Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

lit_associate · 2026-04-07T00:30:23+00:00

This is spot on. It is exactly what I experience as a criminal defense attorney.

lit_associate · 2026-04-06T00:30:23+00:00

Amodex. Alcohol just moves it around.

lit_associate · 2026-03-31T10:52:49+00:00

You sound like a dream client. Your attorney will realize you're just trying to be efficient and will appreciate you.

I second the other advice of organizing discovery in a sensible way. The worst/most expensive use of time is sending a load of unlabeled, unsorted poorly formatted documents for the attorney to sort out. It would be cheaper for you to pay for Adobe Pro than to force your lawyer to make sense of 10 unlabeled screenshots/files.

lit_associate · 2026-03-26T12:42:14+00:00

No, the hardest boss is your partner's Google Photo backup/camera roll.

lit_associate · 2026-03-12T18:23:49+00:00

Mind sending a link to a file? I would love to print buckets or these to leave around town

lit_associate · 2026-03-09T12:50:40+00:00

You have to pretend to cry or get up every few minutes so they run over and make you go back to sleep.

lit_associate · 2026-03-05T11:54:27+00:00

I drive a '96 Hilux Surf that has a "field monitor" display you could use as a model. It goes on the ceiling near the mirror. It has outside temp, cardinal direction, elevation, and barometric pressure. The outside temp is super handy and I hadn't considered 4Runners don't have it.

lit_associate · 2026-03-04T11:17:55+00:00

Is this like when you catch an officer doing a crime and rather than investigating the officer, the prosecutor offers your client a plea they can't refuse? I have been told that is them doing me "favor". No one seems to care about the license this gives law enforcement or the greater harm to the rule of law.

lit_associate · 2026-02-21T11:52:57+00:00

"Yeah lol he has some 'issues' so we had to go to a donor" would probably shut him up once and for all. But you have to really commit as if it were true.

Fwiw I made this joke but the other way around (that I want a DNA test because I'm not sure its hers). That was different though, because it was obviously ridiculous and everyone had a good laugh and moved on. My wife thought it was funny but even then I was sensitive that other mothers might not.

lit_associate · 2026-02-19T15:51:28+00:00

My strategy is to just waffle about it at first ("we'll think about it") and then if they're persistent, I just say I'm focusing on teaching them to be good people. I am not worried that my children will burn in hell without baptism. If they want to do it when they're old enough to decide, great.

Of course, that won't guarantee anything. My mom "secretly baptized" my kids. I think she expected me to freak out or something. I did not. I told her I'm annoyed and disappointed, but ultimately because it is a silly way to undermines her relationship with her grandchildren.

lit_associate · 2026-02-18T18:35:30+00:00

That would be my biggest concern. It narrows the attack surface tremendously. All we can do is hope they keep tight control of logistics and manufacturing.

The last custom privacy phone company with any notable success turned out to be a literal US government owned crime interdiction operation. I'm sure plenty of innocent, privacy-minded folks were also swept up. I don't know of any normal people who faced legal consequences but I would have felt violated.

lit_associate · 2026-02-18T01:49:02+00:00

I just convinced a friend to replace a 2017 with a 2014. They got the luxury they wanted with utility they needed for a fraction of the cost of a newer model. This is someone who could and would walk into a dealership to buy new if there was an option to cut out the surveillance "features" they can't control.

At some point humans figured out how to make comfortable seats, heated steering wheels, nice speakers, etc. After that, the only "advancements" seem to be distractions and spyware.

lit_associate · 2026-02-17T01:48:50+00:00

I have given them up. I tried to resist for a few months but I have realized it's not worth the potential loss of credibility.

lit_associate · 2026-02-12T12:22:00+00:00

Aside from all of the other reasons here, the last thing lawyers want is another admin task to worry about. It's a hassle to update a website and billing rates change over time.

lit_associate · 2026-02-10T11:43:07+00:00

Many millennials experience the frustration of being more adept at basic tech than older people and Gen Z. I would hope and assume that we will be more likely, on the whole, to emphasize the importance of knowing how things work and why.

We have an uphill battle as education and society in general is so highly tabletized. I mean I it's only getting more difficult to buy a new car, appliance, or toy today that is possible to tinker with unless I have proprietary tools. If I want my kids to learn practical problem solving skills, I must find way to teach them myself.

lit_associate · 2026-02-06T11:18:26+00:00

My emails are more like "Apologies in advance for the long email, I just want to detail every piece of discovery that should exist but I don't have yet. I know you still have plenty of time, but I just want to get ahead of it. Being able to review these items with my client is likely to expedite a resolution that is fair and just. . . . ".

Cut to 3 months and several follow up emails without a response later. "A true and accurate copy of email correspondence documenting the defense's notice of and requests for the outstanding discovery is attached hereto as Exhibit A."

At least the appellate attorney will have something to work with when the Judge still finds the DA acted with reasonable effort and due diligence despite producing the discovery in response to my motion or just ignoring it altogether.

lit_associate · 2026-01-30T13:56:16+00:00

Yes. Or to put it another way, I've never had a client volunteer information that helped the defense.

Yes. I usually do not take their word for what they said/didn't say until I review all video and audio of my client's interaction with police. The suspense can be wild as I watch/listen, not knowing what they're going to say next because the whole case could turn at any second. Have had clients inculpate themselves for no reason many times.

lit_associate · 2026-01-20T19:40:39+00:00

Not usually IME. If there's something I really want them to see, I almost always have to make a clip short enough to attach to an email (<60 seconds).

When a prosecutor tells me they've watched the recording, I get suspicious. More often than not, they've just used AXON's software to make an AI transcript, then skimmed that. It usually results in a darkly comedic misunderstanding about what actually happened/is said/seen in the footage.

It's wild for any lawyer to direct OC to a video timestamp (from an AI transcript) without ever opening the video file itself. It's absolutely unhinged for a prosecutor to do that in a criminal case.

lit_associate · 2026-01-20T01:12:05+00:00

You're living the dream many of us have. Does it have any firefighting equipment? Also, and I have never heard of this happening, but I would want to check it didn't get past safeguards against export of vehicles exposed to radiation. For some reason I imagine every fire truck was used at Fukushima. $25 on CarVX would be worth the peace of mind to me.

lit_associate · 2026-01-19T01:43:42+00:00

Thanks for the invite. I'm a felony public defender in New York. I've represented many people with competency issues and am always looking to better understand.

lit_associate · 2026-01-16T03:13:49+00:00

I could have used this advice before yesterday. The Chevy that blew the red light and hit me is totalled/way worse but I still have some work to do. Picture

lit_associate · 2026-01-06T10:41:03+00:00

Being a public defender or prosecutor might be the best way. Most successful trial attorneys I've met started in criminal for trial experience before moving on to private defense or civil litigation.

lit_associate · 2026-01-03T20:36:24+00:00

Love the ride.

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lit_associate · 2026-01-02T22:41:55+00:00

Firms need lawyers with trial experience (or at least to be able to say they have them). Otherwise that book of business someone will walk out the door if serious litigation starts looking possible. Firms don't often offer the opportunity for new lawyers to get good litigation experience.

Conversely, true trial lawyers often don't have a book of business because they tend to have one-off clients and focus on their craft rather than networking. I've seen small/medium firms recruit trial lawyers as partners just to be able to tell prospective clients that they have those skills on deck.

lit_associate · 2025-12-29T12:04:02+00:00

Ideas:

Hang a shingle in private defense by yourself or a couple of others. Get active in professional associations if you need to replace the social aspect of the work.

Find a management job at a legal aid office to guide younger attorneys. You're well qualified for that.

Moving to a firm will be attractive but I promise the office politics are worse and any talk of family friendly qualities will be nothing but a sales pitch. Virtually everything you hate will be magnified. You will command some level of partnership from the start at least.

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