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Froghammer
Sep 8, 2012

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mdemone posted:

Nelson appears competent but not particularly well-prepared or shrewd. His client just has no avenues of defense, which tends to make a defense attorney look like a butthead.
This seems the most likely. Chauvin plead not guilty thinking that the establishment would have his back, it doesn't, and now Nelson is forced to make all these meal mouthed well-technically-he-might-have-sort-of-could-have-maybe arguments hoping that one of them will stick

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Froghammer
Sep 8, 2012

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The entire expert witness industry, whether they be forensic pathologists or firearms experts, is incredibly shady and mostly boils down to "if you pay me X amount of money, I'll testify that, in my expert opinion, Y is theoretically possible". You're always going to be able to find someone in any given field who will tell a jury whatever you want to be true in exchange for money.

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Defense is allowed to ask for any sentencing they want, might as well try to shoot the moon with "well, he's been in prison for like a month, that's enough, right?"

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