Criminal trials to watch and discuss - 2022 edition

[ASHES]

Oh I see. My stream is behind. That's good.

 

[Lutherf]

I didn't see that part, they just went off the record with him still talking. They're moving him to the other courtroom.

I'm watching the TMJ4 feed via Rekieta Law on YouTube and it's hilarious...in a brutal, painful, soul destroying kind of way.

 

[Integrityrespec]

No idea what's going on in the Garrett Rolfe trial. Rolfe is the police officer charged with murder in the death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta last summer. Brooks was being arrested for DUI, then got squirrely, assaulted the officers, stole a taser, used it, and was shot while trying to evade capture and disable Rolfe with the stolen taser.

Lots of maneuvering in the DA's office on this one, with prosecutors being added and dropped, and others trying to recuse themselves and their recusal requests being denied. No real news on trial dates, and nothing at all this year in a Google news search. It's interesting this one is flying under the radar with all the commotion it caused in Atlanta.

Third DA assigned to prosecute officers in Rayshard Brooks case speaks | 11Alive exclusive

Pete Skandalakis was appointed to prosecute officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan in the death of Rayshard Brooks.

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Don't know much about this case but your description sounds like a justifiable shooting. You fight with police and use their weapon against them, it's not going to end well.

 

[ASHES]

Don't know much about this case but your description sounds like a justifiable shooting. You fight with police and use their weapon against them, it's not going to end well.

All charges against the officers in that case were dropped in late August.

 

[Lutherf]

Don't know much about this case but your description sounds like a justifiable shooting. You fight with police and use their weapon against them, it's not going to end well.

That would be common sense but this incident happened at the peak of the George Floyd protests, a period where common sense regarding prosecutorial decisions involving police was NOT a consideration.

 

[ASHES]

Judge Dorow is a menace to trees.

 

[Lutherf]

Judge Dorow is a menace to trees.

I object!

Brooks is a menace to logic, decorum and anything resembling common sense.

Dorow really needs to go for summary judgement and pass this case on to the court of Twitter where Brooks is most likely to make sense to someone.

 

[ASHES]

I object!

Brooks is a menace to logic, decorum and anything resembling common sense.

Dorow really needs to go for summary judgement and pass this case on to the court of Twitter where Brooks is most likely to make sense to someone.

He'll get through the trial, even if he has to give closing statements from another courtroom with a spit mask on.

 

[Lutherf]

He'll get through the trial, even if he has to give closing statements from another courtroom with a spit mask on.

Seems like kind of a waste, though I completely understand why this is all being allowed.

Ultimately, there will be a guilty verdict and an appeal. I don't know for sure that this kind of disaster will be allowed on appeal but I suspect that he will NOT be allowed to represent himself at that point.

 

[ASHES]

OH v Wagner scheduled for 9am ET this morning, and WI v Brooks should start at 10:30am ET. Also this morning, the jury will get the Jones matter.

 

[ASHES]

They're live early in Brooks, more of the same so far. Trial hasn't started yet looks like housekeeping matters first.

 

[ASHES]

He'll be in foot shackles for the trial, with skirts around his table to hide them from the jury, and skirts around the other tables so it isn't obvious to the jury why his table has them.

 

[ASHES]

Judge trying to convince him to put on a suit and tie or street clothes instead of his jail outfit during trial.

 

[ASHES]

He's removed again. 12 interruptions. She threatened the shock collar. He doesn't consent to any of this and wants to challenge subject matter jurisdiction.

 

[Lutherf]

He's removed again. 12 interruptions. She threatened the shock collar. He doesn't consent to any of this and wants to challenge subject matter jurisdiction.

I saw your mention that the feed was up, went to the TMJ4 feed and it was already down. Dorow threatened a shock collar? Just...

See, stuff like this is why YouTube needs to reverse Nick Rekieta's ban.

 

[ASHES]

I saw your mention that the feed was up, went to the TMJ4 feed and it was already down. Dorow threatened a shock collar? Just...

See, stuff like this is why YouTube needs to reverse Nick Rekieta's ban.

He was pretty good to watch on Rittenhouse and Edgecomb, but after that he brought politics in too much(regardless of what they are.). I'm on his side with the whole copyright thing against L&C, but I just want to listen to the trial. Plus, didn't they unban him? Thought I watched a video from him the other day. Maybe he just still isn't allowed to stream, or he was on someone else's. In any case, if it's because of the copyright, that's stupid, and if it's because YouTube doesn't like his opinion, it's stupid.

 

[ASHES]

Things are progressing well for him. He is in a different room now, and looks like he might be complying with the street clothes request.

 

[ASHES]

Looks like he's picking up some new charges for resisting, he refused to sit so sheriffs could remove the shackles to move him, then was moving his legs around.

He has "forfeited his right to be present."

 

[ASHES]

The trial will continue, his games will not get him a delay or reprieve. His motions to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction basket he's placed all his eggs in will not be successful, because clearly the court has jurisdiction. Sovereign citizens smh.

 

[Lutherf]

He was pretty good to watch on Rittenhouse and Edgecomb, but after that he brought politics in too much(regardless of what they are.). I'm on his side with the whole copyright thing against L&C, but I just want to listen to the trial. Plus, didn't they unban him? Thought I watched a video from him the other day. Maybe he just still isn't allowed to stream, or he was on someone else's. In any case, if it's because of the copyright, that's stupid, and if it's because YouTube doesn't like his opinion, it's stupid.

Nick got his third strike yesterday.

Yeah, I can usually only take him in moderate doses unless there's a trial on. He can be all over the place and gets into the social media and gaming ecosystem more than I ever will so unless he's talking law I'm usually lost on the topic. This ban seems to have been a work in progress. He's been going on about some gender reassignment advocate that focuses on kids. Those rants seem to have pissed off that creator's community who then filed a ton of complaints and got Nick his second strike. Then, it appears, that group filed something like 45 legal ethics complaints which all got tossed out. Nick read the complaints (which are public records) on his show and used the names of the complainants. That's about the point his feed went dead.

 

[Lutherf]

Professionally speaking, if you're a lawyer how can you possibly represent this guy? I mean, if your client has decided that the rules that apply to everyone else in the nation don't apply to him and he objects to EVERYTHING then how can you represent him?

 

[gboisjo]

What an irritating POS Brooks is ..probably getting some jail house strategy slash advice to delay.

A murderer making a mockery out of our system of justice is so hard to take ..poor families have to endure this obnoxious spectacle.

That we should house and feed this maniacal misfit for the rest of his worthless life is again hard to take.

 

[Lutherf]

Is state going to request a competency (ability to represent kind of competency, not mental capacity) review?

 

[ASHES]

Is state going to request a competency (ability to represent kind of competency, not mental capacity) review?

There's already been 3 and he was found competent. He has an understanding he's just using antics.

 

[gboisjo]

Brooks is competent, what he's doing is mostly an act.

The judge is doing a great job as Brooks tries in vein to derail the proceedings.

Jail house phone calls speak volumes about Brooks deliberate, defiant, obnoxious, behavior.