The Helpless

  • Law

  • US Attorney Jason Frierson vows to prioritize sex trafficking cases. [RJ
  • Federal trial underway for doctor accused of illegally dealing drugs. [RJ]
  • Teen faces felony animal cruelty charge for drowning dog. [8NewsNow]
  • Meanwhile, there is a massive animal cruelty case in Nye County. [Fox5Vegas]
  • Not Nevada, but someone sent us this link to a New York trial court case in which the judge ordered an attorney to represent an indigent client without any compensation. 
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August 25, 2022 7:51 pm

Off Topic:
Watched the Netflix Documentary:
"Untold: The Girlfriend That Didn't Exist"
this weekend.

Very well done, intriguing story and fun to watch. Enjoy! If you haven't already.

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August 25, 2022 11:20 pm
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Agreed – totally worth the invested time. I remember the story; this added some much though (and provided a really interesting set of facts about what Dead Spin was actually trying to do)

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August 26, 2022 2:05 pm
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Agreed. If true, the Deadspin expose of ESPN, et al. was epic. Manti Teo was the naive victim of both the Catfish, the press and the ruthlessness of the internet.

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August 25, 2022 8:31 pm

Teen who drowned the dog, should be locked up for life. Clearly a serial killer/mass shooter waiting to happen.

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August 25, 2022 8:39 pm
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Objectively speaking, I am not sure that Life is the appropriate punishment.

While truly disturbing, this isn't the Minority Report and you can say for sure what is the right punishment. Tone down the hyperbole and let's return to sanity. Save that crap for the jury.

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August 25, 2022 9:31 pm
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Not enough facts to condemn the kid yet, although I will say when I was a kid we always cleaned up after the fact. I hope he learned his lesson.

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August 25, 2022 11:22 pm
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OP here. The people disagreeing with me are the same people that cry out "Why didn't anyone do something?" after a mass shooting, when the shooter was younger and did things like this.

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August 25, 2022 11:24 pm
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Cruelty to animals is a well-known precursor to things that are far worse. Real Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein stuff.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
August 26, 2022 2:06 pm
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@542
Mike drop.

Anonymous
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August 26, 2022 5:53 pm
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Old Testament here. Eye for an eye. Waterboard the punk twice a week for a month.
As for murders, yes carry out the death penalty sentence or repeal the statute, but stop wringing your hands over it..

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August 25, 2022 9:30 pm

Pro bono should not mandatory and no one should be compelled to do it for free. If they want to make it seem like our profession is some special thing that has extra special duties, then there need to be something else in it for us. Also, 13th amendment much?

Anonymous
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Anonymous
August 25, 2022 9:30 pm
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We lost that battle when the courts recognized a man can be forced to pay for kids he doesn't want.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
August 26, 2022 12:36 am
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It’s not mandatory. It is very heavily pushed and you are frowned upon and shamed if you don’t do it, but it’s not actually mandatory.

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August 26, 2022 2:45 am
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If you don't want children, I suggest abstinence.

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August 26, 2022 3:20 pm
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2:30 he may not “want” the child but if he created it, he bought it. Let me guess: are you also anti-anortion?

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August 26, 2022 3:52 pm
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7:45 here – no. I'm very pro choice. I was being sarcastic. I agree w you.

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August 26, 2022 3:53 pm
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@8:52 I re-read your comment and realized you were not referring to my comment. Haha. Anyways, I agree with you regardless.

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August 25, 2022 10:54 pm

For all the talk of Jan 6 being a coup, Biden's loan forgiveness is the real coup.

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Anonymous
August 25, 2022 11:36 pm
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I’m not a fan of the loan forgiveness thing, but how is the loan forgiveness a coup?

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August 26, 2022 5:48 pm
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You keep using that word….

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August 25, 2022 10:58 pm

From left-wing Washington Post:

While loan forgiveness won’t put cash in borrowers’ pockets, it still risks fueling inflation by encouraging consumers to spend money they would otherwise have put toward paying off their debts. And wiping out debt now will only encourage students to take out still-bigger loans in the future, reducing incentives for colleges to hold down tuition costs — thus, in all likelihood, making higher education even less accessible for the middle class.

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August 25, 2022 11:22 pm
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That's an idiotic statement.

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Anonymous
August 26, 2022 3:17 pm
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What is idiotic about it?

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August 26, 2022 5:07 pm
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Instead of paying off debt, consumers will pay for goods and services (i.e., literally the economy) but this is bad because buying things causes inflation?

And forgiving debt encourages students to take out bigger loans in the future – maybe the people handing out these loans could also do something about that too!

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August 26, 2022 6:04 pm
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The real problem is that there is no oversight as to the reasonableness of tuition. University presidents all try to build empires in terms of capital expenditures, sports, and degrees in basket weaving. Federal comparison of tuitions, make it competitive, set limits on loans.
As to "loan forgiveness". There is no such thing, money has been borrowed and paid, Biden's plan only transfer debt from the individual debtor to taxpayers. A better, "fairer" approach is to allow student loan discharge in a Ch 13 bankruptcy.

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August 26, 2022 5:17 pm

Yes, something that contributes to inflation right now is actually bad. Perhaps you haven’t read the news lately. And it does Aldo further fuel inflation in college costs. Rather than being idiotic, I’d say 3:58 is right on the money, so to speak.

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August 26, 2022 5:34 pm

Did anyone see this? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-lawyer-takes-fifth-sandy-hook-hearing-rcna44932?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma In addition to claiming the fifth, one of the attorneys turned over documents without looking at them!