Friday, April 30, 2021

"What About Timmy? You DIdn't Get This Mad At Him!"

There's "whataboutism" that's meant to highlight hypocrisy and unequal treatment (such as what about the number of whites NOT shot by police), and then there's this playground version.

This is the kid who got caught red-handed complaining that his brother/sister/friends didn't get in as much trouble as he is, and they did WAY worse, believe him!  In other words, conduct unbecoming a 10 year old.

Giuliani is a grown man, right?  I hope he has a better defense than this for the judge.  I'm also reminded of my one criminal defense client, who was taken from the courtroom insisting he wasn innocent.

His excuse was, he didn't understand the law he was convicted under (felon in possession of a firearm).  He legitimately didn't understand the legal term "possession."  It's pretty much the same idea as the cop finding pot in the car you're driving, and you insist it's not your car and not your pot.  It's still possession, though.

What's Giuliani's excuse?
Yeah, I wanna see him seek a motion to exclude evidence based on that argument. Tucker Carlson's dumb enough to asccept that. No federal judge is, though.*

*(You only have to show probably cause to believe there is evidence available that could relate to the commission of a crime.  It really doesn't matter if it's going to be destroyed or not, if you don't know what it is but you think it's important for a possible criminal case.  Because without the evidence, how do you present probable cause for an arrest or arraignment?  One wonders if Giuliani believes this, or if he just likes the sound of it.  Either way, it's not helping his defense at all.)
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