#juror number seven

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juror 7 doodles bc tumblr only likes fanart ... eff u guys

[kurithedweeb]

A scattering of DoS universe ideas:

Having quartz and glowstone available as building materials for things like statues and lamps and the Irene fountain has such sinister implications when you know they come from the Nether.

Phoenix Drop is regarded as a refuge for runaways and criminals which is how the people who live there end up as such a diverse and insanely loyal group. There's something about the understanding and acceptance you can find there despite your flaws and past that draws people in.

(inspired by @xyxofspades) Nana's real name is Shichi, she and her eleven siblings were named with numbers corresponding to the order of their birth and when she fled Tu'la and assumed the identity of Nana she picked a name related to the number seven as a reminder of home since she was the seventh child.

Zianna Ro'Meave is related to Ivy and Lily. I need some distance between Zane and Aaron for Juror Aaron reasons, so Lily is Ivy's cousin on one side of the family and Zianna is Ivy's cousin on the other side. They were very close when they were young and see each other as sisters, even calling each other sisters. In Tu'la, it's not uncommon for families to have full-blooded siblings who range in age from as little as 9 or 10 months apart to 25 years between the eldest and youngest, so some people do sometimes believe they're blood sisters. This is inspired by a post I saw a while back about Garroth knowing the Tu'lan language because Zianna was from Tu'la and taught the boys the language when they were young, which I adore but have no clue who wrote it. Jacob thinks of Zane as a cousin or uncle, which is why he trusted him enough to take the amulet.

There's a Nether portal under the central cathedral in O'khasis. Part of the High Priest's duties is maintaining both the portal and the wards around it that only allow entry to someone who's had the proper blessings performed on them. Zane negotiated with Shad to be brought back as a Shadow Knight in the event of his death before he set his great plan in motion as a failsafe. I'm thinking Shad probably tried to kill him and Zane unveiled himself with some flirty charismatic line about being the mortal face of Irene and only in the embrace of a lover (his own lovers, but really playing up the being Irene's vassal/vessel part) can he unveil himself and be seen as his true self.

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Gloria Oladipo at The Guardian:

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted Donald Trump in his felony trial, has asked a judge to extend a gag order against the ex-president after an onslaught of threats and harassment against him and other officials since the guilty verdict. [...]

Trump’s legal team has unsuccessfully attempted to overturn the gag order, arguing that it prevents voters from being able to hear from a presidential candidate. But Bragg and others have said that part of the order should remain for jurors, prosecutors, their staff and their families, given a high number of threats, the New York Times reported. Bragg specifically has faced an onslaught of death threats and harassment since Trump was found guilty. He has received more than 100 threatening emails via his campaign website, the New York Daily News reported, citing a source who asked to remain anonymous. Several of the abusive messages obtained by the Daily News use racial slurs including the N-word, “gorilla” and “primate”, it reported, adding that Bragg also faced death threats and racial abuse throughout the seven-week trial.

In one instance, a package was sent to Bragg from Portland, Oregon, containing a picture of Bragg alongside a noose, with the caption: “I am past the point of just wanting them in prison.” The New York police department has logged 56 “actionable threats” since the start of April against Bragg, his employees, and his family, the Times reported.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg asks Judge Juan Manuel Merchan to extend the gag order for Donald Trump in the wake of harassment and threats post-guilty conviction in the business records falsification.

[yoursassybookwormfriend]

@sapphicgimli I don’t want to derail the original post so I’ll put it here 

God. Seven’s List of Sexiness. 

So like I said, I was in a school production of 12 Angry Jurors, and this one kid played Juror No. 7. Now, Seven (as I’ll call him) was almost always on the verge of getting the director fired for one reason or another (he was a little too raunchy as Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors and she cast him as Chip in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a character who has an entire song about being disqualified over an erection, among other various reasons). So, of course, he decided that a totally, definitely, 100% okay thing for him to do was to make Seven’s List of Sexiness. 

(Now, don’t get me wrong, this list was entirely in character (or rather, his interpretation of the character), it was not accurate to the actors in any way.)

So for two of the rehearsals and one of the shows we did, he took a notepad and a pencil (it was a jury room, so there were plenty of those) and wrote down a ‘list of sexiness’ during the show. Each list had three categories, which essentially boiled down to Good, Bad, and Mediocre. The categories changed every time. In the first and most notorious list, it was Sexy AF, Not It Luvs, and Unremarkable (Virgins). For another, it was Bop, Flop, and Plop. So if a character did anything that his reacted to in the show, he would put their jury number under the appropriate category. Over the course of the play, he would write jury numbers, cross them out, move them, underline them, or add little comments in the margins, all entirely in character. 

Needless to say, it is EXTREMELY distracting when the person next to you is writing your name under Not It Luvs. It was even more distracting after Seven’s fight with Juror Four. If you’re not familiar with the play, at one point Seven is insulting Juror Eleven, who is an immigrant. When Four says that it doesn’t matter where anyone was born, Seven answers, “I was born right here!”, and Four replies, “Or where your father was born,”. Seven is clearly upset by this, and doesn’t have a retort, so he is likely a second-generation immigrant (though it isn’t confirmed). After this, Seven always sits right next to me, and violently crosses Four’s name off the “Good” category, and writes it in the “Bad” category in big bold letters. He then always writes something along the lines of ‘DON’T TRUST THIS FUGLY SLUT!!!’. How do you stay in character when you see something like that?

And he did this three times. Honestly, I love Seven, but the fact that I never lost it during that play is a mystery to me even today.

[totaldramafan-lauri]

I-I was gonna make this post tomorrow, but.....w-well, for good reason, I just can’t stop thinking about it, and I’ve been thinking about it all day, so.....I-I’m gonna get it out right now....

I’m super happy that I got out of the semifinals in better shape than I expected! I only lost two of my top seven, meaning that I now have a solid top five for the final without pushing any borderlines in there!

So, cuz I love all five of these songs, I’m gonna go over my hopes for each of them in the final, and how I think they’ll all do with the juries now in the picture! Cuz why not? I’m excited! I-I dunno how long this’ll be, so read only if you really wanna! XD

Australia: Top ten finish

Obviously, I flipping love this song with every fiber of my being, but I’m not predicting any more than this. I don’t think it’s a front-runner....and I don’t WANT it to be, cuz I’ve always been against Australia winning Eurovision. But this amazing song deserves to be in the top ten, and I think it’s a safe bet for such a result. I think it’ll be in the top ten in the televote EASILY, after they blew the roof off the arena yesterday. Multiple video reactions and tweets I’ve seen have even said that Australia might’ve won the second semi, and....I don’t agree with that (the Austrian entry was easily the most popular song there), but they definitely went down REALLY WELL live, which is why they got such a big response. I don’t have to worry about their televote score.

But....I have NO IDEA how it’ll go down with the juries. Metal is a very.....love-it-or-hate-it genre, and it comes down to how many jurors are on the “love it” side. Obviously, the live performance is great, so I’m not worried about that part! Instead, everything is riding on the song itself. I know the juries do also pay attention to stage presence tho, so I hope that means they won’t outright overlook Australia even if they don’t dig the genre. We’ll see.

I don’t think they’ll trouble the top five, either way. Instead, later on, if we find out they DID win their semi once the results are revealed, then that’ll be their consolation prize. XD

Finland: Top five finish

I REALLY want them to win. I REALLY REALLY REEEEAAAALLYYYYY want them to win. But, I also don’t like making hard predictions on winners, so I won’t do that here. I think top five is a safe bet at this point - it’s a massive fan-favorite and will likely have an enormous televote score. Even if they don’t win, a top five finish will still be HUGE for Finland, and something to be proud of when you look back at their history. Finland have been consistently one of the most unlucky, underrated countries in Eurovision, year after year, either failing to qualify or qualifying and then placing towards the bottom of the scoreboard, with only THREE exceptions in their entire run - Lordi’s win, Softengine’s 11th place, and Blind Channel’s 6th place. AKA, they haven’t been in the top five since Lordi. That’s TRAGIC if you ask me, considering how many good entries they’ve had that deserved so much better.....About TIME they turned their fortune around!

So, yeah, I’ll be ecstatic if they win, but even being in the top five will be great too.

When if comes to Finland vs. Sweden....I love both songs, I really do. Sweden are actually my number six now, so just BARELY outside this top five. Both songs will be great winners to me. Not to mention that both would be landmarks for different reasons (If Sweden win, this’ll be their seventh win, FINALLY tying Ireland’s record, which they deserve. AND this’ll be their second win with the same artist. If Finland win, it’ll be their second win EVER, AND they’ll have beaten Sweden to get it.) But I am firmly on Team Finland.

However, Finland are....a-at a disadvantage. I have no flipping idea what the juries will think of them at ALL, and that scares me, cuz SO MUCH is riding on their jury score. That will literally determine if they’ll be able to beat Sweden!

If Sweden win the jury vote, and Finland aren’t that far behind, then Finland’ll manage to win with the boost from the televote (unless Sweden’s televote score is higher than theirs, which I don’t think will happen). If Sweden win the jury vote, and Finland are, like....a fair ways down the scoreboard, especially on the right side, then the televote might not be enough, and Sweden will win. EVERYTHING depends on Finland’s jury score.

D-don’t get me wrong, I’ll be happy with Sweden winning and Finland in the top five, but still, thinking of this still stresses me out a lot......

(Also, there’s the matter of the elephant in the room: There will still be people dogpiling televotes on Ukraine. It won’t be nearly as much as last year - we don’t have to worry about Ukraine doing the double - but they’ll still be stealing some points from other countries.....Finland included.....) (And finally, people are saying France might be the darkhorse with the power to contest Finland vs. Sweden, but I’m not really buying it right now, cuz who knows? Even if people love France’s song, and even if it’s performed super well, it’s still possible that everyone could have a collective brain fart and forget to vote for them. Hey, I was there last year.....But if this DOES happen somehow, Finland will still finish in the top five)

Norway: Top ten finish

This is an easy prediction to make. Once again, I don’t think I have to worry about their televote score. People LOVE this song. BUT, unlike my top two, I....I actually think I’m confident the juries will love this too! I think all-rounder Norway will score highly in both votes, but won’t be a front-runner. MAYBE top five is possible, but I won’t get my hopes up with how strong the competition is....like, I’ll make a top five off the top of my head right now, and it won’t include Norway: *ahem* Sweden, Finland, France, Ukraine, UK. See? Or even Sweden, Finland, France, Ukraine, Israel. Point is, there’s a lotta fan-favorites in this final that could end up in any order after the top two, and Norway’s one of them. Thus, top ten.

If I had to guess which one will place higher between Norway and Australia, I’d say Norway.

Poland: DON’T FLOP (right side of the scoreboard)

Oh dear god the juries are gonna eat this poor song alive.....And by eat it alive, I mean ignore it, which is just as bad. I’m still floored that this even made it to the final at ALL, to be honest.....I’m still convinced that it was by a slim margin of, like, five to ten points or something. This song has gotten SO much hate, and now it’s here, and I......I-I still love it. But it’s just a super catchy pop song, and that’s it! No amazing vocals or anything! It’s just there to make you smile, not impress you musically! At least the staging is good, and the dance break they added is super fun, but PFFFFFFFFF no way the JURIES are gonna vote for this thing. I’m not expecting them to place any higher than 20th, to be honest. I don’t want them to FLOP, and I do think their televote score will be juuuuuuust high enough to prevent that? Like, maybe it’ll be in the double digits? But that’ll all I can say for sure. I don’t think it’ll be RIGHT at the bottom once the televotes come in, but if this places dead last in the jury vote, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Keep in mind: I LIKE THIS SONG A LOT. But how the heck is it still here? XD

Moldova: Mid (11th-15th?)

I think Moldova could do well enough in both votes to place just outside the top ten somewhere. It’s not a fan-favorite or anything, but it’s a beautiful and unique song with unique staging, and I think the juries will pay enough attention to it for that. I don’t rememeber how good the live vocals were, unfortunately.....off the top of my head, I remember him sounding....fine? Not bad? So it won’t flop. Even tho I was surprised they qualified, on second thought, there’ll be nothing else in the final that sounds like this. I don’t think they’ll be overlooked that easily (unless they get unlucky in the running order and come right after a fan-favorite, or between fan-favorites, which....ouch, please don’t do that to them)

Both of Moldova’s scores will be pretty good, but far from the best they’ve ever done. I think this’ll, coincidentally, do about as well as Mr. Parfeni’s last entry did (which came 11th). More likely worse than better.

And.....that’s it! I-I’m so excited.......I-I’m usually this way the day before the final anyway, but....h-having two songs I love being the potential winners just makes that excitement worse! Th-this voting sequence is gonna be insane.......I mean, like usual, pfffff........

[theonewhopoops]

This ALSO includes the one where a woman sued McDonald's for the coffee burning her. It was actually extremely fucked up. This woman was 79 years old btw.

The coffee was not just “hot,” but dangerously hot. McDonald’s corporate policy was to serve it at a temperature that could cause serious burns in seconds. Mrs. Liebeck’s injuries were far from frivolous. She was wearing sweatpants that absorbed the coffee and kept it against her skin. She suffered third-degree burns (the most serious kind) and required skin grafts on her inner thighs and elsewhere.

Liebeck’s case was far from an isolated event. McDonald’s had received more than 700 previous reports of injury from its coffee, including reports of third-degree burns, and had paid settlements in some cases.

Mrs. Liebeck offered to settle the case for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses and lost income. But McDonald’s never offered more than $800, so the case went to trial. The jury found Mrs. Liebeck to be partially at fault for her injuries, reducing the compensation for her injuries accordingly. But the jury’s punitive damages award made headlines — upset by McDonald’s unwillingness to correct a policy despite hundreds of people suffering injuries, they awarded Liebeck the equivalent of two days’ worth of revenue from coffee sales for the restaurant chain. That wasn’t, however, the end of it. The original punitive damage award was ultimately reduced by more than 80 percent by the judge. And, to avoid what likely would have been years of appeals, Mrs. Liebeck and McDonald’s later reached a confidential settlement.

[...]

Here is some of the evidence the jury heard during the trial:

McDonald’s operations manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit.

Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns in three to seven seconds.

The chairman of the department of mechanical engineering and biomechanical engineering at the University of Texas testified that this risk of harm is unacceptable, as did a widely recognized expert on burns, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, the leading scholarly publication in the specialty.

McDonald’s admitted it had known about the risk of serious burns from its scalding hot coffee for more than 10 years. The risk had repeatedly been brought to its attention through numerous other claims and suits.

An expert witness for the company testified that the number of burns was insignificant compared to the billions of cups of coffee the company served each year.

At least one juror later told the Wall Street Journal she thought the company wasn’t taking the injuries seriously. To the corporate restaurant giant those 700 injury cases caused by hot coffee seemed relatively rare compared to the millions of cups of coffee served. But, the juror noted, “there was a person behind every number and I don’t think the corporation was attaching enough importance to that.”

McDonald’s quality assurance manager testified that McDonald’s coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into Styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.

McDonald’s admitted at trial that consumers were unaware of the extent of the risk of serious burns from spilled coffee served at McDonald’s then-required temperature.

McDonald’s admitted it did not warn customers of the nature and extent of this risk and could offer no explanation as to why it did not."

Excerpts from this article

Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.

[chorusfm]

Liner Notes (December 14th, 2024)

A quick one this week, but I had a few things to share. If you’d like this newsletter delivered to your inbox each week (it’s free and available to everyone), you can sign up here. A Few Things * It’s the slow part of the music year, but I still wanted to write a quick note to share a few things for the week. * I added a new feature to the website this week: Bluesky embeds. You can read the details at the link, but it was nice to be able to sit down and tackle a coding project this week. (Hopefully a few more to come!) These seem to be working great so far and it’s made me want to go back and re-visit how we handle a few of the other auto-embeds. * I’ve written about the app Soro before, it’s an awesome app that lets you do all sorts of cool automation/Shortcut stuff with Sonos. When we moved I used that as an excuse to buy some more Sonos gear, and one of the automations I recently setup was a “reset” each night where at 1 AM the volume on all the Sonos devices gets reset to a comfortable “default” level. In Case You Missed It * Review: Lauren Mayberry – Vicious Creature * Fred Mascherino Joins Taking Back Sunday Live * The Used Announce 25th Anniversary Tour * Mark O’Connell Reportedly Leaves Taking Back Sunday * Liner Notes (December 8th, 2024) * Chuck Ragan Announces Tour * 2025 Let’s Go Music Festival Lineup Announced * Some Users Disappointed with Spotify Wrapped * Darren Doane Talks Directing Blink-182 Music Videos * Albums in Stores – Dec 13th, 2024 Music Thoughts * Paul Meany released an acoustic EP that’s co-branded with himself and Mutemath. It’s, unsurprisingly, fantastic. I hope we get the long awaited solo album at some point soon. * Dua Lipa’s live album is pretty damn awesome. As is The Cure’s. Beside’s that, I spent most of my week listening to holiday music. Next couple weeks I’ll start the process of looking at everything I listened to over the last year and trying to figure out what my end of the year list will look like. Unlike years past, I don’t think I have a runaway favorite for my album of the year. There’s a handful of like three or four that I really liked, so we’ll see how that all shakes out. The Stats: Over the past week, I listened to 86 different artists, 109 different albums, and 420 different tracks (540 scrobbles). Here is my Top 9 from last week, and you can follow me on Apple Music and/or Last.fm. Entertainment Thoughts * The Venom movies are ridiculously stupid but Hannah and I have had fun with every single one of them. The third was no exception. Dumb, very dumb, but I also had a stupid smile on my face drinking beer and eating popcorn and watching it. * The Best Christmas Pageant Ever was touching and heartfelt. Unsure if it’s something I’d return to in future holiday seasons, but a nice little safe family holiday film. * Juror #2 is the kind of movie they just don’t make much of any more. A tight simple idea, executed well, with good performances. Not the best courtroom drama I’ve seen, but totally passable and a genre I’ll always enjoy. Random and Personal Stuff * As I said, not a lot to write about this week. I have a few more days off and I plan to use them to work on a few other website projects I’ve wanted to tackle for a while. Ten Songs Here are ten songs that I listened to and loved this week. Some may be new, some may be old, but they all found their way into my life during the past seven days. * The Damnwells – Xmas Eve * Julien Baker & Torres – Sugar in the Tank * Fickle Friends – Dream * The Cure – A Fragile Thing (Live) * Lost Stars – Don’t Look Down * Mutemath – Prodigal * Dua Lipa – These Walls (Live) * Saosin – Mookies Last Christmas * Rose – Number One Girl * Daphne Loves Derby – Have Yourself a Merry Christmas This playlist is available on Spotify and Apple Music. Community Watch The trending and popular threads in our community this week include: * NFL Gameday Week 15 *… https://chorus.fm/features/articles/liner-notes-december-14th-2024/

[beckleysbooks]

Important To Females

This advertisement for Dr. Cheeseman’s Female Pills appeared in the Carroll Free Press on January 31, 1863. Quoting, “The health and life of women is continually in peril if she is mad enough to neglect or maltreat those sexual irregularities to which two thirds of her sex are more or less subject. … To wives and matrons – Dr. Cheeseman’s Pills are offered as the only safe means of renewing interrupted menstruations, but Ladies must bear in mind that … they will prevent the expected events. … Explicit directions, detailing when and where they should be used is in each box.”

While researching my historical fiction, “Oh! Susannah”, I came across this advertisement numerous times. Then, I read, as a cross reference, another source that confirmed in the 19th century, pregnancies among unmarried women were historically considered to lead to the bulk of abortions and that abortion was one of the birth control options employed by married women too. Tim Crumrin writes, “Abortion in the early nineteenth century simply did not elicit the controversy or comment as today … it was not necessarily condemned out of hand if carried out early in the pregnancy. … Abortion, like birth control information, became more available between 1830 and 1850. That period saw a mail order and retail abortifacient drug trade flourish. A woman could send away for certain pills or discreetly purchase them at a store. Surgical methods were available but dangerous and seldom used.” The point I’m making is, even though women back then did not have the right to vote, nor make addresses to public gatherings, nor have standing in court to automatically divorce her husband or retain the rights to keep her children, they did have responsibility and full say over their bodies and their reproductive rights.

Since the Dobbs Vs. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, this is no longer true in the United States. By a vote of 6 to 3, the Justices ruled that abortion is no longer a constitutionally protected right of women. The wording of the majority (all six being Republican – three of whom are recent Trump appointees) is that abortion is a matter to be left up to the States. In anticipation of this ruling, fourteen States adopted “trigger laws” that took affect almost immediately upon the release of the ruling. Therefore, now across a large number of States, there are total or near total bans on abortion. The effect of this ruling has provoked no uniform law across the country and has seen women in restrictive States traveling across state lines to receive medical care for instances of rape and incest.

The other question I raise is: Should this even be an issue that our Supreme Court meddles in? The drafters of our Constitution strove for a system of checks and balances and foresaw men selected to sit on a Supreme Court to eschew wisdom and deliver decisions that Americans would recognize as being fair and impartial; think of the imagery of our “Lady Justice” blindfolded and finely balancing scales.

While this may have been the best of our forefather’s intentions, let’s take a look at some of the actual results coming from this supreme law-of-the-land body.

The Dred Scott Vs Sandford case. I address this decision in my book as it is considered to be one of the reasons our country entered into a civil war. On March 6, 1857, Justice Taney read the majority decision (7-2) that enslaved people are not citizens of the United States and therefore have no protection from the Federal Government or the Courts. This dreadful decision meant that a free Black slave could not necessarily remain “free” should he travel into a slave state. Seven of the nine jurors were from the Democrat Party, President Andrew Jackson having appointed four of the justices.

Plessy Vs. Ferguson – May 18, 1896 – when Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote the majority opinion (7-1) confirming the legitimacy of “Jim Crow” laws. He stated that while the 14th Amendment was intended to ensure political equality between the black and white races, the amendment did not abolish the social inequality, and that segregation did not constitute unlawful discrimination. Five Republicans were Justices on this bench, one well known for his bias against the Black race. One of the Democrat Justices was recorded as always voting for “Jim Crow” laws and another Democrat Justice known to be a KKK member.

Seventy-Seven years later … Roe Vs. Wade - January 22, 1973. Seven of nine Supreme Court Justices ruled that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. However, the government did reserve the right to regulate or restrict access depending on the stage of the pregnancy. Keep in mind, as late as the 1960’s, abortion was illegal in most of the states. Six of the jurors were either Democrats or known to be liberal Republicans or passionate advocates for abortion rights.

Is it just me or does anyone else find it weird that our system of justice is determined by nine individuals, with their own vested interests, who hand down court determinations for the extent of their lifetime; decisions that so often adversely affect many of us? Think of it as our Lady Justice peeking out from behind her blindfold, making sure that the correct thumb is being placed on the scales of justice. We’re supposed to be living in a democracy, right? Where the powers of government are invested in the people and for the people; where the people have the final say.

President Biden recently prepared a proposal for Supreme Court Reform where “guard rails” could be applied to the Supreme Court’s Justices. His proposal was sent to the House of Representative’s Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, who summarily declared the President’s proposal “dead on arrival”. So, in this current hostile political environment, what would be wrong with limiting Congressmen, Senators, and Supreme Court Justices to 18 years’ service? Would we receive better representative government? The political power these Parties wield over one another is nothing other than power conferred on to them by us when we vote.

Retiring U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, said it most succinctly in a recent interview, “Simply codify Roe V. Wade”.

The joy we have as being Americans is that we can have the final say in matters that are important to us and evoke change. It’s a matter of us exercising our right to vote, and in my humble opinion, voting for those who are dedicated to restoring the rights of women and their right to choose what happens with their bodies.

In 1863, it was important for females to at least have control over their bodies. It should be equally important to women today, and for all of us, who only want justice to prevail over politics.

[metamoonshots]

[ad_1] Within the newest SBF information, Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and his protection workforce have as soon as once more approached the presiding choose, Lewis Kaplan, with a plea to change the jury directions. This newest communication seeks to emphasise the consideration of English regulation in deciphering FTX’s phrases of service, marking one other pivotal growth within the trial. Source Newest SBF Information: The Protection Proposed Adjustments The defense’s proposition urges the 12 jurors to acknowledge a basic precept underneath English regulation: that misappropriation necessitates the existence of a belief, fiduciary relationship, or an analogous affiliation between FTX and its prospects. Nonetheless, the change’s phrases of service categorically stipulate the absence of such a relationship between the 2 sides. The protection attorneys emphasised: “Underneath English regulation, the Phrases of Service don't create a belief relationship or related fiduciary relationship between FTX and its prospects. Nor, underneath English regulation, do any representations made after a buyer agrees to the Phrases of Service create a belief relationship or related fiduciary relationship.” Notably, they added that subjective expectations or beliefs held by an individual, don't, underneath English regulation, create such a relationship. The protection workforce additionally cited precedents from the UK’s authorized panorama to assist their argument in a last bid to show SBF’s innocence. DOJ Raises Considerations Over Protection’s Technique Bankman-Fried’s authorized workforce has offered a number of petitions to the presiding choose over the period of the case. These requests embody a number of appeals for pre-trial release on bail, justified by the insufficiency of correct services for ample trial preparation. The vast majority of these requests have been met with denial. The newest transfer has raised skepticism inside the USA Division of Justice (DOJ), which has constantly expressed concerns over the protection’s technique. They assert that the SBF’s suggestion to the jury to focus solely on the phrases of service, given the total scope of his alleged misrepresentations and misleading conduct, is an inaccurate method. Through the trial, prosecutors have been actively probing FTX customers and Bankman-Fried relating to the change’s advertising practices. They imagine that previous statements and the overall understanding amongst prospects are pertinent components to think about. Notably, a jury cost convention will probably be scheduled after each events have offered their circumstances. This convention will function a platform for deliberation and debate over the varied proposed jury directions, finally influencing the jury’s last determination. The previous FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, at present faces seven expenses, together with fraud and the misappropriation of customer funds for private use. All through the course of his trial, Bankman-Fried has constantly denied any wrongdoing, asserting that he has not defrauded his prospects. Up to now, he has additionally confronted allegations of witness tampering. The publish Latest SBF News: Defense Team Seeks Changes to Jury Instruction appeared first on Bitcoin News. [ad_2]

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Okay, but I want to go a bit further with this. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was one of the first gay rights activist of the modern era. He born in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1825. He would initially start his career as a civil servant, but by the early 1860′s would leave the service to focus on fighting for the rights of Uranians (the term he coined for men who loved men). Then came 1866, where much of the northern German states were swallowed up by Prussia, and then again in 1871 would come to swallow up the entirety of of what it would now call the German empire. Prussian law contained a clause that many other German states did not, one that Ulrich’s birthplace in the Kingdom of Hanover did not; Section 175.  Section 175 stated that sex between two men was a criminal act, as was sex with beasts. It should also be noted that there were plans by 1917 to expand the act to pedophiles and lesbians. The only reason this expansion didn’t go through was the Great War and the collapse of the German Empire. I mention these addendums as a way to note that opponents of gay rights have tried to lump in pedophiles, homosexual, and beastiality into the same category, even into the same laws, for a century now. But that is digress, after a brief stint in Prussia prison for his vocal opposition to the Prussia government and his Uranian correspondence, Ulrichs would arrive at a juror’s convention in Munich in 1867. It was there he took the stage and gave on of the more famous Uranian speeches of that era, to which he said: “Gentleman, it also concerns a class of humanity whose numbers reach the thousands in Germany alone. Many great and noble persons in our own and in foreign countries have belonged to it. A class of humanity which is censured for no reason other than an undeserved, legislative prosecution because nature, which creates in a riddling manner, has planted in them a sexual nature which is opposed to the general, usual one.” His proposals for repeal of anti-Uranian laws was rejected on grounds of “morality,” and the convention would wrap after shortly after, but Ulrichs would write, “Yes, I am proud, I am proud that I found the courage to strike the first blow to the hydra of public contempt.” This moment would not last, as the Austrian House of Representatives would pass Section 273, and Section 175 of Prussian law would come to encompass the entirety of the German Empire. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs would die in exile, in Italy, after watching much of the struggles and successes of gay rights get snuffed out in Germany. But we are yet to be done. The reason of have so much of this close to hand to talk about is because in 1898, Magnus Hirschfeld would publish an essay about the life of Ulrichs, alongside a collection of his works. Hirschfeld ends his preface with to my mind a bitter sweet but hopeful ending: “Only when posterity has registered and totaled the number of Uranian persecutions in that sad chapter in which other persecutions of all persons of a different faith and of a different, -- and because this shall take place is a sublime thought which conquers all doubt -- then will the name of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs remain unforgotten; remembered as the first and most noble of those who, in this search for truth and neighborly love, helped persons to gain their rights, by striving hard with vigor and courage.” Thirty-seven years after writing this essay honoring Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Magnus Hirschfeld himself would die in exile, in France, him and his institute’s work burned and the hands of the Nazis. (I will add an addendum to expand on this if need be) But there is still a bright light. You can find many of Magnus Hirschfeld’s works today, even translated into English. The copies I’ve found were translated by a certain Micheal A. Lombardi, in honor of certain Paul J. Nash. In case you were wondering how those two were related, I have the honor of informing you that in the gap between the 1970′s and now, he is now Micheal Lombardi-Nash. You can find him on twitter!

https://twitter.com/LombardiNash?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor 

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CJ current events 19oct23

B/c altruists wear cargo shorts, and people in t-shirts never cheat anyone

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's brown frizzy hair, cargo shorts, and untucked T-shirt were all part of a carefully crafted image he curated to make himself look more like an effective altruist and less like a billionaire braggart, his one-time girlfriend Caroline Ellison testified in court on Wednesday. Bankman-Fried, who debuted on the Forbes billionaires list in 2021 and was estimated to be worth $26 billion, also ditched his luxury car in favor of a Toyota Corolla and set up a Twitter account in an effort to make himself seem more down-to-earth. "He thought his hair was very valuable," Ellison, the former CEO at Alameda Research, said, adding that Bankman-Fried claimed he'd gotten bigger bonuses while working at the Wall Street trading firm Jane Street because of his hair and felt the unkempt look was "essential to his image."*** Four of his company's top lieutenants have pleaded guilty to similar charges. Three, including Ellison, have made deals with prosecutors to testify against him. Bankman-Fried is facing seven criminal charges, including money laundering and securities fraud. If he is convicted on all of the charges against him, the 31-year-old could be looking at a life sentence. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/cryptocurrency-sam-bankman-fried-hair-image

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The Song Remains the Same

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state’s lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death for killing an elderly woman decades ago was executed late Tuesday. Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was pronounced dead after an injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the October 2000 fatal shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham of the Dallas suburb of Garland. Cunningham was killed during a carjacking. “To the family of the victim, I sincerely apologize for all of it,” Murphy said while strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber and after a Christian pastor, his right hand on Murphy’s chest, prayed for the victim’s family, Murphy’s family and friends and the inmate. “I hope this helps, if possible, give you closure,” Murphy said.*** In their filings, Murphy’s attorneys had questioned evidence of two robberies and a kidnapping used by prosecutors to persuade jurors during the penalty phase of his trial that Murphy would be a future danger — a legal finding needed to secure a death sentence in Texas. Murphy admitted he killed Cunningham but had long denied he committed the robberies or kidnapping. His attorneys argued these crimes were the strongest evidence prosecutors had to show Murphy would pose an ongoing threat, but that the evidence linking him to the crimes was problematic, including a questionable identification of Murphy by one of the victims.****

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Congress congressing

GOP members of the House of Representatives convened a hearing on violent crime in D.C. yet again Thursday, echoing sentiments expressed in multiple previous hearings on the topic. *** The hearing comes as D.C. records its highest number of homicides in a single year since the 1990s, and while overall violent crime is up 38% from last year. A large majority of violent crime, particularly gun violence, impacts residents east of the Anacostia River, but other high-profile violent incidents have risen to national attention. Last week, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked outside of his Navy Yard apart*** Three victims of violent crime in D.C. also testified Thursday – voices that have not been heard in previous hearings. One man was robbed at gunpoint downtown, while another, who owns a bar downtown, was assaulted by an armed man in the bar in front of his four-year-old child. A third person, a D.C. Fire and EMS paramedic, shared a story of being assaulted while responding to a call. Mitchell Sobolevsky, the man who was robbed at gunpoint, said the perpetrator in his case went on to re-commit after serving a 24-month sentence. Gaynor Jablonski, the bar owner who was attacked at his bar in front of his son, expressed exasperation at the outcome of his attacker’s sentencing. “He gets 8 months, and I’m left with explaining to my five-year-old why I had to fight this man and my five-year-old tells me when I drop him off every day to be safe,” he said. “You could enact whatever new law you want – we could have 1,000 new gun laws, we could have 1,000 new police officers, you could throw millions at this DA’s office. If nobody’s going to do their job and prosecute and hold people accountable, what’s the point?”*** https://dcist.com/story/23/10/12/gop-house-lambast-dc-over-violent-crime/

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DC DCing

***A shootout at a shopping center in D.C.'s fifth ward Friday afternoon occurred just as Councilmember Brooke Pinto and community members were between two different public safety walks. Employees at a T-Mobile store in Hechinger Mall went home after a bullet pierced the door. Witnesses told 7News a dispute broke out around 11 a.m. in the parking lot and bullets went flying. Fortunately, no one was hit. At America’s Best Wings, a terrified business owner said his store window and his car were shot up. “Suddenly the bullet was coming through the window,” said a business owner who did not want to be named.***https://wjla.com/news/local/shootout-washington-dc-ward-5-shopping-center-hechinger-mall-business-owners-stores-councilmember-brooke-pinto-crime-gun-violence-safety-walk-community-neighborhood-residents-solutions#

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Excuse me, is this kinesiology 101 with B. Michael Doyle or chem 101 with Brendan Doyle?

Michigan State University kinesiology instructor Brendan Doyle is on leave after students found news articles linking him to a bust of a Louisiana meth lab. In March 2020, Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputies found a meth lab "under a bridge over a canal" with "smoke coming from a bucket," according to a press release from Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre. The deputies soon connected Doyle — then a professor at Nicholls State University — to the lab and obtained arrest warrants, but discovered he had fled the state. Months later, they arrested Doyle after he was seen packing a moving truck at his residence. He was charged with "creation or operation of a clandestine laboratory for the unlawful manufacture of a controlled dangerous substance," according to the release. What happened next is somewhat unclear.*** https://statenews.com/article/2023/09/msu-instructor-on-leave-after-students-discover-meth-lab-arrest

The students Spartied on.

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Once more Babylon Bee is pretty close to factual reporting

People will care more if it's not an Amber Alert?

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more than irony killed him

A 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult for allegedly killing Theodore Lawson, a 63-year-old political canvasser and Democratic operative.

According to two teenagers who were also present at the scene, Lawson was reportedly shot after being approached by the suspect from across the street and asked for a dollar.

Authorities do not believe Lawson's murder was politically motivated.

***The 15-year-old who was charged with murder also faces gun charges. A probable cause conference has been scheduled for Oct. 20. Lansing Police Dept. Chief Ellery Sosebee said in a statement that Lawson’s murder was "senseless" and "speaks to the careless mindset of a very small section of our most violent offenders." " ... too often, these acts of violence, are by youthful offenders with no value of consequence or accountability," Sosebee wrote. "Based on the evidence gathered, the suspect’s intent was to get money from the victim in an attempted robbery. There is no evidence or information this was related to any political motive or affiliation." Dewane, the county prosecutor, said he opted to charge the teen as an adult due to the nature of the offense and his previous interactions with the court system.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-teen-facing-adult-murder-charge-allegedly-killing-election-canvasser

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that's a lot of hate

PLAINFIELD, Ill. -- A man stabbed a child to death and critically injured a woman in a suburb of Chicago on Saturday morning because they are Muslim, the Will County Sheriff's Office said Sunday. Joseph Czuba is being held at Will County's Adult Detention facility.*** Wadea's life was brutally taken away on Saturday, when he was stabbed 26 times with a military-style knife at his unincorporated Plainfield home just before 11:40 a.m. Will County investigators said on Sunday that Wadea and his mother were attacked by their landlord, Joseph M. Czuba. The 71-year-old is now charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of committing a hate crime.*** "He knocked on the door and that he attempted to choke her, and said, 'you Muslims must die,' and attempted to stab her, and stabbed her. And, she went to the bathroom and called 911. And, this was all in her own words," Rehab said. The 32-year-old mother was hospitalized in serious condition, and is expected to survive, the sheriff's office said.*** https://6abc.com/plainfield-illinois-hate-crime-stabbing-muslim-joseph-m-czuba/13919952/

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He was such stand up man on American Dad!?

Former California Police Officer and Three Co-Defendants Sentenced for Years Long Operation of Illicit Massage Businesses 10/16/2023 08:00 AM EDT Peter Griffin, 79, a retired San Diego police officer and former vice detective, attorney and private investigator, was sentenced on Friday to 33 months in prison and one year of supervised release for committing various crimes in connection with his operation of five California and Arizona-based illicit massage businesses that profited for years by selling commercial sex under the guise of offering therapeutic massage services.***

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after Tues

Knife is pretty good home defense weapon

The man who was killed in a stabbing in Broomfield on Wednesday was allegedly robbing a house when a person living there stabbed him, according to the Broomfield Police Department. Police responded to a call about a stabbing at approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday in the 3900 block of Cambridge Avenue in the Brandywine neighborhood. Officers found Trenten Hansen, 30, had died at the scene, according to the department.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/10/16/man-died-fatal-stabbing-robbing-broomfield-home

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Holy smokes, Batman!

All charges have been dismissed against Army Col. Jon Meredith, who had been accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward the wife of an officer who was away on a field training exercise*** Meredith was initially accused of kissing and groping the woman at her husband’s home on July 23, 2022. Subsequently, Meredith was fired in October 2022 as commander of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Cavazos, Texas.*** Meredith’s attorney, Sherilyn A. Bunn, told Task & Purpose that charges against her client were dismissed based on text messages discovered by the defense that indicate the alleged victim and her husband may have conspired to falsely accuse Meredith of sexual assault because the woman’s husband didn’t like an officer evaluation report that he received from Meredith. “Generally, the text messages between the accuser and her husband were about the husband’s OER [officer evaluation report]; how he could ‘blow things up’ if he didn’t like it; and the decision to ‘go nuclear’ once the husband received his OER and decided COL Meredith’s rater comments would negatively impact his rating and his likelihood of getting promoted ‘below the zone,’ Bunn said on Monday.*** Col. Ann Meredith was relieved as commander of the 89th Military Support Brigade at Fort Cavazos, and she later received administrative action. Stars and Stripes reported that she was fired for allegedly sending a text message that could be viewed as trying to interfere with the investigation into her husband. Agents with the Army Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, conducted a forensic extraction of the cell phone belonging to the husband of the woman who accused Meredith of sexual assault to preserve messages that CID thought were relevant to the investigation into Col. Ann Meredith, Bunn said. Meredith’s attorneys discovered this evidence when one of Meredith’s military defense counsels was granted access to Col. Ann Meredith’s CID investigation file, Bunn said. The defense team then hired an expert consultant to review the raw data taken from the husband’s phone. “That information assisted the Defense in identifying conversations between the accuser and her husband that, in the context of other messages sent and received in the same time period with other people, confirmed from the defense perspective that this was a false allegation,” Bunn said.*** https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-colonel-charges-dropped/

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$200k is a lot more than nuisance value

The Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Benedictine order have removed a decadeslong pastor from public ministry and suspended his priestly faculties after he confirmed to a local media outlet that years ago he entered a confidential $200,000 settlement to quiet allegations of male adult sexual assault and financial fraud. “I just wanted to keep him quiet, to be rid of him, because he was just stirring up trouble,” Father Paschal Morlino, OSB, told The Baltimore Banner in its October report. “My conscience is clear; it’s all stuff that he made up.” The archdiocese said in a statement Sunday that after being made aware of the report, it immediately began an investigation and decided within 24 hours, along with the Benedictine order, to remove Morlino as pastor and suspend his priestly faculties.*** The allegations Kathy Durm-St. Amant, a former parishioner from Morlino’s Baltimore church, told The Baltimore Banner that a friend once confided in her that many years prior he had taken a cruise with Morlino in which the priest sexually assaulted him. ”He said he went on that cruise, he was in bed. He woke up with Paschal on top of him,” Durm-St. Amant said. That man worked for Morlino, now 85, carrying out different duties for the pastor’s church such as fundraising, cooking, and cleaning, the outlet reported. She encouraged her friend, whom the outlet did not name, to contact a lawyer.  That friend died in 2020, but after his death, Durm-St. Amant discovered negotiation letters between attorneys relating to the incident, the outlet reported. The letters were provided to the outlet.*** https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255706/pastor-removed-from-ministry-after-report-about-dollar-200k-in-sex-abuse-hush-money

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China $$ and AI

Pras Michel of the Fugees is seeking a new trial by arguing his former lawyer used artificial intelligence to generate his closing argument before the hip-hop artist was found guilty of helping a foreign national launder millions of dollars in illegitimate contributions to former President Barack Obama’s campaign.  Michel was convicted in April after being accused of taking part in an extensive conspiracy to use about $88 million in foreign funds to engage in illegal back-channel lobbying and make unlawful campaign contributions at the direction of the People’s Republic of China. He filed a motion on Monday asking the court for a new trial on all counts.  The motion argues Michel’s former defense attorney David Kenner "used an experimental AI program to write his closing argument, which made frivolous arguments, conflated the schemes and failed to highlight key weaknesses in the Government’s case."  Kenner "then publicly boasted that the AI program ‘turned hours or days of legal work into seconds,’" Michel’s new defense team from D.C.-based ArentFox Schiff wrote. "It is now apparent that Kenner and his co-counsel appear to have had an undisclosed financial stake in the AI program, and they experimented with it during Michel’s trial so they could issue a press release afterward promoting the program — a clear conflict of interest."*** According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Michel conspired with wealthy Malaysian businessman Jho Low and several others to engage in undisclosed lobbying campaigns at the direction of Low and the Vice Minister of Public Security for the People’s Republic of China, the Justice Department said. A federal grand jury found Michel guilty of using his celebrity status and access to influence U.S. government officials on behalf of undisclosed foreign interests.  The entertainer was convicted of orchestrating an unregistered, back-channel campaign beginning in or about 2017 to influence the Obama administration and the Department of Justice to drop an embezzlement investigation of Low in connection with the international strategic and development company known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and to send a Chinese national back to China, as well as conspiring to make and conceal foreign and conduit campaign contributions during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rapper-convicted-pumping-millions-obama-campaign-seeks-new-trial-ex-attorney-used-ai-argument

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federal civil rights crime

A former Oregon Department of Corrections employee was sentenced yesterday for sexually assaulting nine female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison. Tony Daniel Klein, 38, of Clackamas County, Oregon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and five years of supervised release.*** According to court documents, from 2010 until January 2018, Klein served as a nurse at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. In his position, Klein interacted with female inmates who either sought medical treatment or worked as orderlies in the prison’s medical unit. Aided by his access to the women and his position of power as a corrections employee, Klein sexually assaulted or engaged in nonconsensual sexual conduct with many female inmates entrusted to his care. By virtue of his position as a medical provider, Klein was often alone with his victims and assaulted many before, during or after medical treatment. For women who worked in the medical unit, Klein manufactured reasons to get them alone in secluded areas such as medical rooms, janitor’s closets or behind privacy curtains. Klein made it clear to his victims that he was in a position of power over them, and that they would not be believed if they tried reporting his abuse. Fearing punishment if they fought back against or reported his misconduct, most of Klein’s victims submitted to his unwanted advances or endured his assaults.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-oregon-corrections-nurse-sentenced-30-years-federal-prison-sexually-assaulting-nine

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this not a joke, nor a parody

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stop him before he memes again!

A social media influencer was sentenced today to seven months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to interfere with potential voters’ right to vote in the 2016 presidential election. According to court documents, by 2016, Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, had established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as one of the most significant influencers of the then-upcoming presidential election. Between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media, which was legally invalid. *** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/social-media-influencer-sentenced-election-interference-2016-presidential-race

Good thing we repealed the 1st Amendment!

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predators gonna prey

Joran van der Sloot has finally admitted to killing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway 18 years ago — bludgeoning her to death on a darkened beach with a cinder block after she fought off his sexual advances. The shocking admission was revealed by prosecutors Wednesday in an Alabama courtroom before van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting money from the missing teen’s mother, Beth Holloway. The Dutch citizen, 36, had long been the prime suspect in the 18-year-old’s disappearance. The blonde-haired beauty went missing during a high school graduation trip with classmates. She was last seen on May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with van der Sloot. Although he isn’t charged in Holloway’s death, his confession has brought closure to a case that has captivated the nation for nearly two decades.*** mom also revealed that van der Sloot confessed to her that he went home and watched porn after taking her daughter’s life. Van der Sloot confessed to the killing earlier this month as part of a plea deal for extortion and wire fraud after asking her family for $250,000 to reveal the location of her body. He was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison, to run concurrently with a 28-year sentence he is serving in Peru in the 2010 slaying of Stephany Flores.***

Peruvian authorities later arrested van der Sloot in the 2010 slaying of Flores, who was killed after also rejecting his sexual advances, and he was convicted and sentenced to 28 years behind bars. The government of Peru agreed to extradite van der Sloot to the US so he could face the extortion charges, with that case culminating in his guilty plea on Wednesday. 

https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/joran-van-der-sloot-admits-to-grisly-murder-of-natalee-holloway-in-2005/

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von Moltke the Elder: The first report is always wrong.

Multiple reports of an active shooter at CamLej. Lockdown. Turned out it was Jesse Thomas Bopp playing with a new pistol. Negligently shot another Marine in 2/6. Ran away. https://www.instagram.com/p/CykENTsMIuI/

Never point a firearm at anything you don't want to kill.

Handle every weapon as loaded with a round in the chamber.

Keep your weapon on safe until aimed in on an authorized target and cleared to fire.

Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until cleared to fire.

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Dr Jansen lives in da hood!

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Defense team is urging the overseeing judge to examine prospective jurors on their prior encounters with the embattled FTX founder, and his now-defunct crypto empire. With just three weeks to go before Bankman-Fried faces trial for seven criminal counts, both the Defense and the Department of Justice (DOJ) laid out their proposed questions for jury selection late Monday.The proposed questions aim to unearth juror perspectives on a range of topics from Cryptocurrency and, also extending to areas like political donations, lobbying, and the very ethos of “effective altruism” that led the entrepreneur to amass a fortune so he could give it away.Obstruction or Right to Defense?Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have been lobbying hard to Secure his temporary release from jail to mount a robust Defense. They contest the prosecution’s sunny narrative that their client enjoys adequate laptop access behind bars. His bail was revoked last month after allegations of witness tampering surfaced, making his current circumstances particularly onerous.DOJ Accused of OverreachThe DOJ has sought to disqualify all seven of Bankman-Fried’s proposed third-party expert witnesses, questioning their relevancy and undermining their proposed testimonies. Defense attorneys also slammed the DOJ for attempting to curtail their client’s constitutional right to present a Defense.Judge Lewis Kaplan revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail last month, alleging witness tampering. And although an appeals court is still to weigh in, the Defense’s bid for more lenient jail conditions hangs in limbo.Veteran white-collar litigators suggest that the jury selection, ordinarily a few-hour affair, could span days given the intricacies of this case. Prospective jurors with glaring biases could be dismissed, as both parties have a limited number of strikes.Salame’s Guilty Plea adds Up PressureFormer FTX executive Ryan Salame recently pleaded guilty to charges, leaving Bankman-Fried as the sole defiant figure in this legal saga. The plea didn’t include a commitment to testify against Bankman-Fried, but the conviction that adds up the pressure on the FTX founder.Cryptomarket on Tenterhooks Over $3.4 Billion LiquidationMeanwhile, the crypto industry is on edge over rumors that FTX could Secure court Authorization to liquidate approximately $3.4 billion in cryptocurrencies. If given the green light, such a colossal liquidation event could send shockwaves through the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.The drama surrounding Bankman-Fried extends far beyond the courtroom. His legal team cited numerous instances where the limitations on his internet access had crippled their ability to prepare an effective Defense, calling into question the fairness of the upcoming trial.!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window,document,'script', ' fbq('init', '887971145773722'); fbq('track', 'PageView');

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[ad_1] KENOSHA, Wis. — Jurors within the Kyle Rittenhouse trial deliberated thru a 2nd complete day on Wednesday, a sign that they could be suffering with the complexities in their process to believe Mr. Rittenhouse’s culpability within the 5 legal counts he faces.Mr. Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial for first-degree intentional murder and different fees after fatally capturing two males and maiming every other right through civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis., in August 2020.The deliberations on Wednesday had been punctuated by way of a 2nd name for a mistrial by way of Mr. Rittenhouse’s legal professionals, who argued that prosecutors had sooner than the trial equipped them with a lower-quality model of a drone video that depicts the deadly capturing of Joseph Rosenbaum, the primary guy Mr. Rittenhouse shot. Throughout two weeks of testimony, jurors noticed the higher-quality model of the video.Pass judgement on Bruce Schroeder mentioned the trial would proceed however urged that he may just rule at the request for a mistrial at any time, together with after a verdict.“It needs to be addressed if there's a in charge verdict on any diploma on that rely,” Pass judgement on Schroeder mentioned of the movement.The jurors — seven girls and 5 males — introduced a couple of glimpses into how their deliberations, which began on Tuesday morning, had been continuing.At issues right through their deliberations, jurors requested the pass judgement on for permission to look at movies that have been performed right through the trial, together with pictures of all 3 shootings from the evening in query. Via midafternoon, the court docket used to be emptied for as regards to an hour so the jury may just input and watch movies with out the pass judgement on, legal professionals, reporters and the general public provide.Noise from demonstrators might be heard throughout the home windows of the ornate court docket, at the 3rd ground of the Kenosha County Courthouse. Right through the day, a number of dozen protesters lingered at the courthouse steps, arguing, on occasion shouting obscenities and chanting, “No mistrial, no mistrial.”A minimum of two other folks had been detained after a battle on Wednesday afternoon, and previous within the day, one guy who used to be sporting an AR-15-style rifle outdoor the courthouse used to be requested by way of a sheriff’s deputy to place it away, which he did.Pass judgement on Schroeder indicated that he used to be involved that prosecutors had now not grew to become over the right kind model of the video to the protection group sooner than the trial, however he didn't in an instant rule at the protection’s movement for a mistrial.James Kraus, an assistant district legal professional, mentioned certainly one of Mr. Rittenhouse’s earlier legal professionals have been in ownership of the top of the range video, and he argued that the problem used to be now not vital sufficient to benefit a mistrial.The Felony Fees Towards Kyle RittenhouseCard 1 of fourRely 1: First-degree reckless murder. Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of this crime in reference to the deadly capturing of Joseph D. Rosenbaum. Below Wisconsin regulation, the crime is outlined as recklessly inflicting demise beneath instances that display utter forget for human lifestyles.Counts 2 and three: First-degree recklessly endangering protection. Mr. Rittenhouse is charged with recklessly endangering two individuals who, in step with the legal grievance, had photographs fired towards them however weren't hit: Richard McGinnis and an unknown male noticed in video of the episode.Rely 4: First-degree intentional murder. Mr. Rittenhouse faces this price in reference to the deadly capturing of Anthony M. Huber. The crime, analogous to first-degree homicide in different states, is outlined as inflicting the demise of every other human being with intent to kill that individual or any person else.Rely 5: Tried first-degree intentional murder. Mr. Rittenhouse faces this price in reference to the capturing of Gaige P.

Grosskreutz, who used to be struck and wounded.An unintentional “technical incident,” he mentioned, “will have to now not lead to a mistrial.”Corey Chirafisi, certainly one of Mr. Rittenhouse’s legal professionals, mentioned that a prosecutor’s process used to be about “equity and being a reality seeker” and that the Kenosha County prosecutors had violated the ones ideas. He additionally mentioned he used to be keen to just accept a mistrial “with out prejudice,” that means that prosecutors may just take a look at the case once more.“It’s now not arguable that it’s now not truthful what took place,” Mr. Chirafisi mentioned. “We’re speaking a couple of attainable lifestyles sentence right here.”Closing week, Mr. Rittenhouse’s legal professionals made a movement for a mistrial over a unique factor.In that movement, they argued that every other prosecutor, Thomas Binger, had inappropriately wondered Mr. Rittenhouse sooner than the jury about why he had now not spoken in regards to the shootings of their aftermath. The protection legal professionals mentioned that the feedback had infringed on Mr. Rittenhouse’s proper to stay silent, and that Mr. Binger had additionally begun to say a work of proof the pass judgement on had urged will have to now not be introduced up at trial.Mr. Rittenhouse’s legal professionals argued at the moment that the pass judgement on will have to claim a mistrial with prejudice, which might quantity to an enduring dismissal of the costs. The pass judgement on has but to rule on both movement for a mistrial.One explanation why a pass judgement on would possibly wait till after a verdict to rule on mistrial motions, some criminal mavens mentioned, can be in order that the case reaches a transparent consequence. If the jury acquits, the mistrial motions would develop into moot. If the jury convicts after which the pass judgement on grants a mistrial and voids the decision, the prosecution would give you the chance to enchantment the discovering.Dan Hinkel and Sergio Olmos contributed reporting from Kenosha. [ad_2] #Verdict #Rittenhouse #Trial #Jurors #Go away #Evening

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‘Surf Rat’ among witnesses testifying in violent disorder trial Jurors continued hearing evidence in the trial of two men accused of engaging in violent disorder at an event in Wotton, Christ Church over seven years ago. On Monday, two more witnesses took the stand on the No. 5 Supreme Court in the matter of Akem Marvon Waithe, of Greens, St George, and Shane Anthony Burke – who now uses the surname Greene – of Lodge Road, Christ Church. It is alleged that on September 1, 2016, the two accused, present together with other persons, used unlawful violence and their conduct, taken together, caused another person present to fear for their personal safety. Waithe is also accused of using a firearm without a valid licence. The case is presided over by Madam Justice Pamela Beckles. Taking the stand on Monday was disc jockey Carlos Norville, more popularly known as Surf Rat. He said that he was one of the DJs at the event and everyone was having a good time when suddenly there were “a number of explosions”. “I run to the back . . . . I get push down,” he testified, adding that he was able to get through a door. He said “when it was over I just move”. “I didn’t see who was shooting,” Norville added. Renaldo Sealy also gave evidence in the matter. He said that he went to Wotton with another man that night where there was “a little party, just a promotion”. The Christ Church resident added that people were partying when gunshots suddenly rang out. “We just ran. I went home because I duh frighten,” he told the court. Asked by prosecutor Acting Senior Counsel Rudolph Burnett whether he had given the police a statement in connection to the matter, the witness replied: “I cannot recall . . . . I can’t read”. Sealy identified his signature on the statement but told the court that “I can’t recall” giving it. Under cross-examination by Greene’s lawyer Rasheed Belgrave, Sealy said the police never read back the statement to him and he maintained he did not know what it contained. Waithe is represented in the case by Michael Lashley K.C., Justin Leacock, Sade Harris and Zudie Payne The case continues on Tuesday. Source: BARBADOS Today https://www.instagram.com/p/CoE8iWZgeA3xhnFhJgjMO5N4tAWbOSGqIMlJu40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63587833

A gang who trafficked vulnerable women into Scotland for prostitution have been jailed for a total of 31 years.

Jagpal Singh, 52, his partner Donglin Zhang, 49, along with Vlassis Ntaoulias, 33, and Boonsong Wannas, 63, lured victims from China and Thailand with the promise of legitimate jobs.

The women instead had passports taken from them before being forced to work in brothels across Glasgow.

All four members of the group were sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

They returned to the dock on Thursday following a trial last month over crimes carried out between 2018 and 2020.

Singh, Zhang and Ntaoulias were convicted of human trafficking. Wannas had earlier admitted the same charge.

'Cold and callous'

Singh was jailed for 10 years. He had also been convicted of a charge of keeping a brothel.

Sentencing, Judge Douglas Brown told him: "You accuse the victims of lying.

"I also note you have displayed no empathy and that your attitude has been cold and callous."

Zhang was sentenced to eight years. She had also been found guilty of the brothel charge as well as aiding and abetting prostitution.

The judge said Zhang, who claimed to have formerly been a victim of human trafficking, had played a "leading role".

He added if she had been a victim of trafficking she should have been aware of the "pernicious nature" of the crime.

Ntaoulias, who was said to have a lesser but still "significant" involvement, was sentenced to seven years, while Wannas was jailed for six years and four months.

Wannas was also involved in the running of a brothel and was said to have "plainly exploited" a woman from Thailand.

Detectives caught the trafficking gang following an investigation in 2020.

Three women recounted their ordeals, though several others are also thought to have been affected.

A number of flats were used for the prostitution - including one in Glasgow's Albion Street and another city centre property in Oswald Street.

There were others in Charlotte Street in the east end, in Cathcart Road in the southside and in Linden Street in the west of the city.

'Female boss'

One victim told jurors that she was brought to Glasgow from China in September 2018 in the belief she would be employed as a dishwasher, babysitter or masseuse.

But she recalled being ferried to a city centre flat and her passport seized by Zhang - branded the "female boss".

The woman stated she initially did cleaning work but was not paid. She was then taken to a second flat by Singh and Zhang who ordered her to sell her body.

The woman told the court: "I said no and she said if you don't listen to me ... I will make sure you never go back to China."

She went on to meet men "every day" at the flat or in hotels.

Singh and Ntaoulias - who ran an Airbnb property business - exchanged messages where they spoke about "new fresh Chinese girls."

Property manager James Taylor told jurors that he encountered two Chinese women in nightdresses during an inspection of Singh's Albion Street flat.

He stated the property contained CCTV and a dentist style waiting area outside two bedrooms - one of which contained a naked Glaswegian man.

Singh eventually left Scotland, but Zhang and Ntaoulias kept the prostitution business going.

Ntaoulias and Wannas were also involved in the brothel at Charlotte Street.

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this is repulsive… the women involved who said they were previously victims of trafficking are such class traitors. i can’t imagine forcing other women through something when knowing firsthand how traumatic and painful it is. all their sentences were too fucking light