According to the Constitution, Rubio cannot serve as vice president as he’s from the same state as the Presidential candidate. But don’t expect that to stop anybody. In fact, fomenting a Constitutional crisis and daring Congress to not certify the election on black-letter Constitutional grounds is probably something they’d enjoy, and might even win. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112565236908123932
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
@Cdespinosa However, isn't it the case (do correct me if I'm wrong) that which crime the falsified records were made in favor of is significant because in this case it determines whether jail time is a sentencing option?
@mcc I haven’t heard anything about that. One of the big controversies in this case is that the 37 counts are misdemeanors, but are elevated to 5-year felonies if it is proved they were committed in furtherance of a crime. And that crime is not charged here, it doesn’t have to be proven.
The judge has latitude in sentencing the felony, from 0 jail time to 37x5 years. I don’t know whether he considers the serious of the underlying crime—but I don’t think that’s a matter for thje jury.
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