There is a link to sign up where you get some free reads each month. I just don't want them to have my info and to sell it
I wouldn't wipe my *** with a page from the New York Times. I'm damned sure not going to give them my online info.
I honestly never cared if he did say it. You can admit that you benefited from something while respecting that your job as a SCOTUS justice is to apply the law as it's written, and as it's written, affirmative action is not only unconstitutional, it's flagrantly so. It's far easier to rationalize the legal legitimacy of segregation than it is to rationalize affirmative action.
Gee I wonder if the Defund the Police, cash less bail policies and no consequences have anything to do with the meteoric rise in retail theft?
Cult is the only reason that a town in England would memorialized a killing in the US involving only Americans.
There's now sworn testimony from a Hennepin County prosecutor that the medical examiner lied about Floyd's cause of death because of political pressure. Link.
In other news, water is determined to have a wet-like feeling... Sad thing is that Chauvin will continue to sit in a prison cell without relief.
I got confused reading that link. Isn't the prosecutor the one saying he wanted to charge Chauvin with 3rd degree murder?
Hate to acknowledge it, but you're likely right. If they had granted review, they would have had mobs at their homes ready to attack, and DoJ made it very clear during the Dobbs fiasco that they won't be protected if that happens. Very scary thought. I do wonder if the evidence that the medical examiner lied under oath will make a difference to them or the Minnesota Supreme Court. Sadly, probably not.
One thing I did learn this only dealt with the tainted jury question. Other appeals from Chauvin will reach them eventually. Hopefully, they won't reject them.
And I took a look at the appellate court opinion, and frankly, Chauvin's lawyers screwed up on this. They pointed to Juror 52 and claimed that he lied on his questionnaire and failed to disclose his anti-cop views during voir dire. At least according to the opinion, that isn't so. He did attend an anti-police demonstration, but the question was limited to demonstrations in Minneapolis. He attended a march in Washington, so technically his answer was truthful when he said "no." Furthermore, he acknowledged that MPD officers are more likely to use force against Black people, strongly disagreed that police treat Black people and White people equally, and that “Blacks and other minorities do not receive equal treatment as Whites in the criminal justice system.” If I had represented Chauvin, that would have been a massive red flag for me on that juror, but Chauvin's lawyers didn't seem to think so at the time. I think they may have challenged him for cause, but they left 3 peremptory strikes on the table. That's indefensible. Do I think it would have made a difference? No. The pretrial riots and media frenzy basically assured a guilty verdict with any jury, but it's still a screwup.
I saw a segment on Fox news about a brand new documentary called, "The Fall of Minneapolis" that exposes several things that the public, and the jury, were never told. The Police chief lied on the stand about the neck compression technique, claiming he "had never heard of that". Several police officers were interviewed who said they were taught the technique at the Police Academy. One even showed images and a how to in the training Manuel! (A Code Red moment) The most interesting things to me was a split screen of Floyd, from his arrest one year earlier to the one where he died. They both were shot from the initial arresting officer's camera. He acts and says almost the exact same things in both instances. First, he won't show his hands, then stuffs something (drugs?) in to his mouth, gets out of the car, immediately begins to say he can't breathe and asks to lie down. It's like he knew what to do in case of arrest to get off the hook. Secondly, he had 75% blockage of one artery, and significant blockage to the other, Covid, and Fentanyl in his system. The MD in his first autopsy noted no Petechiael hemorrheage (tiny blood dots in the whites of the eye) that indicate suffocation or strangulation, to me, a huge red flag. He had no bruising on the body, and the coroner in the first autopsy said if he had been found deceased in his home, his death would have been attributed to an overdose. There is much more. The woman who made the documentary was a long term news anchor in Minneapolis, who is, of course, now out of work. The doc is streaming on YouTube right now, hopefully on a different streaming sight in the near future. From the bits I saw, it's an extremely troubling documentary, that at the very least should make people think. Meanwhile, Derick Chauvin sits in jail for 26 years, in my opinion, merely to keep the peace. Peace that never happened, of course.
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