Yes, because she is not an adult human being who is capable of exercising agency over who she is married to. Sure, maybe he “groomed” her, but she’s a smart and capable woman who chose to be with him for 21 years thereafter.

Not to mention the people they’re deposing will have one of the biggest and most reputable law firms in the world representing them and objecting the eff out of the whole thing.

Nice work, Arnold & Porter. I accept your attempt to gain good press and improve PR for BigLaw.

He doesn't have to be innocent, he has to be not guilty.

It’s not only people with diminished mental capacity who confess to things they don’t do. Given the right amount of pressure and subtle threats from an interrogator, it has been found that almost anybody will begin giving answers that they think will be “correct” in the police’s mind. It's made far worse when they're…

Eyewitness testimony is empirically one of the most unreliable types of evidence in criminal law. There are all sorts of ways it is wrong time and time again, not the least of which is coercive police practice and inaccurate memory.

Was it Murray’s?! Was it Murray’s?!

I am currently about 5 minutes in to “India’s Daughter” on netflix and am about to have a rage stroke. They actually interviewed these wastes of life from their prison cells and they’re saying “it takes two hands to clap. Rape is mostly a woman’s fault, she should not have been roaming the streets alone at night.”…

Reform.

Should this guy suffer the worst harm known to humanity? Absolutely. But setting that precedent (that its ok to murder people we find to be dangerous as a preventative measure) is so extremely dangerous and not worth it. It’s a slippery slope to police making the same defense every time they shoot someone - “they were…

I don’t care I want them. I want them all. I told my husband to just buy me as many candles as he can afford this Christmas.

K, I`m taking a grad school final at a large public university in LA today and am legitimately scared. Eff this.

To be fair, El Salvador has the highest homicide rate in the world right now. A rate that is 90 TIMES the median world homicide rate. It’s actually extremely dangerous to be in El Salvador or Guatemala at the moment.

Wait, am I not supposed to like that bag? Because I want to carry the shit out of that bag...

Enjoyed some MadTV sketches (Laguna Beach parody, etc.) but seeing that list of cast members reminds me just how much SNL trumps MadTV in terms of launching comedy careers...

Gigli

What everyone else said, but I`ll add that adding “illegal” tends to come with the connotation that it is a criminal offense to enter the US without being admitted. That is not the case. It is a civil legal breach, not a criminal one (unless you smuggle drugs/people and/or enter unlawfully multiple times within a…

Naw, its not a crime to not disclose your HIV-positive status, unless the state can somehow prove that you were going around spreading it FOR THE PURPOSE OF killing people. That is almost impossible to prove.

Unfortunately, I believe governors can have a say in this particular area, because it is not technically immigration. By the time they are “refugees” they’ve already been admitted into the US as a refugee. From there, the office of Refugee Resettlement is under the Department of State, not the Department of Homeland…

UCLA Law represent!