Comments by "Joe Kelsoe II" (@nsahandler) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. "Nobody has a cool call sign like that" There is military-wide nickname convention of someone's nickname or call sign being their shittiest trait or literally the name of what they do if they are integrated with another unit. Maverick would have been called "Napoleon" for sure. 100%. No doubt in my mind.
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  2. ​ @nullakjg767 how many fake shill accounts does it take to defend one youtube loser?
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  3.  @SirWulfrick  that fits in both the categories of hilarious and dehumanizing so I'm not surprised. Not a callsign, but a hilarious note: In the Navy I met a full bird Captain named Crunch. Now, I'm not implying that he wasn't a great man nor that he did not deserve the rank... BUT. If you had TWO IDENTICAL candidates for promotion: Commander Smith or Commander Crunch, who are you going to promote? "Congratulations, Captain Crunch."
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  4. Even if they took it Federal ... good luck trying to find 12 jurors in the federal district - let alone the whole country - who hasn't been hurt by for-profit insurance
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  5. ​ @Idolikethis he's saying that this guy is getting his life dissected meanwhile murders of people who aren't richy rich folk are disregarded in favor of riveting things like the Santa Parade or road closures
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  6. The Constitutional Crisis was on January 6th 2020. They didn't need to actually seize the members of congress. They just needed to know there were no consequences.
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  7. "So why is the Navy trying this case?" Marine Lawyer: "It happened on a Navy base so the Navy has jurisdiction." Real Answer: "The Marine Corps is a subset of the Navy and there's no way any Marine would ever bring that fact up, even if directly relevant."
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  8. ​ @oxey_  they carry the legal rights of one but not the accountability of one
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  9. A pen is part of your issued gear and you are required to have one on you at all times unless limited by operational requirements. In bootcamp they literally hang the pen on your dogtags so you always have it. That's not a joke. It's in the Blue Jacket's Manual (Navy's Core Instructing materials).
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  10. Eh. You forgot the most important part of the pleading, LegalEagle! Personification of the issue! I'm in the paralegal territory and I've drafted more than my fair share of court documents. Personification of the scenario is absolutely necessary to the court's understanding of the facts and the judge's understanding of the issue at hand. There are better ways to put "having her mouth surgically closed" but a similar phrase with better wording could lead to the direct personification of the problem the plaintiff had with the respondent. But that entire pleading was clearly done by a man in a drunken stupor lolol.
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  11.  @grindstone4910  holy shit that's better than the Chief Petty Officer "piggyback."
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  12. "That's why there's an insurrection act," is possibly the most-frightening and most deafening thing to ever be muttered by a conspirator
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  13. The Constitutional Crisis was on January 6th 2020. They didn't need to actually seize the members of congress. They just needed to know there were no consequences.
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  14. @cranjusmcbasketball2052  No They are usually targeted. It's just not called an "assassination" when it's poor people shooting each other over a beef
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  15.  @Nikotheleepic  We know the numbers because the German military was really really really good for keeping metrics. So good that all the paperwork discovered after the fact pointed directly to that number - with true estimates actually being much higher due to the fact that attempts were made to actively destroy records.
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  16. I'm not pro-employer or anti-worker but if a pro-worker employer gives an employee money to reward another worker with a tip for that person's service then the employee is super shitty for pocketing someone else's intended good-will. We're not talking tax write-off amounts to large charities we're talking a tip directly to a low wage worker. Come on how shitty can you get.
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  17. "Could a cat inherit millions of dollars?" Nice Aristocats reference. Very subtle.
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  18. ​ @chrismaddox9884 in the literal trial he is undergoing ya dingus
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  19. Of course not. He shot royalty. You can't shoot royalty
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  20. ​ @chrismaddox9884 what part of the constitution does that? Article and Subsection plz
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  21.  @binah7744  I think my favorite story was a Navy Ensign being jealous of a Navy Medical Corpsman for being called "Doc" after a few weeks of training when he had to go through years of school to be certified "doctor."
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  22.  @jackson4672  Dishonorable discharge is a guarantee of a life worse than death. There's no federal statute requiring someone to identify themselves as a convicted felon to anyone outside of regulated circumstances. There is a federal statute (from derivative case law) requiring Dishonorable Discharge to be made known to anyone who inquires. Misidentifying your form of discharge is considered fraudulent representation of military documentation for personal enrichment or gain on the federal level.
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  23. ​ @nullakjg767 Bro with the fake alt in every comment section
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  24. No. The police are the only ones required to read Miranda rights because they are empowered agents of the State. Citizen's arrest is really just a legal holdover of the cry-and-hew legal system (where citizens themselves are responsible for both reporting and apprehending criminals on their own accord). In cry-and-hew it's all private persons running around - and sometimes hiring other private persons or contracting soldiers/guards - bringing someone before a person with the power of state to formally accuse them of the crime (think Sheriff, or Praetor, or Knight). The State then orders the person to be "under arrest" either in state custody or through confinement on their own private property. Anyone at any time can apprehend and bring in a wanted criminal of their own accord but they'll be legally liable (the State CAN not that the State necessarily WILL) for any laws broken during the arrest. But that is if and only if the persons are not acting as agents of the State via Deputies or through Marshaled persons tasked with general authority of arrest under bounty. IANAL I'm just a history buff
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  25. @jackl5576  No. A person who brags about increased rate of automatic claim denials to 33% is the Healthcare equivalent of a Captain Planet villain.
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  26. I feel bad for all of those legal aides/paralegals who had to basically stay up and draft stacks of nonsense onto a complaint. I don't feel bad that they aren't getting any credit for it, though.
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  27. Now is a great time to cover Jury Nullification, Legal Eagle!
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  28.  @sarysa  the respondent can easily and readily request a change of venue to another district within the same state for those exact reasons. To be denied such minor courtesy is an easy appeal on any ruling that isn't 100% in their favor.
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  29. @JustAGun_  In the United States every citizen has a right to a speedy trial by a jury of 12 of their peers in the district the crime was committed. The only thing that changes that is if the accused asks for an expedited trial with a partial jury (6 jurors instead of 12), or a bench trial (the judge decides after hearing all arguments). A bench trial is good if your lawyers have solid legal nuance and case law that jurors might not understand, of if a jury would have been biased against the accused (judges care more about precedent. Jurors are more swayed by circumstance and personal opinion). A speedy 6 person trial is good if you believe the odds are highly in your favor or you want the case to start before the prosecution can gather dirt. A direct 12 person trial can also be speedy - but not as speedy as a 6 juror trial or a bench trial (by simple logistics of juror selection. 0 v 6 v 12) and contains the best odds for juror nullification.
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  30.  @YeeSoest  honestly he is a public figure in the legal community (a public practice profession) and he is a public figure in the YouTube community, so if you were doing a piece targeting the YouTube community - yes, he is a public figure. And if you are doing a piece targeted to the legal community, then yes. You can use his likeness (so long as you pay the photographer/image rights holder) and quote him and give critique and write about him all day long. I'm not a lawyer but this is my understanding from college courses I took covering public relations and different publication rights (music business).
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  31.  @starwarfan8342  it's not your land. It's their land. Congress said so.
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  32.  @castonyoung7514  Right after the dog playing basketball? If not then it was a missed opportunity. But I'm not surprised there's millionaires who said "let's give my cat my fortune" over "let's give my fortune to the starving."
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  33. LegalEagle Can you please note advertise products that essentially eliminate the profession of Paralegals? Please?
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  34. I think the crux of the story is that the Colonel's overzealous running of his guard platoon at GITMO was - through the case and investigation - TOO EXTREME for a simple infantry outpost. And Tom Cruise's character is being told to not insult, berate, or badger a high ranking official - even though that is what he knows will set the Colonel off. It's perfectly reasonable to expect an officer to take their job way too seriously. Hell, some of the dumbest shit in the military occurs when an officer or upper NCO feels the need to "make an impression" or to "shake things up" - ruining an otherwise "smooth going" operational pace. I can absolutely see a combat-hardened Colonel coming to another infantry base and bringing that mentality to an easy-going station. I kid you not, when the Marines asked their command for more parking structures at the mountaintop base PACOM in HAWAII, the official, on-record response was "We don't need parking. We need tougher Marines." For a damn administration outpost. The real cross examination you guys should have reviewed in public should have included the use of the Marine Corps handbooks and regulations regarding the question of terminology. Like "where in this book does it say what time chow is?" That's a much more realistic cross-examination piece and displays the character's jack for handling his witness examinations. Anyhow I'm not JAG. I just thought that viewing the entire movie I got a different impression of some of the points you guys brought up in regards to officers and NCO mentalities.
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  35. If its illegal then what is stopping any citizen from placing him under arrest?
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  36. 'In what light I don't think anyone actually died' Never on-screen, at least. Plenty of implied murder
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  37. "It happened aboard a Naval Base so the Navy has jurisdiction" That's a lot of words to avoid saying "We're actually just a part of the Navy." That's the best way to identify a damn good Marine and a damned good lawyer: Never bringing up the signature at the bottom of the check.
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  38. Day One of Law School: You are not going to decide innocence or guilt. You are going to make sure the process to make that decision is done correctly for the sake of Justice itself. Innocence and Guilt are not your job. Making sure things are done correctly is your job."
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  39.  @redfoxninja3173  "Defend" does not mean "lie." Defend merely means Defend. If a dude murdered someone but he was beaten like a piñata by the guards (a la Abu Ghraib), it isn't the attorney getting him off the hook - it's the guards who beat the dude to a pulp who got him off the hook. The attorney merely pointed out that persons suspected to have broken the law shouldn't be subjected to undue torture in ANY context - regardless of the person it was subjected to. It's called the Legal Process. If the law doesn't matter then the people upholding it are no different than the people breaking it.
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  40. I had to go through a background check where my family and friends were interviewed and they gave my social media a coloniscopy - just to access the spaces and work with TS/SCI info - but a couple of appointed buffoons can leak top secret/sci info on a random app and nothing happens to them? Why tf are we mad at Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden again?
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  41. BRO COME ON no mention of the catch-all Sodomy regulation?! Pfft.
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  42. As someone with a music degree, most contract law you learn in school is designed around ethical business. You don't need to be ethical in actual business practice (unless it's an illegal practice): You need to do the bare minimum to satisfy the law and establish a legal agreement between two parties. The more defined a contract is, the less nuance and gray area is held within. Also, models are not de facto public figures and - if you look over your notes from that class - you will see that what you're doing is that you are eliminating the argument that Eagle brought up (regarding "collaboration") because you are hiring the model and they are getting paid rate to renounce any claim on their likeness or image for the purposes of the photo shoot.
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  43.  @Finn-xw4vn  the issue with that is the entertainment-consuming public has a right to access of newsworthy information and actors are public figures within the entertainment community. People overlook this a lot but it's not as if their stuff is being put to full press every time their image is captured, just like every picture of every politician shaking hands with Epstein didn't immediately appear to press. If people are public figures within a community or profession then they can, at any time, be published, imaged, discussed, or critiqued.
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  44. How are these not simply illegal securities?
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  45. Trump's utilizing the little-known clause in the Constitution that says "nobody is going to stop me anyhow."
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  46. Good Cookie medals are for 3 years of not getting caught.
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  47. Lawsuits require actual damages from the tort in question (aka "you gotta lose money from the activity") unless it's an intangible tort resulting from the issue (aka "violation of Constitutional Rights" or "pain and suffering" from the action). Federal Judges don't get elected nor do they get fired except out of gross negligence of their duties as a Federal Judge. They are solely conferred into the position by willful writ of the President of the United States and Congressional approval. They are solely conferred specifically BECAUSE of the issue you are bringing up: Bad press over your case can't hurt your future career because you will always have a fuckin career.
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  48.  @sarysa  it doesn't happen much.
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  49.  @sarysa  people who do business with a judge worth suing over will know that they are a judge.
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  50. I had the unique displeasure of delivering food to their residence in St Louis. They tipped as awful as you'd expect them to.
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