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Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 11:54 a.m. No.20693327   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3361 >>3465

April 3, 2024

Young Thug Fights To Exclude Rap Lyrics From Trial After GA Supreme Court Ruling

 

Grammy-winning hip-hop artist Young Thug, alongside his co-defendant Shannon Stillwell, has challenged the use of lyrics and music videos as evidence in their trial for gang-related crimes, drawing on a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling, according to Courthouse News. In November 2023, Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville permitted 17 sets of lyrics as evidence, but Young Thug moved to strike this decision following a March ruling where the court reversed a murder conviction due to unfair prejudice from a rap video.

 

Young Thug's attorney, Brian Steel, argued that lyrics like "I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body," ” which Young Thug rapped on the 2018 track “Anybody” featuring Nicki Minaj, lack contextual relevance and could mislead the jury.

 

The line provided no details or nexus in association with a certain crime, Steel argued, and assuming the statements amounted to an admission — and presenting them out of context — could "horrify" and prejudice the jury. "Why do the lyrics have any probative value if it's simply cumulative?" Steel said.

 

Prosecutors say YSL is responsible for a string of shootings, robberies, and selling drugs. They claim Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffrey William, was the co-founder and leader of the gang, although he denies the charges and says YSL is the acronym of his record label, Young Stoner Life.

 

The criminal trial has become the longest in Georgia history. Opening statements began last November, 10 months after jury selection with repeated delays and several juror issues. Defense attorneys have urged Glanville to limit the state's anticipated 400 witnesses and to “consider the ramifications of the present pace of trial and its impact on the jury, the case, as well as the defendants.”

 

The 65-count indictment brought in May 2022 contains 191 “overt acts” that prosecutors contend were carried out in furtherance of the gang.

 

Many of the acts listed in the indictment involved defendants who are no longer part of the trial, either because they accepted plea deals or have had their cases severed.All six defendants standing trial have been in jail without bond for two years.

 

https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/young-thug-fights-to-exclude-rap-lyrics-from-trial-after-ga-supreme-court-ruling

Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 12:07 p.m. No.20693389   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3394

‘Always in a hurry’: the rapid rise of Simon Harris, Ireland’s ‘TikTok taoiseach’

(Wanker, bullshitting his was through life! When will the Irish learn?)

 

A ‘meticulous door knocker’ as a councillor in 2009, 37-year-old is now poised to become Ireland’s youngest PM1/2

 

Rory Carroll

In 2012 an Irish parliamentary committee hearing had degenerated into a raucous shouting match when a voice cut through the mayhem. “Chillax,” said Simon Harris. “I think everyone needs to take a step back here.”

 

The 25-year-old legislator’s intervention silenced and mystified his colleagues. One wondered if chillax was Latin. Use of the word made headlines. “All the young people know what ‘chillax’ is,” Harris told the Dáil the next day.

 

He showed little sign of chilling or relaxing himself, however, and instead became a political vortex who 12 years later is poised to become Ireland’s youngest prime minister. His social media skills have prompted a nickname, the “TikTok taoiseach”.

 

On 9 April the Dáil is expected to confirm Harris, 37, as successor to Leo Varadkar, who stunned the country last month when he announced his resignation as prime minister and leader of Fine Gael.

 

The higher education minister blitzed potential rivals to be coronated as the party’s new leader. Fine Gael’s coalition partners, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, back him to become taoiseach.

 

It will be the culmination of a precocious rise for apolished communicator who has rewritten the political rulebook in Irelandbut is barely known in Belfast, London or Brussels.

 

“At this stage there is more interest in why Leo left than who is Simon Harris but that will very quickly turn to who is Simon,” said Frances Fitzgerald, a Fine Gael MEP and former minister who mentored Harris at the start of his career.

 

The new taoiseach will face daunting challenges. A housing crisis and fraying public services dim the centre-right coalition’s hopes of winning an election due by next March. Farmers are chafing at environmental rules while climate activists lament missed targets. Post-Brexit relations with London are tetchy and Northern Ireland’s government is fragile. About a third of Fine Gael’s Dáil deputies are stepping down rather than face voters.

 

Yet Harris has reputedly yearned for this opportunity since he was a teenager. “He’s acutely and almost obsessionally ambitious,” said Shane Ross, a former Fine Gael and independent politician who served in cabinet with Harris and knew him as a newly elected legislator in 2011. “He was always in a hurry, even at that time. Very early on he declared his leadership ambitions.”

 

Harris has humble roots. He grew up in Greystones, a County Wicklow coastal town south of Dublin, the son of a taxi driver and a school special needs assistant, and attended St Joseph’s, a community school.

 

He was a keen debater and wrote a play at 13, said Neale Richmond, a junior minister who has known Harris for 20 years. “The work ethic comes from his parents, they’re work, work, work.”

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/07/simon-harris-ireland-taoiseach

Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 12:08 p.m. No.20693394   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20693389

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Having a younger brother with Asperger syndrome prompted the 15-year-old Harris to lobby politicians for autism services, instilling a passion for public service, said Richmond. “Simon is very good craic and obsessed with politics. Always in a rush, he walks very quickly and talks very quickly. It’s all about what you can do as quickly as possible.”

 

Harris studied French and journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology but dropped out in 2008 to prioritise working as an assistant for Fitzgerald, then leader of the opposition in the Senate, the upper house. “Totally committed. Would give you any time you needed, no limits,” she said, recalling.

 

A year later, Harris was elected to Wicklow county council with a record percentage of the vote. “He was amazingly diligent as a county councillor. A meticulous door knocker,” said Ross.

 

In 2011, Harris was elected as the youngest member of the 31st Dáil, leading to junior cabinet posts and in 2016 the health portfolio, dubbed “Angola” for its political landmines.

 

Harris impressed with his command of detail, fluency on camera and social media savvy but,like predecessors, failed to overhaul a dysfunctional health care system. He survived an accusation of leaking cabinet details, which he denied, but is said to have become more cautious with the press.

 

In 2020, the married father of two young children became higher education minister, a less demanding post, and used his spare time and energy to woo Fine Gael backbenchers, councillors and activists. He listened to grievances, processed requests, remembered names.

 

When Varadkar unexpectedly announced on 20 March that he was quitting, Harris swooped and swiftly amassed support that intimidated potential rivals with longer track records.

 

Observers struggle to attach any ideological label to the incoming taoiseach andwonder whether he will be Leo 2.0 – another metropolitan smoothie. “He’s mechanically and logistically brilliantbut without a policythat you can identify with him at all. The evidence is thathe’s pretty opportunistic,” said Ross.

 

Fitzgerald disputed that, sayingHarris was a solution-focused social progressive who would challenge populismwhile promoting equality of opportunity, law and order and improved ties with London and unionists. “His strength is his networking and relationship building,” she said. (The buried the lead, more illegals and crime)

 

Fine Gael used its party conference in Galway this weekend to bid farewell to the old chief and hail the new. His ambition reflects a new, confident Ireland, said Richmond. “It’s the Roy Keane mentality. We’re not a second-tier country. He’s here to lead us to a historic fourth term.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/07/simon-harris-ireland-taoiseach

Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 12:15 p.m. No.20693417   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3465 >>3633 >>3657

April 5, 2024

Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"

 

Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson went before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, hoping that a dozen consolidated lawsuits could move to federal court, Courthouse News reports.

 

The plaintiffs in the consolidated cases are individualsaffected by the July 4, 2022 mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, including survivors and the loved ones of the seven people killed.

 

The shooter in that massacre fired dozens of rounds from a Smith & Wesson assault rifle into Highland Park's Independence Day celebration, and in September 2023 U.S. DistrictJudge Steven Seeger ruled the plaintiffs could keep their claims against the gunmaker — alleging violations of Illinois fraud law, negligence, deceptive trade practices and intentional inflictionof emotional distress — in state court. The plaintiffs aim to keep them there.

 

Smith & Wesson is trying to remove the cases to federal court. The gunmaker fears a state court might declare the weapons 'machine guns' under the National Firearms Act of 1934.

 

Machine guns are strictly controlled by that act, with the intent and effect of keeping them out of civilian hands. And if a state court determines Smith & Wesson has fraudulently marketed military weapons for civilians, it could call into question those weapons' legality nationwide.

 

(They will never stop.The judge needs some research, is he aligned with Bidan? Any connections?)

 

https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/smith-wesson-fears-rifle-could-be-declared-weapon-of-war

Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 12:50 p.m. No.20693535   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3546 >>3550 >>3554

Now scientists say wearing JEANS is bad for the environment: Study reveals wearing a pair just once is the equivalent to driving a car for 6.4 miles

 

By Wiliam Hunter

07:09 EDT 05 Apr 2024

 

Researchers say that jeans sold in fast fashion produce 2.5kg of CO2 per wear

 

Buying second-hand orrecycling old clothes can cut emissions by 90 per cent.(BS)

 

They might be an essential piece of everyday clothing, but scientists now say that even a simple pair of jeans could be bad for the environment.

 

Scientists from theGuangdong University of Technologyanalysed the life cycle of a pair of Levi's jeans from growing the cotton to their eventual disposal.

 

They found that some jeans were worn only seven times - earning them the classifiation of 'fast fashion' - and produced 11 times more CO2 than jeans wore more often.

 

Dr Ya Zhou, the study's lead author says: 'The humble wardrobe staple – a pair of jeans – has a significant impact on the environment.'

 

(China pushing this BS when the country won’t stop pollution in the country being the worst in the world.)

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13267731/JEANS-bad-environment-Study-reveals.html

Anonymous ID: 14d9e6 April 7, 2024, 1:19 p.m. No.20693634   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>20693071

notablea little late but people are waking up. The mistake he makes is saying only democrats trying to block Trump, when there are a massive number of republicans involved. Be honest its both sides