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  1. 1 hour ago, Poe It Up said:

    My father committed suicide and I’ve dealt with the whole range of emotions associated with it, including guilt. He wielded it as a weapon for many years, so I’m very sensitive to that particular threat. It doesn’t mean you do nothing, it means you intervene in a more creative fashion. 

    "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."

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  2. 1 hour ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    What parent hasn't had that thought?

    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. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Wait, they sentenced a 97 year old woman she-Nazi to 2 years in an all-female Juve-Hall?

    The Germans are into the most bizarre prison shit.  

    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.

  5. Just now, cactusflinthead said:

    r/amibeingdetained

    I want to see them twist off about admiralty law. Tell us some stories.

     

     

     

     

     

    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. 

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  6. Just now, JFKFC said:

    Everything you are saying makes sense.....IF this were the regular dismissal of a regular state employee. Optics matter in this case. Timing matters.

    Also, I am, very nervous (as each hour passes without Beard being fired) that someone is trying to workout a way for Beard to stay. If they have a video of her saying "I am going to walk into that room, break his glasses and start a fight that gets Chris fired. Screw him!!!"  Beard would still need to go. 

    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. 

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  7. 7 minutes ago, GW Hayduke said:

    An attorney should probably weigh in, but I understand an indictment comes from a grand jury and a charge comes from a prosecutor.  I may be wrong, but I thought we only had an arrest and that a prosecutor hasn’t decided yet whether to press charges 

    You can charge someone by Information. Normally that is filed in short order after an instanter arrest.

    The indictment can come later.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

    Is that all there was to the report?

    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. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, Mo Horn said:

    So is the protective order SOP, or is that something the victim has to request? 

    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."

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  10. Just now, B00M said:

    Did I hear $10k bond? Seems excessive 

    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.

    5 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    I just have a lawyer question. His lawyer's statement straight up denied that he did anything. Is that normal? If he actually did do something wrong, i figured the lawyer statement would be some fluff piece about gathering facts and cooperating with authorities. Is this meaningless?

    Yes. Meaningless. His lawyer is doing what he can, which is very little, in the court of public opinion. A few will buy it.

    3 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Trial outcome at this point is meaningless, nobody is going to take him seriously after this. It’s ova. We were so close, back to hell.

    Correct.

     

    3 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    Ok, another question for the lawyers.

    Doesn't he have the right to have his attorney there with him, even for this?

    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. 

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  11. 47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Here's the thing, to me.  American consumers have to eat inflation and smile.  Many/most corporations don't, see above.  Inflation doesn't affect them because they can just raise prices to take into account the inflationary increase in their COGS.

    They could do two things to mitigate the effects on inflation on consumers:

    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. 

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  12. 20 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

    What did she do exactly? Please explain like I'm 5

    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.

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  13. 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:

    12 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Love to read a bunch of men reducing women to a bunch of hypotheticals to argue about.

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  14. 44 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Just because Fox News says Hillary will run again doesn’t mean it’s true. Don’t be a dumbass. 

    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?

  15. 8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    However, assuming Trump is indicted around or after midterms, there is a high likelihood that the trial, or an appeal, would extend into the next administration.

    It wouldn't make a shit for Trumpists, but I think a fair amount of the less "committal" American public will have a hard time voting for a candidate under indictment, or convicted and on appeal.

    And a pardon for Trump or executive interference with the prosecution is pretty likely, but those things will be campaign issues for non-Trump candidates, as well.  And may be pretty treacherous for them.

    How will those non-committals react to another Hillary candidacy? It’s coming, along with the chaos and distraction it will bring. 

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