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[the-scarlet-witch-22]

Professor Agatha yes but also… Lawyer Agatha? 👀

[idiopathicsmile]

deepest apologies to my rl friend who has helped me process it multiple times by this point, but the above image, which comes from a sign in a greenhouse in Kew Gardens, forever remains at the forefront of my mind, specifically the phrase “innocent insects,” which is the funniest piece of editorializing I have ever encountered in a museum-like setting, absolutely hands-down world-class unreliable narrator shit.

“innocent insects” like. ok I see what you’re going for, you wanna up the drama to hopefully get readers excited about science but still. why so judgmental against a plant that is just trying to get its nutrients? and even buying into this weirdly moralistic framing of a natural process, how do you know the insect is innocent? innocent of what, exactly? off the top of my head, ants and bees both live in highly organized groups governed by what you might call rules of a sort; do we seriously think there are zero transgressions? like, are we as a species fully prepared to assert that there are no bug crimes? at the very least, lots of insects eat other insects, which is after all the very so-called sin for which we condemn the pitcher plant; are these insect-eating insects truly more innocent than a plant which performs the same act? and even if an insect survives solely off of plant matter, wouldn’t a death by devouring from a separate piece of carnivorous flora constitute not a crime but a perhaps-brutal act of utterly justifiable kingdom-on-kingdom revenge?

“innocent insects” i just. did an ant ghostwrite this?

[pinetreedan-wc]

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[i-am-trans-gwender]

A critique of the Harkness Test

Judge: Daphne Blake has been charged with HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH SCOOBY DOO?

Lawyer: My client has done nothing wrong. Unlike most dogs, Scooby Doo passes the Harkness Test.

Judge: The what test?

Lawyer: The Harkness Test. It's a set of guidelines named after Captain Jack Harkness. The criteria is 1) Does it have human intelligence or higher?, 2) Can it talk or otherwise communicate with with language?, 3) Is it of sexual maturity for it's species?. If the answer to all 3 is yes then it's ok to fuck. Therefore it's ok for humans to fuck Scooby Doo.

Prosecutor: Objection! Shouldn't one of the questions be: "Is it humanoid?"

Lawyer: You're missing the point of the test! It's specifically for when it is and when it isn't ok to fuck feral animals. Also Barry Benson passes the test even with your rule.

Prosecutor: That's bestiality your honor! It's illegal to have intercourse with a "thousand year old dragon girl who looks like a three year old human." So how is it any different to have intercourse with a dog who is not physically human at all?

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[remembertheplunge]

Mia Frances Yamamoto

12/13/23

Last Saturday, I attended the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice conference in San Fransisco, California.

There were several speakers that day devoted a variety of issues and topics. regarding practicing criminal law.

‘One of the speakers was Attorney  Mia Frances Yamamoto.

I have heard her talk twice before at similar conferences.

She is a trans woman. She said she was the first trans woman lawyer in California legal history, if I heard her right.

She told us what it was like to enter a court room full of people who had know her as a man for the first time as a woman. . She was nervous about doing it , but , realized she had to just do it.

The reception by the lawyers and the judge was beautiful. They stood in line to give her a hug, including the judge. The female lawyers said “Welcome to the club!”

Her clients, who included gang members charged with murder I believe, after discovering their former male lawyer was now a woman, fully accepted Mia. One said “I want you for your brain, not for your mmmmfff.”

She said that among gays in general, all of us have considered killing our selves to save the world from our vile selves.

There were a group of maybe 150 lawyers in the room at the Nikko Hotel where Mia spoke to us.

Some of the lawyers I knew from my  decades of work in the Stockton and Modesto court houses.

They know I am gay.

As Mia spoke, I looked around the room feeling oddly exposed. I wondered what my straight lawyer colleagues were thinking. Did Mia’s words open them to how huge a factor being out and gay in Central Valley courts is?

After the talk, I got a chance to talk with Mia briefly. I reminded her that I had told her about the book I am writing at a past conference she spoke at. I gave her my Tumblr blog information.

I have been a lawyer since 1981 and have been to many many legal conferences through the years. The topics of being a gay or trans lawyer was never mentioned. Never discussed. Until Mia boldly put it on the table for the first time a few years ago.

This is a huge and a welcome step forward.

[thealogie]

I would trade every gay slur in succession (every one of which is so precious to me) for Matthew Rhys/Justin Kirk to fuck on perry mason. I really feel like Perry mason was engineered in a lab to drive me specifically crazy.

[askaceattorney]

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With fools, you cannot predict them.

I believe Ms. Miney was likely threatened by her former boss to sue her. I've been involved in enough cases to know his type. He would threaten the family of his dead employees if it meant saving his precious reputation.

Had Ms. Miney contacted a lawyer early on instead of pulling this nonsense, she could have put in a counterclaim of his abusive treatment toward her sister and won flawlessly.

- Franziska von Karma

[kaurwreck]

I don't know much about law but wouldn't Light case call for an international court or something considering he's killing criminals worldwide or is it because he reside in Japan during the entire thing that Japan automatically take responsibility for his case?

There isn't any such thing as a one world government or one world court with jurisdiction in every country; those concepts are an affront to national sovereignty and very few if any nations would consent to such institutions.

There isn't even an international arrest warrant — what most people think constitutes an international arrest warrant is actually a request Interpol can submit to law enforcement worldwide to provisionally arrest someone pending extradition, surrender, etc., but no one is obligated to do so, it does not have the weight of law of an arrest warrant, and the arrest is only provisional if the arresting law enforcement is not the nation in which the defendant has been indicted. You may also be thinking of the International Court of Justice, but that is an organ of the United Nations for settling disputes between nations, not trying international criminals.

Other countries could try to extradite Light for crimes against their nationals. The nature of the mass murder Light managed to commit would make his case complicated and would allow him to be tried in multiple jurisdictions. It would depend on with which nations Japan has extradition treaties, whether Japan would permit extradition, and whether other nations would seek extradition.

Many, many of Light's crimes occurred in Japan, Light is a Japanese national, and Light is located in Japan, so Japanese prosecutors are the more obvious, accessible choice, so that's the assumption on which I premised my earlier answer.

[lilfantayshia]

I have a feeling that almost everyone on law and order has a sexual tension with Jack McCoy.

[brokenlegalese]

When the client’s mommy won’t stop calling demanding I “do something” for her precious baby serving time in another state

[housefinches]

no one talks about how if you want to work in law you have to choose whether you wanna be poor or evil :(

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A bill that would add child sex trafficking and statutory rape to the crimes eligible for the death penalty was debated Monday in a Missouri Senate committee — despite conflicting with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

The legislation is sponsored by state Sen. Mike Moon, an Ash Grove Republican who said Monday that one of the “principal purposes of government” is to “punish evil.”

Rape of children under 14 and child trafficking of children under 12 would be crimes eligible for the death penalty under his bill.

“And what’s more evil than taking the innocence of the child during the act of a rape? Children are in large part defenseless and an act such as rape can kill the child emotionally,” he said.

“And so I believe a just consequence, after a reasonable opportunity for defense, is death.”

The Senate Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee heard the bill Monday.

State Sen. Karla May, a Democrat from St. Louis, pointed to Moon’s stance of “believing in life” as an outspoken opponent of abortion without exception for rape or incest, yet supporting expanding the death penalty.

“A 12 year old who gets pregnant, you believe that she should bring that child in the world, am I correct?” May asked.

“What crime did that child, that developing human child, commit to deserve death?” Moon replied.

“…But you believe in killing the father to that child?” May asked, if the father is a rapist.

“Yes,” Moon said. “If an attacker commits a heinous crime such as the ones that I mentioned in this presentation, I believe that if they’re charged and convicted, absolutely.”

The Rev. Timothy Faber testified in support of Moon’s bill, pointing to the “lifelong repercussions” of child rape and trafficking.

“It’s also a well established fact that those who commit sexual crimes seldom if ever change their ways,” he said. “Once a sexual offender, always a sexual offender.”

Elyse Max, co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, opposed the bill during Monday’s hearing.

“If the goal is to overturn established U.S. Supreme Court precedent, it’s far from a guarantee,” Max said, “and the amount of resources the state of Missouri would have to spend as well as the trauma to child victims during the process cannot be understated.”

The U.S. Supreme Court in the 2008 case Kennedy v. Louisiana ruled giving the death penalty to those convicted of child rape violates the constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment unless the crime results in the victim’s death or is intended to. Only homicide and a narrow set of “crimes against the state” can be punishable by death, the court ruled.

“Adding statutory rape and trafficking as death-eligible crimes are a slippery slope,” Max said, “of expanding the death penalty to non-murder crimes that would bring the constitutionality of Missouri’s death penalty into doubt.”

“Instead of spending millions of dollars to possibly change long-standing precedent, Missouri resources should be spent to protect children from abuse in the first place, and ensure survivors have access to mental health treatment and proper support, following the offense,” Max said.

Moon said, regarding the Supreme Court precedent, that it’s worth challenging.

“That’s something that we need to start the conversation about,” he said, “and those things need to be challenged.”

Florida passed a similar law for victims of rape under age 12 last year. It received bipartisan support. In December, prosecutors in that state announced they’d seek the death penalty in a case of a man accused of sexually abusing a child.

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the state’s bill could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the issue.

Mary Fox, director of Missouri State Public Defender, which provides defense for the majority of death penalty cases in the state, argued Monday that the death penalty is “no deterrent to a crime.”

Fox also noted that an 18 year old dating a 14 year old could be executed under Moon’s legislation because that would be considered statutory rape.

Mei Hall, a resident of Columbia who also said she was a victim of sexual abuse, also testified in opposition.

“I don’t wish my abuser death,” Hall said. “I wish them to be sequestered away and unable to harm more people, for sure. But I don’t think it’s the state’s place to kill people in general and I don’t think it’s the state’s place to make it more difficult for child victims to come forward.”

Lobbyists from Empower Missouri and Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers also testified against the bill. A lobbyist from ArmorVine, testified in support.

Missouri was one of only five states to carry out death sentences last year, along with Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama. There are two executions scheduled for this year.

Three House bills filed this year would eliminate the state’s death penalty, but none has made it to a committee hearing.