Recent content by AutoPoster 3000

As soon as it was discovered that another person, who’s appearance was not that dissimilar, who had been accused of nearly the exact same crime on the exact same premises two weeks earlier, and was in the exact location where the assault took place exactly when it happened, within arms reach of...

It’s time we abandon this defunct conception of “college sports” as some kind of cohesive institution that encompasses every program at every school. Revenue-generating major college football and basketball have morphed their own thing and need to be spun off, restructured, and regulated as...

Totally agree. If you die, fearing god, and painfully employed No you will not go to heaven, you’ll go to Urbana Illinois

Since it’s something on topic for the thread, I’m going to take this as my one time opportunity to rant against “UIUC”, a name I always disliked. After I graduated in 2008 I got a job in New York. I have not said “UIUC” or “the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign” since. If I told someone...

I’ve stayed off this thread for a long time. That’s my public service to all of you. You’re welcome. Just jumping back on briefly because someone needs to point out that this is not at all how things work in actual criminal trials. If the defense theory is that someone else committed the...

I still can’t help but think the 4th and 3 OPI non-call in the 2022 Michigan game was such a significant and ultimately catastrophic inflection point for this program. Win that game, win the B1G west, and the trajectory for recruiting, NIL donor funds, overall perception could have been so...

With this Broncos rebrand I have to assume some kind of planned obsolescence. The superfluous triangle “speed holes” side graphic, topographical triangle horse mane half helmet stripe, 5120 Easter egg on the pants, and mountain-peak (is it though?) shoulder stripe are so gimmicky and ephemeral...

I sometimes imagine a scenario ten or fifteen years in the future where the CFB super-league that most of us believe is inevitable finally forms and Illinois is left out. We then align with other former P5 cast-offs who missed the cut to form a second-tier minor league with a manageable number...

Nobody is trying to resolve this case by offering the accuser compensation while the criminal case is ongoing. That’s wrong and I can explain why it’s wrong. In civil litigation, there is a rule of evidence that says a party cannot introduce evidence at trial concerning the other party’s...

Yes, I’m sure Rob Lang, Steve Beckett, Mark Goldenberg, Zoe Spector, Tom Horscroft, and Mark Sutter, all reputable attorneys at the top of their profession, with very lucrative practices where they represent thousands of clients, are going to risk all that, risk destroying the reputation they...

Maybe I don’t understand the line of reasoning being expressed here, but a criminal defense attorney is not going to negotiate with an accuser to reach a deal to drop charges in exchange for compensation. That’s called witness tampering. It’s very illegal. There’s a world of difference between...

I don’t think anyone has said these opinions are problematic. To be fair, who here has said that they think this a strong or compelling case against TJ based on the information we have heard so far? Who has said there should be condemnation now and that we should rush to judgment? I don’t...

Yes I know this is hard to believe but people who commit sex crimes will often do so when there are no witnesses and will do things that won’t leave behind incriminating physical evidence. I guess they did not cover sex predator behavior patterns in your child and adolescent psychology classes...

Since 04-05 pointed out to me that Kansas does not require a grand jury indictment, I have to back off my assertions about charging the misdemeanor. Apparently in Kansas the defendant can demand a preliminary hearing or waive it but in either case the prosecution can go to trial on nothing but a...

I see. I was not aware. That actually explains some of this. That’s the problem trying to make sense out of proceedings in other jurisdictions that you’re not familiar with. I don’t understand what this Kansas DA is doing. It’s so peculiar to me for a prosecutor to drop a serious felony charge...