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scottsins

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  1. Yep, but that doesn’t mean that they are not doing that…even if they are telling themselves that they are not doing it. Cuts both ways sometimes. Best example in the other direction is that they are instructed not to consider a defendant’s failure to testify, but we know that they often do weigh it to some extent.
  2. David Chang’s cooking show is great.
  3. I’ll see your example of trash weed policy and raise you this: Last week a judge told my PTSD Vet that if he tested hot for THC, he would have his probation revoked, even if he could provide a valid prescription for an approved registered physician under the Compassionate Use Program. Opioids? Benzos? No similar policy/stande.
  4. 100%. Texas will it change their marijuana statute at all, regardless of how federal statutes change.
  5. JFC, I hate this day and age of twitter legal eagle clickbait shit. Proving BRD that Trump explicitly directed Habba to make these statements would be required. One can, as this article does, easily draw that logical conclusion/inference, but that’s not how this shit works.
  6. Pecker already testified about a catch and kill story that was proven to be completely false. There was still a reason to pay to keep the allegation under wraps. The crime here is related to the way payments were disguised, in order to not look like campaign related. That crime can occur whether the underlying story is true. To be clear it is relevant. However, admissibility isn’t automatic because something is relevant. That relevance (probative value) has to be weighed against the danger of unfair prejudice.
  7. Was he under oath? Did he actually speak in court on the issue or did his attorneys advance that argument? If so, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when he made the statement, he knew that the reason he was giving was not true at the time he stated it. So…no. Proceed to rant.
  8. He could get behind legalizing weed, and they would suddenly set aside Palestine issues, etc.
  9. They get on the jury because the State had other jurors that they felt more strongly about using peremptory strikes on.
  10. Sure, but counsel can ask questions that reference that information during selection. Jury selection, other than in death penalty cases generally is a proceeding conducted in open court with a court reporter. It’s part of a public trial, with Open Court provisions and such. Fun fact: In most Texas criminal trials, the State, after receiving the juror information the morning of trial…rushes a copy down to their office so that their investigators can run detailed background checks on everyone. I just now have found creative ways to casually relay that to jury panels during voire dire, just to give them negative feels about the prosecution.
  11. Israel purchases weapons from us, AFAIK.
  12. Wait. Do you know why we are even discussing perjury? Hint: it’s because a really connected person with resources was just sent down to do 5 years for the charge.
  13. Golf clap. * would have given bonus points for constant misspelling “judgment”.
  14. Lol. Are you serious? I was taken aback by immamac’s number of 40-50%, but 100%? I’ve represented hundreds of DWI defendants. NOT ONE has ever told me that they decided to drive, knowing that they were impaired, because they couldn’t figure out another way to get home. Not one. Virtually all of them either just chose poorly or, as is often the case, did not realize that they were LEGALLY impaired.
  15. Why is anyone assuming that he was “over the legal limit”? Do y’all not know how DWI’s work?
  16. What % of DWI’s do you think are the result of the offender not being able to find/afford alternative transportation?
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