I tried to find another place, but it was the only cafe around open that late.
Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism”: “totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
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LOL “creationist fossil hunters”
Legit stunned
Judge might vacate though based on being a garbage judge
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This is a real thing that has been going on since probably the early 80s.
Legit surprised they didn’t come back with a manslaughter conviction. That seems to fit the facts better, I don’t think there was any actual malice in her mind. She surely could have pled to manslaughter, right? Bet she’s kicking herself now, probably could have been out in five years or less. Great that she got convicted though.
She apparently had major previous confrontations with him over noise.
So maybe she got home after a long day and went downstairs and straight up murdered the poor dude intending to use the oopsie wrong apartment, that’s why pencils have erasers defense? Bold strategy cotton.
So her entire defense was bullshit. Check.
And her actual defense seemed to be basically admitting to manslaughter, which is why I was surprised she didn’t plea to manslaughter. But that makes sense if the prosecutor didn’t buy her story and was pressing for murder and not willing to take a manslaughter plea.
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Nitro brew is good though, no words added
Prosecutors would be really dumb not to snap accept a manslaughter guilty plea.
Unless the facts were much stronger for the prosecution than the sort of general narrative that trickled into the media, and also if the prosecution felt like she was legitimately guilty of murder rather than manslaughter. Which seems very likely given that a Texas jury returned a guilty verdict on murder when they had the opportunity to find her guilty of manslaughter.
