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Monday, December 16, 2024

LAST GOOD TRIAL WEEK OF THE YEAR

 "You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something." 

Winston Spencer Churchill. 


If you have listened to Rumpole over the years and planned this out, you have a difficult trial set for this week. Once you get past the jurors who don't want to work as the holidays approach, you get people who are in a forgiving spirit. Based on decades of real data, this is the best week of the year to try a case. 

Honorable mention- if you had scheduled a sentencing over the next two weeks you are also a long time and careful reader of Rumpole's blog. Well done. 

This is a good NY Times op ed  on what Biden should be focusing on for the last month of his presidency. Certainly more pardons and commutations and perhaps a commutation of people on federal death row. Interesting and surprising is the advice to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution via executive order. Apparently the amendment has been ratified. What do you think about that, as well as preemptive pardons for people like Lynn Cheney and members of his administration like the AG and prosecutors who prosecuted that well known felon. 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...



How is Syrian Leader Assad not arrested and tried for war crimes - and EXECUTED???

Rumpole - please tell us?

Rumpole said...

He's in Russia being protected by another war criminal. Sheesh even my Swiftie Fan would know that (and as she would most likely add "Duh LOL" before going back to Tik Tok).

Anonymous said...

Huh, I haven't been paying much attention to your seemingly petty feud with the Swifty, but I got the impression that the Swifty is a man.

Anonymous said...

Ditto for the Chinese head of state. They slaughter Muslims by the thousands weekly and the world does nothing

Anonymous said...

If she were a man, she'd be THE man

Anonymous said...

Who’s a man? She a man? Wait what? She’s a man?

Anonymous said...

"Americans’ confidence in judicial system drops to record low"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/americans-confidence-in-judicial-system-drops-to-record-low

Anonymous said...

Next year we don’t have to use pronouns

Anonymous said...

I think Jason Pizzo should run for State Attorney. He would be an upgrade.