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Former Cornelius, North Carolina, dentist John Hall, who lost his dental license last August and accused of squirting his semen with a syringe into the mouths of female patients, was locked up last Thursday.

Hall, who was placed on probation in May after pleading guilty to seven counts of assault on a female, decided he would rather go to jail for four months than remain free on probation for five years.

The 44-year-old former dentist appeared before a judge Thursday and withdrew his consent to being placed on probation and asked that his 120-day suspended sentence be activated.

It’s unusual for defendants allowed to remain free on probation to change their minds and ask to be jailed. Sometimes, they do it because the probation is long; other times because the conditions of probation are restrictive.

Had Hall remained on probation, his activities would have been monitored for five years. Now, once he serves four months behind bars, he’ll no longer be under any court supervision.

During Thursday’s hearing, defense attorney George Laughrun told the judge that this is the first time in his 25 years of practicing law that a client placed on probation had asked to go to jail.

In an exclusive interview with the Observer just minutes before being led from the courtroom to jail, Hall said spending four months behind bars would allow him and his family to start a new life quicker.

“I want to get this behind me so my family can move forward,” Hall said. “My wife and my children are the most important things in my life.”

Hall again denied any wrongdoing. “I didn’t do what I was accused of doing,” he said.

In the meantime Hall is being sued by a former patient to whom he accusedly injected the semen.

Read the lawsuit here.

The N.C. Board of Dental Examiners revoked Hall’s license in August after six former patients testified that the dentist made them swallow what they now believe was his semen.

The accusations against Hall became public in November 2003 after several employees, suspicious of Hall’s behavior, collected five syringes from his office and asked a veterinarian to test the contents. It turned out to be semen.

Police later searched Hall’s office and found more syringes containing similar material. It was Hall’s semen, DNA tests revealed. Saliva was found on three of the syringes, prosecutors said.

Hall, testifying before the dental board, denied injecting sperm into patients’ mouths. He said he was collecting semen in syringes because he was tracking the side effects of Propecia, a hair-growth drug with potential side effects of low sperm count and diminished semen.

Hall said he collected his semen after hours in an office bathroom because he didn’t want to do it at home. He said he planned to take the vials to his doctor.

A Mecklenburg grand jury indicted Hall in March, charging him with seven counts of misdemeanor assault on a female. He was accused of assaulting six of his female patients — one of them twice.

When Hall pleaded guilty in May, the judge placed him on probation for five years. Hall also was ordered to spend three months on house arrest, perform 120 hours of community service and participate in a program for sexual abusers.

Thursday’s hearing lasted just five minutes. Superior Court Judge Karl Adkins imposed the 120-day sentence and then ordered that Hall be taken into custody.

We can only hope he receives the appropriuate counselingand /or treatment while behind bars but it is doubtful.

Was he not, due to the nature of his crimes, considered a convicted sex offender with the requisite notification and reporting requirements?

Robert Redford now wants the Bush Administration investigated because it is similar to the Nixon Administration and the Watergate imbroglio.

LATEST: ROBERT REDFORD has urged journalists to investigate US President GEORGE W BUSH’s administration - because he sees strong similarities between Bush’s government and the events leading to the Watergate scandal which forced President RICHARD NIXON to resign.

Redford starred in 1976 movie ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN alongside DUSTIN HOFFMAN, as The Washington Post journalists BOB WOODWARD and CARL BERNSTEIN, who brought about the events that led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

And Redford wasn’t surprised when the identity of the mysterious ‘Deep Throat’ character who sparked the Watergate scandal was recently revealed to be former deputy FBI chief MARK FELT.

But the shock revelation has reminded the actor of the power of the media and the similarities between Bush’s secret cover-ups and the Watergate affair.

He says, “There are deep similarities going on but where is the press? where is the press?”

“There is stone-walling, not telling the truth, getting people under wiretaps. The US public continues to be told things that are not true and what worries me is that we have these brave young American guys risking their lives everyday.

“When Deep Throat was revealed, the press came to me and wanted to know what I thought. I said, ‘Well, it’s interesting that his name came out but is that the point?’

“My contribution was to come at a time when journalism was at its high point and the role I played was to save a testimony to the freedom of speech. The media have changed, we see the ethics have changed. The press is more, I am sorry to say, celebrity oriented.”

With all apologies to Laura Ingraham, Redford really should SHUT UP AND ACT.

What a moron!

Looks like Marshall White DMD an Administrator at Dental Town has foretold the end of DentalCom.net.

This is what has been up all weekend:

From Dr. Joel Eichen:

Yeah, Justin forgot to pay his bills.

Actually he wrote in one thread that they do not have his new credit card information. He claims he will update, but if he does or he doesn’t DentalCom is in its death throes.

Sue Madden and I each do not want to be the last man (or woman) standing. So when there are few threads we toss up some. Other than us, there are very occasional posts by others. Very occasional.

If it dies, it dies. I suspect its time.

From the looks of their March 2005 log statistics, not much was going on anyway.

Flap foretold the end here.

From Justin Shafer, Administrator of DentalCom.net:

I am thinking of taking Dentalcom down. I havent yet, because I like the arcade and I like you guys being able to post here. If we dont get more posts, then I may convert this site into maybe an arcade only site, or I may just leave it the way it is.

It would be hard for me to take this board down, but I just might. I removed the news feeds because I feel like its keeping people from posting. If you guys have any ideas let me know. One thing I do not want to do is to remove all of the posts. I am curious as to how we can get people to post instead of lurking. I think If I was going to take this site down, I would have already done it by now.

-Justin

Visits is the main category of interest…

Me thinks the site could have rivaled Dental Town with time…but Justin is not a dentist and frankly did not support the site with his incessant Kiss- Ass posts over at Dental Town.

Anyone game for another site?

Update #1

Now Justin Shafer says he is not taking the site down. Damn, make up your mind?

But, from looking at your traffic WHO CARES?!

Update #2

From Justin Shafer on DentalCom.net: “the more I think about it the more I want to keep it up. I have been wondering about this for the past month or so and I dont think I can actually take it down. Its like creating a robot, and then having to destroy him. I just cant do it. The cost/profit of the site doesnt really mean a lot to me.
Its just odd. The number of posts are going down, but we still have a lot of people lurking. I cannot decide if I should make people register or not.
My girlfriend would get mad at me anyways, she loves to compete in pacman.

How have you guys been doing?

Maybe I could create a domain called DentalArcade.com, and then link it to dentalcom.net….

I think I will do that, but how do I tell people about dentalarcade.com? If I told anyone on DT they would accuse me of promoting dentalcom. The counterstrike idea of DT would work better if they included counterstrike source.”

Huh?

So, has Justin Shafer taken the dentalcom.net site down?

Update #1

The site is back up.

I guess the Admin, Justin Shafer, either paid the hosting bill or had another change of heart.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence, painting by John Trumbull in U.S. Capitol

What started it all!

The Declaration of Indpendence (The Stone engraving):

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Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson’s most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in “self-evident truths” and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. Read a complete Transcript of the Declaration of Indpendence here.

Now go out and enjoy the day in true American fashion:

and end the day:

Let Freedom Ring

Other tributes to Indpendence Day:

Michelle Malkin:

The Cotillion’s July 4th gala is up.

Dan at GayPatriot gives the History Channel’s documentary series, The American Revolution, two thumbs up.

Power Line remembers the heroes of Gettysburg Day 2.

Joe Guzzardi has Reflections For Independence Day: Adams, Jefferson, And The Lodi Imam

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog reminds us what this day is all about–read the whole thing.

Scott Johnson on the eternal meaning of Independence Day.

A holiday Carnival of the Recipes.

Blogs for Bush

Captain Ed from Captain’s Quarters

God Bless America