The jury had found the drunk guy 30% responsible and the club 70% responsible. That didn't make any sense then and doesn't make any more sense now.
- If you haven't seen the video of this guy running and being chased down seconds after the crash, here you go. He received 15 years in prison.
- And before the crash, there's footage of him at the bar. Actually, he wandered behind the bar.
- They are still trying to kick the indicted Clay County Sheriff out of office. There's a big hearing today.
- I've mentioned lately about the trend of having defendants testify in their own defense. If this morning's post below, from the lead investigative reporter of South Carolina's leading newspaper, is correct, we've got a big day ahead. The live feed of the trial is normally on YouTube here.
- I had forgotten he was in jail. Here he is getting out of the jail van this morning.
- Man, that foreperson of the Atlanta election-interference grand jury is giving a cringe-worthy performance during her ill-conceived interview tour. She is doing herself no favors. Video. And the grand jury system in general is taking a hit as well.
- One of my favorite Insurrectionists received 38 months yesterday. It's not enough.
- I've got a faithful reader which for years has fed me scoops on Texas counties to the north. He sent a missive yesterday where he predicted a "Not Guilty" verdict in this Wichita Falls case which has been transferred to Tarrant County. If I've got my facts right, one of the defense lawyers is Terri Moore who has recently agreed to take a job for the new Tarrant County D.A. Mark Daniel is trying the defense case with her.
- The fighter jet photo of the Chinese Spy balloon.
- Texas Monthly has a new story about what happens when the extreme far right wing takes over a city council.
- Say what?
- The back of Cowboys wide receiver C.D. Lamb.
- Legal nerdy stuff. I was always told you can't do this during appellate oral argument. But some guy did it, and pulled it off, in the Supreme Court yesterday.
- Messenger: Above the Fold
I didn't remember this guy so I had to Google "Judge Christopher Dupuy." His story got wild.
- As widely expected, the Wise County District Attorney's office will seek the death penalty in the Athena Strand case.
- Somewhat oddly, the news came from the Sheriff and not the D.A.: "Akin said the district attorney told the sheriff's office he's officially filed paperwork to seek the punishment if Horner is convicted."
- Historically, I'm pretty sure no one has ever received a death sentence out of Wise County.
- Recall that the father of Strand filed a civil lawsuit shortly after the murder. Now the mother has intervened as a Plaintiff in that same action filed in Wise County.
- Pleadings sure have changed a lot in my lifetime. Look how the Intervention starts out. And it's full of pictures and screenshots. Full petition here.
- That Petition in Intervention was filed by . . .
- The independent contractor which hired Tanner Horner is Big TopSpin, Inc. and represented by the firm Baker Donelson.
- Fed Ex is represented by Holm | Bambace.
- Both firms are huge, but I can't say I've ever heard of them.
- Full list of all the lawyers listed in the newest pleadings:
- The foreman of the grand jury in Atlanta -- the one which investigated Trump and others for election interference -- needs to get off TV and certainly stop doing interviews. This is a prosecutor's nightmare.
- Don't forget about this story. The legislature hasn't decided to fund it yet.
- And in a comical moment before a committee yesterday, this occurred.
- Politically, I don't know why Kevin McCarthy turned the footage over -- other than he had to in order to appease those who had made a deal with to become Speaker. But if the Republicans want to keep the January 6th Insurrection front and center in the news, the Democrats certainly won't mind.
- Fox News gave the crazy QAnon rep a forum last night, and Sean Hannity thought her divorce/secede idea sounded pretty good. And she actually said, "The last thing I ever want to see in America is a civil war . . . but it's going that direction." Incredible.
- Michael Irvin's lawsuit against the hotel for kicking him out for allegedly saying something offensive was stupid to begin with. Now the hotel has moved the case to federal court where it won't last long at all.
- The University of Alabama got shook up yesterday when it was just casually dropped in a hearing that the school's freshman star basketball player brought the gun to the guy who is currently charged with capital murder.
- The Alex Murdaugh story really is nuts, and the trial has some odd moments, too. Story.
- And the defense is spending a ton of money in the murder trial. Yesterday they had an expert testify that a short person had to have done the shooting -- complete with 3D animation and graphics.
- On The Ticket this morning, they talked about Bridgeport and Runaway Bay as being speed traps. Host George Dunham got a ticket in one of the two a while back (it sounded like Runaway Bay) and complained about the sudden change in speed zones.
Tim Tebow distanced himself from Robert Jeffress, and Jeffress somehow turned it into a permanent guest gig on Fox News.
- I don't know anything else about this, but a man was care-flighted to Fort Worth after a welding accident yesterday evening.
- Decatur ISD appears to have been understandably rocked by this. Born in Bridgeport in 1967, Valedictorian of Alvord High in 1987, and Decatur teacher since 2000. Obituary.
- This is a mess. From what I can figure out, Dallas PD has about 52,000 files of bodycam and dashcam videos sitting on a server with no way of knowing which case they belonged to. They aren't labeled or tagged in any meaningful way, and I don't even think the meta-data helps. So now the DA's office has pled and tried hundreds or thousands of cases where there was a notation of "no video" written in the file which not only wasn't true but which was was required to be turned over to the defense.
- The QAnon Rep wants to secede from the United States. Someone might want to tell her that (1) she is urging civil war -- assuming she doesn't know that, (2) it didn't work out to well for Atlanta the last time, and (3) Georgia isn't even considered a "red state."
- This home burned yesterday morning in Dalworthington Gardens. Here's video of it which might be about as intense of a fire as you'll ever see. Zillow had it valued at $836,100.
- Keep an eye on Israel. Its on-again/off-again leader has managed to successfully take the first steps towards preventing the Israeli Supreme Court from declaring any law unconstitutional. That effectively means there will no longer be a constitution at all. It's a very Trumpian move. And there have been protests. Story.
- With filings closed, this Dallas mayor is the first one since 1967 to not field an opponent when he sought re-election. That's kind of odd since he is certainly beatable.
- It's Criminal Law 101 that you can't be charged with a crime when it wasn't a crime when you committed it. That is, you can't do x and then have the legislature pass a law making x illegal and then be charged with committing x. But that's exactly what the prosecutor did in Alex Baldwin's case. But look how the DA's office takes no responsibility:
- A right-wing darling of heavily edited and often misleading "gotcha videos" has been booted from the organization he founded because of misusing funds.
- I think the Dairy Queen has been closed now for weeks in Bridgeport.
- New: Someone took a hard fall getting off Air Force One in Poland but, despite a current social media lies, it wasn't the President. He is safe and sound and working.
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