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nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

MrMojok posted:

When it's all over with he will sue his lawyer, I'm sure.

But by then he's also going to be rear end-deep in some kind of new case filed by his ex-wife, probably cases filed by other people over other things, and dealing with the 1/6 committee, and all of these people will have the pertinent texts and emails going back two years

:cheeky:

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1554956591807488002

He was contemplating suing his lawyers even before they basically published ALL_MY_CrIMES.pdf on GitHub for literally every District Attorney in America to grab a copy of to pursue legal action with. That's how bad this trial has been going for him already.

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MrMojok
Jan 28, 2011

nine-gear crow posted:



He was contemplating suing his lawyers even before they basically published ALL_MY_CrIMES.pdf on GitHub for literally every District Attorney in America to grab a copy of to pursue legal action with. That's how bad this trial has been going for him already.

LMAO!

I guess what it comes down to is, every lawyer knows he's an idiot who simply can not shut up, who would self-destruct and hand the win over to the plaintiffs, so this is the only caliber of lawyer that's even willing to take him on as a client.

There was a moment yesterday when his lawyer talked about the judge making a motion, and she quickly corrected him, saying "a judge doesn't issue motions, a judge issues orders"

Stuff like that has been ongoing, and then of course today, this atomic bomb of a revelation.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

nine-gear crow posted:

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1554956591807488002

He was contemplating suing his lawyers even before they basically published ALL_MY_CrIMES.pdf on GitHub for literally every District Attorney in America to grab a copy of to pursue legal action with. That's how bad this trial has been going for him already.

I've been trying all day but I can't remember or find a bigger and more disastrous fuckup in the justice system. Yes, that includes OJ.

Neorxenawang
Jun 9, 2003
I asked a lawyer friend of mine how hosed Jones' attorney is because of this, and he said there is a possibility the attorney found something in there that he would have to disclose in discovery under this principle: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-crime-fraud-exception-the-attorney-client-privilege.html (and the texts in this data sure sound like they would both be evidence of perjury and crucial evidence to the case, which would both be mandatory to disclose in discovery, if I am understanding that correctly)

The other possibility is he dun goofed, and could be disbarred.

Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

Jaxyon posted:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/28/alex-jones-sandy-hook-january-6/

"quote:
Trump received support from Jones during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Former Trump adviser and Republican strategist Roger Stone was a paid Infowars host in 2015, and Stone connected Jones with Trump for an Infowars interview in December that year in which the soon-to-be president lauded Jones.

“Your reputation is amazing,” Trump told Jones on his show.

Jones likely played an outsized role in Trump’s election, according to Elizabeth Williamson, author of “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.” The book investigates how the shooting warped into an attack on the truth from Jones and online conspiracy theorists.

Williamson said Jones was able to foresee how disaffected individuals who were also highly distrustful of the government could propel Trump to a primary victory.

“He became something of a kingmaker in the race, and with that came a really high profile that he didn't understand completely,” Williamson said. “I think he's reaping the results of that.”

Listen I don't like how dumb this reality is any more than you, but you're wrong

There's a great documentary called "United States of Conspiracy" from PBS that outlines exactly how all this went down and is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJTMGG6aEoI

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/united-states-of-conspiracy/

Dr. Faustus
Feb 18, 2001

Grimey Drawer
Y'all. What the gently caress. lol

I mean as I was saying....

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Neorxenawang posted:

I asked a lawyer friend of mine how hosed Jones' attorney is because of this, and he said there is a possibility the attorney found something in there that he would have to disclose in discovery under this principle: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-crime-fraud-exception-the-attorney-client-privilege.html (and the texts in this data sure sound like they would both be evidence of perjury and crucial evidence to the case, which would both be mandatory to disclose in discovery, if I am understanding that correctly)

The other possibility is he dun goofed, and could be disbarred.

Like at this point you almost kind of have to wonder, did they do it intentionally? Has his entire legal representation for this case up to this point been, and this is weirdly appropriate for Alex Jones in general and this case in particular, a massive false flag operation where the defense attorney, upon seeing the contents of Jones' phone as part of Jones' obligation to turn over all relevant documents to them in preparation for the case, simply decided to turn into Major T. J. "King" Kong and gleefully ride the atomic bomb down on their own career in the name of making absolutely certain that Alexander Emerick Jones goes to loving prison for every last crime he's committed over the past ten years.

Do you think it's remotely possible?

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc

nine-gear crow posted:

Like at this point you almost kind of have to wonder, did they do it intentionally? Has his entire legal representation for this case up to this point been, and this is weirdly appropriate for Alex Jones in general and this case in particular, a massive false flag operation where the defense attorney, upon seeing the contents of Jones' phone as part of Jones' obligation to turn over all relevant documents to them in preparation for the case, simply decided to turn into Major T. J. "King" Kong and gleefully ride the atomic bomb down on their own career in the name of making absolutely certain that Alexander Emerick Jones goes to loving prison for every last crime he's committed over the past ten years.

Do you think it's remotely possible?

No they're just really loving dumb

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Piell posted:

No they're just really loving dumb

But if they lie and claim crime fraud exception is why they did it they could ride the talkshow gravy train/podcast $$ for years. Which they will need. Because they will never be hired to practice law again.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Piell posted:

No they're just really loving dumb

Oh I know, but this is like a credulity straining level of dumb.

pthighs
Jun 21, 2013

Pillbug
My completely made up theory is that it was leaked by someone in the law office who has as conscience.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Whatever the reason, the guys going to be famous now in law circles for a long time to come. How many other lawyers can say that? I say good for them.

I mean yeah, they should probably still be disbarred though.

Uglycat
Dec 4, 2000
MORE INDISPUTABLE PROOF I AM BAD AT POSTING
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Where does the line start for buying him a beer?

-Blackadder-
Jan 2, 2007

Game....Blouses.
How the hell are they ever going to make a movie out of all this? Anything covering 2016 onward would be unwatchablely over the top.

2016 is a good title though.

Uglycat
Dec 4, 2000
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-Blackadder- posted:

How the hell are they ever going to make a movie out of all this? Anything covering 2016 onward would be unwatchablely over the top.

2016 is a good title though.

It's going to be a very, very large series of biographies, focusing on a subject.

I mean, after the machines confer the text files to the evolved cuttlefish.

Angry_Ed
Mar 30, 2010




Grimey Drawer

-Blackadder- posted:

How the hell are they ever going to make a movie out of all this? Anything covering 2016 onward would be unwatchablely over the top.

2016 is a good title though.

Already taken by a Ghanaian sci-fi film from 2010.

Of course, that's without getting into the fact it's also taken by Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza for his "documentary" 2016: Obama's America.

Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

-Blackadder- posted:

How the hell are they ever going to make a movie out of all this? Anything covering 2016 onward would be unwatchablely over the top.

2016 is a good title though.

You can try and start here

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Please do not give Ken Burns any ideas.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.

-Blackadder- posted:

How the hell are they ever going to make a movie out of all this? Anything covering 2016 onward would be unwatchablely over the top.

2016 is a good title though.
2016: The Year We Lost Contact.

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



This is a better/longer clip of the Jones cellphone gently caress up. It includes some obvious light perjury.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tpnSCIak5A8&feature=youtu.be

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.
I just found out that HBO has a documentary film crew in the court at the Jones trial and holy poo poo I cannot wait to loving see that. From what I watched, I kept thinking that this would make a really funny play or satirical style mockumentary but now that it's all actually being filmed I'm even more jazzed.

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Uglycat posted:

It's going to be a very, very large series of biographies, focusing on a subject.

I mean, after the machines confer the text files to the evolved cuttlefish.

Now imagining a cuttlefish in a Trump-toupee.

Generic American
Mar 15, 2012

I love my Peng


Tayter Swift posted:

My main concern is that there appears to be a sympathizer on the jury.

https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1554874836282880000?s=21&t=Ox9Ri1H3-ds94DLPo-vozQ

There was also a weird question from a juror relating to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

For context: there have been several worrying jury questions, but the one in this tweet seems like a very flawed summary of what the actual question sounded like. It was framed as a two-part gotcha, where the first half was basically trying to bait him into admitting that media organizations like CNN and Infowars should be held responsible for any irresponsible coverage inspiring mass shootings (the former being an accusation that Alex would happily make on any other day and has implied several times throughout the trial), and then pivots to that second half of "even if you don't think that you should be held responsible, why don't you take the higher road of being better than you claim the mainstream media is?"

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Generic American posted:

For context: there have been several worrying jury questions, but the one in this tweet seems like a very flawed summary of what the actual question sounded like. It was framed as a two-part gotcha, where the first half was basically trying to bait him into admitting that media organizations like CNN and Infowars should be held responsible for any irresponsible coverage inspiring mass shootings (the former being an accusation that Alex would happily make on any other day and has implied several times throughout the trial), and then pivots to that second half of "even if you don't think that you should be held responsible, why don't you take the higher road of being better than you claim the mainstream media is?"

If anything, it's troubling evidence of terminal Sorkin-brain in one of the jurors

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Devor posted:

If anything, it's troubling evidence of terminal Sorkin-brain in one of the jurors

This is why juror questions are a mixed bag: they try to act like lawyers instead of just fact-finding

-Blackadder-
Jan 2, 2007

Game....Blouses.
Jurors aren't exactly domain experts. They don't really have much training at all beyond jury instructions, which are probably given through clenched teeth due to the fact that the concepts are no doubt sliding off their smooth brains like butter.

A 1-2 day training seminar, or even something a couple of hours long, on how to observe and evaluate the facts of the case would probably be an enormous boon to the current system. Come to think of it, I'd be surprised if they don't do something like this already.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1555210041627742211?s=20&t=mWMYdECofGQ42__09w1WKw

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

-Blackadder- posted:

Jurors aren't exactly domain experts. They don't really have much training at all beyond jury instructions, which are probably given through clenched teeth due to the fact that the concepts are no doubt sliding off their smooth brains like butter.

A 1-2 day training seminar, or even something a couple of hours long, on how to observe and evaluate the facts of the case would probably be an enormous boon to the current system. Come to think of it, I'd be surprised if they don't do something like this already.

Even just a couple hours of training right at the outset could be really useful, I agree. As far as I know in my district, they do such a thing for grand jury candidates, but not usually for regular jury seatings.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Well they sure as gently caress arnt now.

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?

Oracle posted:

Start the upload on a Friday night then take off for the weekend, I can see it.

Yep. Jones' lawyer being all :smuggo: and thinking, "I'll make the opposition work over the weekend."

FizFashizzle posted:

Cruz, Blackburn, or Ron Johnson.

Please, all of them, please, all of them...

-Blackadder-
Jan 2, 2007

Game....Blouses.
Parents Lawyer knows exactly what's up, ain't wasting any time.
https://twitter.com/annamerlan/status/1555213817583243264
The lawyer also got requests for the data from "several law enforcement agencies", in addition to the Jan 6 committee.

Sounds like it's going to be a dog pile.

-Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 4, 2022

gregday
May 23, 2003

-Blackadder- posted:

Parents Lawyer knows exactly what's up, not wasting any time.
https://twitter.com/annamerlan/status/1555213817583243264

I enjoyed the part where plaintiff attorney Mark Bankston said out loud in court that the phone image contains “intimate messages to Roger Stone.”

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

gregday posted:

I enjoyed the part where plaintiff attorney Mark Bankston said out loud in court that the phone image contains “intimate messages to Roger Stone.”

This man was in his glory, in a way that few will ever experience. Openly musing to the room at large, during breaks and he knew the camera was still hot

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

gregday posted:

I enjoyed the part where plaintiff attorney Mark Bankston said out loud in court that the phone image contains “intimate messages to Roger Stone.”

This is going to culminate in all of us having to look at a grainy photo of Roger Stone, fully nude except for a tophat and steampunk gogles

Fart Amplifier
Apr 12, 2003

Failed Imagineer posted:

This is going to culminate in all of us having to look at a grainy photo of Roger Stone, fully nude except for a tophat and steampunk gogles

Sentences that would have seemed physically impossible 6 years ago are frighteningly possible now.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Failed Imagineer posted:

This is going to culminate in all of us having to look at a grainy photo of Roger Stone, fully nude except for a tophat and steampunk gogles

We’ll all be lucky if none of it is Alex Jones himself

-Blackadder-
Jan 2, 2007

Game....Blouses.

Fart Amplifier posted:

Sentences that would have seemed physically impossible 6 years ago are frighteningly possible now.

Seriously, if there is any way that exists to burn Alex Jones they are now going to find it. He makes Martin Shkreli look like Ghandi. Like I wonder if Jones realizes how bad this is. He had it all, and he just threw it away.

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1554898233880711168

-Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Aug 4, 2022

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

-Blackadder- posted:

Parents Lawyer knows exactly what's up, ain't wasting any time.
https://twitter.com/annamerlan/status/1555213817583243264
The lawyer also got requests for the data from "several law enforcement agencies", in addition to the Jan 6 committee.

Sounds like it's going to be a dog pile.

Yeah boi! This is the stuff. The Alex Jones Phone can be that iconic moment like the Watergate recordings that gets behind the veil and starts to leverage stuff wide open.

You know there is evidence of crimes on his phone, and not just his crimes but conspiracies to commit crimes by multiple people. People like Thiel and Stone and all the people they are connected to are in jeopardy.

edit: Also, enough people are getting this that it's going to leak like a sieve. I'd bet NYT or WaPo already have, or soon will have, copies of the entire image.

Murgos fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Aug 4, 2022

Dr. Faustus
Feb 18, 2001

Grimey Drawer
I was 100% right the worst enemy of these loving traitors is themselves, and their gigantic blind-spots. Their stupidity is impossible to underestimate. This won't even be the only stunning break, just the first and maybe the best.
I guarantee people at DOD and DOJ and DHS who tried to hide their complicity through destruction of evidence overlooked something and we will all find out about them, too.

I'm feeling quite vindicated, thanks.

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Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Murgos posted:

Yeah boi! This is the stuff. The Alex Jones Phone can be that iconic moment like the Watergate recordings that gets behind the veil and starts to leverage stuff wide open.

You know there is evidence of crimes on his phone, and not just his crimes but conspiracies to commit crimes by multiple people. People like Thiel and Stone and all the people they are connected to are in jeopardy.

edit: Also, enough people are getting this that it's going to leak like a sieve. I'd bet NYT or WaPo already have, or soon will have, copies of the entire image.

The thing that people miss when they assume because people like Jones have gotten away with it multiple times they will always get away with it is stochastic gently caress ups like this breaking a bunch of poo poo wide open is not a historical anomaly. The more you keep swinging the more chances you have for something to break loose or somebody to gently caress up.

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