This comment makes no sense.

How is it unethical and illegal?

Hey, misplaced confidence is a wonderful thing. Enjoy your Sunday.

Where’s the relevance? Do you actually know what the standard for relevance is? It’s very low. People who are guilty of a crime tend not to call 911 and report their own crimes.

1) They are, and that decision is often made by the lawyer, long before the judge lazily says “You realize you have the right to testify on your own behalf. You don’t want to testify?”

“By the way, her claim that she wasn’t “allowed” to speak at trial is bullshit. Every defendant is told *EXPRESSLY* about their right to testify in their own defense.”

A lot of neat assumptions you are making.

No. Putting people on the stand as “experts” in a technique that has been consistently disproven is not necessary or useful. It would confuse the jury, and could lead to the possibility that a person who is guilty would get let free.

Really? You can’t see how it’s problematic at all? There may be practical reasons for the way the system operates, but that doesn’t mean it is not problematic.

I’m sorry, but a criminal defense attorney who has a client who consistently insists she is innocent, yet who has given a confession, and doesn’t explore the possibility of coercion, is committing malpractice.

Wouldn’t you say you just picked up the necklace if that was the truth?

Yes. She thinks what she did was fine. She is definitely a danger to society.

She doesn’t think she did anything wrong. I don’t think she should get life without parole, but she should not get out while she is convinced her actions were justified.

Well, it doesn’t really matter now, because you are probably right.

That is good advice that is probably a little lost on me. If I think someone has a reasonable opinion, I will not be nasty, but I honestly didn’t think you had a reasonable opinion, and if I think someone is being dumb, I say so, and that is what I thought. I was wrong, couldn’t have been any more wrong. This thread…

What can I say? If I’m going to be nasty on the internet because I think someone is wrong, I have to come back with my tail between my legs when I’m wrong. Someone will read this thread and see what a huge moron, but at least they’ll see I'm an HONEST moron.

Yes, thank you for that lesson. It would be odd for them to ask her whether she wanted to continue filming, and then for them not to use this footage she specifically agreed to. If she is fine with it, I guess I don’t understand why anyone else would be bothered with it.

I was defending the father, since I took you at your word that you weren’t doubting the victim. I thought you were clearly wrong about what you thought was suspicious about the father was dumb. Well, I look like an idiot. That’s fair

Welp, looks like you may have been right to be skeptical. Let this thread forever be a testament to my overwhelming idiocy. Go figure.

Wait, because he says they should be under investigation for some made up crime, they should not attend the SOTU? That’s what I got from that word salad.