Adam Gershowitz

Virginia Supreme Court.

Don’t worry. Hegseth will text you an update shortly.

Impressive police work!!

Police didn’t need a warrant to search the exploding Tesla Cybertruck’s computer — can they search your Tesla data too? The average Tesla owner obviously isn’t blowing up their vehicle outside of a Trump hotel. So should they be worried about the police having power to conduct a warrantless search of their Tesla and…

Could police search the exploding Cybertruck outside of Trump Hotel without a warrant? How about your Tesla computer data? In this op-ed, I argue that the automobile exception permits warrantless searches of smart car computers and that we should be concerned. thehill.com/opinion/judi...

For more on Brady claims - and a huge database of rulings on them - see my work with the amazing Jennifer Teitcher and @adamgershowitz.bsky.social
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Trump Justice Department Appointee Oversaw “Systemic” Misconduct in Previous Job Trump’s attorney, Emil Bove, may be No. 3 at DOJ. A judge blamed him for “grave derelictions of prosecutorial responsibility.”

A discussion of Brady violations (failing to disclose exculpatory evidence) in the context of a prospective DOJ appointee - theintercept.com/2024/12/09/t...

There are 330 million people in this country. So, unless he turns up on the next season of Love Is Blind, I’m just not that interested in Hunter Biden.

I'm sure other people will say it more eloquently than me, but the real story will be whether Biden uses the next 50 days to grant clemency to a lot of other people whose names we don't know.

Don’t we already have an FBI director?

But the sniff is not a search under the 4th Amendment.

Thanks for doing this! Would love to be added.

Court says “several” air fresheners, which suggests more than 2. That actually does seem suspicious….

Me to teenager: “You have to admit that your mom and I are pretty chill parents.”

Teenager: “I’m not unhappy with my draw.”

Me: “What is that supposed to mean?”

Teenager: “It could be worse.”

Me as well. Thanks!

Does the Gaetz nomination make it more likely that Joe Biden pardons Hunter? If so, does that make it more likely that Biden is more generous with other pardons/commutations in the last two months? I'd say good chance of yes and yes.

Is it possible that Trump's strategy with Gaetz (and possibly Hegseth) is to make a couple of outrageous nominations to draw enough fire away so that everyone else is confirmed to the other posts without any resistance?

Hard to predict a sentence, but my guess is 44 years. Reason: In white-collar cases (e.g. pill mill docs), judges sometimes work backward from a defendant's age at release to make sure they don't die in prison. This results in sentences lasting until age 75ish. SBF is 31 years old. 75 - 31 = 44.

Is SBF going to get 110 years? No. Is the sentence going to be very long? Yes. Why? (1) The loss calculation under the Guidelines will be enormous and (2) SBF is very young. Younger defendants are less likely to be cut a break than older defendants.