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Happy Dead In A Ditch Day, folks!
My favourite Dead In A Ditch Day tradition is the one where we all swear a pledge not to send a letter and then send it anyway. What’s yours?
I also like the part where we all suck on mint humbugs as women trying to serve the public are ritually abused and threatened. That, to me, captures the essence of the bold pioneer of #DeadInADitchDay.
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Replace “become a magistrate” with “make legal decisions on legal cases, including sending people to prison for up to a year” and the problem becomes obvious.

Many magistrates are brilliant people. But they shouldn’t be deciding questions of law or imprisoning fellow citizens.
In the Crown Court, non-legally trained juries decide the facts of a case, having heard the evidence (i.e. what happened? Who is telling the truth?). All questions of law - admissibility of evidence, sentencing etc - are dealt with by a qualified judge.

Magistrates do both jobs.
I should point out for completeness that magistrates have a qualified legal advisor to assist them; but the decision is still ultimately theirs. And in practice the extent to which the advice is followed varies.

I go into more detail in the Book (Ch 2, if you’re interested).
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CORRECTION:

Following yesterday’s thread on the inconsistencies between release dates for non-dangerous prisoners and life prisoners under the government’s new scheme, I understand the government does plan to amend the law governing calculation of minimum terms to reflect that:
So while this is still a ridiculous and evidentially baseless piece of populism (see thread below), it’s not right to say (as I did) that the MoJ hadn’t thought through the effect on life sentences. They had.

It’s important to get the facts right, and to correct and apologise when we get the facts wrong. I did on this occasion, so sorry to all concerned.
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The government’s flagship “KEEP THE MOST DANGEROUS OFFENDERS IN PRISON FOR LONGER” draft Bill has been published.

It

(a) doesn’t apply to the most dangerous offenders *at all*;

And

(b) applies to even fewer of the other prisoners than the government previously said it would.
Here’s what the Justice Secretary told the Daily Mail two weeks ago to the day.

Note that contrary to his promise that the new release provisions would apply to serious sexual and violent offenders sentenced to more than 4 years in prison, that’s not what the Bill says.
For one, the provisions only apply to offences carrying life imprisonment. Plenty of serious sexual and violent offences do not carry life imprisonment. So they are out of scope.

Secondly, rather than applying to sentences of 4 years+, the Bill refers to sentences of 7 years+.
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Texas's anti-SLAPP statute requires the judge to enter an order for the loser to pay the winner's attorney fees. It's not optional.

TCPA §27.009(a)

Twitter says you've @'d me 78 times since 6/11, with 20+ of them in just the past few hours

This seems like a pot-kettle moment for you

Definitely a reasonable assumption. Given Screech's perpetual word vomit on YouTube, there are likely some things he'll authenticate that would help on the merits of the TCPA motion too

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T. Greg Doucette
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YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY F*CKING MOUTH RIGHT THIS INSTANT

It's a total outrage really

Ugh, the *worst*

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I mean really 😂
Got a thread on it that ends here:

There are some additional nuances by state, but that should get him mostly up-to-speed

Basically, yes. It's not an affirmative defense but it will be an argument they make in their briefs, based on the evidence that comes out during discovery or affidavits that get filed

That language is more signaling than legal effect though

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T. Greg Doucette
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Exactly that

Always glad to provide the entertainment! 👊

Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 73.054(b)

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This was already addressed mid-thread. You do realize filing lawsuits costs money to the court, yes?

Not getting paid != going into the hole paying the court costs

The goat's still waiting...

There are a few options. Provide evidence he wasn't there or X wasn't there, or depose X and challenge X's credibility (history of lying, etc), or provide evidence X is lying (emails, texts, etc), or get on the stand to say "that's false" and pray

They're too dim to realize ppl find out about the GFMs *because* they were shared on Twitter

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Write your own Ready Player One novel by taking all your favourite TV shows/films/authors and just listing them one after another.
I swear it's like he was told the book had to be a certain length so he's just like "oh crap um ok how many cult things can I remember?"
"I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukelele fetish."
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