Drug testing kits are presumptive in nature and everyone knows it. They don’t advertise 100% accuracy. The fact that judges, police, and prosecutors treat them as infallible is their problem.
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Yes, lets use one high profile case to eliminate jury unanimity, which has undoubtedly saved the lives of innocent people since it’s inception. Great idea!
The standard is fearing for one’s life and that the belief is objectively reasonable.
This case was tried by the actual elected DA for Milwaukee County, who is actually quite progressive. It is extremely rare for him to try cases himself (though he also recently led the inquest trial that led to recommendations that a bunch of Sheriff Clarke’s deputies be charged for killing a man by dehydration in the…
Both the defendant’s and his partner’s bodycams were on during the shooting and the jury saw the footage. They were also provided to the media last week.
Why are we whining about the absence of a hate crime investigation without anyone even explaining how a hate crime is defined in Virginia (if at all) and what the additional consequences are for committing a hate crime (if any)? This seems like misplaced outrage.
Everything? The guys look pretty proud of themselves in the picture. Self-esteem is in low supply in prisons and jails, so that’s a good thing.
He’s charged with murder in a state that has the death penalty. He’s already facing the most significant penalty possible. Does Virginia even have a hate crime penalty enhancer? Even if it does, how can you enhance the death penalty?
You already missed out on the role in Notorious and Straight Outta Compton. How many more chances can you get?
I believe that’s a misquote. Other articles have the following instruction:
Eh, I wouldn’t be so sure. Jury’s are strange. Last week I had a jury trial where the jury spent five minutes deliberating on serious drug charges, then spent the next 7 hours deliberating on a misdemeanor obstructing an officer charge before voting to convict. Some juries actually engage in vigorous debate and want…
Suh dude?
This happens because there are typically two different standards of proof for deciding whether someone is guilty vs. whether they violated their probation and should be revoked. The standard at trial is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the standard for probation revocation in most(?) states is something like the…
Lawyer here: no. The law is extremely clear. There are different standards of proof for jury trial and probation revocation. This happens routinely across the country to people of all races (though like everything in the criminal justice system, disproportionately to minorities).
He probably thinks he’s a tool, which is the same thing most of Sheriff Clarke’s own employees, both black and white, would say (I have the privilege of interacting with Milwaukee Co. Sheriff’s deputies on a daily basis).
Lol yes this is totally new! No one’s ever said Clarke is an incompetent fuck before the last 36 hours.
And conservatives who are too scared to even drive through a city love him because he’s a black person who calls other black people animals.
+1 win some, lose some
Mitch Hedberg bro