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softlynow

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  1. softlynow

    LBGTQ

    "Hey, we know medical and psychological science has avenues that could assuage your pain, but I don't want to feel like a hostage to your threats, so I'm not gonna look go that route. We're gonna be creative."
  2. softlynow

    LBGTQ

    Frustrations borne of the daily grind of parenting are totally valid reasons for enacting punitive, faith-based, draconian public policy. My 10 y.o. will not practice piano between lessons, therefore we should ban music instruction.
  3. IA needs to be the best funded, most prestigious, most feared section of every department/sheriff’s office. Federal funding and any seized funds (after vigorous reform in that arena too) goes to them ONLY. Give cops someone to fear, and hold them to the same standard as the rest of us in terms of charging them with crimes. Bagging a corrupt cop should be the fast track to electoral success for prosecutors, too.
  4. You know some MAGAt holocaust denier lawyer would tie up the execution with appeals and writs. Just about every Texas DA would get the headline and move on.
  5. Probation. And we'd likely be worse in that situation. Germany has a far more robust welfare state. Most states in the union would likely see imprisoning her as a huge expense and not worth the hassle. If she was convicted of something from 77 years ago in Texas and sentenced to any amount of prison time, I could see TDCJ immediately paroling her and calling those 77 years of not participating in genocide as "good time." New York would probably have to bite the bullet and pay for her to die in prison, for political reasons. California would have her consult on a movie/streaming show script.
  6. She was tried in juvenile court and received two years of juvenile probation. Nice headline for the prosecutors, but that's about it.
  7. All my stories about them are boring and dumb. Family case a SC wanted transferred to The Hague. Traffic case appealed de novo to County Court then to the appellate level because the offense was listed in the transportation code not the penal code. Another idiot accused me of failing to get him a bond … while sitting in my office 30 minutes after I was appointed to represent him. Another couple I told off as much as it took until they backed off. It helps when judges refuse to replace me with another lawyer. They do dumb shit for dumb reasons.
  8. Nuke this thread. Having represented a few adherents, SC foolishness is simply a scam aimed at those whose intelligence rates between plain dumb and truly regarded.
  9. Why? This is silly. Let people do their jobs. Firing someone with a multi-million dollar contract doesn’t happen on Twitter time. Even with a solid contract breach claim and sovereign immunity to back that up, there’s no way the lawyers involved are giving the go ahead this quickly.
  10. You can charge someone by Information. Normally that is filed in short order after an instanter arrest. The indictment can come later.
  11. 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.
  12. Excellent. Someone here will accept your challenge, and that arrest report will be amazing.
  13. 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."
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Why are y’all feeding this lying troll?
  17. 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.
  18. Pull him. Put in a Dominican. Any Dominican.
  19. It’s so impressive that fans at a playoff game are cheering when things go well for the home team.
  20. 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.
  21. 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:
  22. 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?
  23. How will those non-committals react to another Hillary candidacy? It’s coming, along with the chaos and distraction it will bring.
  24. If we’re succeeded by another civilization-building life form, hopefully they possess actual intelligence.
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