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TwiceHorn

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  1. Who fucking knows. Smith played the venue choice straight as an arrow to begin with: he went to the closest division within the SD Fla to Trump with a virtual certainty that she would get the case. I don't think he had to go by division, he could have filed anywhere in SD Fla and let Trump try to contest it. Obviously, he wouldn't want anything to do with Cannon again. Then again, he may be able to straighten her out on this and minimize any harm.
  2. She has most of the right creds, except judicial experience. I think I noticed she spent substantial time in the appellate section of the US Attorneys office, so she may be taking what my first mentor called a "law review" approach to trial issues that really aren't that juicy or complex.
  3. I have never not contended she is apparently stupid af. So stupid in fact that it camouflages any corruption and makes it damn near impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.
  4. Yeah I don't know what interlocutory appeal options the government may have. Because she denied the vagueness motion to dismiss, but not the PRA, I initially thought this was some gambit to paint the government into a corner on it, making it easier to dismiss the indictment. But the "extended" idea of her giving really bad/wrong jury instructions didn't initially occur to me. One thing I believe I have seen is that despite the federal civil practice of lengthy and detailed jury questions, federal criminal questions are short and singular, generally. Here is an example of the questions in an espionage act case. https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/5c5cdc7f03 And here's what the instructions look like in a different case. https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/2f9194cd67
  5. Which I intended to use in my campaign...
  6. If she gave really bad/wrong jury instructions that force the jury to acquit on the classified information counts, we're looking at acquittal with no remedy. However, that would not affect the obstruction counts, where the evidence is maybe even stronger. The problem is that the government indicted on the section of 793 that requires that the defendant lack authority to possess the classified information in the first place, while they could have alleged the section that doesn't require that. She appears to want to instruct the jury that the PRA may initially have made his possession of these documents rightful, even after they had left the white house. And they have to make a finding on that. The PRA does no such thing. My initial read was that she was attempting to use this process to make it easier to grant Trump"s motion to dismiss on the PRA. But she could just be girding up to give bad jury instructions. For which the government has no remedy except to dismiss the case before a jury is sworn and bring it again. In that event, doing jury instructions early like this helps the government. If they were done after the jury was sworn as is more conventional, the government would have no remedy at all.
  7. So Dallas got it's first in-town new trail in like 20 years. Just south of Tension GC in a large wooded spot right off the existing paved trail network. Creekside Trail. Huge disappointment. Less than a mile of actual trail and green and poor drainage apparently. There are green, blue and black "skills areas" that seem to be mostly jump/drop lines. I haven't visited so maybe that's kinda cool, but I am disappoint.
  8. Good point. I was thinking in terms of her using this procedure to boost an attempt to dismiss the indictment on these counts. If she just flat fucks the jury instructions and that results in an acquittal, we will all be holding our dicks.
  9. Plenty of corporate drones give zero fucks, too. Like none of yall ever seen Office Space.
  10. Actually not many if any.
  11. Except it wasn't that movement responsible for the closing of state hospitals, and the shift to "community care," which was due in large part to Medicaid and well underway by 1970. Reagan did some to lower/end federal spending on mental health, but by then it was on "community" care, not institutions.
  12. The reason I think Cannon is galactically stupid is not limited to the fact that she is bungling the law so badly. If she wants to throw the case for Trump, this is among the most unwieldy, obvious, and obviously appealable and reversible ways to do it. And if that is her plan, she apparently is too stupid to realize it. All this will do is delay the case. There are subtler, more discretionary, and unappealable ways to do that. She hasn't fucked this thing up yet, but if she persists on her current course, she's going to get another public spanking from the 11th Circuit.
  13. After mostly getting its ass handed to it by Masimo over patented blood oxygen and pulse sensors incorporated into the Apple Watch, Apple is now trying legislatively to alter the jurisdiction of the International Trade Commission to institute patent infringement investigations over technologies imported by domestic entities, such as Apple Watches. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/technology/apple-patents-lobbying.html and elsewhere. Historically, the ITC has provided an alternative venue for patent infringement claims against foreign importers of patented technologies. Monetary damages are unavailable, but the proceeding is extremely rapid, concluding within 24 months, and may result in an exclusion order, which prevents importation of the infringing devices. Now that almost everything is manufactured outside the US and imported, the ITC has "jurisdictional relevance" (RIP Tom) in more patent infringement cases than ever before, and where the defendant is a domestic entity like Apple. In a lot of ways, I do think the ITC 337 proceeding may be abused, but somehow I find it distasteful that Apple is doing this. Apple is far from the only domestic entity whose ox has been gored by this feature of the law, but is the only one whinging about it.
  14. Also, I listened to the oral argument in the Sidney Powell appeal. The bar did not seem particularly convincing on the issue of a trial court having to dig around the record to find the evidence, meaning all the evidence the bar mislabeled and bungled, so that's bad. On the other hand, on the Georgia federal complaint and its attachments, which I believe were clearly of record, the bar had the upper hand on that providing sufficient evidence of lack of candor with the Georgia court that I think they may have won the day. Highly speculative on my part. Decision should be imminent.
  15. Bit of a sidenote here, but I was looking at Texas' supersedeas bond requirements, which I haven't looked at in years, but Texas does limit the bond amount to half of the defendant's net worth. So, at least some places, "ability to pay" does come into it at this stage of proceedings. Proving one's net worth would be a bitch, though, and highly embarrassing most likely.
  16. Someone called it high "self-regard." In the context of addiction, I can attest personally and observationally that it is a real and negative, damaging trait or behavior. I have often called it inward-dwelling. AA and related 12-step programs focus on service to others as a way to break out of it and find one's rightful place in the world, which oddly seems to bring peace.
  17. Point of order, the destruction of the mental health system, which mostly occurred at the state level, was well underway long before Reagan. And it is as much the fault of civil libertarians, ie libruls, as fiscal conservatives. He gets a bad rap on that.
  18. I guess groomers don't really exist then and we have no need to push "family" and Judeo-Christian ethics.
  19. Yeah the trial judge gave them an opportunity to develop it into a real conflict of interest and they pretty much failed. Not much for a court of appeals to deal with.
  20. I did see that in the NY statutes. It sounds super-nasty, in that once a "restraining order" is served on a bank, they can release no funds to the account owner until the judgment creditor files a satisfaction of (the entire) judgment, or voluntarily releases it. Quite a bit nastier than Texas' garnishment, which only works as to the account balance as of the time it hits, plus anything subsequently deposited. That could be a major ouchie for orange man.
  21. I dunno. At one time, long ago, I was pretty up on judgment collection in Texas and federal courts. Not so much anymore, particularly in NY, and state entities often have things available that private parties don't. And, although I am responding to you, I am explicating things you probably already know for the benefit of the thread.
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