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Would Andrew Jackson telling the Supreme Court to get stuffed count?
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fictionfan
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Yes. Yes there has. Some even more recently. Look up recently disbarred lawyers. It most commonly happens in that cross section between law and politics. Much like this case.
This sort of mistrial takes multiple people to arrange. It doesn't just happen because a single lawyer gets overzealous.
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Honestly, if it wouldn't have been completely out of place, a mic drop would've fit pretty well too.
So the judge is going to just get away with preventing the Motion in Arrest of Judgement from being entered into the record? I was seriously expecting that to come up in the list of issues, because striking motions and objections from the record seems like a direct attack on the appeals court's authority.
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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There were so many problems that she didn't have time to get to everything.
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Set up compensation and attach double jeopardy. It hasn't attached yet.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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Considering this is a Marvel setting* (plus the fact that Noa lives in NY) I couldn't help but consider she might have been referring to a different type of spook.
*Marvel ran a number of Ghostbuster comics so you can argue they exist in Marvel New York.
Justice Smith is officially done with this s***.
Considering what the Bugle dd to Young and co the last time this insanity happened, even if the nutters were willing to cross Smith; they wouldn't want to fall in Jameson's crosshairs.
oops, I misremembered the issue, it wasn't the motion in arrest of judgement that the judge struck from the record and intimiated Noa into not objecting, it was the motion for mistrial in the preceding chapter.
Fucking with the record like that seems like something that the appeals court should consider more outrageous than anything else that has happened. I'm also confused, since with the motion for mistrial [and the incident that was its basis] struck from the record, how are they simply discussing his decision not to grant a mistrial without bringing that up?
Fucking with the record like that seems like something that the appeals court should consider more outrageous than anything else that has happened. I'm also confused, since with the motion for mistrial [and the incident that was its basis] struck from the record, how are they simply discussing his decision not to grant a mistrial without bringing that up?
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Where!?! We the readers need to know!
Beware The Omni-Man indeed. Except this one has no superpowers but he can certainly end their whole careers and reputations.
I'd say "rest in peace" but with the amount time they'd be stringing up his corpse after an opening murder like that, there will be no way for his soul to find rest.
Let this be a lesson: Appellate Judges are supposed to wrestle with difficult edge cases in the law. Their keen minds are prepped to handle the trickiest legal questions our nation can produce. If you take up their time with something an L1 student could answer, all that intellect will be turn to dragging your ass for sport.
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I hope she splurged for a memory foam instead of inner spring given the dangers that might come from someone with Lorna's power set sleeping on a bunch of metal.
owlmessenger
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*insert why not both meme here*
I'm assuming Asteroid M, but that's just a guess.
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Was memory foam a thing when this fanfic is taking place?
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*puts on nerd glasses of knowing random shit*
Memory foam was invented in the 1960s for NASA. And while the first "official" commercial mattress didn't hit the the shelves until 1992. That was less due to a lack of ability, and more due to a lack of crossover between the bedding industry and knowledge of the materials useful capabilities.
*takes off knowing glasses and puts on theorizing glasses*
In the marvel universe however, I would except an accelerated development of that industry and material connection. Mainly due to the much larger and more diverse body types in existence due to magic, aliens, and super-powers.
Ganurath
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While invented in 1966, it wasn't available as a mattress material until the 1990s.
Maybe not memory, but there have been foam mattresses at least since the early 70s
But that would raise issues of transporting a minor and an accused outside state borders, which could move all this into federal jurisdiction, an issue that would better be avoided.
bookwyrm
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As big a win as this is for one kangaroo court and for mutant rights in general, the solid thud of the Young judicial clique basically smashing into a brick wall kinda invites me to wonder, what happens next? Like as great as getting really just precedent or perhaps even black-letter law someday, there's still one other half of the justice system that might or might not have something to say about Mutie freaks being legally exonerated, ever, and also, if there's even a suspicion that they used their powers in self-defense. Like only a couple years at the latest from this fic's "present day" is the 1992 police riots in City Hall, over Mayor Dinkins, likewise a black official attempting to implement progressive policy, trying to get an actually independent civilian review board of police misconduct. With Young as like Rudy Giuliani's dimensional cousin now dead, there's an open playing field for taking a hold of the law and order movement and cultivating the police unions as allies, and what better venue to make a name for yourself than helping instigate a similar riot, and railing against Mutant 'special treatment' and the onerous demands holding the boys in blue back?
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Maybe he's staying with the Morlock's, in the sewers, directly under the courthouse.
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No. No, you're not. This is going to be getting brought up decades from now.
Lovely.
Your calendar is wrong. You got November right, but October 27th should be Saturday rather than Sunday.
Oh yeah! That's the good stuff.
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Oops! Fixed.
The story chapter is a brief highlights of the oral argument and the back-and-forth process, so it may well have come up, especially since it would intertwine quite well in a lot of Noa's arguments about judicial malfeasance at basically every level of the trial.
Moreover, there's also the appellate brief. The issue could also have been so self-evident or such a loser that the opposing party didn't even bother to defend it when it was brought up at that stage.
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Possibly because if there was no retrial certain interest groups would be sure to play it up as having been 'overturned on a technicality' or that they were 'robbed' of their judicial victory by a small group of 'corrupt partisan judges' (or radical-left Socialist Marxist Communist Fascist Mutie-lovers, as they would probably put it).