I wonder how many Black men in prison and on death row could make use of an “ineffective counsel” plea…probably a lot of them. I don’t wonder why they don’t have lawyers parachuting in to help them with their cases like this.
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Just the grifted…
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The world has more horse’s asses than horses!
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Hardly any of them. Ineffective assistance of counsel requires the defendant to prove both that the trial lawyer’s performance was objectively below all reasonable standards and that but for the shitty lawyer the defendant would have gotten acquitted. Pierce can’t possibly prove both of those things applied to Chansley. This is nothing more than a stunt.
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I understand that Chansley has a legal right to pursue this Hail Mary, and I suppose I’d do the same thing if I was stupid enough to get into this situation in the first place. But goddammit! Between this and the drama over the Bannon case, it’s frustrating to see what should be normal court cases turn into three ring circuses instead.
Here’s hoping that the judge will proceed “with alacrity” (a nice term Schiff used) to get this over with, and sentence imposed.
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Pierce was getting a little too friendly with killboy’s legal defense fund. And as it turned out, the case was not unwinnable and killboy needed lawyers who could win.
nb. When Pierce posted killboy’s $2 mil bail using donated funds, he routed the money through his own firm’s account. When bail money is refunded, it goes back to where it was posted from and nowhere else. Now there’s a three- to five-way shitfight over who gets the money.
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Well it ultimately worked for Flynn. So Chansley just wants to be in like Flynn.
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I wonder who among the judge’s clerks is smiling and saying, “See? Told ya! Now pay up, everyone who didn’t think it would happen!”
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Rodeo clown shaman was in jail before the trial and will be in prison for the next ~2.25 years, and will have to be perfect for the next three years after that to avoid reslammeration.
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Because Sham-Wow Chansley has nothing left but stunts.
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Newt or toad seems to be the norm. Unless Chansley wants to go the Cinderella route and then he’d have his pick of pumpkin, mice, horse to man, or dog to man.
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Albert Watkins
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Flynn got off due to a pardon. All his backsiesmongering attorney did for him was engineer delay until post-election pardon season opened.
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Chansley has already been convicted and sentenced, and he will not be released from custody pending any dumb appeal on ineffective assistance grounds. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will treat any dumb appeal with the requisite level of seriousness while the defendant continues to dine on organic prison food.
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Thus stunt = fund raiser.
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One can hope!
I just want to know if Jacob Chansley is going to wear his outfit in court.
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I think it is usually called detox, rehab or simply “drying out.” Pierce’s week-long disappearance, that is.
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Welp…the litigators here have spoken…but I am still unclear on whether this was an emotional decision or one that had to do with intellect.
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