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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:57 AM) Email me about the CDT, I did a lot of research on the whole route when MOS was section-hiking it. Also, depending on which way you are coming from to go "into" Yellowstone, I may have done some sections myself. There was a not-for-profit called the Continental Divide Trail Association that was coordinating the efforts to finish the trail, but they went under a few months ago. I can get you maps and all sorts of other stuff. Thank you. We will be basecamping most of the trip and day hiking with one or two overnighters with BPing gear. I am also interesting in driving some unimproved roads. I have a new to me 4x4 F-150 that needs some work. We are also dropping down through New Mexico on the way home, where is your property?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2012 -> 11:08 AM) However, you do have the ability to compare with cases that are based in part on physical evidence. Certainly, I'm just saying appeals are not a valid tool to measure if something helps or hurts one side or the other. If something helps the defense 90 times out of a hundred, there could be 10 appeals that shows it helped the prosecution, but no appeals would be filed that showed it helped the defense.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:31 AM) There's a reason why the "one or two eyewitness" cases are the ones that give the worst rates of having major convictions overturned. There is no chance that a finding of innocent would be appealed or overturned (double jeopardy and all that) so we would have no objective evidence of how often one or two eyewitness cases result in the accused being found not guilty.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2012 -> 10:03 AM) However, "Eyewitness testimony is the strongest type of evidence" is generally a flaw that strongly benefits the accuser. Doesn't that depend on what the eyewitness says?

BTW this summer the missus and I will be spending 5 weeks "camping" on South Padre Island inside a house with catered meals at a Boy Scout Sea Base. Then, three weeks following the Continental Divide into Yellowstone. Finally 4 days abourd a sailboat leaving port in Kemah, Texas and cruising the bay and out into the Gulf de Mexico.

As flawed as our legal system is, we generally allow the flaws to benefit the accused moreso than the prosecutor. That is good.

I think you could even have a subcategory of tragic/disappointment to set him apart from the self destruction disappointents like Gooden.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) Any suggestions on some nice camping spots within 4-5 hours of Chicago? I've done a lot of camping in the past, but it's always been overnight fishing and hunting type stuff. I've never actually gone out camping without the intention of fishing/hunting, so I've been looking around for some nice campgrounds and such (West Michigan has a ton of nice ones) that I can take a couple friends out with for a night or two. I always favored the north woods of Wisconsin.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:31 PM) Yeah, that is the tough-guy way to say it...unfortunately, it doesn't actually achieve anything. You can't say "Support our local community businesses...which revolve around you leaving your home and drinking alcohol at our establishments, meanwhile not having the infrastructure to support such behavior, and then sticking it to that person to make up for your other s***ty budgetary shortfalls. It is really easy for you to say this, Reddy, because you live in New York, where there are an abundance of cabs and trains to take if you've been out. Trying living in a non-metropolitan area. Don't mistake my position as advocating or tolerating DUI, because I don't. No one is advertising drink to excess and drive yourself. Laws have restricted advertising of alcohol. Bars have had restrictions on happy hour drinks. Why should there be any infrastructure for being drinking too much? Know when to say when. Have a designated driver. Don't order six drinks. And society has offered a ton of warnings and deterents. I believe you would have a better case if DUI was cheap. That would be society saying hey it's no big deal. Instead the penalties are plastered on bill boards and everyone knows.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 23, 2012 -> 01:02 PM) Compare the fines of other misdemeanors and felonies to those imposed by the system in place that they put DUI offenders through...ask a DUI lawyer in Illinois how much money a DUI is going to cost as opposed to other more serious crimes. And look at jail time compared. Too little jail time for DUIs. People are buying their way out of jail.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:51 PM) There is nothing stated about the recipients of the information knowing it was MNPI. Could the investors this may have been told to be reasonably expected to be unaware it was MNPI?

I see your point, which leads me to this; If he is going to bet his freedom on the exact wording of the stand your ground, I'd suggest he skip the jury and go with the judge.

You could say that about any fine that the courts impose. It all generates income and there are ways to make people pay. The anti-DUI lobby is strong and gets stronger everytime someone is killed by a drunk driver. I will agree fines should be lower and jail time longer.

I believe it will help the defense by adding to the uncertainty. Hello shadows of doubt.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 3, 2012 -> 04:31 PM) What does flash support have to do with posting here? And mobile flash is dead...Adobe killed support for it. So expect fewer and fewer things to bother supporting it, such as they already are. I just saw this. I am assuming that like my school's internal site several of the menus and features use flash. So when trying to post here, quick post works but not the full feature post.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 23, 2012 -> 11:09 AM) 27? 28? Right about the age where you think you've got the world all figured out... Sitting here in a classroom with 14-15 year olds and they all believe they have the world figured out.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2012 -> 12:22 PM) Important witnesses are now changing their stories. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0,3635603.story Oh boy, this is going to be fun.

he was a grinder before we knew about grinders.

f*** 'em some of them cops are Cubs fans Seriously, nice gesture and solid pub for the team.

DUI in Vegas? Wow. He needs to sell his car and hire an attorney. And BTW, this could have been discussed in SL&M, I can't believe a 'buster dustup could happen with this topic. But I've been wrong before

The last few seasons I've thought that I would like to see Hawk move to color as part of a three person crew. I don't want to see him gone, it ushers in what I feel will be the era of bland announcers who sound like computers each one interchangeable with another.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ May 22, 2012 -> 12:49 PM) This thread is best served on ice and read in a Hulk Hogan voice.

I decided to bookmark this thread and only continue reading after a few beers. I think it will make a great thread AWESOME.

BTW, as I was watching one of the reports a thought crossed my mind. How objective are the police in their report? In the back of my head I am thinking, hey Zimmerman basically tried being a cop and failed. Like many professionals, isn't there a tendency to be thinking, he should have waited for someone like "me" to be there. No one but a cop can do this job. Kind of like taking your car into a mechanic after you tried to fix it and failed. Or hiring any professional after you tried and failed. By criticizing Zimmerman they make themselves look better. Just tossing something new to think about.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 17, 2012 -> 01:17 PM) Name me a single violent/disruptive protest that has led to some new progressive change. Boston Tea Party? Civil Rights? Watts? Rodney King? Various Whaling Protests? Suicide bombers?