Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Cruz was actually beginning to believe he could beat Trump for the Republican nomination. 

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• Tanner Horner trial witnesses from yesterday: 
• FBI digital forensic analyst Scott Morris.
  
  
  
• Part of his examination of Horner's phone revealed this incriminating Google search after the murder.  
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Wise County Constable Kevin Huffman, who has young girls of his home, actually talked to Horner as he was delivering a package right down the road from where the abduction will happen the next day. 
  
  
  
• Two women testified that Horner assaulted them in a relationship while they were both 16 and while Horner was in his early 20s.  Both were identified by name on the video feed but their images were obscured. 
  
  
  
  
• Jacqueline Ferrara, a former (?)  forensic analyst for DPS who began the DNA extraction process from Athena's body and other evidence, testified by video. 
  
  
  
• DFW and Texas news:
• Dateline Dallas. “The shooting in the Tran case happened Aug. 11, 2023, at the DFW Gun Range and Academy on West Mockingbird Lane. . . . . 'He heard a voice telling him that this young man was going to kill him,' defense attorney Neil Pask said. 'So he shot him.'”
  
  
  
  
• This event allegedly occurred at the Omni Hotel in Fort Worth.  There is a lot going on here. Gift link. 
  
  
  
• Not Baby Jessica!
  
  
  
• Still not a lot of details in this weird story from Denton: 
  
  
  
• I'm still not sure what all is going on here.  
  

• Around the country:
• Oh, my. And in Nebraska of all places. 
  
  
  
• This happened last week and no one heard anything about it until the video was released yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline West Texas A&M.  A Randall County grand jury has indicted eight West Texas A&M students in connection with a February break-in at a building that formerly housed a university fraternity. Seems like overkill. 
  
  
  
• And, finally, in News About Democracy Dying, we have more re-writing of history. Incredible.  Trump had already let these guys out of prison but had not pardoned them. Now U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has filed motions on appeal asking a federal court to vacate their convictions. "Stand back and stand by," indeed.  It's over. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Flashback: From March of last year. Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper welcomed convicted Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes -- yep, the same one -- in his office after Rhodes was released by Trump from his 18-year sentence.  
  
  
  
• I'll occasionally read a BigLaw subreddit just to see how miserable that life seems.