#defense attorney!Harry

[onlyangellucifer]

I LOVE YOU, ITS RUINING MY LIFE

PLOT:

It’s the biggest trial of the year and the whole world is watching. Stakes are higher and tension is higher. Little do they know, the prosecutor and defence attorney are in love.

OR

Harry is a popular defense attorney in London & Y/N is a popular prosecutor. Both are known for rarely losing & now they’ve found themselves in a pickle.

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WARNINGS:

Mentions of murder, blood, and the likes (nothing too graphic), smut (in the future), angst, fluff, etc. will add more if any others pop up!

AUTHORS NOTE:

Hello!! Ive been MIA, sorry. However, ive come bearing gifts! Below the cut is a sneak peak at this new short series (no more than 6 parts atm). Im working on the other series’ too, sorry for the delay. Hope you can forgive me. Anyways i hope u enjoy defense attorney!Harry 🫶🏼 the preview also isnt proof read, so excuse any typos. Meaning things WILL be changed / could be changed & moved around! Not sure of word count, but cant be more than 1500. Its short.

London hasnt seen a case this high profile since the case of Harold Shipman, who killed up to 250 victims. Many feared this may be another case of Jack The Ripper, as they double checked their doors at night, hoping the serial killer wasn’t going to show up at their door. The relief that washed over the town when the police had finally caught the man whom they think is responsible for the latest killings of 20 men and women. The scenes were too graphic to show on tv.

Y/N ended up with the case. The crime scene photos were unnerving to her and interviewing the victims families made it even worse. Bile creeping up throat as she read the horrific things that happened to each victim. She wanted to know this case by the back of her hand, because of course she was up against one of the top defense attorneys in the country. He rather lost and found plot holes in every single case, having a 97% success rate with getting his clients off the hook and their record clear. She thought noone would pick up the mans case, there was so much evidence that pointed towards the man.

Harry was attractive, tall, dark hair and those piercing greenish hazel eyes. Y/N was nervous and she hated being that way. Harry often came by the law firm, having connections with anyone and everyone. His career was unmatched, he was handsome, wealthy, the whole package. Yet he was single and that blew Y/N’s mind.

Harry was just as shocked as Y/N to learn they’d facing each other in court. He was certain his client did it, but, he had to defend him anyways. He was called by the court to do it pro bono, as noone else wanted to take the case. If he lost, his numbers would certainly be impacted. If he won, people may look at him differently in a moral sense. Surely though there was a plot hole and the prosecution would slip up. He couldnt believe it was Y/N who got the case. Soft, shy, gorgeous Y/N. He already developed this small crush on her and now he had to take her on in court? Surely this wasnt a good thing. It had to be God punishing him for helping criminals and making a good living while doing so. Harry always viewed her as the more submissive type and his dirty thoughts were hard to keep at bay. Maybe that was the reason God was punishing him.

While Harry laid awake, staring at the ceiling, Y/N was doing the same. Y/N had never seen Harry in action, but, she’s heard how he’s always been strict and concise in the court room. His dominant side coming out, and that scared Y/N. Especially because she imagined him being dominant somewhere else, mainly at night when she lay in bed alone with her thoughts and hands.

[theillusionofpants]

my muppet casting of the US Cabinet

President- Kermit the frog

The wrangler of this fucked up gang. Though he has no hair, he's a compromising leader and the obvious choice.

Vice President- Fozzy Bear

Largely a ceremonial position, Fozzy is popular with the voters and always diffuses tough situations with slapstick comedy. Plus he does wonders and fundraising galas

First Lady- Miss Piggy

Originally I had her a secretary of defense (still a good choice tbh) but I think she'd be down for the glam of the position. She'd take up causes like a Hollywood celeb and her outfits would be Smithsonian worthy

Chief of Staff- Skeeter

Comfortable being behind the scenes and getting shit done, Skeeter would be perfect for the role.

Secretary of State- Gonzo

A bold choice and one that flabbergasted most serious politicians, Gonzo got the job by being so completely weird that he is disarming. For the chief diplomat of the country, he actually accidentally gets more done than people give him credit for

Secretary of Defense- Sam the Eagle

Level headed and without humor. He takes his position seriously and does not jump to conflict without provocation.

Secretary of the Treasury- Rizzo the Rat

Though he is definitely involved in some insider trading, Rizzo was the only muppet with any kind of sense for currency and market trends. He's got corporations in an uproar.

(notable runner up- The Count)

Attorneys General- Waldorf and Statler

They've never lost a case due to their scathing quips and criticism of the defendant.

Secretary of the Interior- Animal

Though press conferences have been suspended indefinitely (there was rumor of thousands of dollars of damage in equipment and bite marks on some members of the press), Animal is a passionate advocate of the parks. He has established 13 new national parks including the MORE PARKS MORE PARKS National Park which he named himself

Secretary of Energy- Crazy Harry

Got his position due to family connections. The energy grid is in shambles after a serious of mysterious explosions in power stations across the country. Investigations are in progress

Secretary of Education- Dr. Bundsen Honeydew

The only muppet with a PhD, Kermit wanted a science background in the position. Science fairs have become mandatory testing in schools. Students have caught on that the biggest mess usually wins first prize

Secretary of Transportation- Sweetums

Usually relegated to positions of service, Sweetums was called upon to run the trains. He has quietly approved high speed rail across the nation. He usually operates the line from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Secretary of Agriculture- Swedish Chef

He showed up one day in the office with three chickens, a moose and some talking produce and refuses to leave. The last press conference he had he was asked about his plans for subsidizing corn. His answer was "oooh de sküshy düshi corn corn flüœr un da grundi ground bork bork" There were no further questions

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development- Oscar the Grouch

No stranger to homelessness, Secretary the Grouch nationalized empty office buildings as low cost public housing. When asked, he said he did it so people would be off the streets and he could be left alone. Major corporations condemned the plan but Oscar remained unperturbed and told them to scram

Secretary of Homeland Security - Grover

Constantly exasperated, he has come to rely heavily upon a masked crusader named Super Grover

US ambassador to the UN- Big Bird

No stranger to travel and with family in many different nations, Big Bird has become an international icon for diffusing tension and having nations become friends.

[nancywheeeler]

d'you happen to have a personal ranking of the Ephron Trifecta (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail)? (just assuming you love a good romcom).

i love a good romcom, but oh man have you posed a tough question. i am going to try not to overthink this and go with what is in my heart so okay here we go:

1. You've Got Mail

is it nostalgia? is it because i love every iteration of parfumerie? is it how desperately i want the life of heather burns's character christina? all of the above? yes.

basically i feel the same way about you've got mail as my mom feels about apollo 13: if i find it on a random cable channel, i will have to watch, at minimum, thirty minutes before i can move on with my day. i love how nora moves us through the seasons in new york, and how she gives tom hanks the worst character to work with and he still makes him charming, and meg ryan! need i say more. how outdated it is just makes it more endearing to me. i rewatched it recently in my countdown to christmas (along with the shop around the corner, which i highly, highly recommend!), and i was once again swept off my feet. she was hoping it was him!

2. When Harry Met Sally

my favorite memory of when harry met sally: in february of 2020, one of my best friends threw a valentine's day party and decided to have romcoms on in the background for ambience. this was the first movie she put on and a solid seven of us watched the entire movie. the whole thing. during a party. billy crystal and meg ryan are that irresistible.

i think it's nora's best screenplay. it's hilarious, very grounded and adult (affectionate), and she should have won that oscar. i just don't personally have the same nostalgic attachment to it that i have to you've got mail. i first saw it when i was much older, which was for the best! i know i would not have appreciated it at thirteen.

3. Sleepless in Seattle

i first watched sleepless in seattle in the bath while drinking a glass of white wine, as ms. ephron intended. loved every minute of it.

this movie has no right working. none. i'm pretty sure meg ryan commits several crimes over the course of it, and i would have been her defense attorney if she had been charged with any of them. she (and tom, but mostly meg) sell this bonkers premise so hard. even though i rank the other two above it, sleepless in seattle definitely came the closest to making me cry. (did the wine play a role? who is to say.) it's definitely the one i've seen the least, but i'm now inspired to watch it again. the "meg ryan leaves a perfectly nice man for the mere idea of tom hanks" cinematic universe really does fuck so severely.

[beardedmrbean]

R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago’s federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion.

“For years, Robert Sylvester Kelly abused underage girls. By employing a complex scheme to keep victims quiet, he long evaded consequences. In recent years, though, those crimes caught up with him at last,” Judge Amy St. Eve of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrote in the terse, 14-page ruling.

“But Kelly — interposing a statute-of-limitations defense — thinks he delayed the charges long enough to elude them entirely. The statute says otherwise, so we affirm his conviction.”

The appellate court also denied Kelly’s request for resentencing, saying they had no grounds to second-guess the 20-year prison term U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber handed down.

“An even-handed jury found Kelly guilty, acquitting him on several charges even after viewing those abhorrent tapes,” the appellate ruling states. “No statute of limitations saves him, and the resulting sentence was procedurally proper and — especially under these appalling circumstances — substantively fair.”

Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, told the Tribune Friday that they were still weighing whether to request a rehearing before the full 7th Circuit panel — a move that is rarely granted.

Meanwhile, Bonjean says she plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court on the statute of limitations issue, which centers on whether a new law passed after the underlying crimes in Kelly’s case should have been applied.

“We believe that is an appropriate issue for review by the Supreme Court,” Bonjean said.

Kelly, 57, is serving his time at a medium-security facility in Butner, North Carolina. His current release date is Dec. 21, 2045, when he’d be a couple weeks shy of his 79th birthday, federal prison records show.

Bonjean said she just spoke to Kelly on Thursday and that he remained “optimistic” about his remaining appeals.

“He understands that this is a process, that the fight is not over and he’s optimistic that the truth will eventually prevail,” she said.

A federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly in 2022 on child pornography charges for explicit videos he made of himself and his then 14-year-old goddaughter, “Jane.” Kelly was also found guilty of inappropriate sexual relations with Jane and two other teenage girls, “Pauline” and “Nia.” The jury acquitted Kelly on separate charges of conspiring to rig his prior Cook County child pornography trial.

Kelly abused the three girls in the 1990s, when the law allowed prosecutors to bring such charges until the victims turned 25. Congress in 2003 expanded the statute of limitations up until the victim’s death, but on appeal Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean argued lawmakers never intended that amendment to apply retroactively. Prosecutors could not have brought these charges any later than 2009, she said.

Kelly is also appealing his conviction in a separate federal case out of New York, where a jury found him guilty of broad racketeering charges. He was sentenced to 30 years in the case; most of his prison term for the Chicago conviction is to be served concurrently.

During arguments in February on the Chicago case, St. Eve seemed skeptical, noting that no federal circuit has yet sided with Bonjean’s position.

Prosecutors argued that Congress expanded the statute of limitations long before it otherwise would have expired for Jane, Nia and Pauline. That’s a deadline extension, not a retroactive application of the law, they argued.

Case law overwhelmingly rejects Kelly’s claims, the appellate court ruled in Friday’s order.

“(It) is not unconstitutional to apply a newer statute of limitations to old conduct when the defendant was subject to prosecution at the time of the change, as Kelly was in 2003,” the ruling states.

The higher court also shot down Kelly’s argument that the counts involving Jane, including the child pornography charges, should have been tried separately from the rest.

[stars4sole]

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..remeber to be respectful!!! I'm just sharing silly little hcs at the end of the day!!

..i may write..maybe…uou never know….

..currently have a marauders!yellow jackets au in my notes app 😋

[nodynasty4us]

House Republicans are throwing everything against the wall to see if anything sticks.

[tomorrowusa]

Three years ago a mob of terrorists incited by sore loser Donald Trump rampaged through the US Capitol. They were attempting to disrupt the counting of electoral votes in a free and fair election that Trump clearly lost.

These un-American Trumpsters engaged in what Matthew Graves, US Attorney for the District of Columbia, called, "likely the largest single day mass assault of law enforcement officers in our nation's history".

We need to thank the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police for their service that day. Things would have been far worse without their bravery and determination. Some people on our side of the spectrum overlook the fact that democracy depends on men and women putting themselves at great risk to preserve our way of life. We see that daily in Ukraine; Putin's invasion got stalled because Ukrainians put freedom ahead of their personal safety — not because Russia got a lot of down arrows on social media.

In addition to law enforcement, one person who stood out at the Capitol on 06 January 2021 was Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ-03). Rep. Kim did not wait for others to clean up the debris and wreckage left by the Trump terrorists, he joined in so he could get the building cleaned up as quickly as possible so Congress could get back to the business of certifying the lawful victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

In the wake of the indictment of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, Andy Kim announced that he would challenge the incumbent in the 2024 NJ primary. Andy is the direct opposite of Trump. He supports democratic institutions and is not afraid to get his hands dirty in defense of those institutions.

It's not necessary to live in New Jersey to support Andy Kim's Senate campaign. If he wins, it's not just a victory for him but for 21st century American values.

Andy Kim for New Jersey - Restoring Integrity to the US Senate

[dhr-ao3]

Playing Childish Games

Playing Childish Games https://ift.tt/dTaeVp9 by Eudaimonias_Revenge During a business trip, Draco discovers that he's not he only one harboring feelings for Hermione Granger. ~*~*~*~ OR... Theo and I had stopped walking when we set eyes on her, forced to watch as the wizard currently charming our coworker leaned down to say something that made her smile up at him. “Wanna play “Hey, buddy?”, or should we just end him right here and now?” Theo asked, glaring over the edge of his glass at the scene before us. Yeah. Something was definitely up with him. ““Hey, buddy” first, and then we’ll see where it goes from there,” I said, downing my drink and Banishing the glass. Words: 4592, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M, Multi Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Theodore Nott Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy/Theodore Nott, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott Additional Tags: Getting Together, Pining, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Idiots in Love, Love Triangles, No Bi Characters, At Least Not That They Know Of, Aged-Up Character(s), Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Unspeakables (Harry Potter), Unspeakable Draco Malfoy, Unspeakable Hermione Granger, Unspeakable Theodore Nott, POV Draco Malfoy, POV First Person, Book Hermione, Hermione is THAT girl, Sometimes I Call Her Slappy, Wandless Magic (Harry Potter), Hermione in a LBD, Some nonsense in a lift, Banter, Degrading Banter, Cuz Theo Is An Incurable THOT, Jealousy, The Godfather Trilogy References, pop culture references, Hermione Granger is a Brat, Theo is a Little Shit, Draco Malfoy Needs Therapy, Light Dom/sub, Threesome - F/M/M, ménage à trois, Top Draco Malfoy, Top Theodore Nott, Bottom Hermione Granger, Explicit Sexual, Explicit Language, Smut, Shameless Smut, PWP without Porn, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Excuse to write porn, alcohol use, Dirty Talk, Dirty Thoughts, consensual sexual degradation, Dacryphilia, If You Squint - Freeform, Fellatio, (IDKY the tag is always), Blowjobs, (And then they're like), Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Anal Sex, Squirting, Vaginal Sex, Unprotected Sex, Double Penetration, Improper use of the phrase 'Good Girl', Size Difference, HEA, Not Britpicked, SilentGen-GenZ slang, These men are idiots your honor, As their attorney that is my only defense via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/HAuUa8N February 20, 2024 at 12:23AM

[onlyangellucifer]

Coming soon…. Hehe

[talkingtea]

Worst Written

Caitlin- Started S1 not having a life and ended S8 not having a life. She gets these tragic storylines, but it never leads to any personal growth. She's lost all individuality as a character. Solely lives for Frost.

Cecile- Good but crashed and burned in S7-8. Powers don't make a lick of sense. Jenna didn't add anything to her character. Or Joe's, for that matter. Her career is non-existent. She is a horrible meta defense attorney. She's pretty unrecognizable from the earlier seasons.

Wells- Only good Wells was Harry. The rest were painful and some of Tom's worst acting. It got exhausting watching to force those characters. Worst of the bunch was Sherloque and Council of Wells

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[phoebe-delia]

All That Jazz

Entirely self-indulgent. This is a mini "Chicago" AU (as in the movie musical. yes I know it originated on the stage. I've seen both and I like the movie better so that's what I'm using). CW: mention of murders, jail, American AU, 1920's AU, Muggle AU, Past Harry/Male Character(s), Past Draco/Male Character(s), immoral characters. Also this isn't so much a warning as a note that I am writing CHARACTERS here and the views they express do not necessarily align with my own. Also I borrowed like. A couple lines from the movie lol.

Harry scowled at the newspaper clippings in front of him. One attorney advertisement after another. They all blended together after a while. He knew enough from listening to the shows on the radio that they'd have to give him a lawyer if he wanted one, but he didn't trust whatever government sleaze bag they'd stick him with. Besides, he had enough money saved up to afford his own. Thank god he'd made Mike get that prenup.

Hopefully, it wouldn't cost too much. He needed the rest of that money to get a place of his own. And an agent. Harry closed his eyes and let himself dream, for a moment, of life outside the jail cell. Of bright lights and tight costumes and roaring applause. He'd get there one day.

His daydreams were interrupted by the sound of boots clicking against the concrete floor. He frowned; the other inmates wore tennis shoes, and the warden had already done the hourly inspection. That meant there was a visitor.

Harry stood from his bed and walked to the door of his cell, watching with wide eyes as a tall, handsome man in a suit shook hands with—

No. It couldn't be.

"Draco Malfoy?" Harry gasped.

The strange man looked at Draco amusedly and said something to him Harry couldn't hear. Draco rolled his eyes and shooed the man away. He turned to face Harry expectantly while the stranger walked off.

Harry nearly tripped over himself to walk up to Draco. "You're the Draco Malfoy!"

Draco raised an eyebrow. "And you are?"

Harry blushed. "I, er, I'm Harry Potter. You're not going to believe this but–but I was there! I was there at the club that night you killed your husband and your friend! When you were arrested!"

Draco scoffed. "Yeah, you and half of Chicago."

"Well, sure, but—I just have to say I'm such a huge fan. I loved that act you had! With your friend?"

"My former friend," Draco drawled. "Must you make me relive the worst night of my life? Or is there something else you'd like to discuss? I have work to do."

Harry looked away. "Er, sorry. What work?"

"On my defense. For my trial. Which is what you'd be working on too if you had half a wit."

"Hey," Harry frowned. "I'm still hiring a lawyer."

Draco laughed meanly. "Take your time with that. Definitely no rush or anything."

Harry crossed his arms. "Oh, yeah, like you've already got a lawyer."

"As a matter of fact I do."

"Oh yeah? Who."

Draco smirked. "You just saw him leave."

Harry's heart dropped. "That was your lawyer?"

"Mmhm. Blaise Zabini. Ring a bell?"

Harry shook his head. "Never heard of him."

"He's only the best criminal defense attorney in the state. Seriously, Harper. Open a newspaper sometime."

Harry frowned. "It's Harry."

Draco waved a hand and turned to walk into his cell. "Whatever."

Without thinking, Harry grabbed his wrist. "Wait—"

Draco yanked out of his grip with a sneer. "Don't touch me!"

Harry winced. "Sorry, it's just. D'you think Blaise Zabini would take my case?"

"Don't know. Don't care. Don't want to continue this conversation." Draco smiled sarcastically. "Goodbye Henry!" Draco stepped into his cell and shut the door in Harry's face.

Harry clenched his fists and shouted, "My name is Harry you asshole!"

When no response came, Harry sighed and walked back to his cell. When he returned, he grabbed a pen and ripped off the corner of his newspaper.

He pressed the paper against the wall and wrote: Blaise Zabini.

[beardedmrbean]

When Texas was in the grip of a historic and deadly 2021 freeze, Colin Kerdachi vanished. Concerned friends reported the Montrose landlord missing. Nearly a year later, police realized Kerdachi had been stabbed to death and his body stashed at the apartment he managed, according to court records.

A woman renting a room found the decomposing body of the longtime homeowner and landlord under the stairs, police said.

Police identified Pamela Ann Merritt, who lived at the home for some time and seemingly assumed Kerdachi’s landlord responsibilities, as a suspect in his death last May and sought a warrant for her arrest. Investigators arrested Merritt on Friday. 

MORE ON HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM: Man wanted in Airline crash that killed man, 2-month-old girl

A judge set her bail at $500,000 on Tuesday and ordered that she seek mental health treatment should she post bond.

Merritt’s defense attorney, Jason Luong, said she has a history of mental illness and that could become part of her defense. She is expected to return to court in November.

Search warrants and charging papers describe a confounding series of events at the 605 W. Clay home that led to Merritt’s arrest — more than two years after authorities first encountered her at the address. She at one point “blurted out” that Kerdachi’s body was under the stairs, records show.

Officers first went to the three-unit apartment about a week after the February 2021 freeze when a tenant reported finding Merritt inside his apartment and being unwilling to leave. She had told the tenant that she killed the 78-year-old landlord, investigators later wrote in a sworn statement.

The officers did not appear to search the apartment and took Merritt to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation instead — one of many hospitalizations that happened in the months since the initial encounter, according to court records.

Merritt began acting as a landlord in Kerdachi’s place when she returned and rented one of the units to a woman, according to court records. The tenant moved in and reported to police that Merritt and a friend, who has not been charged, pledged to discount her rent to $600 if she cleaned several rooms. The woman agreed and found a knife in a mailbox and blood throughout the apartments, including near a bathroom, on a mattress and in the crawl space.

Merritt tried to explain away the blood. Still, the tenant called police to report her discovery, and two officers went inside the home to see the blood stains, according the complaint. The officers’ actions after their visit to the home were not made clear in court records. 

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Lawrence on Tuesday said detectives “took their time and diligence” in investigating Kerdachi’s death.

The same tenant continued to live in the house. She then discovered Kerdachi’s body in December 2021, which is when homicide investigators appeared to start their involvement, according to the complaint. 

An autopsy revealed that he had blunt force trauma to the ribs and had been stabbed repeatedly, according to court records. 

During an interview with investigators that December, Merritt said the remains belonged to a dog and that she, too, had not seen Kerdachi since the winter storm that knocked out power for millions of Texans and killed more than 40 people in Harris County.

She said Kerdachi tasked her with taking care of the apartments. 

“She repeatedly refused to believe that (Kerdachi) was dead and kept saying it was just a dead dog,” the investigator wrote. “She also claimed that she believes (Kerdachi) faked his death to commit fraud and is probably alive in Africa.” 

Merritt was not charged at the time and allowed to leave HPD headquarters.

On Tuesday, Matt Kramer, who reported Kerdachi missing in 2021, said his friend’s disappearance had always seemed strange. He went to Kerdachi’s home in the days after the freeze and found his friend’s small dog seemingly abandoned and without food. Personal items, including documents related to his new U.S. citizenship, were left behind, he said.

Kramer described Kerdachi as a “bit of a rascal” who had a soft spot for small dogs. The friend hailed from South Africa but gained his citizenship not long before his death.

Kramer knew Merritt had lived in the ground-floor unit, but wasn’t sure for how long. 

Police apprehended Merritt at a motel in the 7100 block of North Shepherd, officials said. 

Search warrants related to Kerdachi’s death were first issued in March of this year after another witness came forward to report that Merritt had at one point confided in him about the whereabouts of Kerdachi’s body under the stairs. Police publicly named Merritt as a suspect in Kerdachi’s killing in May and asked for help finding her. At the time, police said she may have become homeless.

Kerdachi bought the house in 2003 and is still listed as the property owner in Harris County tax and appraisal records. Despite his death in 2021, his taxes have been paid in full. The house on Tuesday had the remnants of peeled-off code violation stickers on the front door. The windows on the ground floor were partially shattered. 

A man living in the upstairs apartment, who did not provide his name, said he was house-sitting for the tenant who found Kerdachi’s remains. 

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Hello lovelies!!! As I am coming off my hiatus, a lot of my muses could use some up to date stuff. I will be replying to things already in my drafts, don’t you worry but this is just for people to see my new muses and see if they want to talk to anyone!

Alexander Lightwood | 29 | Shadowhunters | Detective 

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Marina Nunier Osuana | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/Works at a diner

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Patrick Blanco Commerford | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/Works near campus

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Evan Buckley | 29 | 911 | Fire Fighter 

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Tyler Kennedy Strand | 28 | 911-lone Star | EMT at Fire Station.

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Richie Tozier | 24 | Elite | Comedian

Alice ( ofxscavengcrs)

Reggie Peters | 19 | JATP | College Sophomore  /Works at music store

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Max Mayfield | 23 | Stranger Things | Works at a Daycare

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Wade Wilson | 40 | Marvel | Private Investigator but not a good one/ part time bartender

Chewbacca ( ofxscavengcrs)

T.J Kippen | 21 | Andi Mack | College Freshman/ Teacher’s Aide

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Harry Hook | 23 | Descendants | Chef / Last year of Culinary School

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Marco Del Rossi | 21 | Degrassi | College Senior / Teachers Aide

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Ben Hargreeves | 30 | TUA | Personal Trainer at Gym

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Maxine Baker | 19 | Ginny and Georgia | College Sophomore/Works at occult shop.

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Matthew Murdock | 35 | Marvel | Criminal Defense Lawyer

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Dean Winchester | 38 | Supernatural | Psychiatrist 

Elliot ( purelybilateral)

Emily Fitch | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore/ Works for Fashion Designer 

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Nick Nelson | 18 | Heartstopper | College Freshman/ Part time fast food

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Simon Spier | 19 | Love, Simon | College Sophomore/ Works at law firm

Josh ( purelybilateral)

Josette Saltzman | 18 | Legacies | College Freshman / Part Time Barista

Bonnie ( mastcrmiind)

Yuuri Katsuki | 21 | Yuri! On Ice | Works at Skate Rink

Benjamin ( purelybilateral)

Katherine Pierce | 500+ | TVD | Waitress

Blaine Anderson | 22 | Glee |Performer/Song Writer

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Ginny Weasley | 21 | Harry Potter | Bartender

Lily Luna ( mastcrmiind)

Chad Meeks-Martin | 19 | Scream | College Sophomore

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Bill | 47 | TLOU | Farmer / Chef

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Maria Vasquez | 25 | West Side Story | Nurse

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Heather Chandler| 23 | Heathers | Stylist

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Max Wolfe| 21 | GG Reboot | Male Dancer / Grad School

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Viscount Tewksbury | 19 | Enola Holmes | College Sophomore / Matt Murdock’s assistant

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Simon Erikkson | 21 | Young Royals | Music Teacher \ Performer 

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Gabriel Boutin | 25 | Half Bad | French Ambassador

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Penelope Featherington| 21 | Bridgerton | Works for Newspaper

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Ricky Bowen | 19 | Elite | College Sophomore / Party Performer

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Chishiya Shuntaro| 21 | Alice in Bonderland| Doctor

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[longliveblackness]

“He helped defend his nation from a fearful enemy, came home to find that he still wasn’t free.”

February 12, 1946.

That day Isaac Woodard Jr. was on a Greyhound Lines bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where he had been discharged, in route to rejoin his family in North Carolina. When the bus reached a rest stop just outside Augusta, Woodard asked the bus driver if there was time for him to use a restroom. The driver grudgingly acceded to the request after an argument. Woodard returned to his seat from the rest stop without incident, and the bus departed. The bus stopped in Batesburg (now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina), near Aiken in the Jim Crow south.

Though Woodard had caused no disruption, the driver contacted the local police (including Chief of Police Lynwood Shull), who forcibly removed Woodard from the bus. After demanding to see his discharge papers, a number of policemen, including Shull, took Woodard to a nearby alleyway, where they beat him repeatedly with nightsticks. They then took Woodard to the town jail and arrested him for disorderly conduct, accusing him of drinking beer in the back of the bus with other soldiers. The attack left Woodard permanently blind.

The following morning, the police sent Woodard before the local judge, who found him guilty and fined him fifty dollars. The soldier requested medical assistance, but it took two more days for a doctor to be sent to him. Not knowing where he was and suffering from amnesia, Woodard ended up in a hospital in Aiken, South Carolina, receiving substandard medical care. Three weeks after he was reported missing by his relatives, Woodard was discovered in the hospital. He was immediately rushed to a US Army hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Though his memory had begun to recover by that time, doctors found both eyes were damaged beyond repair.

On September 19, 1946, seven months after the incident, NAACP Executive Secretary Walter Francis White met with President Harry S. Truman to discuss the Woodard case. The following day, Truman wrote a letter to Attorney General Tom C. Clark demanding that action be taken to address South Carolina's reluctance to try the case. Six days later Truman directed the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation in the case. A short investigation followed, and Shull and several of his officers were indicted in U.S. District Court in Columbia, South Carolina. It was within federal jurisdiction because the beating had occurred at a bus stop on federal property and at the time Woodard was in uniform of the armed services.

The case was presided over by Judge Julius Waties Waring. By all accounts, the trial was a travesty. The local U.S. Attorney charged with handling the case failed to interview anyone except the bus driver, a decision that Waring, a civil rights proponent, believed was a gross dereliction of duty. Waring would later write of his disgust of the way the case was handled at the local level. The behavior of the defense was no better. When the defense attorney began to shout racial epithets at Woodard, Waring had it stopped immediately. During the trial, the defense attorney also stated to the jury that "if you rule against Shull, then let this South Carolina secede again."

After Woodard gave his account of the events, Shull firmly denied it, claiming that Woodard had threatened him with a gun, and that Shull had used his nightclub to defend himself. During this testimony, Shull admitted that he repeatedly struck Woodard in the eyes. After thirty minutes of deliberation, Shull was found not guilty on all charges despite his admission that he had blinded Woodard. The courtroom broke into applause upon hearing the verdict. Shull was never punished, dying in Batesburg on December 27, 1997, at the age of 95.

Woodard moved north after the trial during the Second Great Migration and lived in the New York City area for the rest of his life. He died aged 73 in the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx on September 23, 1992. He was buried with military honors at the Calverton National Cemetery (Section 15, Site 2180) in Calverton, New York.

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“Ayudó a defender a su nación de un enemigo temible, volvió a casa y descubrió que todav��a no era libre”.

12 de febrero, 1946.

Ese día, Isaac Woodard Jr. viajaba en un autobús de Greyhound Lines desde el Campo Gordon, ubicado en Augusta, Georgia, donde fue dado de alta con honores. Iba en camino a Carolina del Norte para reunirse con su familia. Cuando el autobús llegó a una parada de descanso en las afueras de Augusta, Woodard le preguntó al conductor del autobús si había tiempo para que él pudiera ir al baño. El conductor accedió de mala gana a la solicitud después de una discusión. Woodard regresó a su asiento desde la parada de descanso sin incidentes y el autobús partió. El autobús se detuvo en Batesburg (ahora Batesburg-Leesville, Carolina del Sur), cerca de Aiken en el sur de Jim Crow.

Aunque Woodard no causó ningún daño, el conductor se puso en contacto con la policía local (incluido el jefe de policía Lynwood Shull), quienes sacaron a Woodard del autobús a la fuerza. Después de que exigieron ver sus documentos de alta, varios policías, incluyendo Shull, llevaron a Woodard a un callejón cercano, donde lo golpearon repetidamente con bastones. Luego llevaron a Woodard a la cárcel y lo arrestaron por alteración del orden público, acusándolo de beber cerveza en la parte trasera del autobús con otros soldados. El ataque dejó a Woodard permanentemente ciego.

A la mañana siguiente, la policía envió a Woodard ante el juez local, quien lo declaró culpable y lo multó con cincuenta dólares. El soldado solicitó asistencia médica, pero tomaron dos días más para que le enviaran un médico. Sin saber dónde estaba y sufriendo de amnesia, Woodard terminó en un hospital en Aiken, Carolina del Sur, recibiendo atención médica deficiente. Tres semanas después de que sus familiares lo reportaran como desaparecido, Woodard fue descubierto en el hospital. Inmediatamente fue trasladado de urgencia a un hospital del Ejército de EE. UU. en Spartanburg, Carolina del Sur. Aunque su memoria había comenzado a recuperarse en ese momento, los médicos encontraron que ambos ojos estaban dañados sin posibilidad de reparación.

El 19 de septiembre de 1946, siete meses después del incidente, el secretario ejecutivo de la NAACP (Asociación Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Gente de Color), Walter Francis White, se reunió con el presidente Harry S. Truman para discutir el caso de Woodard. Al día siguiente, Truman escribió una carta al fiscal general Tom C. Clark exigiendo que se tomaran medidas para abordar la renuencia de Carolina del Sur para juzgar el caso. Seis días después, Truman ordenó al Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos que abriera una investigación sobre el caso. Siguió una breve investigación y Shull y varios de sus oficiales fueron acusados ​​en el Tribunal Distrital de los Estados Unidos ubicado en Columbia, Carolina del Sur. Fue dentro de la jurisdicción federal porque la golpiza se había producido en una parada de autobús en una propiedad federal y en ese momento Woodard vestía el uniforme de las fuerzas armadas.

El caso fue presidido por el juez Julius Waties Waring. Según todos los informes, el juicio fue una farsa. El fiscal federal local encargado de manejar el caso no entrevistó a nadie excepto al conductor del autobús, una decisión que Waring, un defensor de los derechos civiles, consideró un grave incumplimiento del deber. Waring escribiría más tarde sobre su disgusto por la forma en que se manejó el caso a nivel local. El comportamiento de la defensa no fue mejor. Cuando el abogado defensor comenzó a gritar insultos raciales a Woodard, Waring lo detuvo de inmediato. Durante el juicio, el abogado defensor también le dijo al jurado que "si dictaminan en contra de Shull, entonces dejen que esta Carolina del Sur se separe nuevamente".

Después de que Woodard dio su versión de los hechos, Shull lo negó firmemente, alegando que Woodard lo había amenazado con un arma y que Shull había usado su bastón para defenderse. Durante este testimonio, Shull admitió que golpeó repetidamente a Woodard en los ojos. Después de treinta minutos de deliberación, Shull fue declarado inocente de todos los cargos a pesar de que admitió que había cegado a Woodard. Comenzaron a aplaudir en la sala del tribunal después de escuchar el veredicto. Shull nunca fue castigado, murió en Batesburg el 27 de diciembre de 1997, a la edad de 95 años.

Woodard se mudó al norte después del juicio durante la Segunda Gran Migración y vivió en la ciudad de Nueva York por el resto de su vida. Murió a los 73 años en el hospital de la Administración de Veteranos ubicado en el Bronx el 23 de septiembre de 1992. Fue enterrado con honores militares en el Cementerio Nacional de Calverton (Sección 15, Sitio 2180) en Calverton, Nueva York.

[tieflingkisser]

Out of Sight

Officials have responded to an overcrowding crisis in Texas’ largest jail by shipping more people from Houston to far-flung, for-profit lockups with even worse oversight.

Harris County officials have largely blamed the jail crisis on overcrowding and short staffing; as of the November hearing, more than 9,000 people were detained inside a Harris County jail system that had more than 200 vacant jailer positions. And yet they haven’t announced major new efforts to shrink the population they wish to jail. Instead, in response to the jail commission’s escalating pressure, they’ve started shipping even more people in their custody to for-profit lockups far from Harris County. Last month, after the state jail commission threatened to reduce Harris County’s jail capacity if it didn’t comply with minimum standards, the county’s governing body—its five-person commissioners court—unanimously approved a $11.3 million contract to send up to 360 people to a private prison in Mississippi. That’s on top of the roughly 1,300 people whose detention the sheriff’s office already outsources to other private lockups outside the county.  Any pretrial detention, which accounts for more than 70 percent of the county’s jail population, separates families; it also makes mounting a defense more difficult, putting pressure on people to plead guilty. But those challenges multiply when people are sent hundreds of miles away. It may even compound the backlog in criminal cases that has contributed to the overcrowding crisis. According to county data, people now spend on average nearly 200 days in Harris County jail custody, most waiting for their case to be processed, which is far greater than the national average jail stay of 33 days. Defense attorneys say more outsourcing could add to delays in cases as more people must be transported back to the county for court hearings.

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The outsourcing, ostensibly a response to dangerous jail conditions in Harris County, will put even more people in the hands of private prison companies with their own histories of abuse.  CoreCivic, the private prison giant that inked the new contract with Harris County last month to detain people in one of its Mississippi lockups, has long been accused of short staffing, excessive force, and poor treatment at its facilities. Another company Harris County contracts with to house up to 500 people in one of its Louisiana prisons, LaSalle Corrections, has a similarly troubled track record; in 2020, the company lost its contract to run a bi-state jail on the Texas-Arkansas border following years of lawsuits over deaths on its watch.  Harris County detainees shipped to the LaSalle Corrections Center in northwest Louisiana, nearly 300 miles from home, have already warned of dangerous conditions. Rahan Atia, a Houston defense attorney, told me that he started hearing complaints of extortion and threats of violence after he took over the cases of several defendants held there.