you must be new here, huh?

holy shit, that’s brilliant

No, but I wouldn’t have done absolutely nothing to prepare to move out. I’d have the vast majority of my shit packed up and ready to roll.

Yes, to a certain degree. Whatever a settlement was going to be, that doesn’t change some basic mechanics of what the company would need to establish to handle a large influx of claims (relatively) all at once. The fact that it appears they waited until the settlement was finally approved in October to even get the…

obligatory:

Fair enough, but if VW waited that long before beginning the process of establishing the infrastructure (for lack of better term) to handle the claims, from a legal perspective, that’s not good faith.

Agreed on the “good faith efforts” nonsense. The settlement was initially agreed to June 28 (IIRC) and formally approved July 26. They should have gotten the ball rolling on June 28 to establish the infrastructure needed to handle all the claims they knew would be coming in. If VW can’t establish that they immediately…

oh. That’s a bad joke then. I’ve seen people refer to the Rodeo as the Passport too many times in a non-joking way.

Passport was the Honda “Rodeo”

What, you couldn’t fit Oasis in somewhere?

Depends on the jurisdiction.

Wisconsin; but like I said, that is generally the case (based on what I remember from my Criminal Law/Procedure class). Charges also depend on lesser-included offenses.

I’d argue that Fat Charlie’s is a bit better than “not bad” at least for burgers. It’s the proto-typical dive bar that for some reason has great tasting burgers. This is my go-to stop for lunch when I venture up to Cabela’s

I agree about LIO’s, but Louisiana law is so screwy from the rest of the country, I’m not sure if that’s the case there. I wonder if there’s a strong prosecutorial misconduct issue if over-charging more that what you can prove occurs? That would at least explain why only manslaughter was charged.

Depends on numerous things. 1) If he’s taken a concealed carry class or done firearm training, you’re taught to fire rapidly (also depends on the gun used) and 3 shots is less than 1 second if done so (I can empty my 8 round 9mm in under 3 seconds); 2) the law in LA gives someone in their vehicle the right to consider…

That’s one witness. If the prosecutors talked to multiple witnesses and they don’t all line up (not to mention whatever forensic evidence exists*), they’d have a hard time proving murder.

the charge generally relates to what evidence the prosecution has and can prove beyond a reasonable doubt, as well as what the state’s law requires to prove each element of murder. Generally, murder requires preconceived intent to cause great bodily harm.

So, you put your car in park every time you stop at an intersection?

It seems like there’s a ton of misinformation out there. And it’s tough to piece together a timeline as to how this went down too.

I was just reiterating what another poster stated (which I clearly stated in my post).