Justice Ginsberg undid every good thing she did on the bench by not retiring. Breyer will probably be the same. The Supreme Court is tilted radical right for at least a generation.

Stories like that and how RBG and Scalia were best buds make me think justices are pretty fucking detached from reality.

I met Justice Breyer once and asked him how he manages to have a civil relationship with Clarence Thomas. And he said “you need to understand where Justice Thomas came from” and I said, “you need to understand what he’s actually doing to people.” And then the conversation ended. Breyer is a good Justice in the sense…

The only thing I know about Breyer is that if he doesn’t get his ass off the bench very soon, the only thing he will be remembered for is not getting his ass off the bench for the greater good.

to furnish self-incriminating testimony.whether Cosby reasonably relied upon Castor’s public announcement that he would not be prosecuted in exchange of relinquishing his constitutional right to furnish self-incriminating testimony.

Show me the “promise” Castor made.

Lol, huh? I’m not trying to save Castor’s legacy, since he is working as hard as possible to keep a rapist out of jail, which I tend to view as a bad thing.

The idea that prosecutors should be bound by their assurances is a good one. No assurance was made in this case, at least not as a matter of any record whatsoever. Castor declined to prosecute at the time because, according to him, he thought there was insufficient evidence. That’s not an “assurance” to never…

What indispensable element of a “binding agreement” do you think is missing here?

When some dumbfuck says #metoo has gone too far, present this fuckshit to them.

No one “agreed” not to prosecute Cosby. Read the opinion. Castor repeatedly and expressly disclaims that any agreement was ever made with Cosby whereby Castor would not prosecute Cosby and in exchange Cosby would then testify in Constand’s case (such an agreement would be ridiculous because there wouldn’t be any…

Reading the opinion, and it’s even worse than I expected. One of the key takeaways is that the prosecutor who made the “agreement” expressly disclaims there was any agreement to never prosecute Cosby. Also, the statement he released at the time he declined to prosecute Cosby also expressly said “District Attorney…

Wasn’t that scene supposed to be a fantasy that Cliff dreamed up to think himself a badass when he really wasn’t?

Enforceable based on what? It was a secret, unwritten agreement. Just because Bruce Castor was DA at the time doesn’t mean everything he did binds the prosecutor’s office FOR ALL TIME. That’s not how binding agreements work.

No, it was a benefit to Cosby. If a party pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions in a civil proceeding, their opponent in that civil proceeding would typically be entitled to seek an adverse inference as a result, i.e. that the finder of fact is entitled to assume that the party pleading the fifth is doing so…

If anybody ever rapes anyone I love, the body will never be found and nothing will be able to link him to me.

And he’s been released. :-/

There was never even an agreement in writing. It was an agreement between BRUCE CASTOR and Bill Cosby’s lawyers, all to help Bill Cosby in his civil trial. It’s absurd that an informal, unwritten agreement that is made solely for the purpose of helping someone accused of a serious crime avoid negative consequences in…

If anybody rapes me, I’ll kill them.

The entire judicial system of pennsylvania can eat shit. Fuck this state.