The reason we’re skeptical and annoyed is not usually because we’re just dicks, like the OP used to be. It’s because if someone says “by the way, I have an X allergy”, we are now potentially liable. We have to clean — again — all the equipment we use to prepare your food that may have been in touch with X. Depending…

I’ve been in your shoes and still am to an extent, but I’ve made some progress on it. Remain aware of what you’re thinking and why, and if you start getting itchy feet, make yourself have this conversation with the person. Talk about your fears, don’t make it about how they personally might wind up not being good…

I see so many of my friends in their 20’s settling for the “easy” choice — the guy who isn’t going to leave, maybe he’s not that smart or ambitious but he’s nice, you’ve already been living together for 5 years so maybe it’s time to get hitched. And they’re oh, so good about putting on a happy show, lots of photos…

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Maybe. Not from you, but I just had to dismiss an assload of hate about how I’m not REALLY a legal beagle because I don’t know everything. So I’m ready to bow out now, clearly I’m nowhere near ready for law school and should just burn myself alive despite how hard I’ve worked to get in.

YES when I was teaching I made my more advanced students read and watch “Twelve Angry Men” and re-enact it. the jury system is crucial and a lot of non-Americans don’t know how it works.

This is true, but my mom has always lived in smaller towns, and has been summoned a few times here. To her credit, she’d serve if she could, but she travels for business. My stepdad serves every few years it seems, I think he’s on their good list if such a thing exists because he handled a rather horrifying case years…

Totally. I go between NC/VA so I get mixed up on state laws, but here it seems that for misdemeanors or felonies that will probably be reduced, plea bargains work best. But I understand the justification for more serious/public cases going the opposite way, for sure. Honestly I’m trying just as much to learn as to…

I don’t know much about criminal law yet, I’m interning at a firm but we handle a lot of family law and immigration cases, nothing criminal that serious has come through since I’ve been around. There was a pedo case with one of the partners awhile back but I don’t remember the details.

Two trans women tracking down and assaulting another woman over a man? Doesn’t sound misogynistic and troped at all!

Yeahhhhhh that’s misogynistic af. I think the director is getting too much slack because it’s not brazenly transphobic, but that entire premise is enough to make even the most open minded feminist feel a little TERFy. About the movie, that is.

I was in this horrific “boarding school” and whether or not the food that day was edible depended on who was cooking. I had opted in initially as a vegetarian since I didn’t eat much meat, and OH MY GOD best decision I ever made in the heat of the moment. some of the stuff the girls who ate meat got on their trays…

I know this is awful and I own up to that, so just keep in mind that it was like ten years ago and my first relationship with a woman at age 18. I’ve tried to apologize for the end result but it just created more drama.

That’s what I was saying, my first thought because there’s really no reasonable doubt that she’s guilty is that well, she could get some of those charges reduced if she opted to bargain. Yes, you do give up a lot of control, but you’re also showing yourself to be compliant to an extent. That counts with judges. But…

Gracias, got it.

I never said anything about the freedom to plead not guilty. I’m wondering why that choice was made, since there’s such hard evidence that yes she is quite guilty, but others have brought up the point that it forces the legal system to operate fully and she might be able to make bond and spend some time out of jail…

If people can fake being Mennonites to get out of vaccinating their kids, would someone fake being a Satanist to get an abortion?

I qualify for a grant that my Planned Parenthood got to supply BCP to women without insurance. That’s how I get it for free.

I’m a legal beagle but even I’m having trouble with the non-guilty plea. There’s a line between personal accountability and being coerced by a company — she was absolutely not coerced, she was drunk. Besides, when you rent a car you sign off on paperwork that limits your liability. She’s going to lose and get the book…

exactly