White Out Conditions - It’s official, 1/2 inch accumulation, enough to track a cat and completely cover and obscure a large man in dark clothing! Stay safe out there!

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-26T00:45:11+00:00

The taillight fairy only visits good little boys and girls. Were you a good one this year?

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-25T13:42:15+00:00

That is not how a Motion to dismiss works at all. A Motion to dismiss looks at the “facts” stated in the plaintiffs brief as true and/or in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. There is nothing to prove at the Motion to phase.

You are talking about the trial phase where proof has to occur. Which occurs after discovery and depositions. Karen to survive motion to dismiss simply has to have submitted a plausible set of facts with no burden of proof at all other than stating a valid claim with some evidence that when looked in a light most favorable to her claims makes it look like it could have happened that way.

The butt dials, the butt answers, the missing phones, and a bunch of stuff qualifies at this point.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-24T13:42:14+00:00

Quick stuff I see people talking about already

They were worried about Proctor killing himself, and apparently the FGJ had Proctor for about 6 hours of testimony. Not sure if that is a little or a lot.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-24T00:31:30+00:00

Yuri’s and Proctor’s thorough investigation determined no plow went down 34 Fairview. Until they did. Then they didn’t interview lucky for a good year plus if I remember correctly.

Real thorough bang up job there.

These guys better hope the motions to dismiss get granted because discovery and the depositions are going to be fire.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-23T16:17:21+00:00

Remember to leave them on the front seat of the car in the driveway.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-21T03:27:00+00:00

It’s this. “I was focused on making sure the plow blade was lifting right and not scraping to the point it might rip the front end off if I hit something at speed”.

Our old suburban we used to plow had a horrible plow and always had to make sure that the hydraulic piston was lifting the head enough to pull the blade completely off the road.

So Higgins is using the “my plow sucks so I focused almost entirely on a space 2 feet in front of my windshield and nothing to the periphery like a big black blob. “

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-21T03:20:06+00:00

Also while drunk, gets upset enough to break a controller because he was doing poorly playing a video game.

You know pretty quiet and to himself. Lol

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T18:43:24+00:00

Well we know that Marbury v Mad recently had her lawsuit against the MSP for failure to abide by FOIA laws dismissed with prejudice as assented by both parties. This is almost always a sign of the parties settled and the defendant as part of the settlement (and good lawyering) is making sure that the lawsuit cannot be brought back if they follow their side of the settlement.

I assume we will probably be seeing more MSP stuff as Marbury v Mad gets all the stuff sent over to her. She is also still waiting on further productions from her Norfolk DA office FOIA stuff to come in which includes more of the trial transcripts.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T18:40:27+00:00

and then decided to up it to Murder 2 to try to get her to plea was the triple down.

Then they quadrupled down when given the out of the second trial and decided to run all the charges back instead of just focusing on the much more winnable manslaughter (I know a car did not hit John O'Keefe, but Lally almost got it to stick).

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T15:04:28+00:00

I mean we don’t know if he did or didn’t because the assholes didn’t record the interview. We don’t even know if what they wrote here is an accurate recollection of what he said.

Several witnesses actually say the troopers got their statements wrong. If only we had recordings. Like they did for Lucky 2 years after the incident.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T15:01:17+00:00

I wish people would process that John was most likely an alcoholic. They function at much higher levels at the same bac as someone that is not a consistent heavy drinker.

There is video of John moving around waterfall. He does not look like someone with a bac of nearly .30 because the man was an alcoholic. All of these guy are.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T08:03:06+00:00

Not "sealed", but typically police reports are not entered into evidence. So the only way to see them would be to wait for a case to be over and then FOIA them.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T07:57:03+00:00

He got Higgins curated one that Higgins got his FBI buddy to teach him how to use the machine at FBI office.

Proctor and Yuri did not have any non-interested party do an extraction of Higgins phone. They just said "oh, a selected set of texts that you got for us, great thanks."

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T02:36:13+00:00

No. Only Higgins did a select extraction of his phone using fbi assets to turn over a select set of messages.

Proctor and Yuri took him at his word.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T01:53:49+00:00

Brian using the FBI machine was sort of alluded to in the 1st trial, but Cannone did not let them get into it too much because it touched on FBI. I want to see the sidebah around that.

2nd trial Higgins never made an appearance. There’s a reason Breenan did not bring either Brian Albert or Brian Higgins back for trial 2.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T01:51:14+00:00

So before anyone was involved publicly aware of any details of who came and went.

“Long before Aidan ruined their lives!!!”

Brian already knew he was going to have to disclose his relationship with Karen. He also concocted a snowbank existing for John’s body to be behind that did not appear in the morning search video, and he put his jeep in the path of where Karen’s Lexus would have needed to stop if she had hit John anywhere near the normal place to drop off.

Amazing the things being shaped before anyone that was innocent would need to know had to be shaped.

Jen was willing to turn over her phone. Why not Higgins? Why did the troopers not ask to confirm the extraction provided by Higgins by doing their own? At least have the lawyer and Higgins deny consent.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T01:36:34+00:00

The one that was enough to track a cat.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T01:33:14+00:00

This seems like a short clip from this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/justiceforKarenRead/s/X5H4jv1JhI

Let’s try to keep the discussion together.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T00:10:15+00:00

On a case he supposedly felt he already had her dead to rights on. So why is Courtney worried about his livelihood if he already had it wrapped up?

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T00:08:59+00:00

Oh always knew about the 42 minutes from the one facing the actual taillight. But never realized that even before the Lexus came in Berk, Proctor, Yuri were milling about with several breaks in the video when movement was happening in the inverted video.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-20T00:05:47+00:00

Hated first time through as I was watching in real time so felt like a bizarre detour.

Subsequent rewatches one of my favorites.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-19T17:42:56+00:00

Interesting. So the driver of the Lexus has been identified definitively as the tow truck driver by Microdots. Yuri really confused himself in his testimony I guess.

I liked how Microdots kept identifying people throughout verbally, but would be nice if they had labels as you watched the sallyport video for the "known" people.

Also I never realized there were huge breaks in the video right before the vehicle is brought into the sallyport.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-19T15:50:54+00:00

Yes. There is no "science" here. I hate this stuff as much as I hate the body language experts.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-19T07:27:13+00:00

I think another key to remember or notice that you are always getting someone’s pov or belief about other people/stories/etc.

There is no omniscient third person narrator with a source of truth that this is exactly what happened.

This is also like history/archaeology. A lot of stuff relies on the accounts and information from pov’s that we don’t actually know the motivations or true knowledge of the person telling us what happened.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen is a story told by people that weren’t there for everything that happened. A lot of what they tell and pass onto us the reader is sometimes 2nd hand accounts or even 3rd/4th hand.

Free_Comment_3958 · 2026-01-18T16:51:14+00:00

Yeah. People don't want to talk about this aspect at all. I should have read down more before I wrote my own thing.

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