Imagine you put somebody alone in a room with a blueberry pie, with no entrances or exits other than one door. You then close and lock the door and stand in front of it, not allowing anybody to enter or exit.

I don’t understand why the defense conceded that.

Circumstantial evidence is not the same as “emotion” nor “conjecture”.

he admitted to being there while the murder took place, then hung out with accomplices at his pool, and tried to fund their getaway. what other evidence do you need?

Wasn’t really circumstantial evidence. What you’re saying is that short of getting caught in the act, no one should be accused.

Bullshit. There can be convincing circumstantial evidence, and if there is enough of it, it can erase any reasonable doubt.

It’s not like direct evidence or eyewitness testimony is demonstrably less fallible.

They had physical evidence. They had a shell casing in his rental car that just-so-happened to match the make of the weapon used against Lloyd, and appeared identical to the casings from the scene. No, they may not have been able to definitively prove that they were fired from the same gun, but that’s still pretty…

Circumstantial evidence convicts people everyday. Real life court isn’t CSI.

They had video from his own security camera coming home with gun in hand.

I do that 40-50% tip sometimes too. It is probably makes me a slightly self-serving ass to think "oh, my extra 20% on the tip probably made somebody's day better" and give myself a pat on the back for it. But I also do genuinely want to make somebody else happy! And either way, they get the extra money.

Last trip to visit them I remembered to bring small bills. This trip I forgot and am ashamed. I even asked the hostess at one restaurant if there was an ATM in there so I could leave a better tip. There wasn't.

Kicked myself for not having any cash to leave under my plate, and thought "well, they're probably used to it, being as this area is NOTHING but old, conservative white people who probably don't tip well"

some of us can read upside down, so yes. If I were (married now) dating a person who was a shitty tipper or rude to a server, I'd want to know.

THIS! I went out on a date or two with a guy, who paid every time only for us to become Facebook friends, when I found a charming post that went something along the lines of:

I can see him condescendingly explaining to his date that he enters a restaurant planning to tip 15%, then makes mental notes each time staff makes an error, and he begins deducting....

ManBerry has his problems...but one thing that really endeared me to him was one time he left a tip, and it was somewhere around 30%, at least, tip. He doesn't have a lot of extra money, even going out to eat is a luxury (and he has some old-fashioned tendencies and won't let me pay for dinner), and he still left a…

Which is funny because "treating waitstaff like shit" is a dealbreaker for a lot of women. Certainly was for me when I was dating.

If I ever was on a date and my date insisted on paying for the entire meal and he didn't tip properly or at all, I would dump his ass.