Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, January 31, 2020

Trying the Dead?

(An update to this one.)
Pattis [dead guy's lawyer] said the defense team will continue to seek a trial to clear his name.

“We intend to proceed on as if he were alive to vindicate him,” Pattis said.
That is just silly AF. The state isn't going to waste its money trying a dead guy. The maximum imprisonment in Connecticut for murder is life and, here, the defendant croaked himself. I fully expect that the prosecutor will file two papers: A "suggestion of death" and then a dismissal, neither of which require the other side to consent.

Respect for my former profession precludes me from speculating what the real motive would be for seeking to keep a criminal case going against a defendant who has corpsified himself.

Where this will get fought out is in civil court, particularly if his kids don't inherit what's left of his estate.

Dollars to doughnuts says that the criminal case ended when the defendant shuffled himself off of this mortal coil.

1 comment:

0_0 said...

All of the money Kenneth Lay stole was rendered inaccessible when he died before exhausting his appeals.
This guy wasn't even convicted yet.