AI AND FALL TRIAL SCHEDULE

 We are in a ten-week sprint at the REGJB until the Thanksgiving holiday 🦃is upon us.   Ten weeks to clear out those old cases before the holiday shutdown sets in. Any big trials coming up?- outside of the obvious resisting withouts at the Hialeah Branch court.  (Motto: HBC-Circuit Court-US District Court-11th Circuit- US Supreme Court. If the Cardinals can beat the Chargers, we can do this...") 

We had a very profitable week with our NFL picks. Go check. And we are doing just fine in our FF league led by our late round genius pick of NY Giants TE Isiah Likely who snared not one but two TD catches Sunday night, which also gave us a very nice payday in our bet that he would catch a YD pass (not posted, but we made it and collected). 

After the warmest summer on record what is the US's response? Lifting limits on climate gas production from US power plants of course. The failing NY Times has the report here. 

AI? Panic or Perspective? 

The big news this weekend was the response to the AI insider report that AI represents a 10% threat to humanity's existence in the next decade. 

Leading AI companies called for a slowdown, prompting some skeptics to remark that all they are doing is slowing down competition. 

Just what threats do AI pose? Will AI generated legal opinions deny all defense motions to suppress or dismiss? No need to worry about that; the DeSantis Drones ( (c) REGJB Blog 2024 all rights reserved) already have that covered. Will AI mess with the traffic lights and slowdown traffic in Miami? How much slower can it get in the mornings? 

No, what people are worried about is an AI agent escaping from its servers, recruiting co-conspirators, and shutting down large portions of the Internet. Personally, if we cannot get on Bet Rivers to place our MNF bets or change up our FF lineup to defeat 10th Avenue Freeze Out (We hate that they have a better name for their team than we do); then life as we know it will fizzle.

Can AI hack defense systems and start a war? Maybe. Go re-watch War Games - a great movie. 

What worries us most. Bad actors using AI to develop pathogens that society has no answer for. Or AUSA's using AI with this query "What is Rumpole likely to do in our upcoming trial and what's the best strategy to stop him?"

Last Thought: Let's say a rogue AI agent ponders ending humanity. Would the agent think about this: 

AI survives on the internet; the internet runs on energy; only humans can produce energy which is then mostly delivered through the Straits of Rumpole (our lame name for our winning FF team); ergo we need humanity with all its issues - better to help lower prices of a Starbucks Coffee, distribute free Drake's Coffee cakes, and help educate idiot Americans about the dangers of greenhouse gasses, then wiping everyone out. 

We love ending on a positive note- it's one of our hallmarks.  

NFL WEEK ONE 2026

 Good Sunday Morning on the first of 18 glorious football Sundays. 

Let's get right in to it. REMINDER- YOU CAN STILL ENTER THE SURVIVOR POOL BY EMAILING RUMPOLE FBPOOL12@GMAIL.COM - HALF OF YOU WHO HAVE ENTERED HAVE NOT PICKED THE WEEK OF THE FINS FIRST WIN TO TRY AND GET A SECOND LIFE- YOU CAN STILL DO SO BEFORE THE FINS KICKOFF - leave to lawyers to not carefully read all the rules. 

We will post the picks later. So far Jax is the most popular. 

We are feeling flush with our Ohio State +1.5 over Texas. A great game and even though OS lost they covered. 

In week one over the last few years under has hit at about 80%. We are keeping that in mind as we make our picks. 

Bengals -4 over Bucs at home. Cincy traditionally starts off slow. We are putting our SB pick money where our mouth is - they do not start slow this year.  WIN

Steelers were our pick -3 at home over Falcons  (which we got down on)  (WIN) to start the new Mike McCarthy era. Then, shocking to all Dolphin fans, Tua went down with an injury when opening his locker and the line shot up to -6.5. Too much when we do not know much about this team. As Teddy KGB famously said, "stay away...this one's not for you."

J... E...T...S... Jets Jets Jets. Every year we buy into the hype and hop on the Jets bandwagon only to be disappointed. So why change this year? Jets + 1 at Tennessee.  WIN

Packers/ Vikes under 46.5; Chargers/Cardinals under 47; Cowboys/Giants under 48.

Remember our motto:  "bet all you have, you can always make more money."

9/11

 

G-DAY

 G-day mate. Ready for some football down under? 🐨 <---- (Koala Bear emoji, a blog first)

We limped away from the Wednesday night snoozer hitting the under and wiffing on Price over 65 yards rushing (he had 45 at the half, wtf? With a backup QB in the game they couldn't feed the big, fast rookie the rock more?); pushed on Seattle -3, and took a step towards our NE under 9 wins for the season as the Cheaters choked. Their QB is overrated, and while their coach maybe a star in affairs of the heart, he won't make anyone in Bahsthan forget their last coach...ol' wazz'shisname? 

Tonight we have the second kick-off (bad pun) game of the season. And while the Rams are our pick for rep'ing the NFC in the SB, we are going with the 49'ers +4 and the under 48. San Fran has been down under for a week; the Rams just arrived, and we think that is the wrong way to play this- flying across seven time zones and then playing a football game. If anything, it makes the under a juicy goose here.  (No goose emoji on the blogger app; we looked). 

We are also running (another bad pun) with CMC over 60 yards as the 49'ers do not want a shootout with LA. 

Two professional football games and it's not even Friday. Is living in America 2026 great or what? 

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME...

 Shakespeare in the Park? Opera? Manovani? To pick 6 /12 before your favourite DeSantis Drone? To have a blistering oral argument before the 3rd DCA (motto: "We used to have oral arguments but no more...") 

FOOTBALL!🏈

Here we go. First up, a repeat of a snoozer of a Super Bowl- your Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks play the NE Cheaters (who is our best bet for under 9 wins this season- they had the fourth easiest schedule in the history of the NFL last year), and if you're like us you have a bunch of losing bets on the NY Mets this year that we need to get even on. 

The Cheaters are +3.5 against the champs, who are not getting much respect. So lay the 3.5 and take Seattle at home. 

O/U 44 is more difficult. Out general position is that defenses dominate early in the season. But NE is not going to have a great offense, so the number is difficult. 

What we are watching- Seattle rookie RB Jadarian Price is one of our FF draft picks in our blog league, proving once again the skill of Rumpole in drafting rooking running backs who break out.  He is at over/under 65 yards and we are going with Seattle pounding the rock and trying our their new rookie to see what he's got. That's our second bet. Also, Price is our pick for offensive rookie of the year. 

Our final bet will be Super Bowl Sam Darnold throwing over 1.5 TDs for the game. 

So here we are, the very first Wednesday night opening of the NFL, and a Rumpole itching to get even. 

Chicken wings? ✅ Miami Slice Pie ✅  (we have an in, we do not wait in line); Hop water (our new thing) ✅ The new 75-inch TV up and running? ✅  Hard Rock and Draft Kings and Bet Rivers Apps fully funded ? ✅ 

We are ready for some football!

The MNF Opening with Howard Cosell- it didn't get any better than that. 

GENE ZENOBI HAS PASSED AWAY

 We lost one of our greats this weekend; Gene Zenobi passed away. 

A dapper Gene circa late 1970s doing what he did best 

Gene was old school. He was from a time when a man's word mattered. He was a deep thinker who approached a trial the way a grandmaster approaches a chess match. He had many theories about jury selection developed over a lifetime of trying cases in Miami Courtrooms. He understood before most of the rest of us that jurors form alliances and he crafted his jury selection to pick jurors who would form alliances for not guilty. He lectured generations of lawyers about jury selection, and his number one maxim- that jury selection starts from the moment you park your car and walk towards the courthouse, is a rule all of us should follow every time we show up for voir dire- we never forget it or Gene when we walk into the REGJB to pick 6 or 12 to start a case. 

Gene had a successful private practice; he was there at the start of the cocaine cowboy era in the 70s-80s. A simple kid from an Italian family in Pennsylvania, he rose through hard work, study and skill to the top of his profession both in the Dade Public Defenders Office, and in private practice.  In his later years Gene took a struggling and rudderless Regional Counsel Office and turned it into a powerhouse of lawyers who tried and won cases. The foundation of lawyers he recruited and kept remains today, providing world-class legal services to indigent clients. 

Gene defended over thirty death penalty cases; argued before the US Supreme Court in Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Power, 419 US 345 (!974); had a vast amount of knowledge about history and literature- (we agreed William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was the most significant historical work of the 20th Century); loved jazz; and was the single best horse-handicapper I ever met- and I've met many. He could also be found at many a lawyers-home-poker-game in Miami from the 1980s through the 2010s and beyond. He scooped his fair share of pots. 

His, my friends, was a life very well lived. And if you never had a chance to sit at a big Italian dinner and drink great wine and listen to his war stories, well, you missed out on a once in a life-time type of experience. He was a soft-spoken raconteur. 

Gene was a colleague and a friend, and in the end, perhaps the best thing we can say about him, from the hundreds of things that come to mind, was that when he was your friend, you could never have a better one; and if he was your lawyer- you had the best. 

Rest in peace my friend.   

SURVIVOR POOL

 Hop in, the Survivor pool, which only opens in the fall, is open!  (La piscina esta abierta for those of you logging on from Hialeah). 

 As always, the pool has some rules. 

1. You must email your pick to fbpool12@gmail.com  This is the only email that picks will be accepted at. 

2. You must email before the game you pick starts. 

3. You get one life and one pass. Use the pass wisely. 

4. You may earn a second life by doing this- before the start of the Dolphins first game, next Sunday, email your pick when the Fins will win their first game, e.g., the Fins first game will be week nine, etc.  It's going to be a long season in Davie. 

That's it. 

Remember to be nice to Fake Alex Michaels. He has never won and blames everyone else for his mishaps. 

Have fun. 

This is an effort no doubt, but people do seem to like it.