Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Nate The Lawyer" channel.

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  23. So this woman called the police out and invited them into her home. She then proceeded to draw them close to the stove where she had boiling water with the intent of throwing it on the officers. Sounds like premeditation to me. Both cops clearly clocked something was wrong. So now there is an investigation. If they had walked out and she had poured the water on herself, or left and done it to someone else all the criticisers would be out here blaming the officers for that too. "Why did they walk outside instead of controlling the situation". You know that's exactly what would be said. She went down behind the counter and PRETENDED to be submitting. The officer goes in to detain her to get the scene under control and find out what's going down. She throws boiling water on him from a pot she had just concealed. His weapon discharging seems justified to me. Could the two cops have handled the situation better? No idea, I wasn't there and neither were you. What the second body cam should tell you is that video is not a substitute for actually being there, and that video can lie. In the UK right now there's a case in the public domain involving proportional force, where police kicked a man in the head, after he, his brother and other members of his group started throwing punches. Similarly it first started out with a video hiding the punches from the perps and only showing the police force. People were outaged. Now they see the full video, people see it was justified. Same thing here. Police carry weapons. If you do not want to be harmed by police, don't try to harm them first? Seems pretty simple.
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  40. I disagree that Ashley is a quality attorney. I find her naive and unprofessional. But I think that's important. It's precisely that lack of professionalism that I would humbly suggest is the root of her finding out this information from Bradley. To understand what happened we need to remember some important points to contextualise. Please remember, Bradley wasn't just Wade's attorney. He testified that he and Wade had been friends since middle school, that's his childhood friend. The law offices were 3 childhood best friends working together. It wasn't just some professionals who met as lawyers and came together to form a law office for mutual benefit. They were best friends. We're talking people who went to each others weddings, had dinners together as couples, hung out at eat others houses, saw their kids grow up. They have history and over that many years Bradley is going to become just as loyal to Joycelyn as to Wade himself. Think about your best friend and his wife you like, would you be upset if your friend stiffed her? Bradley tried to claim privilege but the judge said no it's not. Because he got the information through friendship and not as an attorney. We need to really understand Bradley and Wade are trying very hard to blur the lines of their friendship into a professional attorney client relationship. But they were just being friends. He was Wade's attorney only really in name. Because remember Wade is himself an attorney, I guarantee Wade wrote many of the filings in the divorce himself and just had Bradley file. They're friends, he's just helping his friend. We also need to put in context that this is happening right after the allegation against Bradley and the dissolving of the partnership. Their friendship was also falling apart at that time, they weren't on good terms. So Bradley is mad over how one friend is treating another in a divorce, and he's mad his friend isn't backing him up in an allegation he claims is false. Willis didn't just call Bradley like some clandestine entity and say "they're investigating us" then hang up. She clearly brought up the allegations against him, that they may be revealed during the open access or that they had already been revealed by the open access. That's why he's calling Ashley to see if he needs representation. Ok, so we have him worried for his own freedom and reputation, mad at his childhood friend for not having his back in an allegation he denies and upset with the same friend at how he behaved in his divorce and wronged Joycelyn his other friend. It's in that context, with all of those emotions going on inside Bradley that you then get 4 lawyers in a conference room chatting while they wait for pleadings. 4 lawyers who are professional acquaintances, work friends really and one of which was a long term actual friend of Bradley whom had socialised with him outside of their professional relationship. The presence of that friend in particular in the room is immediately going to change Bradley's mindset. He isn't a lawyer sitting with opposing counsel. He's sitting in a room with his friend and 2 other work friends. He feels more relaxed and open. Then you have Ashley, this school girl-esque, naive and talkative person you just know is a gossip queen. So she starts yabbering away and its in that context that Bradley starts spilling the beans. I don't think he meant to on the record, I think he just viewed it as gossip between friends with the aforementioned factors in his mind. He has also testified in subsequent interactions he did not wish to be relied upon as a source or testify, and Ashley has confirmed that, as have the text exchange in record. I suspect he got caught up in a conversation, said some things with anger in his heart that he later regretted saying, then either had a sunk cost fallacy or felt compelled to keep giving information. We see evidence of this in how strongly he fought not to testify and how evasive he has been on the stand. I do not believe for a moment that Ashley Merchant created a honeypot for Bradley and used herself as bait. You might make an argument that the naivety and lack of professionalism is all an act and she uses it to throw people off guard and extract information. But a honeypot? I see no evidence of that. What I see evidence of is someone who should only be a junior lawyer being thrust into a case out of her depth and getting lucky on some information due to coincidence and circumstance. P.S. Bradley testified it was $20K and it went to the employee making the allegation. He also testified that it was brokered by Wade.
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