Kevon Johnson, 30, was arraigned on a third-degree assault charge on Monday as police claim he fatally hit Carlyle Thomas, 61, in the face at a gas station in Brooklyn
His death was ruled as a homicide, but the suspect only faces an assault charge due to a law that only allows for charges relating to the punch to be brought
Johnson was released without bail because statewide bail reforms in 2020 made the misdemeanor charge ineligible for bail, a law enforcement source said
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Suspect the clients of these OJT barristers will be disappointed in the outcome of their cases. Bigger danger is that at some point, one or more of these homemade attorneys will run for a judgeship somewhere.
Note: my son is an atty. let the jokes begin.
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The exam "disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law" and is "at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers," the Bar Licensure Task Force determined.
It has been established in US law that any process that has 'disproportional' outcomes when looked at by race is considered discriminatory even if there is no racial component. This includes graduating from high school which, once upon a time, was considered a minimum qualification for the job market.
#8
"Reading the law" means passing the bar without a law degree.
Lincoln did that...
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You know, people die every year getting "plastic surgery" from non-physicians every year.
Lesson in that somewhere...
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Re #7, what will not be examined is the participants' contribution or impediment to the outcome.
That would be rayciss...
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When does Washington state stop requiring tests for architects, structural engineers, or any other profession?
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^ As soon as someone's non bar lawyer sues...
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Mr. Finch, I see you are to represent the accused, do you wish to disclose your credentials?
Thank you for asking, your honor, and this time yes I do. I have three hundred thousand and change certified media followers; 75% of which are within 50 miles, the remainder 20% are within the state, and 5% monitor from other locations.
And if I may begin proceedings, your honor, you neglected to certify my pronouns, and present contempt charges.
Keeping in mind that all illegals are eligible for insurance in CA…once accepted your packet is mailed WITH a voter registration card. In another envelope is a pre-filled application for food stamps that’s titled “GREAT NEWS!” WITH another voter registration card. Bribery much? pic.twitter.com/WE4mauRoWn
[Breitbart] A Minnesota appeals court has affirmed that banning transgender “women” from competing as a woman in sports is a violation of Minnesota’s left-wing “human rights” statutes.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a ban on a transgender weightlifter implemented by USA Powerlifting (USAPL) would be illegal in the state, KARE-TV reported.
In its ruling, the court sent back a case to a lower court instructing the court to determine if transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper was banned from competing in the weightlifting organization because he is a man seeking to compete as a transgender woman.
Cooper brought his lawsuit to Minnesota in 2021 and won his case against USAPL last year when a Minn. court ruled in his favor.
In this week’s Appeals Court ruling, the judges determined that USAPL did, indeed, violate the state’s extremely left-wing Human Rights Act but did note that it did not seem exactly clear in the lower court’s case that the organization banned Cooper based solely on the fact that he is a man claiming to be a woman.
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We are approaching the point where some of these lifestyles might become mandatory. I will search my closet for my 80’s clothing from which I can fashion a disguise.
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For anyone who has ever played organized sports, the solution to this problem is obvious: create a new category for trans (aka fake) women. We already create separate sports leagues based on age, ability and gender.
The cold fact is that humans are a sexually dimorphic species with the males being, on average, bigger and stronger than females. Olympic-class women athletes perform at the level of high school boys. For example, record times in the 100 meter dash for 2024 :
Men__10.03 seconds
Boys__10.29
Women 11.10
In 2017, the US Women's National Soccer team lost to an Under-15 boys team 5-2. Soccer fans will recognize this as a blow-out.
Unfortunately, the obvious solution is beyond reach because the wokerati insist that fake women are identical to real women. Equality under the law is good and necessary, but Nature will not be fooled. Being a boy, even for a short time, makes you stronger and faster than the girls. Words on paper will not change this.
Notice how you never see trans (aka fake) men trying to play on men's teams?
Women's sports is a good thing. Shame to see it destroyed by some foolish idea.
[X] Obama arrives at 10 Downing Street to meet with senior UK political and security officials.
This unannounced trip comes just days after a bombshell report revealed he involved the UK’s intel agencies along with the CIA to spy on the Trump campaign and administration.
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It is a message of some sort to someone about something. Maybe he was hungry for fish and chips.
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I'm reminded of the Bill Clinton airport visit with Attorney General Lynch. Perhaps they talked about grand-children.
Or could it be about damage control and insurance policies against the possibility of a Trump re-election? "Steady the 'Buffs!"
[MAIL] A conservative fund manager has pulled investments from Tyson Foods, saying the meat and poultry giant has alienated its consumers by laying off Americans workers and hiring 42,000 asylum seekers.
Bill Flaig, CEO and co-founder of the $79 million American Conservative Values Fund (ACVF), told DailyMail.com that he has divested from Tyson and won't buy any more stock in the company.
Angry consumers are boycotting Tyson over revelations that the company is shuttering plants and laying off workers while hiring tens of thousands of asylum seekers — and even hiring lawyers for its new recruits.
Property and asset seizure? Yes, we've seen this movie previously.
[WIRE] President Trump is on the hook for a $454 million judgment, according to the courts in New York. Judge Arthur Engoron presided over a stacked court in the civil fraud prosecution that was brought against Donald Trump. And it was done specifically in civil court, as opposed to criminal court, because the burden of proof is lower in civil court. "It's not me they're after, it's you. I'm just in the way."
This is the case in which Attorney General Letitia James came into office pledging to target Trump, which prosecutors should not do. One does not go into office vowing to target "that guy." Rather, one vows to prosecute a crime — not find the criminal. The person who does the crime is by definition, the criminal.
If a specific person is targeted, then that looks very much like malicious and selective prosecution, which is exactly what James was doing. She prosecuted Trump in this New York court for the great crime of supposedly inflating the value of his real estate assets in obtaining loans from the bank.
There was no allegation the banks that gave the loans were actually damaged. In fact, they all got their money back. Instead, the allegation is that by inflating the price of the real estate, inflating his assets, somehow Trump had perpetrated a fraud against the people of New York despite there being zero damages.
#2
This manipulation can easily be applied to the finances of any American, in any amount, for the same specious reason. Castreau the Bastreau pulled the same trick in Canada very recently.
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At least they had the courtesy to identify it as a migrant tax. Many of the US states are paying part of their taxes for migrants, but no one has the courage to call it a 'migrant tax'.
I suspect it'd be very unpopular. Better to call it 'tax the rich' tax.
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Thus pointing up why tax increases should not be put up to a vote.
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#2 Thus pointing up why tax increases should not be put up to a vote.
[NBCNEWS] The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it will allow Texas to enforce for now a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants colonists.
The conservative-majority court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which said states have no authority to legislate on immigration, an issue the federal government has sole authority over.
That means the law can go into effect while litigation continues in lower courts. It could still be blocked at a later date.
"The court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos," liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also objected to the decision.
The majority did not explain its reasoning, but one of the conservative justices, Amy Coney Barrett, wrote separately to note that an appeals court has yet to weigh in on the issue.
"If a decision does not issue soon, the applicants may return to this court," she wrote. Her opinion was joined by fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
#2
^ which only further undermines any legitimacy to the judiciary (at the fed level, the one branch that is not subject to the consent of the governed). Keep it up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NBCNEWS] The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it will allow Texas to enforce for now a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest 
