Quote (Beowulf @ Aug 21 2018 07:18pm)

You're a hilarious person to watch completely flip and flop from thread to thread as a complete hack

Quote (fender @ Aug 21 2018 02:50pm)

you seriously find it more pathetic to state 'you're following me', than regularly making unprovoked off topic posts containing only borrowed lazy 'insults'?
also, rationalising it as 'nothing left to say', when it's just pointing out the obvious while not stooping to that same level of pettiness, is pretty creative too.

all in all that is some really spectacular mental gymn... i mean 'logic' right there. but hey, whatever helps you sleep at night...

Quote (Ghot @ Aug 21 2018 05:07pm)

Defense attorneys can't object to what a judge says. Just to other attorneys.

Double jeopardy says you can't try a person twice for the same crime. The jury after 4 days only found Manafort guilty of 8 of 18 crimes.
So the judge declares a mistrial and gives the prosecutors until the 29th of August to decide if they want to retry Manafort for the other 10 counts. If the judge declares anything BUT a mistrial he can't retry Manafort.

I'm kind of curious about whether he declared a mistrial for a valid reason, or not. I'm pretty sure the supreme court will be curious as well.
There seems to be a lot of iffy shyt going down in the courts right now...that the Supreme Court is NOT convened.

/e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_Clause

Quote (Thor123422 @ Aug 21 2018 07:23pm)

Are court proceedings not available, or the reasons not available?

Even if he gets off on 10 counts, he's already been found guilty of 8, so it's not that big of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

Quote (Ghot @ Aug 21 2018 05:28pm)

No I got no problems with the fact that he was found guilty of 8 of 18.
I'm just wondering what the Supreme Court is gonna say (when they reconvene in October), about a judge that declares a mistrial JUST to give the prosecution another crack at Manafort.

I'd feel the same way if that had happened to anyone.

After reading through that wikipedia article on double jeopardy, it seems that the SC is pretty picky about when and if they allow a judge to do that.

W/o the transcripts ofc, we can't KNOW exactly what happened, but it sure sounds fishy.

Quote (thesnipa @ 22 Aug 2018 00:22)

i enjoy bland lazy insults to boring over-repeated phrases.

Quote (thesnipa @ 22 Aug 2018 00:22)

i prefer funny and witty insults to both but i cant be asked to put in thought 24-7

Quote (Horford @ 22 Aug 2018 01:46)

Avenatti thinks trump is going to answer questions under oath when deposed, in september when the stay is lifted.

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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 21 2018 07:48pm)

And why exactly should we care what an attention-whoring porn-star-lawyer thinks?