, telling the court she left the premises peacefully and was planning to go home when security guards and police acted unreasonably.
Giving evidence in court, her friends alleged both the guards and police had been unnecessarily forceful when dealing with Elderfield.
The magistrate, Ian Guy, found there was no substance to her claims, describing several parts of her evidence as "unconvincing in the extreme".
"It is improbable in the absolute extreme that the security guards have decided for absolutely no reason to jostle and throw a woman who was doing precisely what they had asked her to do," he said.
Mr Guy said police, similarly, had no reason to arrest her if she was doing as she said and complying with their instructions.
He told Elderfield being drunk was no excuse for her behaviour.
Mr Guy found Elderfield guilty of six charges, including assaulting police, behaving in an offensive manner in public and failing to leave licensed premises.
She was subsequently fined a total of $2000 and placed on four 12-month good behaviour bonds.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/f64-off-pig-i ... 19583.html
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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THe Magistrate hasn't ran into many security guards has he?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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... allegedly abused an officer before stumbling stomach-first into a taxi.
She’s a contortionist too?
A sufficiently copious dose of bombast drenched in verbose writing is lethal to the truth.
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In getting ready for the bars, she had a homonymic experience.
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I’m embarrassed to say that it took me a while to get that, Long Run.
A sufficiently copious dose of bombast drenched in verbose writing is lethal to the truth.
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Stupid idiot has just made it more difficult for herself to get admitted to the bar -- at least if she were in the US, anyway.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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She's already been kicked out of the bar! 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Hawt!Long Run wrote:In getting ready for the bars, she had a homonymic experience.
Wait, what?
GAH!
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It's Aus -- from what I've seen here, that's pretty much par for the course.Guinevere wrote:Stupid idiot has just made it more difficult for herself to get admitted to the bar -- at least if she were in the US, anyway.
GAH!
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May even help her advancement...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That will certainly help clean up the somewhat tarnished impression of some lawyers, eh. 
I expect to go straight to hell...........at least I won't have to spend time making new friends.
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Seems to me that with that sort of arrogance and condescension, she's selected precisely the right profession..."F... off, pig, I'm a lawyer. I got 94 in my UAI and I'm sorry you are so inferior and don't know the law,"
She'll fit right in....
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Yeah, no kidding!!
After all, that level of arrogance and condescension is only slightly less than that of the average cop!
After all, that level of arrogance and condescension is only slightly less than that of the average cop!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan