So you’re using old renderings, when we know the car won’t look like that, and quoting top of the range performance figures with bottom of the range pricing, while not extending that courtesy to Tesla. I hate Elon as much as the next right-thinking person, but this article is really trash.

Yeah, who gives a shit about civil rights?!

“Johnson is no saint; he’s a defense lawyer.”

Go fuck yourself. You think the ACLU are the only civil rights lawyers in this county?

Go fuck yourself.

OTOH, if your friends expect you to pay to travel to their wedding *and* give them a gift, they’re garbage friends.

The rules for tipping and gift-giving are super similar, and easy. Don’t accept their generosity in feeding and entertaining you if you aren’t going to reciprocate (IOW: if you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out).

Donation to a charity you like.

Hey Coldwater, several Las Vegas colleagues have lauded the job that Jay did (which is very high praise, given the general attitude here toward out-of-towners that land high profile cases). Hope you can pass that along to him.

You’re totally wrong about this. In fact, he faces multiple life sentences, and I’ll be shocked if he ever leaves the custody of the NDOC.

For reference, NRS 200.310 et seq deal with kidnapping, 200.364 et seq deal with sexual assault, and penalties are discussed there. (Just Google “NRS 200" and you’ll get a link to…

Her credentials evidence her intellect, as does her nomination to the federal bench. I didn’t (and don’t!) take any position whether it was a good or bad decision, I only said that she would have considered it carefully.

As far as dying on this Hill (sic!) I guess I’m up to 3 posts in this thread now, so that’s…

I didn’t mean to suggest that she considered at all whether the strategy was wise, only that she would have considered carefully whether it was lawful.

The judge in this case is a tremendously bright (UPenn magna cum laude undergrad, UVA Law - Order of the Coif, nominated by Obama to the federal bench before being sort of pocket-vetoed by Senator Heller in a vendetta against Harry Reid payback thing) woman (as an aside, someone in this thread assumed she was a man,…

“A prosecutor is never likely to over-charge a defendant[.]”

This is absolutely false. If anything, prosecutors are likely to monumentally overcharge at this early stage of the game for the sake of gaining bargaining position. They can always amend the charges down to conform to what evidence they (don’t) have at trial.

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That’s game, right?

Here in Nevada, there are municipal/city courts (roughly, traffic tickets, jaywalking violations, etc.), then “Justice” courts (misdemeanors/small claims on the civil side), then “District” courts (felonies/high $ civil claims), then a COA and a SC. JP’s sit in Justice Court.

It’s pretty shoddy journalism to leave out the fact that these are totally 100% standard, any-lawyer-who-doesn’t-file-this-is-an-asshole filings.

The guy is pretty clearly an awful person, but it’s not because he hired decent lawyers and defending himself within the bounds of the law.

Or shall I assume that a Gawker…

I thought it was pretty clear he was saying “It’s hard enough for me to be a pro athlete, and I never have to be pregnant or have a period, so women are some champions.”

Yeah, that’s almost exactly the conversation we’ve had, it’s up to you to decide to do this alone and without talking to me about it, but then it’s my choice if that shatters our trust and I have to leave.

Something I have struggled with. I am a huge pro-choice guy, but would feel absolutely gutted if my wife didn’t at least inform me/discuss with me (you know, assuming I found out later). I guess that’s the personal/theoretical intersection for me. In theory, I am very much for an unfettered right to choose, but on a…

You made me look up quisling, thanks! What a great word, I always default to turncoat/Judas there, so you’ve improved my vocabulary by 50% ;-)

I should have qualified all this with a “in my state at least,” up front.

But yeah, in my state at least, the fact of the conviction establishes the conduct if a trial happened.

With a plain-jane guilty plea, you have to make certain admissions on the record, to establish the basis for the plea. So you have to tell the…