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  1. Pretrial investigation is mostly sunk cost, meaning you're already paying detectives, cops, CSIs, etc., but there's probably considerable overtime involved. Once a trial starts, it starts going past that into expert fees, payment of officers for trial time, probably a good number of third parties get on the payroll for various things.
  2. Yeah, expensive, especially for death penalty, risky (both as to actual conviction and sentence), just a gigantic hassle best avoided if a lifey sentence can be obtained otherwise.
  3. Probably true, but I was meaning in the "moral" or "prudential" sense. The criminal justice system doesn't exist to redress the injuries or grievances of the victims. Is consideration of their interests and desires worthwhile? Yes, but I think the notion of "victim's rights" has gone a bit overboard recently.
  4. Guess it depends on the jurisdiction, but federal pleas, for example, require a factual "resume" or statement in support of the plea. They can get fairly detailed and can be the subject of considerable negotiation, at least in part because certain fact findings can affect sentencing, etc. I don't know that any of them supply sufficient detail to satisfy crime nuts or victim's families. And, if the plea is LWOP, or even life, versus death, I think the families start to lose standing to object. Those are not objectively lenient sentences and I don't think victims/survivors should exert that level of influence over the sentence, nor should they be able to force the state to a trial.
  5. Worth pointing out that Japanese think American rice is trash, such that they might stop buying rice at all rather than buy American. https://apnews.com/article/japan-rice-explainer-shortages-rising-prices-agriculture-6e21bc9017c8f6d8c0a1f179e50e975f
  6. True enough. One thing that has ground my gears about Congress for the last couple of decades is a seeming refusal to revisit, repeal, and revise legislation. Except trying to repeal Obamacare of course.
  7. The concept here is that agents cannot commit a trespass when executing an administrative/immigration warrant. You can commit a trespass once a property owner tells you to leave and you do not. So, at least theoretically you can put ICE agents in a trespass situation by telling them to GTFO. And I think the "no masks" rule works the same way: you may be asked to leave or remove your mask, if you do not, you become a trespasser. But it may be too late, and the scenario is clearer if they aren't allowed in in the first place.
  8. Yeah, he delayed us embarking on our coaching sojourn for a couple of years. Which might have led to someone other than Strong, someone better or worse, Herman too, maybe. But that's all speculation; the only thing he really did was prolong the Mack Brown agony for a couple or three unnecessary years. Hell, if you're going to play the speculation game, without that delay, Sarkisian wouldn't have been available/ready. Blaming him for our long malaise is a causation fallacy, as you note. I remain kinda mad at him though, because he turned out to be such a turd after convincing me he really was one of the good guys.
  9. I said at some point that Abrego Garcia's indictment looked like it was entirely based on co-conspirator evidence. Read that "jailhouse snitch" handsomely compensated by the government.
  10. "American families." Kochs, Dunns, Wilks, Waltons if they get in line, Musks . . . .
  11. Particularly because it followed a trend that included "coachfran-aggyfootball.com" or similar.
  12. But will accuweather get it? Or whoever his butt buddy is?
  13. It all depends on what is actually registered and for what goods. Unsurprisingly, multiple variations of "grok" are registered for various types of computer software. Adding shit like "xai" or a font, or spelling it funny like groq or whatever, isn't going to help the basic case. He still has a common-law trademark in grok for AI, but he won't be able to get a registration most likely. It is conceivable that he gets some kind of consumer survey expert and survey that indicates AI is recognized as a separate category from software more generally and it is entitled to registration for that narrow class only.
  14. Im just really skeptical that a bunch of D and EE width boots could really properly fit the vast majority of people.
  15. Not even when his lil eyes popped and his tongue came out?
  16. Federal is probably going to be a bit more formal than state, but anything you wear with a jacket would be fine most likely. Except this:
  17. Point of order, birthright citizenship arose under the 14th Amendment in about 1870, not the 1789 timeframe of the original Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  18. Well, the answer to all of this is that public education, in its best conception, is a social good. It's not a quid pro quo for your tax dollars. If you choose not to avail yourself of it, that's your choice. As it is your choice to send your kids to private school. It doesn't absolve you of the obligation to pay for the social good. If it isn't well funded enough that parents have to come out of pocket, that's a policy failure, not a choice (although the decision to help out is a choice).
  19. That's correct, but the question they're asking is one of interpretation of the 14th Amendment, and that is not going to be prospective in operation.
  20. No idea.
  21. I saw someone somewhere that said Dems have lost the ability to look like they're "having fun." In this case, "having fun" was used in a sense opposite to being a political pervert or wonk.
  22. When we speak of "Hearts in Atlantis," I assume we actually refer to "Low Men in Yellow Coats" rather than the eponymously named short story about card marathons and Carol Gerber and the other two stories touching on Bobby, which seem to be pretty remote from DT, AFAIK.
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