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As a lawyer, let me correct Bob's gross misunderstanding of the law. In North Carolina, as in New York, if there are factors where a party cannot get a fair trial in the jurisdiction where charges are pending due to a tainted jury pool, there are two remedies. One is a change of venue, where the entire trial is moved to another jurisdiction with a fairer jury pool. The other is a special venire, where the trial itself is not moved, but jurors are brought in from another jurisdiction where there is a fairer jury pool.

Three times while I was actively practicing law I was involved in cases where the venue was changed. One was a capital murder case in Martin County. The trial judge initially denied our motion to change venue, but after a week of trying to seat a jury, he finally understood the issues we had raised in our motion, took up our motion again and changed venue to Pitt County. Another was a drug smuggling case in Hyde County, where a Wilmington attorney for a different defendant got in the case early and moved for a change of venue and it was moved to Martin County. When other defendants got local attorneys, we all considered that a very bad move, and we all moved to have venue returned to Hyde County, which the court did. The third was a civil case originally filed in Duplin County, on which venue was changed on my motion to Beaufort County.

My late law partner John Wilkinson was hired by the victim's family as a private prosecutor in the notorious Joan Little murder case here in Beaufort County. As private prosecutor, he could only consult and advise the District Attorney's office. In that case, venue was changed on the defendant's motion to Wake County. That was very adverse to the prosecution, but our local Democrat DA, William Griffin went along with it for political reasons. The laws on change of venue required the case be sent to either another county in the same judicial district or a district that bordered our district. Wake County did not qualify as a county to which venue should have been changed.

Probably the most famous trial that ever happened in Beaufort County, the George Washington Carawan murder case involved a crime that actually happened in Hyde County. The venue was changed to Beaufort County because of fears he could not get a fair trial in Hyde where the murder happened.

I do not think I have ever seen a case where justice cried out for a change of venue or special venire more than the Manhattan case against Trump.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Commit a crime in BC, you get a BC jury. Commit a crime in NY, get a NY jury. WTF. Its always been this way.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 2:12 pm By: Big Bob

Bobbie doesn't know if MC was telling the truth. But 12 members of the jury thought he was. That's how it works.

Now Hunter is in court on a gun charge. So far, no spirited defense of him. He is the presidents son and not above the law, yet all I hear is ..crickets.

And you want to be my firearms dealer!

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 12:13 pm By: Big Bob

Thom Tillis is nothing but an Undocumented Democrat. He has been voting against Republicans regularly. He should be target number one to take down in the 2026 primary, and if he survives that, no thinking conservative should ever hold their nose again to vote for him in the general election. Might as well have an admitted Democrat than phony baloney Tillis.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 12:11 pm By: Rino Hunter

Big Bob. I treat people like crap when they treat me like crap. Elitists like you think us commoners are honor bound to believe any lie handed to us. When anyone has the courage to disagree he is considered a bad person. To disagree is a sin in the liberal community. That is why liberals get along so well with each other. Swearing to each other lies. How is that working out for you.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 10:50 am By: Hood Richardson

Court - where MAGA goes to die. Why? Its the one place left where you have to tell the truth. IT'S why you will never see Trump and pals testify if they can help it. Just compare what these jerks say out on the street vs what they say in court. It's very different and why they rarely win.

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 9:05 am By: Big Bob

Every bit of it is true, Bolshevik Bob, and that is why this abuse of our courts for political purposes is such a threat to our democracy. It is just like Stalin, Putin, Hitler, Maduro, Xi, or you name the dictator.

As usual, Marxist internet troll Bolshevik Bob uses an Orwellian Newspeak definition of the word "true". When he uses it, "true" means "consistent with the far left narrative."

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 9:12 am By: John Steed

I'll say it again for everyone in the back of the room:

Trump isn't going to prison, there isn't going to a "Civil War" and Illuminati members don't go to jail.

Trump's going to be publicly reinstalled in November as that has been the plan the whole time. For every problem THEY create, THEY manufacture a solution to keep the cycle going unless smart people begin pointing out that the emperor ain't got no clothes on.

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 9:33 pm By: John Valley

There are written ethics rules in most courts prohibiting judges from contributing to political candidates. That is true in North Carolina courts, in federal courts, and in New York courts. Juan Merchan blatantly violated that ethics rule by contributing to Biden and other Democrats. The case he was hearing had a direct bearing on the political fortunes of a candidate he had contributed to, Joe Biden. Merchan chose to ignore that ethics rule. In a fair system, he would face a proceeding to remove him as a judge and probably one to disbar him as well, but this is New York and for political reasons that will not happen.

There has been no evidence of anyone on the Supreme Court making any contributions to any political candidates. If that happened, which is hasn't, that would be a violation.

With Merchan, he also violated another specific ethics rule for judges in New York which prohibits a judge hearing a case where the judge's family member can financially gain from its result. Merchan's Democrat political consultant daughter who works for Biden-Harris had an obvious financial gain from Merchan's handling of this case.

There is absolutely no equivalancy between Merchan's violation of the ethics rules and the ridiculous attampts by the left to intimidate the Supreme Court over things that are not rules violations.

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 9:13 pm By: John Steed

The solid piece of legislation to secure the border is HR2, which has already passed the House of Representatives, but Schumer has let it languish in the Senate. That needs to be passed through the Senate and send to Biden.

The overwhelming majority of illegal alien migrants are military aged males, NOT women and children. Of those who claim to be "unaccompanied minors" the countries which have verified actual age have found that a majoriy of them are really adults who are lying about their age. Norway was the highest, finding that 90% of them were adults lying about their age.

When someone crosses the border illegally, they need to be turned around and sent back like Hungary does. Australia with its highly successful Operation Sovereign Borders, led by a military general, intercepted migrant boats at sea and turned them around, at gunpoint if necessary.

As far as illegal aliens that Biden has let in, all nine million of them, they need to be rounded up and sent home. In the last year or so, Pakistan and Israel have both adopted policies to do that. President Eisenhower did it in the US in Operation Wetback. Multiple polls have shown that American voters support mass deportation of illegal aliens.

What Biden has "offered to do" is just continue his open border policies with a little minor and meaningless window dressing. He is putting a bandaid on a cancer.

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 6:52 pm By: borderhawk

Ok CT..if things are so bad in the justice system, as you say, I'm looking forward to your spirited defense of Hunter Biden. No 2nd amendment supporter can stand by while he is brought up on gun charges. Come on man. Stand up for guns!

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By: Big Bob

No honest man can complain about one side of the coin while ignoring the other.

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 2:39 pm By: Big Bob