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Hanrahan

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  1. 10 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    I said it earlier this year and got yelled at, but I think there are at least 30 P5 programs where he could go be a starter if not more. He is a serviceable to decent QB and a good team guy. If someone wants to argue with me that someone like Vanderbilt or Iowa State or Va Tech wouldn't love to have him, then go right ahead. Hell, Mike Gundy would kill for him right about now. 

    Why would Sanders not come back for his 8th year?

  2. 6 hours ago, tokamak said:

    The entire GOP message this cycle was that the whole city is a lawless hellscape. I live in Meyerland and it's chock full of signs that say "TIRED OF CRIME??? VOTE REPUBLICAN!!". Dudes....it's Meyerland.

    There's dozens of those in my neighborhood at memorial and the beltway.  We don't really have crime here.

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  3. 18 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    It was unusual.  

    @DDD Dad and I had a case in Collin County in 2013.  It was one of those cases where we had a decent shot at summary judgment, but if we didn't get summary judgment we knew we were going to get absolutely buttfucked by a Collin County jury.  So I called up a friend who does a lot of Collin County work and asked him about his thoughts on our judge, and specifically whether he is prone to granting summary judgments.

    The feedback I got was "you need local counsel, and your local counsel needs to be Ken Paxton."  Our judge had just been appointed to the bench a year earlier, and had been something of a protégé of Paxton's.  I don't know the complete backstory, but it was apparent that our judge was on the bench entirely due to Ken Paxton.

    Great.  I don't care.  I want to win.  And if I need Ken Paxton to win, then I'm going to get Ken Paxton.

    So the day of the summary-judgment hearing, Paxton rolls into the courtroom about 10 minutes before the hearing.  I chat with him briefly--and "briefly" was all our chat needed because it became really apparent real quick that Paxton hadn't done shit.  He hadn't read the briefing; he didn't know shit about the case.  I suggested that I could do the argument, and he readily agreed.

    So there we go in our hearing.  Collin County is one of those counties where there is kind of a shelf on the front of the bench and you go up there to argue.  As an aside, I think that's really kind of a North Texas thing--you don't see that in Houston or Austin or really anywhere else.  Anyway, so Paxton and I go up.  It's my motion, so I argue and am typically brilliant.  I've got this wrapped up.  Plaintiff's counsel argues, but he's fucked up a bunch of shit, and I'm feeling pretty good.

    I have a short rebuttal.  Now, it's been nearly ten years.  But I'm pretty sure that this is a very accurate transcription of what happened next:

    THE COURT: Ok.  Anything else?

    Mr. Ghost: No, your honor.

    THE COURT.  Ok.  Umm, . . . Mr. Paxton, what do you think I should do here.

    Mr. Paxton: I really think you ought to grant this motion, Judge.

    THE COURT: Ok.  Mr. Ghost--why don't you get me a proposed order.

    Mr. Ghost: Thank you, your honor.  We'll get that for you promptly.

    And that's how I won in Collin County, Texas.

    Arguing right in front of the bench is normal practice in Houston.  

  4. 1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

    She was very restrained in order to avoid any possibility of creating an issue that could lead to him getting a new trial. 

    Judge and the prosecution bent over backwards to accommodate his crazy because the evidence was overwhelming.  Better to put up with his antics than give him an inkling of a ground for appeal.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

     You don't know who these people are or what their intentions may be. 

    What the fuck do you think their intentions are?  Maybe kidnap you and put you in a dungeon?  Ooooh, sounds scary.  Bunch of people on the field.  Intentions unknown.  Could be anything.  Threat level midnight.

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