Brett Banter

Remember that school guidance counselor who told you had good English skills and said that you should be a writer? Never gave specifics, but all of a sudden "writing" became a dream. Sigh. I've always imagined he told the kid who did well in biology to become a scientist. Guidance counselors like to be vague. Part of the job description.

All of this leads to the New York Times today and a job we definitely never heard about. The guy who finds people to stand in police lineups.

According to the article:

"But for all the attention that lineups attract in legal circles, Mr. Weston’s role in finding lineup fillers is largely unknown. Few defense lawyers and prosecutors, though they spar over the admissibility of lineups in court, have heard of him."

And there are other quirks of the job. Some detectives think he is lazy. He has to keep on the straight and narrow or lose his standing the the department. He doesn't provide white people for lineups because he doesn't know any.

The money isn't good. Weston lives in public housing and says there always is more demand than actual jobs. But wow, who would have thought you could make money from that.