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One problem is that these niche cases don't provide any pictures. Frankly if I were a juror they would perhaps have moved me in one direction or the other
I now have logged into PACER and uploaded a bunch of the publicly-available files to RECAP. Document 66 attachment 1 lists seven family photographs that the prosecutor used as trial exhibits. But of course those photographs are not publicly available. Still, in document 99 the wife testifies regarding similarities in height and weight, and the defense lawyer's closing statement in document 100 has this quote: "It is clear from the photographs that the Government admitted into evidence that, in 2016 and 2017, [the daughter] and [the wife] were a lot closer in size and weight than they are now. Their hair was significantly more similar to one another's than it is right now."
Amazing to have your wife and child beg for a jury not to convict you of a crime against one of them, and then they do it anyway.
I don't think begging the jury for leniency is permissible, and I see no such begging in documents 98–100 (the trial transcript). But they did beg the sentencing judge for leniency in document 94 (the sentencing transcript), mentioning that the family had to sell its house in order to pay the lawyer fees. Document 79 is a request for permission to appeal in forma pauperis (exempted from paying the filing fee due to poverty).
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Are you sourcing these on your own or finding them in an adjacent forum?
I just check out recent New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and federal cases for fun.
This happened on an Indian reservation
That doesn't mean much in Oklahoma, where half the state counts as Indian reservations under a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Court opinion, simultaneously hentai-adjacent and terror-inducing:
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A husband and a wife are sleeping in their bedroom. The wife, a labor-and-delivery nurse, is suddenly called to the hospital in the middle of the night, and does not wake up the husband to tell him that she is leaving the house. The couple's daughter has a nightmare and enters the couple's bed (an occasional, but not frequent, occurrence). The husband wakes up and attempts to initiate sex with the wife through digital penetration. Being half-asleep (a heavy sleeper with the disorder of sleep apnea) and in a pitch-black bedroom (with blackout curtains due to the wife's inconsistent sleep schedule), he fails to realize that the 37-year-old wife has left and the 11-year-old daughter (who is similar in size and shape to the wife, and has developed pubic hair) is there instead. After the daughter realizes what is happening, she fully wakes up the husband, who apologizes profusely for the accidental digital penetration.
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Three years later, the daughter confides in a friend that the husband accidentally penetrated her digitally. However, the friend thinks that the touching was intentional rather than accidental, so she reports it as a crime. The husband is charged with "aggravated sexual abuse of a minor under twelve", is found guilty by the jury, and receives from the judge the mandatory minimum sentence of thirty years in prison.
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The appeals panel vacates the conviction by a vote of two to one. The prosecutor presented absolutely zero evidence that the digital penetration was intentional rather than accidental, so no reasonable juror could have convicted the husband of the crime "beyond a reasonable doubt". (The dissenter thinks that the jury was perfectly entitled to disbelieve the husband's assertion that he couldn't tell the difference between a 37-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl.)
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It's their CVTs that are the problem. Toyota gets around that problem in their CVT models mostly by having a gear for "first".
According to /o/: The problem with Nissan's CVTs is that they are too small for the engines to which they are connected. Mitsubishi uses the same CVTs, but matches them better with engines, so Mitsubishi cars don't have the same transmission problems. For example, according to Wikipedia, the Jatco JF015E is used both in the Mitsubishi Mirage (76 horsepower) and in the Nissan Juke (122 horsepower).
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the author had the brilliant idea to hide the novel behind a paywall
I won't be recommending that author in the future
That's a rather harsh assessment. Removing a book from its original free location after publishing it on a paid platform is a common practice. I think it's explicitly required by Amazon's self-publishing terms.
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The developer probably can make that argument to the zoning board. (And I'm not a traffic engineer, so I may be misrepresenting it anyway.)
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Road work normally is not conducted in such a manner as to block the entire street. Rather, work will be conducted on half of the street, and traffic will be directed through the other half of the street (using alternating flow and flaggers if half of the street is too narrow for two lanes of traffic).
Two commuters, a school bus, a mail carrier, and a trash/recycling truck or a delivery van add up to ten trips (in and out are counted separately) pretty easily.
Note that this is for ordinary "single-family detached housing". "High-rise apartment" generates only 5.0 trips per day, and "senior adult housing—detached" generates only 3.7 trips per day.
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anything that results in a closure of a section of street will cut off a lot of people
It's a loop, with one travel lane and one parking lane (which can be cleared in emergencies) in each direction. I don't see how anyone would ever be cut off.
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The inside radius of the right-of-way lines shown in these images is 30 feet. When you add the 6-foot sidewalk and the 8-foot parking lane, you get an effective inside radius of 44 feet for the travel lanes. (Standard minimum travel-lane inside radii are 25 feet for a passenger car, 30 feet for a single-unit delivery truck, and 40 feet for a shorter multi-unit truck. A long fire truck can swing wide into the oncoming lane.)
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Obama's Operation Choke Point allegedly pressured banks to stop serving gun-related businesses.
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Doing an internet search for "Trump BATFE" with a one-month time limit doesn't turn up anything.
Try "Trump ATF".
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I just need a small loan of one million dollars to bring it to fruition.
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Under one state's subdivision law (§§ 4.1 and 4.2): The biggest Hilbert-curve subdivision that I've drawn would generate traffic of around 3600 trips per day (362 single-family houses × 10.1 (trips per day) per house). That already is a little above the permitted limit of 3500 trips per day for a "minor collector" street, which is the highest-level street on which houses should front. So this is just about the biggest Hilbert-curve subdivision that you can make without running into problems.
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In the biggest Hilbert-curve subdivision, the distance from the center to the nearest edge is 8000 feet (2400 meters) in a car versus 2000 feet (600 meters) as the crow flies (or on one of the pedestrian paths proposed by another commenter). Is that such a huge price to pay for an ultra-quiet neighborhood?
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American: Outman(eu)v(er)
British: Outman(oeu)v(re)
Your fascinating innovation: Outman(oeu)v(er)
For purposes of "traffic calming", urban planners (1 2) often make the roads in residential neighborhoods curved rather than straight. What if a developer were to simply use a space-filling curve to lay out his residential subdivision on a single ridiculously curved road?
Example subdivisions appropriate for the International Zoning Code's R1d single-family-residential zone: 1 (Hilbert curve), 2 (curve name unknown), 3 (Peano curve)
See also: Small intestine
@Southkraut: "Outmanoeuver"? A daring synthesis, as the cool kids say.
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Have you heard of our lord and savior, bullet points?
Repeal birthright citizenship (through congress, or at least fight for it there, given its central importance to the entire future of the country)
repeal CRA (certain limited provisions of which can be replaced by much more limited, targeted laws)
begin preparations to hand Taiwan to China after domestic chip production scales up and use intimidation and force to relocate as much of what remains to the US
end all federal student loans and tuition support
force Ukraine into the most realistic peace deal (threaten to unilaterally revoke sanctions on Russia if they drag their heels)
begin realistic preparations to deport ALL 13+ million illegal migrants in the US (investing tens of billions in holding facilities, hire 300+ thousand temporary ICE staff, checkpoints in every city, raid every blue collar contracting business in any major city, mandatory nationwide E-verify enhanced with biometric security to get around existing loopholes as part of a national ID program - as discussed above the feds probably already have your biometrics)
abolish all postal voting (Americans abroad can vote at embassies)
end the carried interest loophole
tax childlessness heavily
jack up interest rates to unfathomable levels to force an asset price crash
abolish NASA (fold some defense programs into DOD, Elon can explore space on his own dime or for commercial interests)
breakup Google and Amazon
allow and encourage hospitals to refuse to treat homeless drug addicts
hand out free lethal dose fentanyl in certain urban centers and ban narcan for first responders in overdose hotspots
execute roughly 20-40x the number of criminals per year the US does now
mandate all office-based male federal government employees and their peers at all institutions that receive federal funding wear a suit, tie and black oxford shoes to work every day, NO exceptions
hand Ozempic out for free to every fat American at taxpayer expense
destroy much of the HFCS industry
grant unlimited 5 year work visas with pathway to citizenship to citizens of all western european nations (call it the ‘ellis island program’) if they have ‘distant family’ matches with Americans in popular DNA databases
adopt a foreign policy built around getting European countries to change immigration policy with the stick if necessary
implement a mandatory ‘national college admissions test’ that must be the sole criterion for admission at any federally funded college, but also reserve 5% of places at elite colleges for the highest performing URM
fire loud, midwit racists from DOGE and wider government since that kind of thing is just vulgar and racial hatred is cruel and wrong.
I believe the default course of action would be to buy index or mutual funds. I've been eyeing the S&P 500.
More specifically, the default course of action is to implement a glide path, starting with a high proportion of stock funds and a low proportion of bond funds when you're young, and gradually transitioning to a high proportion of bond funds and a low proportion of stock funds when you're old. Vanguard provides Target Retirement 20XX funds that implement glide paths automatically, both in the US and in the UKGBNI. Alternatively, you can just manually allocate your savings between a stock fund and a bond fund.
IMO, it depends on what specific kind of freeway driving you do. My commute spends just twenty minutes each way on a busy freeway, where my speed changes all the time and cruise control is worthless. But I once took a drive through the featureless wastes of rural Ohio on US 30, with hardly any traffic on the road, and being able to rest my foot for two hours on an eleven-hour drive (each way) was nice.
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The Associated Press cites an article that features an economics professor's statement that the president's authority is uncertain.
“The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies,” Triest says.
I don't know how much weight an economics professor's opinion carries on this question of law, though.
Quote from the defense lawyer's closing statement (part of document 100 on this page):
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