Thanks Zack, my nightmares will never be the same!

But, guess what? They didn’t want that asshole and sent him back. LOL

I mean.... *gestures widely at the US*

I wouldn’t say the worst, just underpaid and overworked. One public defender in Layfayette, LA had 194 felony cases to handle on his own. Like social workers and teachers, I doubt they go into their respective professions aiming to ruin the lives of the people they want to help.
Edit: Fuck Kinja, only parts of my…

The receipt was produced in 2018. It appears the appeals process took 2 years.

Maurice Possley of The National Registry of Exonerations explains all that and more: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5904 On the off chance that you don’t go read it, which you absolutely should do, the answer is largely the slow grind of the court’s calendar and a bunch of…

he never had a “sexual relationship that was inappropriate, period.”

Failing upward. It’s the Rich White Man’s Way.

“It’s very simple,” Cuomo said. “I never harassed anyone, I never abused anyone, I never assaulted anyone...”

I mean fuck this serial sexual harasser, but he literally sent thousands of seniors to their death. How the fuck is this guy still in office?

One can only wonder if the attorneys’ “panel of citizens” will include any of the hundreds of protesters who have marched in Austin on Ramos’ behalf.

If you’re a prosecutor the mantra is “get your time up front.” If the defendant is incarcerated they are way more likely to plead to something just to get out. A common tactic used on poor defendants being defended by public defenders.* On the other hand if you’re a white collar criminal or some punk-ass white kid…

That wouldn’t surprise me.

I don’t know that they were ever trying to fool anyone into thinking “authenticity” was their product... they’re British people playing banjo music, no one was under the impression that they were hillbillies or whatever. And most of their clothing strikes me as fairly typical hipstery menswear of the time, and which…

Eh. Authenticity is over-rated. Very few musicians are truly “authentic” and the few who are or ever were part of whatever socio-economic class is “supposed” to make music like that will quickly stop being part of that class as soon as the become successful. Unless you’re main music consumption comes from listening to…

Boring middle-class white people everywhere are absolutely OUTRAGED right now at this brave yet controversial commentary 

I mean, I definitely am pro-BLM, I don’t get my news from Fox, and I’ve never seen the video. I obviously know of its existence, I’ve seen plenty of still images, but I had no desire to actually watch the video knowing what was in it.

The defense can’t just excuse persons of color because they feel the person might be biased. The prosecution can counter with a Batson Challenge. Basically the defense (or prosecution) needs a reason and have to explain it if challenged as happened with the Hispanic potential juror. The defense (ironically) used his Ji…

“Protesting Dropout Idol Fruit Tart” didn’t expect this at 8AM.