But Lebron James can use his influence to get the law and/or how it is interpreted and applied changed so that the outcome of future cases is different.

And you left out the fact that Ohio is an open carry state so if the police thought he was older and had a real gun, then they should been acting under the assumption that he had a legal right to be carrying it in public and if he was waving it around then the penalty would be a misdemeanor, not summary execution.

It came about because of a state law that allowed for the death penalty if a jury found a defendant guilty but not if he pled guilty. Alford did not want to risk the death penalty and pled guilty to a second degree charge and later appealed the conviction claiming the plea was made under duress, because he only did it…

In an Alford plea the defendant is maintaining his innocence but also admitting that the prosecution would win the case if it went to trial, so he is pleading guilty to avoid all the unpleasant facts/testimony that would become part of the public record during a trial

But “career year” has never meant simply the best statistical year of a player’s career. Instead it is a season that is so much better than the rest that it clearly stands out; the dream season within a career. It is hard to see how minor gains in catches and yards, and a small decrease in yards per catch, when going…

Has the definition of “career year” changed recently? He still has one game remaining, but so far this year Travis Kelce has 4 more catches for 3 more yards and the same number of touchdowns as last year.

My understanding is that Amobi Okoye suffered from Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis which is an autoimmune disease and not something that results from physical injury so it seems pretty reasonable that it would be cut from a movie about the dangers of concussions and how the NFL has handled (or not handled) them.

The wind was not a factor so the Pats weren’t going to gain anything by choosing a direction. So if they wanted to kick off, it makes sense to explicitly choose that option instead of picking a direction and assuming the Jets will choose to receive. Sure, the odds of the Jets choosing to kick in that scenario was…

And the bomb sniffing dog checking their car?

Unless you rewatched the game multiple times so you can review all 22 players on each play, you have no way of knowing if the Pats got the short end of the officiating stick. You are basing it completely on calls that went against the Pats (that you believe should not have been called) without considering all the…

So you are saying that there may be circumstances when it is appropriate to ignore calls for a moment of silence without being considered an asshole for doing so? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me, but Fauxcused may disagree.

So if a Turkish club asks for a moment of silence for all the ISIS fighters killed by Western air strikes, every member of the crowd should comply or else they are assholes?

If it was supposed to go to Missouri, I could see how the shipper could have incorrectly put MI on the package leading to confusion. But it was supposed to go to Michigan, so I don’t see how the shipper could have mislabeled it in a way that led to it being delivered to Missouri. Instead, it seems like any confusion…

It may be a matter of semantics, but I would say that while you should not consent to any searches, you should absolutely comply if the officer attempts to perform a search without your consent. Do not try to argue with them since they may be able to twist that into probable cause. And definitely don’t try to…

The truly amazing Ripken record is his 8264 consecutive inning streak from June 5, 1982 to September 14, 1987

At least that is better than if the breast cancer charities were paying the NFL for the increased awareness they create by wearing pink during games (ala some teams’ military appreciation events)