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Jan. 22, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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The American Criminal Justice System Explained — @LionelNation

Criminal justice. The oxymoron.

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Good day.
Good day, dear friend.
Let me ask you a question.
And this was asked on...
Many, many news sites.
In fact, this was on CNN's news site.
It reads, prosecutors say Brian Walsh, you've seen this fellow, right?
searched online for, can you be charged with murder without a body?
This is in a piece from Alicia Abraham?
You?
Anyway.
Here's my question.
Right off the bat.
It's a very interesting question.
Fascinating question.
Because I think people love CSI.
We used to love Quincy years ago.
That wasn't the best.
There's all kinds of interesting things that we're learning with forensic DNA.
Can you be charged and convicted?
People always ask the wrong questions.
Just like they think impeachment means removal.
They really mean conviction of a president or vice president or judge or what have you.
But can you be convicted of murder when there's nobody?
Is that even possible?
Think about this.
And recently, there was a case involving this...
There was a case recently involving...
Here we go.
Carol Baskin's dead husband is reportedly alive and well, so they say.
There was talk about this.
I don't know if you...
I've heard about these various stories.
It was alleged.
This is from a variety.
Anyway.
But is that possible?
Is that possible?
Can you charges?
You see what I'm doing right now?
It's called research.
Very, very quick.
And how would you do this?
How would you do this?
How would you possibly, possibly, possibly, even remotely do this?
Um...
How?
What happens if somebody's found guilty, pled guilty, or is sentenced to, let's say, death, God forbid, then all of a sudden, The courtroom door is open, and lo and behold, who walks in?
But the victim, the alleged, how does this work?
Well, it can be done in a variety of different ways.
It has been done many, many times before.
There have been many cases, many cases.
In fact, it is reported that there have been, according to CNN, this is very, very good, There has been, let me see, the total number, or total.
And why more people are saying that and pronouncing it like that, I have no idea.
But there have been approximately, is it 800?
Listen to this number.
Very, very interesting.
Um...
Pardon me.
I just want to get the...
I want to get the words.
Oh!
Some 86%, according to CNN, some 86% of more than 500 so-called no-body cases that made it to trial from the 1800s to 2020 resulted in convictions.
And this, by the way, and look at this, said Tad DiBiase.
Now, to be confused with Ted DiBiase, but It had to be a former U.S. attorney in D.C. So, it's a very interesting question.
How do you prove it?
Where is the purpose?
Now, people love to use this term all the time, corpus delicti, the body of the crime.
We're going to be talking about that because I think this is something which is fascinating for you.
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So let's go back to that.
What would you do?
Someone writes, Brother Julie, well, you can indict a ham sandwich.
Do you know where that expression comes from?
Do you know where that comes from?
That expression.
It comes from...
A dear friend of mine, one of the greatest jurists of all time, and I mean this, this is Judge Saul Wachtler.
And Saul Wachtler was the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
And he said one time, in an off-the-cuff statement to Marsha Kramer, and he said, a good prosecutor.
Can indict a ham sandwich.
And later on, Saul Walkler, being a good Jew, said, I should have said something like a pastrami sandwich.
He doesn't know why he said that.
But that is to indict.
And it's true.
To charge.
What do you need to indict someone?
Probable cause.
Remember this.
Remember this as long as you live.
Remember this great definition I heard years ago for what is probable cause.
And the answer is, he probably did it.
One of my favorite lines of all time.
He probably did it.
And anybody can get an indictment.
By the way, during a grand jury, which is mandatory, mandatory I tell you, during As you know, in federal practice, it is mandatory for you to get an indictment.
Do you know what the defendant is entitled to do?
Let's assume there's a grand jury going on to determine whether you're going to be indicted.
Do they hear from you?
They'd like to hear from you, but you most probably should take, believe it or not, you should take your Fifth Amendment right and not testify.
I think they'd be crazy.
But you don't put on any evidence.
The grand jurors never receive any evidence.
Nothing.
Nothing.
They never hear the other side of the story.
Not at all.
Not at all.
Nothing.
They hear nothing.
Do you understand what I'm telling you?
They just hear one side of the story.
And this is something which I think is the most important.
This is so critical and so important for me to tell you.
How is it that they're supposed to figure out what to do?
Don't they hear?
Just the police?
Have you ever read a police statement?
Have you ever read a police report?
It's the worst thing possible.
It's horrible.
It's absolutely ungodly.
There's nothing good at all in there.
There's nothing exculpatory.
There's nothing.
Anything.
Nothing.
It provides nothing.
One time, and it was a DUI case years ago.
I was defending somebody just for DUI.
By the way, DUI is the greatest case in the world.
From a defense point of view, because it's one of the only cases, the only charge I know, where the defendant never intended to commit it.
Never said, I'm going to go out tonight, and I'm going to get drunk, and I'm going to drive, and I'm going to...
It doesn't work that way.
So, consequently...
It's one of those ones where people can say, you know, I thought I did the right thing.
I thought I stopped drinking.
I only had a couple of drinks.
I didn't realize that I miscalculated.
So the jury is thinking, well, the guy tried.
Because you know you can drink and drive.
This is one of the things about DUI which I find fascinating.
The only way to stop it, the only way to actually stop drunk driving, believe it or not, believe it or not, is to make any Any amount of alcohol that you take in, unlawful.
That's it.
That's the only way to do it.
Because people find themselves in a position of trying to guess how much to drink.
They have no idea what they're shooting for.
None.
They don't know what to do.
If your state says you cannot have a.08 blood alcohol level, what does that mean?
What does a.08...
What?
How could you tell you a.05?
What if there was a law that says you cannot have a.3 or higher hematocrit...
Per bid level.
Wait a minute.
What?
Who has access?
Just give me just one second.
This is something I want to just rail against.
How are you supposed to comport with this law?
How?
If I tell you the law says you cannot drive over 55 miles per hour, if I say to you you cannot drive over 25 miles per hour in a school zone, you know immediately what is and what is not expected.
You know it.
Just look at the speedometer.
Simple.
Or if there's a weight, some rule that says you can't, I don't know why you would, but you've got to weigh something.
There's a scale.
There's something.
There's a means by which.
Turn your lights on, and I know how to do that.
But this is a law that says you can't drive based upon a certain blood alcohol level.
How does that work?
How does that work?
Here's another one for you.
What if you are in possession of a drug that for all practical purposes is harmless?
Let's say the THC levels are so weak.
Let's say that you take one Here's some heroin.
I've got a bag of heroin and I take a little A piece of this little heroin.
I've got a gallon of water and I drop it in there and I mix it up and I give it to you.
You're in possession of heroin.
Even though you can barely find it.
But it will test positive for heroin.
Even though there's no purity.
I never understood that either.
I don't think you should necessarily accelerate or Aggravate the degree of possession because it's really strong heroin.
I'm not saying that.
But how does this work?
I will never understand this as long as I live.
Never.
Why are there parking lots at bars?
Back to DUI.
Why are there parking lots?
What do you think these people are doing?
It says bar.
Giants game.
Browns game.
Patriots game.
Two for one.
These have sink or swim years ago.
They don't have any more.
Ladies night.
Jaeger girls.
Come on in.
Budweiser and Coors and Pitchers.
Come on in.
Have your party.
Yay!
Come in and stay for the game.
How long does the game last?
How long does the whole thing last?
Two hours?
Two and a half hours?
Half time?
I don't know.
What do they think people are doing there?
At the bar with a parking lot that they drive their car to.
How does that work?
Now, I'm not suggesting you should not have bars or you shouldn't have drinks.
I'm not suggesting that.
But I never understood this.
You're trying to be a good citizen.
You're trying to comply.
They're not telling you, don't drink.
If they told you, don't drink anything, you'd say, okay, I got it.
It's simple.
But they don't tell you that.
There's something wrong with it.
Now, someone writes, and let me just get off on this subject, because they did something which is very important.
They say, I think impaired is the key.
Do you know what most people will never do?
They will never read the statute.
They will never read the statute.
We used to read, and I used to read to the point, as long as I live for the rest of my life, it was 363-193.
It is unlawful to drive or be in the actual physical control of a motor vehicle to the extent that your normal faculties are impaired.
That's it.
It is against the law to operate a motor vehicle.
What's a motor vehicle?
What's a motor vehicle?
By the way, this is a good tutorial.
What's a motor vehicle?
What is a motor vehicle?
Define a motor vehicle.
Right off the bat.
Where do you go for that?
Is a bike a motor vehicle?
Probably not.
What about a moped?
Remember we had mopeds?
What about a riding lawnmower?
George Jones did that, very famously.
George Jones did that.
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What's a motor vehicle?
Let me ask you a question.
Yes or no.
My car is out of gas.
I'm sitting behind the wheel of a car.
The car will not Move.
It is out of gas.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
It doesn't...
Go ahead.
Here's the keys, officer.
Is this a motor vehicle?
It won't run.
It doesn't work.
There's no gas in it.
Might as well be no engine in it.
You're sitting at the side of the road.
They don't do that anymore.
They just come...
But the old days.
Remember that?
That's more of a battery thing.
But it's gone.
Is that...
Schutus says it's still a motor vehicle.
But it doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
Okay.
Mr. Schutus, what if I took the engine out?
Police officer pulls over.
You're behind the wheel of a car.
And there's no engine.
You say, how did this get there?
Well, it was in the back of a truck.
We were transporting this.
And the vehicle rolled off the back of this truck and there it is and whatever.
And it is there and it is what have you.
Really?
There it is.
There's no engine in it.
But it looks like a car.
It's got a key in it, but there's no engine.
Is there still a car?
Is there still a car?
What if your car has been in an accident?
Cop pulls up.
There is a car.
And you're not...
Let's assume you weren't driving the car into the accident, but you're trying to move the car out.
And you're drunk.
You're behind the wheel of a car.
You're trying to get this thing out.
But it won't move.
Car pulls up.
Gets out.
There you are.
You're loaded.
You're gassed.
You're waxed.
You're goon.
And you can't move it.
Does that count?
So right off the bat, we're saying, what is it?
And there have been people who've been using...
I guess charging them with things like bicycles and, you know, wheelchairs and I don't know.
So that's a matter of research.
Look at the case law.
See what it says.
I have no earthly idea as to what that even remotely is or represents.
Okay?
You got that?
Okay.
Now, who is driving or in the actual physical control?
What if you're not driving?
What if you realize, I'm drunk?
I am drunk and I should not be driving.
So I pull over and I want to sleep it off.
I'm going to just turn the car off.
I don't want to drive.
There's no hotels around here.
I'm just going to do the right thing.
I'm going to pull off the road.
Sleep it off.
Behind you, there you are, sitting behind the car, sitting behind the wheel with the keys in the ignition.
The statute says, mine, it is unlawful to drive or be in the actual Physical control.
So what happens?
There are these wonderful anecdotal stories about, well, you take the keys and you put the keys in the glove compartment, or you put the glove box, or you take the keys and you throw the keys, or whatever.
And they think that there's some...
Does that matter?
It depends.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
It's a very interesting thing.
And when electric cars come up, and electric cars, you're going to have to change the rules regarding combustion.
And what happens, by the way, if you're behind the wheel of a car and it's autonomous, you're drunk, but the car is driving.
Does that matter?
I would probably think so.
Now, what I've just asked you to consider, What I've just asked you, you're not going to ever think about.
You are not ever going to think about.
And the reason why is very simply this.
You've never read a statute in your life.
But they're there for you.
For you to read.
They're there for you.
I can't say it enough.
They're there.
These statutes are there for you.
And you are charged with knowing them.
You understand what I'm saying?
You are charged.
You are presumed to know them.
And I'm telling you, you don't.
You don't do it.
You don't.
And I'm not giving you grief because of it, but I'm telling you that most people do not do this.
And the same thing goes for virtually everything.
What does the statute say?
And also, what is the rule regarding prosecuting somebody when there is no body?
When the person was never found.
They just never showed up anymore.
And they suspected you.
They always thought about this.
You haven't admitted it.
You haven't confessed it.
There's no DNA.
But you were the last person to be with them, or you might have had a motivation, a motivation factor.
Interesting stuff.
Interesting!
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What?
EMP, EMP.
EMP, ESG, M-O-U-S-E.
I mean, we live in a world of, remember, abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms.
Acronym is a word.
Radar.
You know, scuba.
Things like that.
Apostle Q. Remember that person of opposite sex sharing living quarters?
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It's a sound.
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Now, corpus delicti.
Body of the crime.
Usually seen in terms of confessions.
Let me ask you something.
What if you went to your local Precinct.
Your local police department.
And you said, hello.
My name is Gustav Lemke.
And I killed Jimmy Hoffa.
Where?
In Detroit.
What year was it?
And let's say you were obviously not old enough.
Maybe you're an 80-year-old guy.
Could do it.
Do they say, just a minute, we're going to arrest you?
Is there any evidence of the murder of Jimmy Hoffa?
If you walked in, same scenario, walked into a police department and said, I have, I'm responsible for the murder of Gustav Lembke.
Who?
Gustav Lembke.
Look, he's dead.
I killed him.
Where is he?
Roanoke, Virginia.
Last year.
Just a minute.
We don't have any record of it.
Well, trust me, he's dead.
Is there evidence of a crime?
What is the body of the crime?
Is there any evidence of it?
Before you accept a confession.
A confession versus an admission.
An admission...
It is a particular fact, a particular statement regarding an aspect of something.
A confession is a full and total and complete admission, if you will, of the entire event, of the crime.
For burglary, it would be, I entered or remained in the building structure or conveyance with the intent to commit a defense therein.
That's my confession.
And the mission might be, I entered the building.
Okay, that's part of it.
We're getting there.
But before we introduce a confession, was there a crime?
That's corpus delicti.
That's what that means.
It doesn't mean that there's no body.
But how do you find somebody?
How do they do this?
How do they do this?
How do people get caught?
Well, there's a couple of things to it.
By the way, again, I tell you this.
Very good.
By the way, have you noticed how this Walsh, Brian Walsh, bears an uncanny resemblance to George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's husband?
I'm just saying, just by happenstance.
But Anna Walsh is the Massachusetts mother of three who hasn't been seen since the New Year.
She's still missing, even as her husband was charged with her murder.
So what do we have?
Well, apparently he's left some information.
There were people before who have done certain things.
For example, there was a case of Eitan Pates.
There was this young man here in New York who became the child whose face was put on the back of milk cartons.
Eitan Pates.
His body was never found.
But an individual, and I really have suspicions about this one, really have suspicions, but there's different things.
For example, technology will give you information, forensic evidence, DNA, blood, hair fibers, circumstantially put together cell records, bing, you know, he was here, the person was there, and then the car was there, the person's gone, and you were there, and okay.
Specific evidence.
Maybe a confession.
Maybe he told somebody.
Maybe he...
There's always the jailhouse snitch, which you've really got to be careful of.
Confessions.
You cannot believe how many people just admit things to the police.
You have no earthly idea how many people Just talk to the police.
And if ever there was a reason not to talk to the police, especially federal, it would be because of 18 U.S.C.
1001, which basically makes it against the law for you to lie to federal agents.
That's what they got Martha Stewart on.
That's what they got her on.
Not insider trading, but lying to the FBI.
I think, didn't General, didn't Flynn, didn't they get him on that one?
I'm not sure.
You have this thing called the right to remain silent.
I have no idea why people don't do it.
It's a right.
It's not being a...
They gave you a right.
It's like you say, oh, you're taking the First Amendment?
Oh, hiding behind the First Amendment, are we?
Hiding behind it?
No, I'm using it.
Well, maybe.
I will never understand how this thing works.
Why people do this is something that I will never understand.
Never understand.
Period.
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You know, people have always said, and I always find it fascinating, and I've never understood, why is it that people do not have classes?
Why don't we have a show that explains to people, these are your rights.
A citizen's workbook on what is your right.
What are your rights?
You have no idea.
One night, I'll never forget this, one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life.
As we have a friend of ours, we were having dinner one night, and he was explaining his idea to purchase a, or to either qualify either for a permit, carry, whatever it was.
And my first reaction, my first reaction is, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
You...
Have not even begun to consider what you're doing.
You haven't thought about this.
Yes, it's your right.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm not arguing against that.
But I want you to answer this question.
What if I were to say, I'm considering buying a grenade?
What?
A grenade.
A grenade?
Yes.
I don't think you have a grenade.
Well...
Do you know how to use a grenade?
Oh yeah, I know.
The spoon and the boop.
Yeah, but when would you use a grenade?
I don't, I don't.
Listen, if somebody's trying to break in, yeah, but a grenade?
No, wait a minute.
You notice just now that sense of trepidation over a grenade?
And for good reason?
That's what I feel when I hear people talking about gun.
Now, never forget this.
And I have been a student I've taught at police academies.
I have instructed police.
I've known and prosecuted.
I have defended.
I know how this thing works.
And I'm not arguing whether it's you're right or wrong, but there are some times when you're much better off not having one because you don't know the first thing.
You are a dangerous person.
Instrument of potential problems by virtue of what you don't know.
So as we're talking, I said, okay, you know, I'm not trying to be Mr. Cross-Examination, but I said, now, let me ask you a question.
Have you read the statutes?
I think it was New Jersey where this fellow is.
Have you read the New York Statute?
Do you know all about it?
Have you studied this?
Have you talked to your homeowner?
Do you have a policy?
Do you know when you can use this?
Because you're not buying a weapon for collection purposes.
You're using it as a self-defense tool, correct?
Do you know the statute?
When can you use it?
What happens if you use it incorrectly?
What happens?
Let me give you an example.
True story.
True story.
Our friends have a, you know, there's these townhomes, they live next to each other, and they look exactly the same.
Just exactly.
You have to get the number right.
12, 18. They look, there's no distinguishing.
Well, I went to the car.
You go.
It's a stretch.
And then when I walked back, I opened the door and I walked in.
And I looked down and said, Wow, I don't remember they had this thing for you to put, like, snow shoes.
And I said, I don't remember this.
And all of a sudden I hear, Can I help you?
I said, Oh, I'm sorry.
It was the wrong home.
I walked right in.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Pardon me.
My mistake.
Please forgive me.
That's what I write.
You know, you might want to lock this door, because I might walk in.
Later on, it hit me.
And here's my question.
Let's say he was armed.
I walked into his home.
I didn't say anything.
I just walk in.
I'm looking down.
I'm thinking.
And he shoots me.
Would he suffer any liability for that?
I'm walking into his home.
I entered his home.
First question.
Would he suffer any liability?
Was it unreasonable?
I mean, really look at this.
Think about this thing carefully.
During the day, somebody walks in.
I pose no threat.
Is there a stand your ground provision?
What's that?
Look it up.
What about the castle doctrine?
Was there any duty to retreat?
What?
Look it up.
Are they posing any threat?
No, of course I didn't.
Did I have to?
Who's going to say I posed the threat?
Because the people I'm with, including Mrs. L, next door are going to say, no, he went to the car to get something.
Did he have a bag in his hand?
Yeah, that's the bag he got.
He obviously made a mistake.
How did you think he posed the threat?
Do you have to pose a threat?
Is it required?
I haven't...
I've got to research this.
But people will answer a question.
They just answer a question.
Well, I think if it poses a threat.
I'm not thinking real good about this one.
I'm not...
I've got to read this.
I've got to see.
Has it ever happened before in the case in the state of Georgia?
Have you ever has the...
Let's say we're in Atlanta.
Has the appellate courts ever...
Have they ever ruled on this?
What's good law?
Give me something.
I don't know.
Is there something similar to this?
Must I pose a threat?
Or is there an irrebuttable presumption that somebody who enters your home in hearth is going to be doing you harm?
I don't know.
And as I'm talking, I'm thinking, wow.
Then I went back in, and I'm talking to this family person, friend, family.
And he's talking about, well, you know, I've got a friend of mine.
He says a shotgun might be okay.
And, you know, I've got to clean it.
You know, you've got to get the cleaning.
I said, well, where would you keep a shotgun?
How long?
How big is a shotgun?
Pistol grip?
Shotgun?
You're going to rack it?
Where do you put it?
Where do you put it?
There's no children there.
And he, make a long story short, he had thought of none of this.
Absolutely nothing.
And I, I'm still wondering, I'm going through this scenario.
Just like with Alec Baldwin.
I'm thinking about his case.
I'm thinking about the reasonability.
What would I say as a prosecutor?
What would I say as a defense lawyer?
What would a jury think?
You know the old expression.
They always say it's better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6. Okay.
Alright.
Maybe.
But I thought, oh dear God.
They don't even know.
They don't even know.
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Now, the law.
I'm going to say this one more time.
You are charged with this.
Let me ask you a question.
I have a little pill, you know, display, little thing.
And if you're traveling, any medications you take, you know, you travel with them.
What does the law say in your state regarding having medication?
Maybe controlled substances, maybe not.
I don't know.
That are not in the original container with the pharmacist's label on.
You ever think about that?
Can you travel with that?
I never thought about that.
What if you say, when is ignorance against the law a defense?
Virtually never.
Virtually never.
Sometimes it's okay.
Remember years ago, Linda Tripp.
She was taping Monica Lewinsky when she was having her various conversations, and I believe, if I recall correctly, I believe when she was taping Monica Lewinsky, she actually was in violation of the Maryland statutes, if I recall.
Yet, yet, yet, she, how do I say this?
She was in violation, but she, I think, Ignorance was a defense or it's evidence that she didn't...
Anyway, to make a long story short, she basically got off of any particular criminal charges because she didn't know.
But for the most part, that's not true.
You cannot claim, oh, I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
And what I want you to notice here is this incredible sense of answering the question.
Answering the question.
You just answer the question.
You're just an expert in everything.
You just, no matter the question.
No matter.
You just know.
You know everything.
History, law, military, whatever it is.
You just answer.
Well, of course.
If it's 11, well, if you're meant to do that.
They used to have these rules.
I remember years ago they said, can you carry a gun in your car?
And people would say, well, there was a two-movement rule.
I remember I was prosecuting at the time.
I said, what is the two-movement rule?
Oh, you know, that's...
I said, where is that?
Where is the two-movement rule?
I have no idea.
Where did you come...
I don't know.
There was this rule, too, that says, and for some reason, and I don't know why, people still say this, And they always say it the same way.
You know, I've got a friend of mine who's a cop, and he said, if ever you were to shoot somebody outside of your home, make sure you drag them in.
I'm saying, wait a minute, hold it.
First of all, why are you doing that?
Why are you shooting anybody outside of your home?
Did they pose a threat to you?
No.
What are you doing?
What?
And why are you dragging the women?
What?
What are you talking about?
And they repeat this.
They repeat.
They just repeat things.
It's like the 9-11 or 9-1-1.
You know, they say that whenever there's a full moon, there are more people who are...
Wait a minute.
Where'd you get that?
Well, you know, they've said that.
They've proven it.
Who's proven it?
Well, they.
Who are they?
What are you talking about?
Where does this happen?
I don't know anything about they saying this.
What is the they?
What they?
Who are they?
What are you talking about?
We just live through this imaginary anecdotal world of pretend expertise.
We just make stuff up.
We just say stuff and we don't know anything.
I am the opposite.
I don't believe anything that I think I believe.
I'm checking things constantly.
I did some research this morning on statopegia.
That blue...
I thought I knew that insight.
I know nothing about that.
Nothing.
Look it up on your own time.
Always question what you know.
Never play games with the law.
Never think that the law has anything to do with common sense.
Never.
Understand that...
Prosecutors are, for the most part, on the state level, motivated by political concerns, and that's a very dangerous thing.
Federal prosecutors, political, but still, they're appointed in a different story.
Federal judges are there for life.
State judges, the election process.
Keep in mind, keep in mind how that works.
Understand how juries feel.
Understand that when something happens, this case will go on and on and on.
And if you were to involve your case in something where you were absolutely 100% correct, police officers do not normally, at the scene, make up a determination that, okay, you're free to go.
Why?
Well, obviously.
No.
Sometimes you are arrested, or you are charged, or you have civil considerations.
That's why, going back to Alec Baldwin, his civil liability, one thing.
Very serious.
Criminal liability, different story.
And that is important for you to understand.
Now, here's something.
I want you to make a note of this.
We put the best stuff up on Twitter, you can imagine.
This is my Twitter link.
And I ask and request for you to follow such.
Okay?
Very, very, very important.
This is...
Hang on one second here.
This is Mrs. L on her website, Lynn's Warriors.
Find out what she is doing.
Watch what she is doing.
Learn of what she is doing.
It is simply the most important and critical information that is there for children.
While you're on YouTube, let me send you to her.
YouTube channel as follows.
Subscribe to this.
Learn what's going on.
There are things that are happening that require a tremendous degree of information.
And finally, finally, I ask you, oh, oh, oh, one more thing.
Excuse me.
Did I give you Mrs. L on Twitter?
I think so.
These links are very important.
I'm big into links, as you notice.
I like them.
There we go.
That's Mrs. L on Twitter.
I just did a brand new one.
You will love this, but I use it on my private channel.
You might find this a tad curt, but it deals with certain folks in the conservative world Who think that all of a sudden they've made these fascinating revelations as to the real causes behind Nixon and the impeachment.
and and I let it all hang out.
No prisoners.
Some a tad discourteous, but nonetheless...
Important.
So my friends, I wish you a beautiful and a glorious day.
Thank you so much for being a part of this.
We will see you tomorrow.
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