Your Honor, I demand you not send my guilty ass to prison as per this super-binding agreement I signed in blood in eight different places on account of I donāt wanna
It is so unseemly when people masturbate in public. Truly!
Little baby canāt do TWO FREAKINā WEEKS!?! He got a pat on the wrist and he canāt pull up his big boy pants and do it? Has he been told that some guys named Ivan are in there waiting for him to arrive?
I sincerely hope the Judge looks at Papadopoulosās actions and gives him significantly more time for violating the terms and spirit of his plea agreement and for being an all around jackass.
Only thing covfefe boys should be saying is, āmilkfefe or sugarfefe with thatā?
āItās not clear if hinging the appeal on a separate case would somehow evade his earlier admission of guiltā
The sentence is on the plea in this case, not some other case, so I donāt see how he wins this - he waived his right to complain in his plea agreement.
"claiming to be the victim of an international espionage conspiracy "
Oddly, that is how I feel. I imagine the same could be said of anyone who has voted against Trump and the Republicans.
Can we declare the process of this president being elected and sworn in as unconstitutional as it was achieved by criminal as well as unethical means? Could we declare that election win and associated wins as null and void and default to the competitor. The competitor who has obviously been wronged, victim to an international espionage conspiracy. And harassed ever since?
Really, when do we all get our own get of of jail free card?
For the life of me, I canāt find that recent article about a wrongly-convicted black felon who served like 30 years in prison before being released, and was finally allowed to vote.
I want to juxtapose them so we can compare and contrast the rights, obligations, and treatment of these two fine fellows: one who actively participated in a conspiracy to subvert the government and interests of this country and who now fights his lawful guilty plea tooth-and-nail to avoid 14 days in jail, the other who (IIRC) spent as much time in prison as Papado has been alive, likely for the crime of being black in the orbit of someone elseās wrongdoing, and who only recently was permitted to exercise his constitutional right to wield his tiny share of political power.
But I canāt get the googles to work for me, and canāt put up the face of that jolly old guy with an āI Votedā sticker on his forehead. So we canāt conduct that exercise.
āThe 31-year-old was sentenced to just two weeks in prison for perjury after convincing the judge he had shown genuine āremorseā for his crime.ā
" to delay his 14-day prison sentence"
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "This one? Tragically, there are multiple cases like this! Youāll have to be more specific.
Well, he had to palpate that sense of unfairness, as it indicates right there in the pleading.
Luck pusher pushes luck. #Iāllhirethebest
So now heās got a shortened sentence because he was showing remorse for a crime he claims he didnāt commit because whatever he was doing may have been illegal but was investigated by the wrong people?
Great lede. I want him referred to thusly forevermore: āCoffee boy and foreign policy enthusiast George Papadopoulos.ā
One of the big reasons why people cut a deal is to avoid court costs (the justness of this system is a discussion for another day). Papadope is the first person Iāve heard of who cuts a deal and then continues to file hail-Mary motions. Who is paying for his lawyers?
Good question. He keeps changing them too, so he has real money from somewhere or he couldnāt keep hiring lawyers like he has.
This should work out about as well as things did for that jackass in the service who refused to follow orders because he said Barack Obama was ineligible to be President, being all Kenyan and such.
UPDATE: It did not go well. Was doctor, ordered to Afghanistan, refused, pushed his luck.
Before Lakin went to court-martial, it was found by the judge that President Obamaās eligibility (and hence his birth certificate) had no bearing on the case. Lakin pleaded guilty to two charges while pleading not-guilty to one other. Despite recanting his original concerns and asking the jury for leniency, Lakin was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to dismissal from the Army, loss of pay and allowances, and a prison term of six months. Lakin was released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks after serving five of his six months. He was later denied a medical license in Kansas as a result of his dereliction of duty.
What? No, not him!
But a parole board in 2016 denied the request, questioning the validity of the DNA evidence.
I donāt think a parole board should be permitted to decide whether evidence is credible. I would think thatās a job for a jury, once a judge has ruled that the evidence can be admitted. But I am not at all surprised to discover that parole boards have outsized power over the fates of their wards.
The $1m is the largest sum ever awarded by the state.
Wow. A million smackaroos. All he had to do was spend 31.75 years in prison as a murderer and rapist. A sweet, sweet scam. Now he and his wife (she waited!) can go live it up inā¦ I guess, their congregation, since he seems to be a godly fellow.
Three cheers for the land āof the free.ā
I am so fucking ashamed of this place sometimes.
OT: Hmmm. The plot thickens for Trump and his acting A.G.
I really hate folks who post OT comments.
But I read this one, so:
they warn, āIf this Court declines to resolve this question immediately and instead determines several months in the future that Mr. Whitakerās appointment was always invalid, then āunwindingā all of those personal orders would be a fraught and disruptive exercise that could embroil the federal courts in innumerable collateral disputes.ā
I just hope nobody tells the Court about Trumpās presidencyā¦ or Wās. Talk about embroiling.