I’m not “in favor of her decision.” I’m saying that it seems likely her hands were somewhat tied. The alternative is to not instruct the jury about a basic element of the defendant’s defense. You, me, the judge and the jury could all agree that the castle doctrine doesn’t apply given the facts here. But if the…

I appreciate the note. I will try to use “wrong” correctly in the future.

You’re not really a progressive then.

You used ‘wrong’ wrongly, in a sentence context that calls for the adverbial form, you supplied the adjectival. 

Whether to give a particular jury instruction is almost always a question before any trial court judge. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the trial court judge has carte blanche to give or not give whatever instructions he or she wants. If it’s a murder case, he or she needs to give the murder intruction.

As much as I fucking hate to see it, I don’t know that this was the wrong legal call. If the defense is mistake of fact, the only issue is whether the jury believes that she believed she was in her apartment. Even if the jury thinks her belief was unreasonable, so long as they think she did actually believe it it…

More than likely, she is a competent judge who examined the issue of whether castle doctrine applies based on objectively being in your own home or subjectively believing yourself to be in your own home and there is good precedent for the decision she made. Judges rarely get the opportunity to create new…

Cue bullshit post hoc justification of a simple error.

We aren’t necessarily expecting to ‘catch’ Trump. He’s already been caught. We know what’s happening.

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Ha! So it does.

You’re not an intelligent person and nobody values anything you have to say.

Thank you for that, it’s a nice solution for the time being. Here’s hoping MS brings forth a more “elegant” one soon.

The Social Network?

You‘re a fucking clown.

Headline:

You must be a white guy.

I don’t mean to disparage fan fiction as a writing exercise, apologies that it came across that way, but I dislike the addition of characters into remakes because their very existence requires plot, story, background and events to all be altered entirely.

I am going to be That Guy, but we’ve moved from Remake into Fan Fic territory now.

First I go home and make love to YOUR wife