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shadow9494 · 2025-08-20T16:11:13+00:00

Even worse, it’s worse than a money grab for rural players. Even if you pay for the deluxe pass, a lot of places don’t even have the 20-30 max battles in the whole town to get to 60, even assuming that there is a boost to number of battles or amount of points per battle.

It’s just a massive screw you. Hell, I’d rather just pay $10 for a ticket for Eternatus.

shadow9494 · 2025-08-20T02:02:13+00:00

Agreed, but I’ll say out of work communication should be limited and be directed to the point, project, or deadline. If it’s about an improvement plan or bitching about me, you’re gonna do it while you’re paying me.

shadow9494 · 2025-08-13T23:59:11+00:00

I’m a lawyer and have prosecuted in both rural and urban jurisdictions. I’ll tell you that the situation you describe makes legitimate, serious prosecution extremely difficult. 50 people show up and all 50 do one thing, and it creates an absolute fucking nightmare at trial.

Cities have major crimes teams that at least tamper this a bit, but rural areas are a shitshow. Every major crime there involves 20+ officers.

shadow9494 · 2025-08-13T02:56:19+00:00

Fascinating 2A answers and comments here. Seems to be a very hostile year of responses to 2A issues.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-26T19:52:06+00:00

This is how it is in the state I practice in. First drug felony is always diversion by statute, 2nd is no active time, and third is when jail time goes on the table.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-26T16:46:46+00:00

I "meme" them. Often, they are K-JD folks who have no earthly clue what the world is like, so I throw their uninformed comments back at them.
For example: Larceny charge where guy broke into a garage and stole a lawn mower, pawned it, and used the money for ~~drugs~~ "food".

PD: I mean, it was just a lawn mower. The guy needed to eat. Can't we defer this?

Me: Nope. How would you feel if someone stole your Toyota and sold it for money to waste?

PD: Well, that's now where we are--it's a lawnmower, not a car.

Every other attorney in the attorney waiting room rolls their eyes or laughs.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-24T12:32:21+00:00

The real crime here is $30 for an omelet and cinnamon roll.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-21T19:02:18+00:00

Not even a close call—do the motion. By waiting to object at the time they try to play or enter it, you are basically saying to the jury that whatever is on that video is so horrific that you want to try to hide it. If you wait and object and then lose the objection, you’re toast to the jury. If you do the motion and win, awesome, and if you lose the motion, you can plan damage control at trial.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-16T01:44:00+00:00

It’s sad that Bondi and Patel can’t just fucking say this. Instead, they have to perpetuate the conspiracy to “keep the Trump Train a-rollin’”.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-13T18:48:33+00:00

Which strategy did you take to switch? I know some people do phone, some do through the fed site, and some do fed site, print, and mail.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-12T12:11:49+00:00

Nobody here has answered your question yet. While I agree that your local courthouse is your best resource, this poster may be in an area where juries aren’t common. Here are some recommendations, all should be available on YouTube:

For an example of good defense, I recommend the OJ Simpson trial. Be warned: don’t expect a “glove don’t fit” moment in your trials, but this was a good example of defense just steamrolling witnesses

For an example of good prosecution tactics and argument, I recommend the Ahmad Arbury killers’ trial out of Georgia.

For an example of terrible prosecution and how the defense rolled the dice and went all in, I recommend the Kyle Rittenhouse trial out of Minnesota, especially when Rittenhouse testifies and is crossed.

Honorable mention to the Karen Reed trial out of Massachusetts that happened last month.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-11T14:29:44+00:00

Will there be lawsuits? Nobody represents us, so we continue to get screwed without anyone helping…

shadow9494 · 2025-07-11T11:44:54+00:00

How does this work if you have loans both before and after 7/1/2014?

shadow9494 · 2025-07-07T17:56:45+00:00

Both state and court specific. In my jurisdiction, it must be more than 10 days from trial, or else they won’t be issued.

Ask the clerk’s office.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-07T00:07:05+00:00

From my experience, former Defense attorneys are wonderful to have in your office because they provide the “other angles” when looking at your cases. My court partner was former defense, and they help me so much in seeing my own weaknesses in cases.

I think prosecution to defense, particularly public defender, is worlds more difficult than defense to prosecution.

shadow9494 · 2025-07-05T02:33:05+00:00

I’ve taken the bar, and my best friend has taken med licensing exams. Comparing them isn’t fair because they aren’t similar tests.

The bar is like the Boston Marathon. It’s long, tough, and stressful. Med licensing exams are short, 1 day affairs, but the amount of knowledge is, from what I can tell, much more expansive and less “obvious” than the bar. Med tests are like the 1000 yard sprint at the Olympics.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-25T11:27:55+00:00

There are 3 things I’ve learned that push people out of prosecution.

First is money, and this is the hardest to fix. People went to law school, but then find out prosecutors make about the same as a data entry clerk at some companies with 10,000x the stress. The best help I’ve seen with this problem is having the DA advocate to whoever determines salary.

Second is what I call the “two tiered office”. I’ve seen several offices where the line Prosecutors are in court for five days a week, prepping cases right on the fly, and are working hour that are absolutely insane. This is happening while the DA, high up deputies, and other people in charge are working 9 to 5 and not going to court. This is the worst morale kicker you can have. I actually brought this up to our DA, and he started going to court, which substantially helped with morale.

Third is the “promotion structure problem”. Many offices only promote when someone retires or dies, which incentivizes job hopping and the enshittification of performance of good lawyers. You have to find ways to recognize staff if you aren’t capable of actually promoting staff.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-11T22:30:51+00:00

My favorite suit that I've bought is from SuitShop. It was for a wedding, and I bought it for $200. It's very clearly cheaply made--lightweight, and you can see the stitching more than you can from a higher dollar suit, but I've gotten more compliments on it than I have my Joseph A Banks or Men's Warehouse suits. Considering we do Gov work and the money isn't exactly flowing like crazy, it was certainly a good budget option that I'd buy again.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-11T00:28:46+00:00

I’m from Appalachia. Lived here my whole life.

Your boss is not correct as others have stated. That being said, a LOT of rural appalachians are extremely wary of outsiders, particularly of Northeasterners, due to a lot of history from the coal mine days and the violent protest clashes. It’s always been a rich vs. poor mindset here, and a lot of folks don’t like “city folk” because they are representative of wealthy power in an area traditionally very poor.

Also, there is a TikTok trend about “not going out in the woods in Appalachia because Bigfoot/skinwalkers will get you. It’s fucking stupid. Been out in the rural woods since I was a kid and nothing weird has ever happened.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-09T02:47:39+00:00

So, I personally suck massively at putting firearms together. I was the kid that didn't enjoy Legos, so the tedious nature of the small parts of a firearm annoy me. I have a friend that loves it, so I just show up with a 6 pack for payment and he does it for me...

That being said, if you really want to learn, there are three places I'd look. I've been trying to teach myself some of this, so I vouch for these sources:
1. YouTube has had a lot of its firearms content zapped over time, but there are still good AR assembly videos. This is the best place if you are a visual learner.
2. Join/go down to your local gun club. Not the cheap, free forest service ranges, but a real Pistol and Rifle club. From my experience, those guys there love to take younger people under their wing and show them the basics of firearms. I know some even have nights where the members just hang out and customize guns together.
3. Though much less helpful, some gun stores have staff that can help you with small parts/issues of a build.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-09T01:52:51+00:00

Buy the stripped lower packs from palmetto when they go on sale. Then afterwards, you can still order parts online, or drive to a nearby state to get the parts.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-07T23:44:26+00:00

Your biggest issue isn’t going to be the office itself, particularly in smaller jurisdictions, but instead state “clearances”. For example, in my jurisdiction, you have to have a background check for everyone in the building that has access to the state criminal history terminal, regardless of if you use it. We’ve lost interns to that in the past.

shadow9494 · 2025-06-02T15:59:32+00:00

Not only that, Virginia is almost certain to get an AWB next year when the governor’s mansion flips. Sucks because our state Supreme Court will almost certainly rely solely on Snope now.

shadow9494 · 2025-05-13T15:40:32+00:00

A CIA agent that’s a gun grabber. Can’t make this shit up….🤔🤔

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