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  1. Part of the answer is that jeopardy doesn't "attach" until the jury is empaneled and sworn. So anything she does now does not prevent charges from being refiled. The concern is if she puts a bunch of confusing stuff in the charge that results in his acquittal, retrying him for such crimes may result in double jeopardy.
  2. Some of us are just exceptional multi-taskers.
  3. What could possibly go wrong. The irony is that Trump may inadvertently save the country from Gilead.
  4. Let's chalk it up to a lucid interval on my part.
  5. Let the first Surly Lawyer who hasn't had to deal with a high level of trial court fuckery during his/her career step forward. I've spent my career observing the good, the bad, and the ugly, and Cannon's decision-making hasn't approached a level of weirdness or what-the-fuck that I've seen on the ugly end of the spectrum when considered in a vacuum. The difference is that this case is important for our country and I'd like to think we deserve way better (some might argue we are getting what we deserve). But as someone pointed out, there is a reason for judicial review. We are in an awful hurry here, and the anxiety we who are concerned citizens feel is real. Her fuck-ups are magnified. Hopefully, they will be corrected, either by her or someone above her pay-grade. But those of us in the business have seen it all. If the stakes weren't so damned high, it would be a bit more laughable.
  6. I'd be in over my head too. But in that circumstance, I'd fall back on "no reason to reinvent the wheel" and K.I.S.S. And, at least in my realm, I'd be willing to posit that appellate experience does not wholly prepare someone to excel in a trial setting, nor does trial experience wholly prepare someone to excel in an appellate setting, particularly at the judge level. There are people who do both well at the practice level. See, e.g., BrisketTexan, et al. But they are distinct skill sets.
  7. It's either one, the other, or both. I don't think neither is an option. Optimistically, I tend to think that she was appointed for her loyalty as opposed to her potential as a skilled jurist and that she's in way over her head in this case, i.e., doesn't know what the hell she's doing.
  8. Those schisms always were there. He just made them feel more at home in the light of day. Aside: we left our UMC church after twenty years when it split off to the Global Methodist Church in 2022.
  9. So is the only option for the Government to seek mandamus relief? The judge has no discretion to misstate the law to the jury, and you've just made a good case for inadequate appellate remedy. It would mean more delay, but that beats the alternative. I know they aren't actually jury instructions at this point, but just looking down the road.
  10. Please don't say that out loud again. That absolutely is the strongest play for him. It's already a religious experience for his ilk, and I don't even want to imagine a reality with him on TV (more than he is now) with people sending him tax exempt money instead of in a cell talking about crawdads and (deconstructed) hamburders.
  11. Looks like Schedule III is a go. It's not the goal line, but it's progress. Link-Link-Pass
  12. Eventually, TRUMP TO CELLMATE: And when there were no crawdads to be had, we ate hamburders.
  13. Isn't there some strange circumstance resulting in its not being homestead property. I think he's technically the "property manager." I know it's held by an LLC, but there was something strange about his acquisition of the property that's escaping me at the moment.
  14. For those of you with kids, talk to them. Ask the hard questions. Keep an eye on behavioral and mood changes. A vast majority of them (based on experience with my own and talking to friends about their kids) are not feeling mentally well. You can help and get them help. Their is light on the other side. But we chalked it up to typical teenager shit for longer than we should have and are lucky things didn't go horribly wrong from what we came to learn.
  15. I grew up going to Dozier's in the late 70s/early 80s. So this hits hard. I know they've enjoyed recent success, but with the departure of he who shall not be named last year, I'm assuming that success wasn't lucrative to the point it needed to be.
  16. It's not slowing anything down since prosecution may continue. But I can't imagine it will take long to review. The whole thing was a red herring.
  17. Having the prosecutor removed for impropriety unrelated to the case is one thing. Having the case dismissed because of it seems like a pipe dream.
  18. The fact that it doesn't stay prosecution is good. Unless the COA is markedly pro-Trump, I'd expect it to go nowhere fast. Presumably, this is reviewed by something akin to abuse of discretion and would be a steep hill to get it flipped, even by competent counsel. It results in Trump's spending money (wherever it comes from) that is not going to his campaign on something that will likely not bear fruit. I'm good with it.
  19. D.J. Wentworthless: "It's your money, and I need it now!" "I have a crippling judgment, and I need cash now . . . ." /enCHUBBened
  20. So Michael Dell just sold $465M worth of Dell stock. I'm sure it's a coincidence, given how far in advance that had to have been planned. My real concern is that Trump starts an Onlyfans, in which case, I think Dell should just give him the money to take it down, lest the screen grabs show up on IPIHB.
  21. This article mentions the possibility of a restraining order on spending until he puts up the bond. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239524037/heres-what-happens-if-trump-cant-pay-his-454-million-bond
  22. Under the judgment, they would have oversight of some sort over the LLC, correct? That might make things flexible. I haven't dealt with this end of the law in some time, thankfully.
  23. I think I read it's held by a NY-based LLC. Food for though, Don-Don: don't shit where you eat.
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