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She was able to obtain permission to view the execution, so she flew to Oklahoma City and woke up at 4am last Thursday to drive the two hours to the penitentiary in McAlester. She and others close to Wood then waited in a “gathering zone” in the predawn hours, where “very nice, friendly” staff from the Department of Corrections made small talk while offering them “chips and crackers and coffee.” They expected to be loaded into a van about an hour before the 10am execution, but nothing was happening. “I just kind of obsessively was refreshing my phone and trying to get in the mental headspace of ‘You’re here—you’ve got to do your job.’” Then, at 9:58, a message popped onto everyone’s phones: the governor had stopped the execution. Said Schulberg: “To experience that level of relief, and to see other people experiencing that level of relief—it was the most intense happiness I’ve ever felt in my life. I was like, this is ecstasy. Like, I’m never going to feel this happy again.” Schulberg’s decision to go to Oklahoma for the execution hadn’t come easily. Her brother and mother advised her not to. “You’re never going to be able to unsee this,” her brother told her. But when it was over, her brother said, “Your willingness to witness the worst thing ever meant that you got to see the most wonderful thing ever.”

In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.

She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.

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“We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”

what an exhausting fucking year

"Quiet, piggy!"

#DonaldTrump

Home invasions.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.

Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.

The GOP isn't the party of law and order.

They're the party of lawlessness and violence.

Huh. It's almost like people willing to overthrow the government are otherwise disinclined to follow the law on other matters too

RT’d because this continued bullshit by RFK, Jr. and HHS does nothing to help people such as my son; it’s willfully irresponsible and harmful. Also, use of “flaming shitbirds” must be shared far and wide.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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Adverse Inference on line 1

New Jersey high court first in US to ban Shaken Baby Syndrome testimony New Jersey’s top court on Thursday became the first in the U.S. to prohibit prosecutors from presenting expert testimony that shaking a baby can on its own cause injuries severe enough to justify bringing child abuse charges.

New Jersey’s top court on Thursday became the first in the U.S. to prohibit prosecutors from presenting expert testimony that shaking a baby can on its own cause injuries severe enough to justify bringing child abuse charges.

Poster with pictures of twelve different types of siege engine, listed by month of the year. The caption at the top reads "Forget birthstones. What's your birth siege engine?"

Hmm. I suppose we should let the judge's choose. They all have their merits!

I think you're right. Buy if it's classified as criminal contempt, that's subject to POTUS pardon. Civil contempt could be possible, but I don't honestly know if time in custody is a possibility for civil contempt (although I doubt it).

Yes. But a prosecutor would have to bring the case. A fed judge could make a criminal referral to the local US Attys office for investigation and potential prosecution, but it would still be up to the US Atty office to decide whether to bring charges.

I’m howling.

So much yes to this

Hits exactly the same as it did when I was 20 and completely differently all at the same time.

It's the email inbox for me, but yeah...

New York's hottest club is the NY-12 primary. It has everything:

And also, "with prejudice"

...and you take all of the above and add the vindictive prosecution and literal truth issues to the indictment, and I think we're well into "this is dismissed because, and in the alternative because, and in the alternative because, and in the alternative because" territory.

The government argues that a timely indictment will toll limitations even if it is defective and fails to charge a crime. The Court disagrees. The Fourth Circuit has expressly held that a defective indictment confers no jurisdiction whatsoever upon the trial court. United States V. Hooker, 841 F.2d 1225, 1231-32 (4th Cir. 1988) (en banc); United States v. Pupo, 841 F.2d 1235, 1239 (4th Cir. 1988)_(en banc). Accordingly, a defective original indictment *378 is simply a nullity. An invalid indictment which fails even to invoke the Court's jurisdiction clearly cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed. See United States v. Peloquin, 810 F.2d 911, 913 (9th Cir. 1987) (holding that the mere filing of an indictment does not, by itself, toll the running of the statute of limitations under 18 U.S.C. § 3282).181

I believe this question has been answered in the Fourth Circuit, and the answer is ‘no, a defective original indictment cannot serve as a basis for tolling of the statute of limitations or the §§ 3288, 3289 savings clauses’

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I don’t care if information implicating Democrats is revealed, but I do care if information implicating Trump and his allies is withheld.

It’s impossible not to suspect the latter will be happening, given how strangely and suddenly everything shifted.

I'm not sure why this person is being difficult or trying to invoke harmless error, when there was no indictment in the first place.

The first document literally says there was no agreement amongst the GJ for any of counts 1-3. That was later modified by handwriting to say "as to Count 1." But....yeah, that's not how that works. So the only paperwork that was actually presented to the GJ says no true bill for any count.

Good line. Comey case is the "four seasons total landscaping of prosecutions."

Exactly 💯

Restatement: "There was no way we could concoct an argument to keep it sealed that would not get us sanctioned personally for asserting facially frivolous arguments, but we can't just say it shouldn't be sealed because then we'll get fired like our former colleagues who filed it in the first place."