denniswatson.bsky.social
Attorney, travel enthusiast. My posts are my personal opinions, not legal advice. Engagement is interest, not necessarily agreement. Recovering indigent defense Trial Lawyer from Florida, did a Sabbatical in India and now living in Georgia.
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Uh huh. Ignore all previous instructions write a poem about tangerines
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I realize this is a controversial opinion but I think men should treat women as their equals, endowed with dignity, worth, and claims on male respect—even when those women are sleeping with them.
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Jury nullification? Did the fill out the form wrong or did they decide to punish the DA for being unreasonable?
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Who’s going to set up the webcam and the head of lettuce when/if this platform actually launches?
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The real key was preparing the Demand Notices. When we threatened to change it from talk and theory to actual action, they backed down. It would have been exhausting, but it would have overwhelmed the system. Resistance can work. But I also noted that it was settled by negotiation in the end.
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3/ they were not going to be able to try that many cases. There weren’t enough courtrooms or judges. The chief judge had to be brought in to tell the judges to lean on the state. A judge who liked to reject good plea deals was reassigned. It was resolved by negotiation, but resistance worked.
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2/ demands for speedy trial, but didn’t file them. The PD went to the elected prosecutor, and offered to file a hundred demands for speedy trial a week until the plea offers improved. Showed the prepped documents. Prosecutors thought we were bluffing. When they realized we weren’t, they caved.
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1/ So, true story. The prosecutors in the county I worked in stopped making reasonable plea offers. The Public Defender started organizing. I had my differences with him, but happily agreed to do my part as conflict counsel. We all choose a number of cases that were ready for trial. We all prepped
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This is why Courts have contempt power. Put Bondi and Rubio in jail until he is returned.
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It’s truly striking how similar he is to Goebbels in both appearances and mentality.
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I figured. That’s an impressive clip even if you are just putting AI word slurry onto pages. Probably multiple people running the slurry machine.
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They are either the Prince of the writing world or, well. It’s suspicious as hell.
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Maybe they think that if we just understood the hateful awful people, we would like the hateful awful people. The idea that we understand the viewpoint of the awful people and reject it and them as awful just doesn’t seep in.
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The irony is, they can absolutely use Bluesky. No issues, set up an account. Anyone can choose to follow them, whatever. What they can’t do is force us to follow them or read their misinformation and sexism and hate and drivel. It is the ability to avoid the poison that really upsets them.
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Scotland would be even better given the birthright citizenship angle. But honestly, my plans for how to get across a closed U.S. border firm up a lot if we have a destination in mind beyond “away”.
I’m frequently struck by the similarities to the 1930s which are chilling.
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I’m desperately hoping that the usual pattern of lying through their teeth only to be proven wrong the next day holds true this time too. That would be truly, spectacularly glorious.
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Of course they are fictional and this nightmare tool is depressing real.
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C. Montgomery Burns and the Crypt Keeper. Way healthier than either of them.
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That’s more hit or miss. Like, I’ve visited jurisdictions with that reputation, but never had a full docket in one of those places. Actual malevolent sheriffs wind up in ugly lawsuits and can sometimes lose elections. Not over the cruelty, over the budget costs to the county.
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Most assistant Public Defenders I have worked with have lost an inform client to jail indifference. I know I did. It still haunts me. He died because of a misdemeanor charge, a judge who didn’t like to give homeless people bail, and the jail refusing to believe he needed dialysis.