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T. Greg Doucette Profile picture
@greg_doucette
Apr 24, 2018 • 21 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Your periodic reminder that cash bail is a fantastically dumb idea. A killer can get bond, while broke people arrested for weed rot in jail pending trial.
Yes. The federal system, and states that have abolished cash bail, use a threat assessment process to determine whether someone should be released

Blows my mind

Partial list from 2016 at votetgreg.com/issue/court-re…

I'd say ending cash bail, automatic expungements, and ending tail light policing are top 3

Prosecutors play a key role, and I agree w/ @Popehat that K Harris was trash as prosecutor and AG

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I got nothin

At poker night with some friends, didn't even notice the original tweet was getting RT'd like that -- apologies if I missed your @'s
Have definitely had innocent clients plead to speed things along

Citation?

Great. Link?

Not disputing it, just know that anecdata is rarely the best data
K

🗣: ::makes arbitrary unfounded claim that's the opposite of data in other jurisdictions::

👴🏼: "Cool. Got a source?"

🗣: "GO FIND IT YOURSELF HOW DARE YOU IMPLY I'M LYING!"

(－‸ლ)
Thank you for the link

This... makes no sense. The entire reason pretrial release exists is the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Congress can't trump that.

And problematic for nearly as long. De Tocqueville wrote about it at length in Democracy in America

Yes. He should be criminally prosecuted and sued into destitution for negligence.

For minor offenses, don't even need an ankle monitor. 90%+ show up just by being given a court date and warned of the consequences if they don't.

We have an entire industry (bail bonds) that exists solely b/c ppl get locked up. Threat assessment protocols mean their way of life goes away, so they donate big $$$$$ to legislators

#Evergreen 😂

A step in the right direction at least

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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T. Greg Doucette Profile picture
Sep 29, 2018
You would be
Absolutely

Had Dr. Ford given the same testimony in the same manner in court, you'd have a conviction. Prosecutors absolutely care about numbers; this would be an easy win, even without Kavanaugh's testimony.

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T. Greg Doucette Profile picture
Sep 19, 2018
Without diving into this particular case, this type of attorney letter is a stall tactic when you think you're going to lose on the merits
The latter. Assume this were a run-of-the-mill Title VII case; typically Plaintiff's attorneys strike at the point they have maximum leverage, which Ford had. You delay when you hope some external event will turn up useful info instead

She may very well be telling the truth. But the FBI is not going to investigate, because even if we assume she's telling the 100% truth, there's no *federal* crime that took place. It's a dodge.

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T. Greg Doucette Profile picture
Sep 6, 2018
T.'s Courtroom Chronicles, #90618

The Case Where Everyone Loses Edition
Some folks were wondering what I was talking about when I tweeted this out yesterday

It was referring to a case where I'd be meeting with a client today

This one:
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T. Greg Doucette Profile picture
Sep 1, 2018
"Love of police brutality is strongly bipartisan. This is what happens when one party loves 'law & order' and the other one loves public sector unions."
-Me
Soooo you didn't read the linked story

K

Dems have always loved police brutality just as assuredly as Reps. Particularly white liberals who rely on police to keep the poors away.

And writing laws to cover up brutality? It's all aboard

twitter.com/i/moments/7871…
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Aug 28, 2018
In today's criminal justice news, the Balch Springs PD officer who summarily executed unarmed 15yo black boy #JordanEdwards – and then lied about it to cover it up – has been convicted of murder

Edwards was killed as he and friends peacefully drove away from a lawful house party
Our original thread on the extrajudicial summary execution without due process of Jordan Edwards is here, including the nonsensical police statement released after the shooting

The thread on the indictment is here:
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Aug 22, 2018
No. A person being pardoned can refuse it, rendering it ineffective. That was the precise issue in Burdick v US, where Burdick refused to accept the pardon so he couldn't be compelled to testify
There is no exception for pardoning his own crime, that's a myth. He can absolutely pardon co-conspirators

Impeach and remove faster. There's nothing saying they couldn't do all of that in the span of minutes; the procedural requirements for an impeachment trial are a political question courts can't adjudicate. See Nixon v US (*not* US v Nixon)

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