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This isn’t a trial, though, is it? Yes, it is. I thought the whole purpose of a plea deal was to avoid a trial? Or is any proceeding considered a "trial" in this context? We shouldn’t get hung up on the word “trial.” The guilty plea proceedings are done in open court. That means open to t...

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:43 pm This isn’t a trial, though, is it?

Yes, it is.

https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1383096279643865097 Alan Feuer @alanfeuer · 38m Jon Ryan Schaffer, the Oath Keeper who is pleading guilty today in DC, will be sponsored for Witness Protection, the judge just said. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Schaffer's cooperation deal is that the...

Shaffer is pleading guilty to one count of Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and one count of Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon.

There are now THREE (!) felines-in-residence at Maybelot. In addition to Chunky, we also have Leo and Ivy (no photos yet). As I’ve mentioned, the previous owner had a whole bunch of feral cats that she’d feed (some more feral than others). When they moved she took most of them with her, but there se...

The newspaper articles say that these guys weren’t charged with “stolen valor,” but don’t really explain the basis for the ruling. I looked it up on the Montana Supreme Court website, and it doesn’t really explain it either, other than to say the defendants allege the condition is unlawful and the S...

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:43 am

Uninformed wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:22 am “Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56757956

Looks like a croissant tree to me.

Some mother in Poland: “Stop wasting food! Croissants don’t grow on trees, ya know!”

The state just opened up to everyone above 18, starting tomorrow, a week early. Now, only my son has to get it in the immediate family. :thumbsup: Today is the open-up day for us. Sprout went online last night and snagged a Pfizer appointment for TODAY! My only concern is his bee allergy. It should...

Just finished with the last season of The Detectorists. I won’t spoil it, but a plot point was the discovery of Roman ruins during excavation prior to development. One episode had a very nice montage of different people using the same bit of land for different purposes over a long period of time, ea...

All good points. My problem with the defense position is that it ignores the question of proximate causation. Suppose Floyd had a heart condition and was overdosing. I'm pretty sure Chauvin's knee on his neck didn't help, nor did his failure to render any aid when Floyd became unresponsive. The def...

As I’ve said, I haven’t watched any of this trial. But to convict on either the 2nd or 3rd degree murder charge, the State has to prove that Chauvin actually caused Floyd’s death. So it’s not unreasonable for the defense to suggest that there was some other cause. Based upon what I’ve read here, it ...

Dozen missing from commercial boat capsized off Louisiana as Coast Guard rescues six As a ferocious storm whipped up towering waves off Louisiana’s coast on Tuesday, a commercial vessel carrying 18 people capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, sparking a mass rescue operation from the U.S. Coast Guard and...

It's a "Judeo-Christian platform" so you can't say Muslim stuff, you know. I don't think he knows what a platform is in computer speak. No, he' got "platform" down, its free speech he doesn't know anything about. He may know a little about free speech. Apparently he knows nothin...

I can not stand Mr. Nelson I hate his way of questioning his bumbling/fumbling agreed shit I hate the way he talks but I REALLY hate the way he rubs his nose like one of my PBS kids that do not know any better. He is a lawyer, on TV and he rubs his nose like a dirty boy Agreed! I couldn't put my fi...

I went to high school in Knoxville (a different one), and my brother still lives there.

Had my 2nd Pfizer yesterday. Fitful sleep and weird dreams last night. Tired this am so slept an extra hour. Woke up feeling pretty good, so I did a few easy, short-duration projects around Maybelot (spackling and painting). Now I’m starting to drag a bit - a little hot, then a little cold. So Ima s...

Growing up, I only ever knew about Western blue jays, which are really called California scrub jays. They're pretty aggressive, and will steal food from your picnic table while you're sitting right there. I was not a big fan. We had seller’s jays in Northern California. :lovestruck: https://upload....

:lovestruck: I love blue jays! I heard them doing the rusty wheel call this morning. What I’ve noticed about the jays around here is that you never see the jays by themselves — they kind of pack up with other species, usually doves but sometimes crows. And, like the doves and crows, they prefer thei...

If euthanasia can be mercifully done, so can a death penalty. If it isn’t a deterrent, why do defendants bargain to take it off the table? Humanity and economics agree here, that it should at the very least be done rarely, where a crime is especially heinous, and the perp is manifestly, unquestiona...

The Detectorists on Amazon Prime. We’d seen the first two series a while back - now there’s a new one.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1381290979756437505 Liz Cheney to CBS on Matt Gaetz: "As the mother of daughters, the charges certainly are sickening." I agree that the charges are sickening. But you don’t have to be a mother, and you don’t have to have daughters, to be sickened b...

In my cases where I'm appointed by the court or by the Wisconsin State Public Defender, I can get funding for a limited number of experts. In cases where the defendant has privately retained counsel, the government isn't paying for shit and the defendant has to pony up. I won't lie: It's been a dec...