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washparkhorn

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  1. The producer who ordered the kid to follow the jury bus last night needs to be fired.
  2. Judge on the bench: NBC/MSNBC had a reporter follow the sealed bus carrying the jurors. Judge makes a brief statement and back to waiting on the jury.
  3. Ethical rules bar contingency fee arrangements in criminal matters.
  4. The Defense in that case is also claiming self-defense based on a fear that an unarmed man might take his shotgun. Unlike this case, the Defense knows their only hope is jury nullification or hung jury (hoping one juror will not vote to convict). It's an ugly. And the video is right out of the early 1960's in the south:
  5. @Gidnik - First, answer my question above. Where's the flaw? That's where the concern lies. That's the lynchpin of the State's case. The State doesn't represent victims. The State represents the State. The law needs to be fixed - pronto - by the Wisconsin House and Senate. This current law has a strong tendency to encourage violent behavior - by all sides who attach themselves onto protests. In an age when most get their "news" from social media + if it bleeds, it leads "journalism" - we are setting up shooting galleries in states with similar laws. The law is contrary to public policy and needs a quick fix. This could get ugly for both sides, and no one wants that, do they? Not admissible according to this judge.
  6. Thank you - seriously. I left the Metroplex a long time ago.
  7. If you were a lawyer with a genuine conflict of interest like yours, simple disclosure would not be enough. The attorney would be unable to represent the client (or would need to withdraw from representation).
  8. If you work for a for-profit corporation, the people who pay you have a paramount legal duty to maximize profits for shareholders. That's conflict with impartiality. Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States disagree with your epiphany.
  9. Southlake is worst name for a suburb north of Dallas and Fort Worth. Was it shortened from "kind of south of Grapevine Lake"? And why is Lake Dallas a town next to Lake Lewsiville, and not in Dallas? I never liked that area of the Metroplex. The Von Erich wrestling clan from those parts looked tough.
  10. Here are the rules governing my conduct. Show me yours. https://www.cobar.org/RulesofProfessionalConduct
  11. Tell me about conflicts of interest in your world. I have zero idea what your profession/occupation requires because I don't have a reference point.
  12. I cannot speak for the Texas legal system.
  13. He carried it for self-defense. He was in reasonable in fear of his life and, in fact, he was shot by an armed counter-protestor advancing on the protestors. Agree?
  14. Litigating attorneys (barristers) are duty-bound Officers of the Court and subject to the court's jurisdiction in cases brought before the courts. The courts punch down hard on attorney fuckups. An attorney's ticket can be pulled for matters you might consider trivial. Some of those things - like segregation of client funds - is zero tolerance in most states. Contingency fee agreements expand access to the courts for those less fortunate.
  15. I humbly opine it's too soon to stop counting cases given the number of unboostered and unvaccinated. They need to know when there is a greater chance of getting struck by lightning in their area. If we have moved on to letting them die, if they want to, I will wash my hands of this.
  16. Well said, one and all. So . . . big brains . . . is this a personality cult that wants to reverse time and believe only Trump holds the answer? Or - are the nihilists at our door?
  17. On brand for Gaetz.
  18. I expect nothing less . . . from a dentist.
  19. It's part of the current DNA of the Democratic Party: From 2019: The celebration of charismatic, conflict-averse uniters in Democratic-led White Houses (Clinton and Obama) omits a key, and punishing, shift in Democratic politics from anything resembling a viable effort to build a long-term majoritarian liberal coalition. Over the past two decades, Democrats steadily lost disaffected former supporters, while failing to consistently mobilize young or economically precarious people alienated from the entire political process, as the Republican Party increasingly became a nihilistic, anti-democratic machine designed to bamboozle a white elderly base and thwart the desires of the larger public for the sake of an entrenched oligarchy.
 All the while, Democratic leaders continue to campaign and govern from a crouched, defensive position even after they win power. They have bought into the central ideological proposition, peddled by apparatchiks and consultants aligned with the conservative movement, that America is an incorrigibly “center-right” nation, and they have precious little strategy or inclination to move that consensus leftward—to fight, in other words, to change the national consensus; the sort of activity that was once understood as “politics.” 
 https://newrepublic.com/article/154113/democratic-party-fighting-spirit-give-war-chance
  20. Now you have done it.
  21. The one in Lolita slams and goes hard after a day of fishing the scenic Lavaca Bay Casey's General Convenience Stores in rural Nebraska serve some damn good pizza.
  22. To be fair to the jury - they waited hours while the luddite judge and lawyers demonstrated their inability to discuss technology. I think it is probably a jury making sure they reach the proper verdict.
  23. Judge chatting about air conditioning now.
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