Judge Marchan has enormous latitude in sentencing, from suspended sentence/probation to years in prison. A non-violent first-time offender in state court would often get lenient treatment—if they were sufficiently contrite and committed to rehabilitation.
And if not, not.
This is also a circumstance where spending the next six weeks pissing off the judge is a very VERY bad idea.
If the jurors are asking about this, it implies they are arguing about what crime the falsified business records were made in furtherance of. Which itself implies they’ve already decided that the business records were falsified—otherwise this question is moot. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112530584150882692
TIL that a portion of Northern California’s Eel River, impounded at Lake Van Arsdale Reservoir in Mendocino County, is diverted into a penstock to feed a hydroelectric powerhouse a mile away in Potter Valley. The discharged water forms the headwaters of the East Fork of the Russian River, in an adjacent watershed.
Most of the water at Van Arsdale enters the ocean at Eureka, but the diverted water flows all the way to Jenner, 150 miles to the south.
At this point the conclusion is inescapable that the IDF repeatedly has “mishaps” resulting in the sudden violent death of dozens of Gaza civilians because they have zero interest in avoiding the sudden violent deaths of dozens of Gaza civilians. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112514401412979659
May 26, 2024—Right-wing blogger Summer Bushnell ordered to pay $926,000 in compensatory and $250,000 in punitive damages to an Idaho performer whom she falsely claimed exposed his genitals to children during a 2022 performance. Jurors were shown an unedited video of the performance, along with Bushnell’s version that blurred Eric Posey’s groin area, and her published claim that she blurred Posey’s “fully exposed genitals.” She admitted at trial she never saw exposed genitals.
You know, if a private citizen directs government employees to seize private property at a private event on bogus grounds of a potential security threat, I think “delegates to the Libertarian convention” are the worst choice of people to do this to
Someone please ask the rock-ribbed, law-and-order, God-fearing evangelical Conservatives of America if they stand four square with (checks notes) the mobster-affiliated head of the Hell’s Angels and a convicted tax cheat in their moral support of the ex-President on trial for fraudulently hiding hush money payments to the adult film actress he bedded in a hotel when his third wife was caring for their newborn 3000 miles away
So it sure feels like we’re going g to have a verdict next week in #Individual1’s criminal trial.
The prosecution has shown ample evidence that there was a payoff to Daniels, by Cohen, from his personal funds, which were reimbursed through sham invoices for non-existent legal services.
The intent of the payoff was to kill the story in the closing days of the election. After he won he even tried to avoid reimbursing Cohen, and iced him out.
Do not ask a language model questions involving reasoning, factuality, or moral judgment. Language is a vehicle for those, but it is not the SOURCE of them. And there is an enormous amount of language in the public sphere that’s devoid of them—and that trained the models.
Thank you, @cabel, for the hundreds of new followers. Just a heads-up to all the new people. You’re not going to get much Tech True Crime on my feed. I post a lot of retrocomputing stuff, but you’re also going to get leftist politics, ridiculing cryptocurrency and generative AI, San Francisco Giants baseball, and atrocious puns. Also geezer reminiscing about Good Music. Be warned,
Conservative Texas school board member actually reads curriculum and realizes that kindness, selflessness, and fairness are actually the Christian values she should be supporting.
Then she runs up against the hardliners who want to resegregate, privatize, and monetize K-12 education.
“The LAPD is not expected to like the existence of “Fuck the LAPD” merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear “Fuck the LAPD” merchandise. I understand that would be a difficult task. But I promise you that it would still be easier than trying to get a court to rule that “Fuck the LAPD” shirts violate the LAPDF’s intellectual property rights”
Well, by and by, way after many years have gone
And all the war freaks die off, leavin’ us alone
We’ll raise our children in the peaceful way we can
It’s up to you and me, brother, to try and try again
So hear us now
We ain’t wastin’ time no more
‘Cause time rolls by
Like hurricanes runnin’ after the subway train
