#Overturned Conviction

[polelover91]

A Horrifying Setback: Harvey Weinstein's Overturned Conviction

"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge." ~Audre Lorde

Written By: Lauren Long Date Published: May 1, 2024 Photo by KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA on Pexels.com “Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.” ~Audre Lorde    Just when you think that we’ve taken…

[i-can-sabotage-me-bi-myself]

Pennsylvania, I am super disappointed in you and disgusted by you. If this moldy peach wins that's it. I'm fucking leaving. My life is already a dumpster fire but I'd rather drown myself in a tub than live through another 4 years with that rapist as president

[sarahlancashire]

"YOU let a convicted murderer escape" TRACY. YOU'RE a convicted murderer!!!!

[housedyke]

Losing my mind trying to find a source for a quote on wikipedia that only appears in 3 other webpages, each using the exact wording from wikipedia without any sources. The exception to this was the footnote link which redirected to a 404 page

[dean-boese-universe]

So much good stuff in this episode!  First, we are joined by Chris Page, the man who produces Travis Orndorff's podcast and has multiple wrestling podcasts and twitch streams.  Chris and Dean discuss their history and their friendship and Arthur has a new sting to introduce her corner.  (Courtesy of our new sound engineer, Blue Boese)  We also focus this week on Doctor Sam Sheppard, a doctor from Ohio who was accused of murdering his pregnant wife.  However, the carnival-like atmosphere of his trial and even the judge publicly saying he was guilty eventually earn him a new trial and his freedom.  After ten years in prison, wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder, he tried to make a new life for himself even wrestling and inventing the 'Mandibular Nerve Pinch' a move Mankind repackaged into 1996 into the Mandible Claw.  Still, he eventually passed away from the effects of alcoholism in this special, man I wonder where they got the idea for the Fugitive movie and TV show episode of the Family Plot Podcast! Links to find CCP online: Twitch - www.Twitch.TV/CCPEPodcasting YouTube - @ccppodcastingproductions5890 Instagram - ccp_podcasting Twitter/X - @FiresidePage

[gamergirl929]

95% of the time, I hate being an American because of stupid shit like this.

[superbeans89]

Huh. Who that this on 2024 bingo?

[meowww-ffxiv]

Before they left for Ultima Thule, Ptolemy, Liios's younger brother, told him calmly it was going to be fine because if they were going into a nest made of pure dynamis, then in theory it would be a battle of will. And Liios was Freaking Out because he was a scientist and how could we counter something we cannot quantify?!

Ptolemy said, "Do you remember, when we were younger, you used to agitate an older student so much that he came down with a fever because no matter how thorough or clever his rebuttals, you would simply say, 'No you are wrong'?"

"Why are you bringing that up? I did apologize," Liios replied.

"Because you've always been the same person. You have gotten better and wiser on compromises, but the hills you choose to die on are littered with the bodies of those who think they can defeat your conviction with something as trifling as 'facts'," Ptolemy said. "It is more puzzling to me why you're worried about dynamis all of a sudden when you've outlived an innumerable amount of stupid arguments by simply saying 'I don't care, I'm right.'"

"But that's not the same as going to face a creature made of pure despair!"

"But is she, my brother? Was she made of despair, or had she simply fallen to it? You yourself told me of the hope her creator put into her, when he sent her to the stars. If she was a creature made and not born, isn't it possible that the core of her hasn't changed, after all these millennia? Even at the bottom of the Sea of Souls, Amon struggled with the nihilism he had apparently arrived at."

Ptolemy told Liios, "The reasonable, rational choice when it came to me would have been for you to let me die there in our homeland, and bury me, and grieve, and move on. Yet you severed yourself from our home, went against everything you had ever known, to carry me away for the chance that something or someone could save me.

"I wouldn't have hated you, if you had not taken me away to Old Sharlayan. In death I would have been beyond pain, beyond suffering. But in life I am greater and so are you. We were afforded the chance to meet better people, become better people ourselves. You seem to forget, but you saved more lives than you give yourself credit for." Ptolemy looked at him. "Now, setting forth to save everyone, is it even possible for you to fail?"

No. Of course not.

"I want to ask you something, beg you for something," Ptolemy said.

"Of course. Anything," Liios replied.

"I want to live. I want this star to live on, and you to come back to me."

"Yes, I can do that," Liios said.

"And on the way home, please make the Loporrits map the stars for me. This might be the one and only chance we get of being able to see the universe this close up."

"Yes."

"Will my request suffice as a protective charm, for the road?"

"It's a grocery list."

"It is not. But if you want to call it that, fine, be sure to grab some stellar rock samples for me, too. And cuttings of any plants you think might survive the journey."

(It was a GREAT charm for the road.)

[feenyxblue]

Learning about prosecutorial immunity like genuinely, how do any lawyers go to sleep at night

[elviramac22-blog]

Jussie Smollett Conviction

Jussie Smollett was originally convicted of orchestrating a hate crime in December of 2021. The Illinois Supreme Court overturned Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax conviction Thursday. The court stated “Today we resolve a questioin about the State’s responsibility to honor the agreement it makes with defendants”, “Specifically, we address whether a dismissal of a case by nolle prosequi allows…

[papercrane]

like are you worried about project 2025 or not

[mxdwn]

Harvey Weinstein 2020 Conviction Overturned By Appeals Court

https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/harvey-weinstein-2020-conviction-overturned-by-appeals-court/

[filipendulousgirl]

America really hates women wtf

[summerhighlandfalls]

Every time an American laughs about the court system in ace attorney a year is stolen from the life of an overworked Japanese public defender suffering the same bureaucratic roadblocks as ryuuichi naruhodo

[deadpresidents]

"What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 millions people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

-- "How Far Would He Go", TIME Magazine's interviews with Donald Trump, April 30, 2024.

I know we're saturated in coverage of Trump and it's easy (and probably better for our mental health) to usually ignore most of the articles when we see them, especially since he's so full of shit and infuriating. But it's also important to recognize that he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and he could absolutely be elected in November, and if you thought his first term was scary and dangerous, you need to understand that in a second term he's going to have people around him that are better prepared and VERY willing to do the crazy shit that he wants to do to this country. They aren't even hiding the fact that they are seeking vengeance against political opponents whom they feel have wronged them, and are ready to fundamentally dismantle the democratic foundations that are barely holding this country together after nearly 250 years.

Just look at what Trump says about the people who he incited to attack the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and halt the peaceful transfer of power that has happened every four years since 1789:

"Trump has sought to recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. 'I call them the J-6 patriots,' he say. When I ask whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says, 'Yes, absolutely.' As Trump faces dozens of felony charges, including for election interference, conspiracy to defraud the United States, willful retention of national-security secrets, and falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments, he has tried to turn legal peril into a badge of honor."

Oh, and please note that Trump -- a former President of the United States and possible future President of the United States -- said on the record in these interviews with TIME: "There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country and that can't be allowed either." We are at a point where political leaders are outright saying that in this country again, and it's because of Donald Trump.

So, take the time to recognize that Trump is straight-up telling us the country we're going to be living in if he wins again in November. And understand that your vote matters -- and WHO you vote for matters -- because, as I've been saying for years now, ELECTIONS HAVE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES.