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softlynow

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  1. You can charge someone by Information. Normally that is filed in short order after an instanter arrest. The indictment can come later.
  2. That’s the short form. Probably all that will be made public in written form, at least for a while. Take away the affluence of those involved it looks like a report in a case that ends up pled to deferred adjudication on a reduction to a class A family violence. The choking aspect is a bit weak, and most prosecutors would be willing to offer the reduction to clear the case. But this isn’t you’re average defendant. The audio recording is also a wild card.
  3. Excellent. Someone here will accept your challenge, and that arrest report will be amazing.
  4. Someone requests it. Often it is the vic . . . ahem, complaining witness. Other times the officer can request it. The state sees these cases very differently than just 10-15 years ago. CW's are often considered hostile witnesses from the jump because of the volume of battered family members who immediately "try to have the charges dropped."
  5. Seems like the standard amount based on the charge for someone with no criminal history. Everything about this seems normal, to those of y'all who don't do this. Yes. Meaningless. His lawyer is doing what he can, which is very little, in the court of public opinion. A few will buy it. Correct. That's a probable cause hearing at the jail. No, you don't have a right to an attorney, though you can always remain silent. You want to get that bond set as quickly as possible so you can get out. In some counties if you don't like the first magistrate's decision you can appeal it the next day and have an attorney present.
  6. If George Soros was 1/100000th the villain the fucktards think he is, he’d be funding the shit out of purple-state MAGAts right now. Aside: I was recently told the only reason any Harris County Dem judicial candidate wins is GS money, and he controls their decisions. This from a normal-seeming lawyer in the area.
  7. Why are y’all feeding this lying troll?
  8. They don’t have to eat inflation because they don’t fear competition. Decades of kleptocrats eroding anti-trust enforcement, among other things, got us here. They could do many things, but don’t have to, so they won’t. What they’re motivated to do is funnel money to the would be fascist party to continue us down the path of corporate and oligarchic supremacy, and mostly still do, along with a hedge donation to the slightly less fascist party. Occasionally the fascists act like fascists and big [put literally every industry here] has to lie low for a moment or two.
  9. Pull him. Put in a Dominican. Any Dominican.
  10. It’s so impressive that fans at a playoff game are cheering when things go well for the home team.
  11. Some Brits, swayed by Putin-planted propaganda, set fire to the country with Brexit. Truss dumped gasoline onto that fire by way of financial "reforms" that threatened everything from pensions to housing to government solvency.
  12. Y'all need to stop feeding the religious extremists that only ever argue in bad faith. You will feel better. Also you're only helping them argue with the weak-minded in other fora by allowing them to practice on y'all. Answer them once, if at all, then go about your day. It will be OK if y'all leave unanswered a few ana replies thinly veiling his view that he knows better than us what God thinks. Why beat your heads against that wall of acute narcissism and topical moral insanity? And some of y'all really need to digest this post:
  13. Just because we all know that her running again would be terrible doesn’t mean she can keep her ambition in check. How many times must everyone be wrong about what is possible in this hellscape before y’all accept that the worst-case scenario is always the most likely?
  14. How will those non-committals react to another Hillary candidacy? It’s coming, along with the chaos and distraction it will bring.
  15. If we’re succeeded by another civilization-building life form, hopefully they possess actual intelligence.
  16. I think the most infuriating thing is all the votes cast under the delusion of self-interest. The culture wars have enabled the economic subjugation of most of this country. Doubly frustrating is the no-nothings who quote/cite Hayek’s Road to Serfdom when convenient to their worldview, that is the sections severely critical of socialism, but forget those sections which acknowledge a role for government, such as the need for a safety net, the inability of the market to effectively deal with negative externalities in areas like ecological conservation and that there areas of the economy where prohibitions and regulation is necessary. GOP base voters are wrapped in many layers of delusion and ignorance. Most seem to inherit it. Which brings me to a final thought: I keep seeing posts about women seeking tubal ligations and pledging to refuse sex because of Hobbs. This is sort of a reverse Prima Nocta, letting the cons breed us into a permanent irrelevancy. I get the impulse, but fear the disaster that leads to if those become widespread cultural phenomena.
  17. On the one hand, the electorate isn't progressive enough for the aggressive pols we need. On the other, the centrist Dems who can win are suffering PTSD from decades of getting shellacked anytime they enact any policy, even if that policy is coopted from the fucking Heritage Foundation. In the end we get the representation we deserve, and a majority of the people in a majority of the surface area of this country (and remember, that is what matters according to our demi-god founding fathers) do not like progressives. The why doesn't matter. They just don't. If we are to return from the precipice it will be because the dumbasses that remained "independent" after Trump was elected see the light. Unfortunately that means nominating more Biden's, which means more orderly retreat. On top of the ideological/rural problem, add in this nonsense: Yes, it's unseemly to fundraise off of bodily autonomy. Sure, the Dems are inept as fuck. But guess what, your house is on fire, and you're yelling at the firefighters for trampling your azaleas while they struggle with antiquated equipment procured by a government that thinks only God should put out fires. $15? Your rights are under attack by folks with a $15 billion war chest, and they're counting on you asking for Dems to be ideologically pure, to accept and abide by the niceties of a long-dead style of politics and they're going to make banning abortion look liberal by comparison to their future acts of hatred. Time and again Dems say, THIS group of young people will vote. THIS generation gets it. Fuck no they don't. They're as naive and stupid as every generation before. They will get distracted and not vote, or get enchanted by the next Nader/Jill Stein or vote Trump/Desantis because Dems only agree with them 92% of the time and "you've got to send them a message." Dems will lose Congress in '22, and have, at best, a 30% shot at losing the WH in '24. Right now the constitution is holding this country back. But, I guess if rural America changes its mind about blacks, gays, guns, unions, abortion, misogyny, immigration, climate change, and democracy itself, we can move forward without structural change to our form of government. Might as well ask aggy to fuck only bipeds and ou to not suck.
  18. People should definitely vote for the party that will end the war in Ukraine . . . which is the the GOP, who will allow Putin to annex what he wants in exchange for dark money and social media assistance.
  19. Col. Word Salad. He will inadvertently admit his crimes, in passing, as he regales us with tales of things that wholly irrelevant and are demonstrably untrue.
  20. I usually have to inform loony leftists on the realities of politics, but you really should know better than to confuse truth with power. I’m not sure why you failed to comprehend my first post. You feeling alright?
  21. Nope. The profession remains ahead of you. We realize that reasoning doesn’t mater when handing down decisions. The timing of when a spot opens is all that does.
  22. As a criminal defense lawyer, I welcome the increased mental health funding. It will really help with low-level assaultive, property and drug-related crime. It won’t prevent many mass shootings, though.
  23. Sure there is. Credit card transactions aren't instantaneous yet.
  24. IA should be the best funded part of every department, and successful investigators the best rewarded in the department (and their time there should be capped to prevent an overreach of that power). Also, and I've said this before, any fact about an interaction between LE and the rest of us should be inadmissible unless it is seen AND heard on dash and/or body cam. Too often I've reviewed body cam footage that suddenly cuts out one or the other right at the moment I need to see/hear the most. Most video footage I watch only confirms the cops' stories, so what are they so afraid of?
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