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Lawyer. Chiefs fan. Corgi dad. Co-host of It’s Always Sunny in Chiefs Kingdom, formerly #3 rated pod in Poland. Expert on Elway’s mediocrity #appellatetwitter
Jul 17, 2019 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Yesterday I did a live tweet of the preliminary hearing in Tyreek Hill’s 2014 domestic assault case. That ended up as a 161 tweet monster. This morning, I’m going to try and give a tl;dr and offer my legal opinions about the hearing First, let’s make one thing clear: Tyreek Hill was not going to *win* the preliminary hearing. I discussed this early yesterday, but prelim is designed to be easy for the State to win - the burden is probable cause, which is equivalent to ~51% proof according to legal scholars
Jul 16, 2019 • 163 tweets • 28 min read
I’ve got an hour before work and a copy of the preliminary hearing transcript from Tyreek Hill’s 2014 case. Several people have asked me for my thoughts so I’m going to read through it and live tweet as I go. First, let’s talk about what a preliminary hearing is: A prelim is like a mini-trial. Essentially, the State has to put on enough evidence to show that the case is good enough to go to trial. The State must show that there is *probable cause* that a crime was committed by the defendant. Contrast this with a trial, where the State...