Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1.  Sy Fan  just another troll trying to cause trouble.
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  2.  @SM-nz9ff  save for reality. I've been a juror a few times. Courtrooms are boring places, utterly bereft od Hollywood excitement. Attempts to do so result in a pissed off judge and sanctions.
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  3. We've dined with our contracting office, but the dining was an official meeting over lunch to discuss contract issues, was documented thoroughly and had a trail of e-mails that remained preserved to further document what was discussed. Most of the meetings involved scope creep, which the contractor's management was fine with, due to underperformance issues and neither the contracting officer nor I were interested in suffering penalties over.
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  4. Just another pathway into a new form of affordable living - prison.
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  5.  @viator1987  so, it's an affirmative defense to say "I was tired". So, one can then reasonably infer that a plaintiff or defendant that claims fatigue is utterly justified in pulling out a machine gun and killing all of the attorneys in the room. Both are unlawful acts, both are equally sanctionable, regardless of the length of proceedings. And for the record, I have given depositions in the past, so I'm well cognizant on how long they can take - especially in federal cases. There are breaks and even multiple sessions in depositions, just to avoid fatigue being claimed in a later claimed erroneous statement being given. As ShinmaWa1 said, a one off gets overlooked, habitual times becomes at least malfeasance, obstruction and the judge will be getting a phone call that will annoy them. @SlinkyTWF, that name is a character in a video game series. As one who has had some rather unpleasant interactions with very real terrorists and terrorist organizations, I suggest you acquaint yourself with the rather modest difference between fiction and reality.
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  6.  @WanderTheNomad  I'm pretty sure he'd refuse to remove his bra and girdle.
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  7.  @charlespancamo9771  conviction? So, how many years is he convicted to serve for? Oh, for knowing so much about law, you don't know the difference between a judgement in a civil case and a criminal conviction. Or for criminal cases, a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt vs civil's requirement of preponderance of the evidence. Or the sheer lack of a defense being raised. Your ignorance doesn't add up, as every US citizen in the land knows those differences. Perhaps you should stop getting legal guidance from Russia Today.
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  8. The real question is, can there now be any successful prosecution for anyone doing the same thing? Equal treatment under the law, save for the god-emperor, who can do no wrong because he's a god? Or equal treatment under the law and since Trump was not prosecuted, nobody else can be either? I guess we'll have to await the Imperial Decree at the end of January.
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  9.  @megalonoobiacinc4863 well, two locks would need to be picked. I doubt someone with the issues he already was facing would manage the patience to pick both successfully. Whatever happened to simply adopting underage drinking, like the rest of us did back in the day? I'll see myself out...
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  10. The problem with such idiots weaponizing the CPS, what the end result is that CPS then loses credibility. A CPS without credibility protects no children.
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  11. Well, in reality, an admission like that is extremely dramatic and I'm willing to bet, fatal to his career.
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  12. Well, as a society, we're a bit funny about putting people in prison. We're weird, as in we like to have a trial and conviction, just not throw people into prison and maybe get around to a trial a few decades later.
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  13. I've been referring to him as Typhoid Tucker. The Fox version of Mary Mallon.
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  14.  @wordforger  well, how many reporters interviewed PVT Manning in prison? No internet in solitary. Letters are read and censored. Uncle Sam cam be extremely vindictive when aroused to ire.
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  15.  @erkinalp some seem to conflate everything that goes on in the world with the US, either as a root cause or where it occurred. Amazing, right until one realizes that the average US citizen couldn't point out on the map the difference in the locations of the UK and Uganda.
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  16.  @sharonfleshman6961  what really ruined Hollywood court dramas for me was sitting on a few juries. But, as retired military, I still retain a fine sense of duty.
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  17. Could you picture what they'd do to every episode of Matlock? Perry Mason? Hell, they'd have Raymond Burr climb from the grave, just to commit suicide.
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  18.  @butterh2  I'll suffice it to say, for being a fanatic, she's underperforming.
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  19. I've taken to calling him Typhoid Tucker.
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  20.  @nerfherder4284  not quite. A piece of fiction can be actionable, hence some rather interesting defensive measures introduced by the author. In one work, the author essentially admitted to doing so, creating a rather nasty character, who was sadistic and had some sexual deviant behavior, noting also that said character had a small penis. It's referred to as the Small Penis Defense. For, what man would place upon the public record, "Your honor, that character is indeed in reference to myself and I do have a small penis!"?
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  21. Well, at least your state has a perk. I'm in Pennsylvania, we gave away our only perk to Kentucky, via the rifle that got named after them - from PA rifle makers.
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  22. I grew up during the civil rights movement era. MLK was on one side, militants were on the other. Faced with two forms of opposition, any child could predict who the power brokers would deal with and a hint; it ain't the folks with guns and bombs. As for the war on poverty, worked great. Google McNamara's 100000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000 That was part of that "war", killed a sizable number of its beneficiaries.
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  23.  @1FatLittleMonkey so, when is Alabama going to open their first cryogentic nursery school, then primary and secondary schools, since those are mandated rights?
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  24. Historically, roads going to and from a park are county and municipal, Disney had control and costs for them instead and now, DeDodo decided to try to strip them away and have nobody pay for them, as his act left nobody to maintain them. Infrastructure typically is park infrastructure and belongs to Disney. That leaves public utilities, which like the roads, would be in limbo.
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  25. Technology, like the Great Firewall of China? Video surveillance all over the PRC and Russia? Technology is a tool and a double edged sword. As an example of the sword, Dutch intelligence had breached a Russian intelligence network and watched and recorded the DNC attack live, having someone from the US embassy summoned to witness the attack. During the Dutch hack, the Russian security video network was also breached and each and every person working on that breach was recorded coming and going. Intelligence has spies of various sorts, which is actually and counter-intuitively, a good thing. They keep everyone honest and in one case, literally stopped a thermonuclear war from occurring during a US/NATO military exercise that the Soviet Union thought was an actual attack in progress.
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  26. Well, he got a $5k fine, two days later, a $10k fine and after that, he was fit to be tied. So, maybe he's getting low on pocket cash. Or more likely, liquid assets like cash.
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  27. Naw, second best legal team ever. The first, "proving" an election was "stolen", hilariously, proving only that voters "stole" the election from someone fundamentally unfit and proved that so repeatedly.
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  28. Entertaining would be to see a subpoena served to "someone". I'll refrain from being in proximity to judge's chambers, largely out of concern for retaining what little hearing that remains.
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  29. Oh, roofing torches are flamethrowers. Outlaw those, outlaw non-leaking flat roofs. Or being able to set back fires to control a wildfire. If you want to get rid of someone who has a recording that announces "this call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes", announce that you are recording for quality assurance purposes. They'll reject consent and disconnect every time.
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  30. So, you advocate for giving him special treatment that's above and beyond that of other convicts?
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  31.  @pdxshadow9819  still in a decaying orbit. Let's wait and see if and where it lands.
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  32. No worries, Krampus gets them on Christmas.
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  33.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu compared to the foreign rightie, who is a zero target for an entire thermonuclear arsenal?
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  34.  @Zeyev  ours was even easier, as meals were at the DFAC.
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  35. Well, I'm 60 and I most certainly need a high school girlfriend - like a hole in the head. That's like promising me a bunch of virgins, yeah, no. I'll take a single harlot, who at least knows what she's doing and won't bring unnecessary drama into life.
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  36. Sure, save that there's usually a cap on how many can be deducted for.
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  37.  @asheronthedruid  infamous is more accurate.
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  38. Whenever someone suggests seceding from the Union, I simply suggest that they're correct and we do need to roll back the clock by repealing Posse Comitatus and re-instituting Reconstruction, as the job was obviously incomplete. And for second civil war buffs, I suggest they'll enjoy the Hunger Games that would be instituted. Freedumb is expensive.
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  39.  @kingchrystia1417  you're absolutely right! We should've surrendered to King George, rather than resist! We could've formed our own French Surrender Brigade. Talk about scapegoating! Blaming people for calling for peaceful protest for Trump's wiping his ass with the Constitution.
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  40.  @backyard_expert  they are, his 31% don't give a shit, as they think they're exempt from his malfeasance.
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  41.  @JC-fj7oo  I suspect that he left his magnifying glass in the bathroom, so that he could find it. But yeah, when doing anything where I want to see up close, such as legal paperwork or examining incriminating evidence, I'll always wear my reading goggles.
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  42. That gets seriously complicated. There is "international law", established by various treaties and agreements. Then, there is Egyptian law and there, things can get... Weird and interesting.
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  43.  @pulsefel9210  that's gauged upon the degree of harm to the safety, security and national interests of the United States. Has anyone died? Have we lost major assets or relations with an ally? Did it cost US citizens their freedom and properties? Finally, we have precedent. PVT Manning was sentenced to 35 years, served nearly 7 before Obama commuted the sentence. One cannot claim to be fair when someone divulged 700k+ classified documents to a foreign interest, then demand the execution for possessing a few hundred documents and waved around only a few. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer keeping my Constitution intact.
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  44.  @zwenkwiel816  good question, as RICO cases can get convoluted.
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  45.  @rigelb9025  yeah, the SEC gave him another talking to about that very subject. Again. He did the same antics with his own companies to inflate their stock price and got stern warnings. Last I heard, they were considering actually charging him. Were it you or I, we'd be underneath the prison, where it takes light a month to reach us.
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  46. That's why? I thought it was due to people like me, who generate websites using only a plain, vanilla text editor. Want pretty? Get a web developer, mine are gonna be plain, cheap, easy and uglier than an elephant's scrotum. Ugly, but it works.
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  47.  @SylviaRustyFae  nope. Mantraps remain illegal for good reason.
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  48.  @RoonMian  you obviously confuse civilian life with military life, as well as a combat environment and a peacetime civilian environment. You also betray ignorance of what a war crime is, which are clearly defined under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, as ratified by most nations.
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  49.  @CaseyEm  thank you for making my point for me. If police won't protect, how does one protect oneself and one's possessions without vigilante actions? As for landmines being a ear crime, try learning what the Hague and Geneva Conventions say. Charted, attended minefields are permitted, but should be removed after their military necessity has ended. That's for both manually triggered attended mines and target triggered unattended mines.
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  50. Prime, the best tasting ricin one has never had... Go ahead and sue me, Paul. You'd get as much award as suing Jesus were he alive, you'd get as much truth exposed at trial as well. Welcome to me, the original PR nightmare from hell, making Freddy Kruger looking good. And the Pyrrhic victory of old look good...
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