Rittenhouse: When prosecution causes the jury to be removed TWICE during prosecution rebuttal to defense closing arguments…

…you’re clearly trying to >force a last second mistrial, because you know you lost, and want a free (except to the taxpayers and defendant) do-over.

 

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Rittenhouse Prosecutor “Baldwins” Court Room

Seriously, DA Binger (Urban Dictionary needs a secondary def where “binger” equals “fucking reckless idiot”) pointed an AR-15 at the court room

…with his finger on the trigger.

And the asshole calls Rittenhouse “reckless”?

If I’d been in that court room, I’d be filing a criminal threatening complaint against him.

 

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I’m close to crying.

I got the first of what will be several medical bills today, for my trauma hip replacement. Understand that due to my niece’s intercession, I was transported to UFHealth, where I got great care. Expensive care. I knew that, and in a very real sense that was worse than the physical damage.

As I said, the first of many bills. This one covered emergency intake, radiology, and the initial surgery.

UFHealth applied financial assistance and forgave nearly all of it.

OK. Now I am crying.

There’s more to come, but I have hope for humanity.

 

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Rittenhouse Trial: Quibbling Over Image Enlargement v. “Interpolation”

Watching trial. Defense and prosecution are arguing whether the State’s pixel-added though interpolation alters the image evidence. Specifically, defense is concerned about added/changed colors.

Valid argument. Personally, I think enhanced/interpolated images should only be as an investigative tool, to find evidence. It should not be used as evidence at trial.

But in this case,, I wish someone were knowledgeable to ask for comparative histograms from the original and interpolated images. That would show any significant change in tonal distribution.

ADDED: BTW, the State’s imagery dude just admitted that he used frame averaging to CREATE a new, never before existent image to introduce as trial evidence.

I repeat: Investigative tool, not evidence.

Explanation: Take five sequential old-fashioned projector slides from high speed film. Instead of looking at them one at a time, stack them together. You now get a conglomerate blob of some object. Now let your computer average pixels; add some, subtract some. You might get a better picture of an apple that was there, or you might get an apple that was never there before. The picture is not real.

If you’re doing art, fine.

If you’re helping a detective figure out if he should look for evidence of an apple (or gun) on the scene, fine.

If you take it into court and tell the judge and jury that it is an apple (or gun), YOU FALSIFIED EVIDENCE. Do not pass go. Go directly to jail.

 

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For The Record:

Even at my youngest and dumbest, I never got so drunk that I had to be wheeled out in a wheelchair.


DRUNK MI AG Dana Nessel Left MSU-UM Game In Wheelchair…Jokes About “Vomiting” On Constituents, “Skull crushing hangover” In Public Statement
I had a few folks help me up the stairs and someone grabbed a wheelchair so as to prevent me from stumbling in the parking lot. Like all smart people attending festivities where drinking occurs, I had a designated driver. I went home, fell asleep on the couch, and my wife threw some blankets on me and provided me with some water and Tylenol for what she knew would be a skull-crushing hangover the next day. (Best wife ever!)


That said, by coincidence, I did have to be wheeled out on a gurney that same day. But that was was because of a stone-cold sober machinery accident that broke my hip.

According to Wikipedia, this ditz is 52yo; you’d think by now she have learned to not get so publicly intoxicated that anyone else would have been arrested.

Must be nice to be politically powerful. If you’re into abuse of power and that sort of thing.

 

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Column on Kyle Rittenhouse

Over at The Zelman Partisans.


Interesting Development In Kyle Rittenhouse Case
While most attention is directed to the fact that the best defense witnesses for Kyle seem to the the prosecution’s witnesses that were supposed to show his guilt, I noticed something on Wednesday that most analysts seem to be blowing off as largely inconsequential.


I think the last argument against Kyle’s — proper — self defense claim was absolutely gutted, and no one noticed.

 

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I knew I had that habit, but this is a little silly.

I knew I had that habit, but this is a little silly.

Being laid up for now, I have to make some accommodations to everyday life. I’m severely restricted in how much I can bend, twist, and reach. So, to pick dropped items and reach, I have a cute little grabby extender (thanks, Rita and Jimmy): long shaft with a squeeze grip on one end, and a rubber tipped claw on the business end. This morning, I noticed what I was doing with it.

Yes, I automatically indexed my finger along the “frame.” I’ve been doing that with anything with an even vaguely pistol-grip for decades: drills, handsaws, whatever.

But a grippy/reacher? Seems a bit ridiculous, but there I am.

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Just Focusing On Energy and Prices

For now.

The Dementia Boy Admin is doing its best to price ordinary Americans out of the energy market. Not futures trading; just buying gas, electricity, heating homes. Shutting down construction on a pipeline, ending new leases, “looking into” shutting down another existing pipeline.

Do anything to ease the situation? Energy Sec Granholm thinks the very idea is “hilarious.” (I think she’s getting cackling lesson from Knee Pads Harris.)

They don’t give a shit what we have to put up with. They don’t care; they got theirs.

When you’re a millionaire who knows best for everyone else, who cares about energy prices? They can afford it. No one’s going to shut off their power, gas, water for nonpayment. Then again…

In my novel Net Assets, as the US began to Balkanize — and especially out west — utilities to federal facilities and the homes of federal officials became… unreliable. Accidental shutoffs for nonpayment due to “computer errors.” Mystery line breaks. Plenty of “Hell, why not?”

As with many of the plot elements in NA, that wasn’t entirely original with me. I got it from history, across the world. “It has happened before. It will happen again.”

Maybe. It wouldn’t surprise me if other people started considering it as “Let them eat cake” Granholm laughs at their misfortune.

I figure I’d find it “hilarious” if her electric and gas got cut off this winter.

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Alec Baldwin still trying to cover his ass.

This one’s nuts.


Alec Baldwin Wants a Police Officer on Movie and TV Sets to Monitor Real and ‘Fake’ Guns
“Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise,” Alec Baldwin tweeted Monday, “should have a police officer on set.”


These would be the cops who mistake the various for guns?

  • Hands
  • Pens
  • Pencils
  • Cell phones
  • Darkness
  • Cameras (that’ll be fun on a set)
  • Umbrellas
  • Canes

The fact is that, as a subgroup of those who regularly carry firearms, cops are among the worst trained. With all due respect to those who recognize carry as a duty to train for, in my own personal experience overall, badge-wearers have terrible firearms safety habits: fingers on triggers, muzzling people, poor target recognition, and so on. I’ve been to more than one range that doesn’t allow law enforcement personnel due to multiple safety violations. I once refused to sell ammunition to a Mass cop because he couldn’t figure out what his “police gun” was chambered for.

On the other hand, a New Hampshire cop had a standing invitation to shoot at my personal range… because I knew that he did know what the heck he’s doing.

Putting the typical off-duty street cop on set as a range safety officer ranks down there with hiring Hannah Gutierrez-Reed as an armorer.

 

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