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Besesoth posted:My friend, getting your politics from Paste is like getting them from Buzzfeed. Not Buzzfeed News, the clickbait site. Is that like rain on your wedding day? Or a free ride when you've already paid?
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Besesoth posted:My friend, getting your politics from Paste is like getting them from Buzzfeed. Not Buzzfeed News, the clickbait site. I don’t “get my politics” from Paste. I knew there were Abramson takedowns out there and this was one of the most thorough and presented in article form rather than a twitter thread. In any event it’s better than getting them from a “citizen journalist” of any sort who presents them in tweetstorm format with no editor.
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Brock Turner is appealing his conviction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.2a1b15cd0f11 Which means then when he gets found guilty again he will end up in front of a different judge and might get a real sentence.
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Phanatic posted:Brock Turner is appealing his conviction: Insha’allah
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On... what loving grounds?  He was caught by two witnesses raping the girl behind a dumpster, as I recall. What possible evidence could he have to appeal?E: Having read it: For real, dude? "It happened near a three-sided bin, not behind a dumpster! Therefore" 
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Whenever I hear about that case all I can think of is that horrid “20 minutes of action” quote from his dad.
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He is literally the textbook definition of a rapist.
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GrandpaPants posted:He is literally the textbook definition of a rapist. In that his picture is in a legal textbook about the definition of rape, you mean?
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VanSandman posted:In that his picture is in a legal textbook about the definition of rape, you mean? Intro to Criminal Justice textbook if I remember right, but otherwise correct.
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from the AUG thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhUkMRJMuZY edit: caution headphone wearers
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Malachite_Dragon posted:On... what loving grounds? His argument appears to be that it wasn't behind the dumpster, but just near to one, and that by saying he raped the girl behind a dumpster the prosecutor was unduly implying mens rea (quote: "implied that Turned was trying to hide what he was doing") and inserting criminal intent to the act. Because Turner himself has of course maintained that the act was consensual -- he can't argue that it didn't happen, when two witnesses literally caught him in the middle of it -- even though the girl didn't wake up for three hours after the assault, she had a BAC of .24 and there were pine needles in her vagina. I hope he goes back to trial and is convicted of rape in the first degree and goes to prison for a decade.
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If evil people must exist in the world, we should hope they are all as stupid as this.
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Sagebrush posted:His argument appears to be that it wasn't behind the dumpster, but just near to one, and that by saying he raped the girl behind a dumpster the prosecutor was unduly implying mens rea (quote: "implied that Turned was trying to hide what he was doing") and inserting criminal intent to the act. Because Turner himself has of course maintained that the act was consensual -- he can't argue that it didn't happen, when two witnesses literally caught him in the middle of it -- even though the girl didn't wake up for three hours after the assault, she had a BAC of .24 and there were pine needles in her vagina. I suppose if you wanted to look at from a purely legal standpoint there is some validity to that specific aspect of his claim...but the dude is still guilty as gently caress in a provable fashion, and demanding another spin on the Wheel of Sentencing after getting his wrist slapped the first time is magnificently stupid.
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Voyager I posted:I suppose if you wanted to look at from a purely legal standpoint there is some validity to that specific aspect of his claim...but the dude is still guilty as gently caress in a provable fashion, and demanding another spin on the Wheel of Sentencing after getting his wrist slapped the first time is magnificently stupid. It’s like impugning the integrity of an election you were declared the winner of.
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Platystemon posted:It’s like impugning the integrity of an election you were declared the winner of. 
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The classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6EP9bBbac
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This happened not too long ago too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nWJYogh-U Does anything interesting like this happen in baseball?
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Nothing interesting happens in baseball.
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logical fallacy posted:Nothing interesting happens in baseball. Well, interesting things do happen. But they're quickly arrested. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90697&page=1
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Croccers posted:
https://twitter.com/iamjoonlee/status/873385285140307968
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MisterOblivious posted:An incident like that was responsible for one of my favorite legal exchanges: The only reason Back To The Future is called Back To The Future is because the head of the studio wanted the film named Spaceman From Pluto. The filmmakers replied with a note saying that they loved the joke, and the head of the studio was too embarrassed to send a note saying "no, I'm serious".
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When I was a kid the Everett Giants (now the aqua sox) had something like this except it was a speed walker. The fan would start at second and the speed walker would start at home and always beat them around the bases.
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logical fallacy posted:Nothing interesting happens in baseball. Meet Rube Waddell, who would stop in the middle of the game to pet dogs or flee the baseball stadium to chase fire trucks.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Meet Rube Waddell, who would stop in the middle of the game to pet dogs or flee the baseball stadium to chase fire trucks. He’s one of the best Dollops
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Voyager I posted:I suppose if you wanted to look at from a purely legal standpoint there is some validity to that specific aspect of his claim...but the dude is still guilty as gently caress in a provable fashion, and demanding another spin on the Wheel of Sentencing after getting his wrist slapped the first time is magnificently stupid. That's not how appeals work. If the appeal gets denied, it just upholds the existing verdict and sentence. If he's successful, it gets overturned. So his worst case is "nothing" and best case is no longer being a sex offender/felon for life.
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Javid posted:That's not how appeals work. Yeah, the prosecution doesn't get to re-try him. That would be double jeopardy. They can only rule on procedurals errors made by the lower court and only within the bounds of the appeal.
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logical fallacy posted:Nothing interesting happens in baseball. 
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Javid posted:That's not how appeals work. He’s asking for a new trial, not just appealing the verdict. He’s claiming prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial. If that’s the case, mistrial, do-over, with a new verdict and, if that verdict is guilty, new sentencing hearing.
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DoctorJones posted:from the AUG thread: Huh, I'd never actually heard anyone go "REEEEEEEEEEEEE" before.
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, the prosecution doesn't get to re-try him. That would be double jeopardy. They can only rule on procedurals errors made by the lower court and only within the bounds of the appeal. Jeopardy doesn’t attach in a mistrial. He is literally asking for a new trial on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
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Phanatic posted:Jeopardy doesn’t attach in a mistrial. He is literally asking for a new trial on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. Oh, OH. Yeah, I imagine the Sex Offender Registry is the driver behind this. It seems.. ill-advised, however.
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DoctorJones posted:from the AUG thread: that one moment of dying hope at 3:50...
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God I can't stand these streaming video game people that scream at everything.
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This the one game I enjoy people screaming over because those people falling are losing 2-10 hours of progress in an instant. E: the exaggerated yelling and flailing is dumb, but if I were playing that game I'd be seething with rage and despair if that happened U-DO Burger has a new favorite as of 08:09 on Dec 3, 2017 |
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Alternative fiction for Resistance idiots.
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Crossposting from the funny pictures thread Cliffy B is an insufferable ballbag and his game's catastrophic failure is heartwarming.
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