Motions and jury selection is the all important part of the trial
They say that many of these trials are won or lost before opening statements. Make the right arguments and get the right rulings on evidence, pick the best jury possible, and it could very well make all the difference in the world.
One of the most heated discussions was whether or not to admit as evidence a prior arrest that George Floyd had where he had admitted to ingesting a large amount of drugs when confronted by cops to hide the drugs from being found. He ended up being admitted to a local Hospital and almost died from a similar amount of Fentanyl that was found in his body. This happened pretty close to one year prior to his death.
The defense wants this admitted as evidence of support of their theory that George Floyd did the same thing on the day of his death. That he ingested the large amount of Fentanyl to avoid being arrested for drug charges. The prosecution on the other hand is arguing that it is more prejudicial than probative. From what legal analysts are describing the Judge is leaning towards not allowing it.
While this obviously seems like good news for the prosecution and somewhat puzzling news for the defense (who could show some modus operandi in Floyd's behavior), it does actually show that everyone is basically stipulating to the idea that George Floyd had purposely ingested a lethal dose of Fentanyl. The judges ruling would most certainly be reversed if the prosecution "opens the door" by making any suggestions that Floyd had not intentionally ingested the lethal dose of Fentanyl.
So, at this point, the jury will be hearing about the Fentanyl that was found in the toxicology reports as well as expert testimony that will suggest that this is why George Floyd died and that it wasn't because he was choked or otherwise physically killed. Moreover, it will be argued (and not challenged) that Floyd ingested the Fentanyl of his own free will. This is quite obviously the most solid portion of the defense's case and will be the most difficult for the prosecution to overcome.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 233 of 233Allies of Harris argue it’s still early for her to have her own portfolio since the administration’s focus has squarely been squarely on the pandemic, but they are watching closely to see what comes next.
“She is not yet playing the same role that Biden played when he was vice president,” said Washington, DC, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. “If I were he, I would not know how to carve out a space for her just yet. Remember the virus and getting that bill through is essentially the only thing he’s really focused on.”
Seven weeks into the job, Harris is still settling into her new role – literally as well as figuratively. Her living situation, for example, remains a work in progress.
Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff continue to reside on the upper floor of Blair House while renovations are underway at their permanent residence, the Naval Observatory, where she dropped by last week to check on the progress. The two have been easy guests at Blair House, a source says, even recently asking residence staff for a weekend alone so they could cook and fend for themselves.
The vice president’s guidebook in the early days has included building that working relationship with her new boss Sleepy Joe Biden and his White House have been deliberate about including her in almost every single one of his public-facing events to showcase their partnership.
She spends a good portion of each day, around four to five hours, with Biden and their team behind closed doors, according to White House sources. Harris was in the Situation Room during his recent decision to order an airstrike in Syria, for example. The two carve out one-on-one time for lunch together once a week, and he has dropped by her office down the hall from time to time.
“The chemistry between the two of them is great,” said Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who’s a key supporter of the Sleepy President. “There seems to be the right chemistry, and he expresses the fact that he has faith and confidence in her.”
Learning on the job is no small thing for the second-in-command to this particular President, until she implements the 25th amendment.
Anonymous Myballs said...
3rd qtr 2020 US economy grew 33%. Most in history.
Which did not recover what was lost when the pandemic started you dumb fuck!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Biden gets bailed out by both Trump and by Johnson &Johnson.
BIGLY.
while Slow Joe invites positive covid cases to cross the southern border by the thousands, and all he can manage to do is cancel a couple fucking cartoon characters.
meanwhile...
"OKAY PEOPLE LET'S GO! NO QUESTIONS! MR. PRESIDENT! FOLLOW ME SIR! NO QUESTIONS PLEASE! NO QUESTIONS!"
"DID YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!?!?! I SAID NO FUCKING QUESTIONS!!! I'LL FUCKING CIRCLE FUCKING BACK TO YOU ON THAT!!!"
Day 50 in the pre-amble to the Cum-Allah commie whore administration.
LOL.
The Democrats sneaked a tax increase into the recovery bill.
Tucked a trio of little-noticed tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations into their coronavirus relief package that together are worth $60 billion.
One takes away deductions for publicly traded companies that pay top employees more than $1 million. Another provision cracks down on how multinational corporations do their taxes. A third targets how owners of unincorporated businesses account for their losses.
It’s surprising because Democrats were widely expected to put off their tax-increase plans until later. Many lawmakers are wary of hiking them now, when the economy is still struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. If anything, when it came to their stimulus plan, Democrats were focused on cutting taxes, not increasing them.
The Republicans spent 8 hours reading the bill in the Senate floor, but didn't know what it contained.
That's one of the reasons why the progressive Senators happy.
Biden gets bailed out by both Trump and by Johnson &Johnson.
BWAAAAAAAAA!@!!!!! Dumb and the fucking moron never let facts get in the way of you being STUPID!!!!!!!!!
The third quarter, however, was one for the record books. Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — grew at an annualized and seasonally adjusted rate of 33.1% between July and September. This was a faster rate of expansion than economists had predicted.
It was also the fastest growth rate since the government began to track quarterly GDP data in 1947. It represented a sharp, albeit partial, recovery from the prior three months, when the economy contracted at an annualized, seasonally adjusted rate of 31.4%.
BIGLY.
while Slow Joe invites positive covid cases to cross the southern border by the thousands
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! God you make a box of rocks look smart!!!!!!!!!!
while Slow Joe invites positive covid cases to cross the southern border by the thousands, and all he can manage to do is cancel a couple fucking cartoon characters.
With the way he sniffs and gropes should anyone be canceling Pepé Le Pew?
Department employees have said that Mr. Garland’s performance at his confirmation hearing, a largely amicable affair, made them hopeful that he would restore honor to the agency and lift up its 115,000-person work force demoralized by the Trump-era rancor.
Restoring trust inside and outside the Justice Department will be key, as Judge Garland will immediately oversee politically charged investigations, including a federal tax fraud inquiry into President Biden’s son Hunter and a special counsel inquiry into the Russia investigation.
The department will also be involved in civil and criminal cases related to issues that have bitterly divided the country, including systemic racism, policing, regulation of big technology companies, L.G.B.T.Q. rights and other civil liberties matters.
Judge Garland will also confront the rise of domestic extremism as law enforcement officials continue investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. His first briefings this week were expected to be with the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, to discuss the threat and with Michael R. Sherwin, the outgoing top prosecutor in Washington who has led the Justice Department inquiry.
The Capitol riot investigation has grown closer to Roger J. Stone Jr., one of Mr. Trump’s allies, and the F.B.I. has found evidence of communications between right-wing extremists and White House associates, underscoring how closely Mr. Trump had aligned himself with such groups during his presidency.
During his confirmation hearing, Judge Garland said that he would rely on his experience leading the department’s investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing to help again combat domestic extremism.
“I supervised the prosecution of the perpetrators of the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, who sought to spark a revolution that would topple the federal government,” he said. “I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on January 6, a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government.”
During the Clinton administration, Judge Garland was chosen by Jamie Gorelick, the deputy attorney general, to serve as her top deputy. He led the investigation into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which led to the conviction and execution of Timothy McVeigh, and went on to supervise other high-profile cases that included the Unabomber, Theodore J. Kaczynski, and the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
The investigations helped cement Judge Garland’s reputation as a fair-minded centrist. After his appeals court confirmation, he did not make major headlines again until 2016, when Mr. Obama nominated him to serve on the Supreme Court, a choice that won bipartisan support, including from conservative stalwarts like the former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr. rrb would call Starr a RINO
With the way he sniffs and gropes should anyone be canceling Pepé Le Pew?
Kinda like you sniffing for pussy!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Jamie Gorelick
The bitch that help OBL bomb The Twin Towers, with her wall, and was head of Fannie Mae when it collapsed
Brilliant
More swamp creatures
THWAP!!
Paul Bagby The stable genius of Alpharetta!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
THWAAP
Statement by President Joe Biden on the House Passage of the American Rescue Plan
MARCH 10, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
For weeks now, an overwhelming percentage of Americans – Democrats, Independents, and Republicans – have made it clear they support the American Rescue Plan. Today, with final passage in the House of Representatives, their voice has been heard.
Now we move forward with the resources needed to vaccinate the nation. To get $1,400 in direct payments to 85% of American households. To expand coverage and help with lowering health care premiums. To give small businesses what they need to stay open. To expand unemployment insurance, provide food and nutrition assistance. To help keep a roof over people’s heads. To cut child poverty in half.
This legislation is about giving the backbone of this nation – the essential workers, the working people who built this country, the people who keep this country going – a fighting chance.
I want to thank all the members who voted for it, especially Speaker Pelosi, the finest and most capable speaker in the history of our nation. Once again, she has led into law an historic piece of legislation that addresses a major crisis and lifts up millions of Americans.
On Friday, I look forward to signing the American Rescue Plan into law at the White House – a people’s law at the people’s house.
She’s why you got Trump
Washington, in which incestuous politicians, journalists, and lawyers go out from government and politics into government-related finance, law, and lobbying, often cashing in without proven expertise or experience — in other words, in the manner that one Jamie Gorelick (whose Post byline of high government service mysteriously stops nearly 20 years ago at 1997) served for nearly six years (1997–2003) as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) under the infamous Franklin Raines. Raines and Gorelick oversaw a $10 billion loss, putting Fannie Mae on the trajectory to its implosion during the 2008 meltdown.
For all that damage, Gorelick walked away from the Fannie Mae mess with $26,466,834 in compensation and “bonuses,” although for what reason and on what merit no one has yet ascertained. The bonus was almost as mysterious as her own original appointment to Fannie Mae as an outgoing Clinton official, given that Gorelick had no banking expertise whatsoever to help manage one of the nation’s most important lending institutions.
THWAP!!
"These land grants will allow hundreds of thousands of new Black farmers "
Roger, tell us the exact number.
is it 200,000 or 900,000?
and what does this Socialist term mean?
"Equitable Land Access Service within USDA"
We have done this before , you parrot and then run.
Don't run, Nancy.
These land grants will allow hundreds of thousands of new Black farmers "
Roger, tell us the exact number.
is it 200,000 or 900,000?
and what does this Socialist term mean?
"Equitable Land Access Service within USDA".
Worked really well for Mugabe in Rhodesia
Also Roger how does the Socialist plan on getting 32 million fertile acres of tillable average?
eminent domain ?
The land has to come from white owners.
Cali, the history of that land grab is the text Slow Joe followed.
There food production plummeted.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Cali, the history of that land grab is the text Slow Joe followed.
There food production plummeted.
Believe me, I know, played with against and coached rugby with many Rhodesians. Africa’s Breadbasket was reduced to people poaching big game in their parks for food
the Johns Hopkins report notes, Republicans rode that refusal to enact even the slightest restrictions right into summer, and into a second peak that greatly exceeded the first. Through June and July, the difference in case counts between Democrat-led and Republican-led states grew rapidly. By Aug. 5, “the relative risk of dying of COVID-19 was 1.8 times higher in GOP-led states.”
The world is beset, sadly enough, by many forms of natural disaster. Pandemics are one of them. So are floods, and famines, and earthquakes. But in all of those situations, the actions of human beings can make a difference between threat and catastrophe by taking appropriate actions. All through the summer of 2020, Republican governors were reassuring their populace that it was perfectly fine to live right there on the shoulder of Vesuvius, even as the ash rained down.
By September, Republican governors did find one way to cut down on the ugliness of their stats when compared to Democratic states … because at that point their relative rate of testing began to drop sharply. That came just in time for yet another surge—one that was concentrated in Republican-led states in the Midwest, but eventually spread out coast to coast.
The researchers put it mildly by saying, “links they found between Republican governorship and greater COVID-19 impact, are consistent with the idea that the political polarization of the COVID-19 response has contributed to less effective COVID-19 policies and worse case-related statistics in some states.”
Putting that more bluntly, Republican governors—and the tone set by Donald Trump—are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, and millions of Americans suffering long-term effects of COVID-19. Unlike those states hit by the disease in the opening weeks, they were not short of tests, they were not ignorant of social distancing rules, they were not unaware of what could happen if they ignored the advice of experts.
They just put their political careers ahead of human lives. By choice.
The Wall Street Journal has a huge story about the future inmate.
ATLANTA—Then-President Donald Trump urged the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to look for fraud during an audit of mail-in ballots in a suburban Atlanta county, on a phone call he made to her in late December.
During the six-minute call, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he won Georgia. “Something bad happened,” he said.
“When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised,” Mr. Trump told the chief investigator, Frances Watson.
Listen to Trump Call to Georgia Secretary of State Investigator
04:31
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She responded: “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts.”
The Washington Post reported on the call in January, but this is the first time the recording has been released.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has launched a criminal investigation into alleged efforts to have officials in Georgia overturn the state’s results of November’s presidential election. In a February letter to officials, Ms. Willis said a grand jury would convene this month.
In early January, media outlets, including the Journal, published news of a recording of a telephone conversation between Mr. Trump and several supporters and Mr. Raffensperger and his staff. During that Jan. 2 call, Mr. Trump urged Mr. Raffensperger to “find” votes to change the election outcome. He berated Mr. Raffensperger for not doing more to overturn the election.
Representatives of the former president didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Link soon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/recording-of-trump-phone-call-to-georgia-lead-investigator-reveals-new-details-11615411561?st=tfb884wuojuqras&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Mark Sumner Daily Kos said...
Real good Alky
A fantasy, Sci-fi writer he was nominated in 97 didn’t win
LMAO
THWAP!!
Maybe Sumner can write about your fantastical life
LMAO
THWAP!!
Nancy Amick, parrots well.
Can't debate.
Wicker Already Seeks Credit for Bill He Voted Against
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who voted against President Joe Biden’s relief plan, tried to take credit for the $28.6 billion in targeted support that goes to restaurants that have been hit hard by the pandemic.
Michael Regan Confirmed as EPA Chief
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Michael Regan as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Reuters reports.
Washington Post: “The 44-year-old North Carolina regulator, the first Black man to head the agency, has vowed to fight climate change and environmental injustice.”
Trump Pressured Georgia Official to Find Fraud
WALL STREET JOURNAL:
“Then-President Donald Trump urged the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to look for fraud during an audit of mail-in ballots in a suburban Atlanta county, on a phone call he made to her in late December."
During the six-minute call, Trump repeatedly said that he won Georgia: “Something bad happened.”
The Washington Post
reported on the call in January, but this is the first time the recording has been released.
Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“We’re about to have a boom. And if we do have a boom, it will have absolutely nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post.
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AW, DON'T BE A POOR LOSER. IT'S NOT WORKING SO WELL FOR TRUMP.
Democrats Are Already Looking Ahead to Increasing Their Majority in 2022
AuthorKevin DrumPublished onMarch 10, 2021 – 3:40 pm2 Commentson Democrats Are Already Looking Ahead to Increasing Their Majority in 2022
As we all know, the two centerpieces of the $1.9 billion rescue bill are checks for everyone and bonus payments for those collecting unemployment benefits. However, the bill has lots of other things in it, all of them aimed at specific groups. For example:
People with kids ($120 billion in child tax credits)People using Obamacare ($34 billion in increased subsidies)Airline employees ($58 billion bailout means that furloughs were avoided)Food service workers ($25 billion in grants to restaurants)Organized labor ($86 billion bailout of failing union pension funds)Teachers ($130 billion to help schools reopen)Veterans ($20 billion for veterans' healthcare)
If your goal is to stimulate the economy, it doesn't matter all that much where the money goes. You just want to get money into the economy quickly. This leaves plenty of room to make sure that you spread the benefits around so that you have lots of grateful registered voters when the next election rolls around.
That's how this bill works. It accomplishes three things. First, it spends lots of money so that the economy will be humming when the 2022 elections are held. Second, it provides lots of money for programs specific to COVID-19 recovery. This will ensure that the pandemic is long past by next November. Third, it provides big, targeted benefits to specific groups who can be reminded of them during campaign season.
Will it work? Who knows. But its goal is very clearly to do well by doing good—and in this case, "well" means increasing the Democratic majority in the next Congress. From my perch it sure looks like it's primed to succeed.
It will get the working class back, like FDR When he authorized union rights.
He is the most pro union in decades.
Jamie, help Alky.
He doesn't know shut about the Black free land topic.
I’m wondering just how fantastical Sumner can describe a room with a TV
It was a dark and stormy night and Roger the flat footed, alcoholic, lazy eyed debater, with no eye hand coordination....
Was copying and pasting furiously in his room with a tv
KABOOM lightening cracks in the background
THWAP!!
Biden administration silently removes "We the People" petitions from website
Biden White House removes petition page started by Obama and continued under Trump.
Obama's administration said the feature was meant for citizens to exercise their Constitutional right
In 2011, Obama's adminstration described the feature as a way for citizens to exercise the Constitutional right to petiton the government.
"Our Constitution guarantees your right to petition our government," a press release read. "Now, with We the People, we're offering a new way to submit an online petition on a range of issues -- and get an official response."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-appears-to-have-removed-obama-era-petition-page-from-website
Biden's America
Banana Republic
no more of this "WE THE PEOPLE" shit
razor wire
police state
1984
no transparency, don't ask questions and then they won't need to tell lies.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1369788496060293122
After four years of "Trump is an evil dictator" Biden rules by decree, does not take questions from the press, and has turned our capital into Bahgdad.
Biden's America
Banana Republic
Fraud election
1984
Animal Farm
razor wire
China's puppet
The Senate confirmed attorney general nominee Merrick Garland Wednesday in a strong bi-partisan 70-30 vote, sending the federal appeals court judge to the Justice Department where he has pledged to shield the agency from politics and make the sprawling investigation into the deadly U.S. Capitol assault his “first priority.”
The margin of confirmation was the largest for an attorney general since Eric Holder, who secured 75 votes when he was confirmed as the nation's chief law enforcement officer in the Obama administration.
Nancy Amick, the un-debator.
Roger , the math is easy.
32,000,000 acres ÷ y = how many Black slaves you Socialist put back on your plantations.
so is it 200,000 or 900,000 ?
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