I don’t know how often this “consider a lesser charge” tactic is used, but it gives the state a clear advantage. When a group of people who are faced with an important and often difficult binary decision are then presented with a third (middle ground) option, they are going to at least be interested in taking it. “Oh the easy way, I’ll choose that, thank you!”
Putting aside the Rittenhouse case, I don’t think I like this last second lesser charge thing. Why wouldn’t every prosecutor shoot for the moon and then if they feel they presented a weak case just make the adjustment at the end?
Staffieri wasn’t CEO, he was CFO. He was fired, though, and shortly after, Edward Rogers (son of founder Ted Rogers) was removed as chairman by the board (and his own mother and sisters voted to remove him) after the CEO claimed he discovered a plot by Edward to replace him. Edward went to court in BC against the rest of his family, they ruled in his favour, he gets reinstated as chairman, he fires Natale and replaces him with Staffieri, his original choice for CEO.
All the news I see these days since 2016 has me thoroughly convinced that we as a species are at or are about to cross a tipping point of collective insanity and self destruction that will bring about our own extinction in the space of decades, not centuries or millennia. And honestly? No big loss.
Oh, for fuck’s sake, here we go again, it’s Obama-era birtherism bullshit all over again. People like Tucker trying to tell their viewers that this person who doesn’t look like them might also not be from where they’re from, so they can’t really trust them.
Let me tell you, folks: speaking as a white man, home grown in the USA, living through the most turbulent cultural time in our nation since the Civil Rights/Vietnam era, with the most in-depth exploration of systemic racism and white privilege and the effect they have on our society since the notion was conceived, I will tell you that people of color who try to point out what kind of society my ancestors built does not make me feel ashamed to be a white person. People like Tucker Carlson are the ones who make me feel ashamed at times to be white.
Yes, finally, some serious punishment for that shit. This guy was essentially the “face” of the capitol riot, but don’t let that be it folks. Don’t let him be a scapegoat, Pazzi or martyr. This guy is small beans compared to those who were truly responsible for what happened, and he didn’t do much. If he gets this much time, let’s get some of the head honchos on trial and give them some real time.
I thought the term patsy was an Anglo version of Pazzi, going off the theory that Francesco was just a fall guy. Is that not correct? Either way, yeah, patsy in that respect is what I was referring to.
No because unless you live in the Assassin’s Creed universe Francesco Pazzi was the mastermind of the Pazzi Conspiracy. The idiomatic use of Patsy comes from a vaudeville character called Patsy Bolivar.
Ah, I was going off of the conversation in Hannibal for that reference. Well, nevermind then.
Although, even in AC, Pazzi was still the head of the Pazzi conspiracy. It’s just that it was a small side-conspiracy to about 3 or 4 other, bigger ones and those ones weren’t his. But that one was still his idea.
True but I still think he did so because Rodrigo told him to do it, he wanted Templar control of Florence s he he gave Francesco Pazzi free reign to do whatever he wanted which led to the Pazzi Conspiracy.
Mmmm, not sure how well this will sit overall. On the one hand, evidence seems to point to his guilt. On the other, misconduct from the police investigation through the trial suggests he got harsher than he would have otherwise. I think life with parole eligibility may have been more appropriate, or perhaps even a new trial to at least do it all properly like it should have been. Still, a step.
I’m calling it now. In 10 years there will be a Red Sea Diving Resort style movie about this. It’ll be the Hollywood version though, the NY Rabbi will be a Mossad agent and some actress playing Kim will actually be geared up and crossing into Afghanistan with commandos to help with the rescue mission.
In all seriousness though. How cool is it that she paid for the plane!!
In all seriousness, how uncool is it that we are relying on people like Kim Kardashian to use their unearned privilege money to evacuate people from dangerous places. As long as we’re ok with that, why have Bezos and Musk and Gates not evacuated every rescuable person out of the Middle East by now, which they’d be able to do using only the money they made last week.
