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flechero wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:10 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 7:33 am "...a gun appeared. A shot was fired..."

Ima gonna use that defense if I’m ever indicted in a self defense shooting. I love legal precedence. Don’t you guys?

I chuckled when I read that and also thought wouldn't the prosecutor just follow up with asking who's gun it was and how it appeared? (to completely dismantle the innocence of it.)

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:22 am Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Thursday, September 17, 2020

Former local judge convicted of fraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/[abbreviated profanity deleted] ... cted-fraud

Today, [Alexandra Smoots-Thomas] pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud... Following the plea today, U.S. District Judge Lynn H. Hughes allowed Smoots-Thomas to immediately proceed to sentencing..... The court heard arguments from the government citing how Smoots-Thomas abused her position and asked for a fair sentence within the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Judge Hughes permitted her release following her time already served in custody. Restitution will be determined at a hearing set for Oct. 26.

Harkening back to ELB's original post and his quoting Smoots-Thomas's attorney's claim that this was nothing but a ploy by Republicans to get a Black female Democrat off the bench.