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well

i wish you an early happy one and bashful hugs from kitties and maybe a trip to 47°36′35″n 122°19′59″w

the ATM of the home st bank?

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oh thank you mookie. i've got a horrible cold and was home from work yesterday. whenever i get a cold (not often) it lasts for 2 weeks of coughing. so i will be contaminating everyone. also how is it i make a lot of money for one person but every paycheck it seems to just disappear? srsly i have like $100 for the next 12 days. i paid my mortgage kind of early, but if i wait to be paid again it will be late. i can't afford to go to those coordinates for a while! i might have to settle for participating in a courthouse trivia competition for my birthday

i'm making a nice fall meal of chili and roasted pie pumpkins though :)

that sounds very nice, harbl. i wish you a happy day.

happy birthday harbl, though i think i'm maybe a day or even two days late (i just checked your other thread for last year's one but dates are always confusing because i'm so many hours ahead so the check was a bit futile.)

thank you, my star

Happy belated, harbly!

thanks teh

harbl what do you think baout http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty

schwwww im tired

i read this last week and can't really remember what it said but it pertained mainly to federal court, while the vast majority of crimes are prosecuted in state court. i only have experience in state courts of one county of one state. however i do agree the penalty for trial is great. it sucks. we have some great cases that have to be pleas because if you get in front of the wrong judge or there is a mandatory minimum or whatever hoo boy. so dependent on the judge. some judges are really terrible.

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i read that article

while i read it i thought it was written by the husband of the 'tiger mother' author who is an academic lawyer but then i realised i had got jed r(akoff) and jed r(ubenfeld) confused

i thought his suggestions were reasonable anyway, without knowing anything more about the subject matter

what proprortion of federal trials are drug trade related?

@naxuu
the flipside of legalization: now establishment white men will make billions doing exactly what countless black ppls' lives were ruined over

how do we get you on the supreme court

possibly there are other intermediate steps we might look into

i do not want to be a judge! maybe an administrative judge would be ok

you be the judge but only if you want to