12.02.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts






This was actually a Northwest ISD bus. Ten high schoolers managed to get off and escape injury. 

  • It's not really surprising that the President pardoned his son since I think all of us would do the same. But I am surprised that he issued a statement saying he did it because of "selective prosecution."   Sheesh. Just say the pardon is something he wants to do as a father or, heck, just say nothing at all. 

    • But I would like to be a defense lawyer who gets to file a "Notice of Pardon" as was done last night. (PDF). 

    • Trump's response below. Get ready.

  • The pardon will overshadow the bigger news over the weekend that an absolute nut, with no qualifications other than a being a Trump yes-man, will be in charge of the FBI. He will let Trump turn it into the SS.



    • What could go wrong with a guy who wrote a "children's book" defending Trump, and signed them with the QAnon slogan?

  • "The total judgment amount of $60,650,000 includes exemplary damages of $50 million against Texas Live!, $5 million against Inner Parish Security Corporation and $500,000 against the security guard, Hasan Perryman, according to court documents," per the Star-Telegram.   The plaintiffs lawyer was Brian Butcher with the Noteboom Law Firm. I'm not sure how tort reform will slash the damages, but it will. 

  • On a pretty normal looking street in North Richland Hills, a drive by shooting at the "wrong" house killed a 52 year old man.  Three arrests have been made but no names have been released. 



  • Video.

  • In another Trump appointment, he named hiss son-in-law's father, who Trump had to pardon from a felony conviction, as ambassador to France. 


    • Flashback: 

  • Re: Trump's Pick for secretary of defense. When your momma says this about you in an email, you might be a bad guy.
     

  • The Aggies put up no fight against the Evil Empire on Saturday, but they might have known they were doomed with this state legislator showed his support. (And he has his name on his vest.)  If you don't remember him, this will refresh your memory.

  • Baylor doing good bits:

  • Texas is a 2.5 point favorite over George in the SEC Championship game.  SMU is also 2.5 over Clemson. 

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11.29.2024

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Bridgeport Index, 1954.  Crime stories back then were action packed. 

  •  I presume there was more to it last night than just "smoke showing from the chimney."

  • Thanksgiving gone awry: 
    • On Wednesday evening:

    • "Two people are dead, another critically wounded in a shooting along Broadmoor Drive in Fort Worth" last night. Fox4Terry was there.

    • Also last night.  This was an argument between two guys "who knew each other" with the shooting happening in a residential neighborhood.


  • Legal stuff with a local flavor: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the confession of a juvenile on Wednesday due to the investigative techniques of a former Texas Ranger who used to be assigned to Wise County.
  • I found the best paragraph for you. 


     
  • At the Hilton Garden Inn in Houston on Wednesday.

  • He's now officially gone.  Alternative headline: Man Ends Cushy Job, Panics Over Loss of Outrageous Salary:

  • Elon Musk sitting by Trump at Thanksgiving while "YMCA" is blasting.  Painful video.

  • I first became aware of her because of this video showing her typing up Trump's tweets as he dictated them.  But I didn't know she also funneled what was going on in social media to him unabated, Gift link. 



  • The Business Second™. Not far from Wise County.



  • Legal stuff: Actual notice under the glass at the counsel table at the Nebraska Supreme Court.  Incredible. 

  • Oh, my.

  • Micah Parsons double dipping his turkey leg after taking a bite out of it is a crime against humanity.

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 5 years and 147 days.

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11.28.2024

Random Thanksgiving Day Post

 


Always a crowd pleaser. 

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11.27.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Bridgeport Index flashback.

  • We officially have yet another murder in Wise County as the surviving man in the weird knife attack in Newark last week has now been arrested for the deaths of his father and brother.

  • So she says she was "switched" at the Grapevine hospital in 1975.  So what are here damages? She claims she was molested as a child as part of the "wrong" family.  This is like a law school problem which I'd rather not think about.  

    • Here's a link to her Fort Worth lawyer.  This is appropriately on his home page:

  • Get ready. 

    • Is there a law that says you have to put on a cowboy hat when you know the national cameras are going to be on you?

    • And the $350,000 Man was there being a campaign prop on his very last days before retirement. Maybe he's hoping for one last Christmas bonus. 

  • According to the Messenger, the Runaway Bay Country Club and golf course is now closed as its proposed donation to Weatherford College was rejected by the administration. 
  • Rudy was back in court trying to explain why he isn't turning over his property to pay a $148 million defamation judgment because of one of his particularly vicious election denial lies.  


  • Speaking of Giuliana, I was curious if AG pick, Pam Bondi, who drove with Giuliani to Philadelphia to contest the 2020 election, was at the crazy Four Seasons Landscaping press conference. She was, although she wasn't in the photos or on camera. 

    • And she was at the Philadelphia Convention Center a couple of days before claiming the election was stolen. That's a dangerous sign for the future. (I thought that might be Todd Blanche, Trump's future criminal defense lawyer and current deputy AG pick, in the red mask by her side but probably not.)

  • Although I'm surprised by this, it's far from a "cease fire."  It's actually a 60 day pause which lines up with the Jewish holidays and Trump taking office.

  • Criminal law interesting stuff: This is too involved to summarize in one sentence so here's the link

     
    Same guy. 2017 and 2024.

  • Fun stuff: Time has released its "100 Photos of the Year" which also serves as a great review of the year since each has a detailed caption. 

  • Very legal nerdy stuff: As of December 1st, all petitions and briefs filed in appeals must contain bookmarks in the PDF. At lease in civil cases only. We criminal boys have just figured out how to create a PDF so it doesn't apply to us. 
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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