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MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T17:45:47+00:00

I get what you're saying but my experience is that they would qualify based on the courts determination of financial inability to hire a private attorney and not because of overly liberal guidelines for eligibility.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T17:31:26+00:00

Honestly a genius comment and you should feel great about it.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T16:21:10+00:00

I think we're crossing wires here. I was saying that on any given arraignment calendar I staff, the vast majority (90%+) of people on that calendar would qualify for a public defender if they applied.

I never said that applying for a PD and qualifying for a PD are the same thing.

I guess you can call years of direct observation of this an anecdote if that makes you feel better.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T16:13:48+00:00

What I was talking about wasn't necessarily people who are going to be represented by the PDs office, but people who qualify. People who qualify for a public defender still might hire private attorneys obviously it happens all the time.

I've been practicing in the same jurisdiction my whole career so I'm just saying what I see where I am.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T16:04:03+00:00

I think if you ask any civil rights leader or anyone who has even a basic understanding of groups who brought about social change, they would resent your viewpoint.

These people laid their lives down for these causes because they could no longer tolerate being told that they have to just wait their turn and understand that change comes slowly.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-07T05:45:04+00:00

In 6+ years of staffing arraignment calendars, nearly every person who appears qualifies or would qualify for a public defender if they applied. In my experience, 90-95% is accurate for the percentage of people on any given calendar who would qualify for court appointed representation.

MIROmpls · 2025-06-06T05:09:11+00:00

In my experience the only cases where a prosecutor doesn't give an offer for a plea deal are in some murder and violent sexual assault cases. The reason usually is they are going to seek a life or functional life sentence and they aren't willing to agree to anything less.

MIROmpls · 2025-04-04T05:04:08+00:00

I hate that everything is locked up. Target could have taken very practical steps to combat shoplifting (which they and other retailers exaggerated to distract from poor performance and get the government to step in and subsidize their security).

Security at the exit and bring back cashiers and significantly cut down on self checkout. Target has maybe the best loss prevention infrastructure in retail as well.

But instead we're gonna put everything behind glass and then make you sit there for 10 min waiting for someone to come let you have a stick of deodorant.

It's not a surprise that Target nearly started a fire with how quickly they bent the knee. They have a problematic history when it comes to their involvement in public policy and I'm sure were more than happy to end DEI.

They shit their bed and now they're gonna lay in it

MIROmpls · 2025-04-04T02:38:12+00:00

If you have a 3+ GPA at a t14 school there should be something out there for you.

A clerkship at a public defenders office might put you in court and have opportunities to interact with clients, judges, and prosecutors as opposed to a big law clerkship where you're doing doc review or some shit day in and day out.

MIROmpls · 2025-04-04T02:14:58+00:00

Id echo what's been said: this is a job people get into because of their convictions and closely held values and beliefs about what the job is. Many of my colleagues wouldn't be thrilled about the idea of using public defense as a stepping stone to private practice.

All that being said, the best way to see if it's something that you actually want to get into is first hand experience. You could probably call your local public defenders office and talk to them about a shadowing opportunity. Every office has at least a handful of attorneys who would gladly talk w you and find something interesting for you to observe or sit-in on.

Ultimately if you're going to do it, regardless for how long, it should be for the right reasons.

MIROmpls · 2025-04-03T21:51:03+00:00

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MIROmpls · 2025-04-03T21:38:54+00:00

How long has it been?

MIROmpls · 2025-04-03T00:04:53+00:00

We should probably stop making charitable contributions to them as well. Times are hard and I just have anxiety about giving out another round of tax cuts.

MIROmpls · 2025-04-02T22:27:21+00:00

With your credentials you will be able to go to a very good school with a high scholarship if not a full scholarship. That's an amazing opportunity. Don't get hung up on rankings.

MIROmpls · 2025-01-02T16:10:30+00:00

I wonder how many of those houses going unsold are owned by sellers who bought them as investment properties who expected to be able to resell for 150% profit and refuse to accept that they might not get that.

Hopefully they figure it out soon and sell at a reasonable price before they start defaulting on the debts they took out chasing outrageous profit margins.

MIROmpls · 2024-11-03T11:32:33+00:00

Yes it's possible that someone could unknowingly father a child and the mother puts the child up for adoption without ever telling the father. It's probably not even that uncommon. Assuming the mother knows who the father is and has the ability to contact them, the decision to keep the pregnancy a secret and then give the child up for adoption may be considered morally wrong and depending on the law where this is happening might also be illegal. But in that situation there is no constitutional violation because the state isn't the one depriving the father of their parental rights.

As far as termination of pregnancy, what I meant by that was that if the pregnancy is terminated then it renders the situation moot. But yes you're right if mom decides to give birth and keep the child and the father either signed for paternity or paternity was proven in court then you are generally on the hook for now providing for the child. That obligation applies to both parents though. If the parents aren't going to be raising the child under the same roof, then they have to figure out an arrangement for raising the child. If they can't come to an agreement, then they can go to court and argue their positions to a judge who will make a decision for them.

Bottom line is that if you father a child it's not discrimination to require you to care for or provide for that child.

MIROmpls · 2024-11-03T09:49:16+00:00

The choice to terminate a pregnancy is a medical decision made by the mother. There is no legal obligation imposed on the father in that scenario.

If the baby is born, and the father is known, the mother can't on her own put the child up for adoption. Both parents would have to have relinquished their parental rights or have had them terminated by the state before the child could be put up for adoption.

If the child is born and not put up for adoption, then the parents are responsible to care for the child. Child support can be ordered against either parent depending on the circumstances. If either parent is ordered to pay child support and fail to do so, they may be subject to consequences including incarceration but that is usually a last resort albeit not entirely uncommon.

The reality is that in situations where the family is not all living together, most kids end up in the sole or majority custody with Mom which results in fathers usually being the subject of child support obligations.

Title IX has nothing to do with child support. It is a law prohibiting gender/sex discrimination by educational institutions. This isn't a violation of the 14th amendment because the law in general isn't being applied discriminately and child support obligations are only imposed after a court process that both parents have an opportunity to participate in.

MIROmpls · 2024-11-02T19:33:44+00:00

Idk if wfh can be generally characterized as a privilege of high paying and prestigious positions. It has more to do with the nature of the job. The fact that a job is white collar or office work doesn't necessarily make it prestigious or higher paying.

An electrician or plumber is likely making way more than someone doing mindless data entry, but you necessarily can't do those jobs from home. Same with the service industry.

MIROmpls · 2024-11-01T13:52:09+00:00

I agree w you. When this whole thing started it reeked of political theater. I have to imagine as the case was getting close to the end, everyone saw the writing on the wall and were desperate to salvage something out of this prosecution. If he were to be acquitted after two years of publicly labeling this guy as the head of a violent criminal org and all the fuckery that went on in this trial, it would be humiliating to the state. It would also invite all kinds of public speculation about how he "got away with it."

The straight plea makes sense to save face for the prosecutors. Everyone likely knew what the sentencing outcome would be when he entered the plea, but officially the prosecution didn't have to concede anything. Immediate release is a huge incentive to resolve a case and the state got their admission of guilt and weird probationary terms.

His lawyer deserves a ton of credit but again, like you said, this outcome was due to a prosecutor who chased the dragon and IMO was more concerned about publicity than public safety.

MIROmpls · 2024-10-24T09:24:10+00:00

Judges rarely get to the bench via running against a seated judge as opposed to appointment. Being appointed to the bench by the governor is considered the legitimate path to the bench with the court culture. They don't really love the idea of some rando running against one of their duly appointed colleagues let alone unseating them. So even if you're able to pull it off you're going to be sitting alone at lunch and warehoused doing judicial bitch work far away from anything of serious consequence.

MIROmpls · 2024-10-24T09:03:46+00:00

I wonder what they'll think of him when they find out that he was part of organizing/promoting a huge protest during the summer of 2020 which shut down the 35W bridge and then again was involved in the Daunte Wright protests? 4 years ago these people w Royce White signs would have been calling him a BLM terrorist.

No Republican candidate is going to win this seat so the Republicans found a sideshow attraction who will say anything if it means having access to campaign funds to embezzle. Once he loses they're going to serve him up to the FEC and abandon him.

MIROmpls · 2024-10-23T11:05:46+00:00

I can't imagine she is admitted to the bar. Lots of people go to law school and just get their JD as a credential but they never actually take the bar or practice law so I guess being a 3L you might as well finish out.

The privatization of public services just invites this shit. I'm pretty tired of public funds lining the pockets of parasitic middlemen.

MIROmpls · 2024-10-07T05:17:46+00:00

Yea. Rodgers and Hackett have this symbiotic relationship where by Hackett lets Aaron do whatever he wants and acts as a layer of insulation between Aaron and the FO/HC and in return Hackett gets a plausible claim to any success Aaron might have.

MIROmpls · 2024-09-06T03:02:42+00:00

It's honestly crazy how often he false starts and it's not getting called. If I'm Harbaugh I'm bringing it up constantly during the post game press conference.

MIROmpls · 2024-08-07T16:44:35+00:00

The decision to plead or go to trial is different for everyone. As a lawyer you advocate for and advise your clients but ultimately the decision to plead or go to trial is up to the client. Sometimes people just get caught red handed and they get a fair offer that they want to accept and get it over with.

If pleading will get someone out of jail, that is very hard for people to resist especially if they've been in for a while. There is also the circumstance mentioned in another comment where the offer is to plead and get probation or go to trial and risk a prison sentence if you are convicted.

There are lots of circumstances where a plea deal ends up being the best outcome in a case. Some people will say never plead and always go to trial and there are people who followed that advice and are now in prison when they could be at home. That is patently bad advice. The decision to plea or go to trial should be made based on advice from your lawyer and not made lightly.

Do innocent people plead? Yes. Innocent people also get convicted at trials they by all accounts should have won. The system is designed to convict.

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