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...."that's a shame"....

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 8:05 pm By: Big Bob

Maybe JB should pardon him?
Bhahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahha

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 9:36 pm By: Big Bob

According to the polls, the American people from the beginning knew that Trump could not get a fair trial in Manhattan, given the heavily Democrat jury pool and the Soros-tainted DA. Throw is a judge who is a Joe Biden political contributor who has a daughter who is a political consultant for Biden's running mate Kamala Harris, and all the incredients were there for the kangaroo court that developed.

In the decades where I practiced law as a criminal defense attorney, I encountered a few judges who were ex-prosecutors and were still mentally prosecutors. Defense attorneys considered we faced two prosecutors, one behind the prosecution table and the other on the bench holding a gavel. Those judges were fortunately rare but they did exist. But Judge Juan Merchan went way beyond that. Most such judges did their rulings for the prosecution within grey areas where they did not think they would get overturned on appeal. Judges with integrity were always concerned about being reversed on appeal, even if they took every opportunity they thought they could get away with to side with the prosecution. With Merchan, on the other hand, it was one blatantly reversible error after another. He did not seem to care if the case got tossed on appeal, as he was hell bent on getting a conviction on these bogus charges in the short term whatever that took.

There is an old saying that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if the DA asked it to, but in this case, the trial jury was one that would convict a ham sandwich, if its name was Donald Trump. That was clear to me from the time the jury was picked. If you look at their "sources of news" only one mentioned the center-right New York Post, the third largest circulation newspaper in the United States and with most of that circulation local to New York City, but almost all mentioned the ultra-liberal New York Times. One even said he listened to Michael Cohen's podcasts but he remained on the jury. A defense attorney has a limited number of preemptory challenges to jurors which allow removing a juror for any reason, and sometimes with an adverse jury pool, as this one was, decline to exercise challenges for fear of running out of them and being stuck with jurors that are even worse.

One thing stuck out immediately about the jury from the beginning, the fact that there were two lawyers on it. Most attorneys on either side of a case take lawyers off of juries because they tend to have an inordinant influence on their fellow jurors. I have never seen a case, civil or criminal, when I was actively practicing law where one lawyer was allowed to stay on a jury, much less two. The only exception would be if you know enough about the attorney that his attitudes on matters connected with the case would be favorable to your side. The fact that the DA, who had first crack at the jury, let them stay on the jury was a sign that they knew something about them, perhaps political. I was surprised that Trump's team did not challenge both of them.

This is a sad day for the rule of law and for democracy. Clearly, the rule of law does not exist in Manhatten any more than it does in North Korea. Democracy is being seriously challenged in the United States.

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 8:29 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Hood can you say you have not been informed of Eastern being torn down?

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 1:10 pm By: County voter

Why is so much governing done n th dark, behind closed doors n LittleWashington & BeaufortCounty? Well, because the elites here long ago decided that WE pple cannot b trusted w "decision making." Rep JerryNadler told Congress that we cant trust th voters to do the right thing n an election.(summary)
We cud chewers here n th south have allowed ourselves 2b ruled by elites so long that they simply expect it. Dont get out of line!

I witnessed this 1st hand abt 30 yrs ago at an organizational meeting 4 school parents to do volunteer wk 4 high school.
We each chose our favorite subject & then regrouped to talk it over. Lo and Behold...an "elite" shows up and announces that she is our Chairman. I say WAIT... dont we pick our own chairman? She said, I dont know... I was told to come 2 this table 2b th Chairman.
So as I sd: The local elites & Governing Bodies dont trust WeThePpl, 2 do th right thing. We cant b trusted 2 do THEIR AGENDA. It really is time to stop being a farm grazer

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 11:33 am By: Washingtonian

Little Marco! If you can’t trust that wimp, who can you trust?

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 12:16 am By: Big Bob

I wonder why someone in Bath would be pushing spending all the money in a different attendance district? Something does not add up there.

What was needed was a countywide needs assessment and school population projection, not Cheeseman's half-assed resume-driven boondoggle. What was also needed was more public input in the process at a much earlier stage. The public should have been consulted early on before a specific plan was developed. They may hold meetings now to tell you what they are going to do, but transparency and public input were totally lacking in putting that plan together. That is NOT how things should work in a democratic system.

Anyone familiar with the schools has heard about needs in Chocowinity for years. They were left out of the last round of school construction. Why did none of this money go to Chocowinity? Did Cheeseman not think that would help his resume as much?

WE need a school board majority who are more than just front men for a power obsessed superintendant.

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 6:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There go Hood and Stan not telling the truth. No progress report. I saw where there is monthly meetings on the progress! It has been published multiple times that Eastern is getting torn down. Wow I guess your old ears hear like your hips do not at all! Stop the lies and tell the truth for once in your old life

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 6:56 pm By: Bath parent

Again, I echo what Commissioner Deatherage said. Why do we need a 52 million dollar dinosaur if the student population is shrinking? Why not use the 52 million to renovate already existing antiquated buildings?

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 5:53 pm By: John Valley

One other point. It's not Men of Faith. It's men of a particular faith. Like people, faith comes in all shapes and sizes. Anybody selling you on the idea that their faith is the only fail is fairly dangerous person. (see cult)

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 2:59 pm By: Big Bob

Because if rich white men can't tell women how to live, who can?
Ladies...go make me a sandwich.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 2:53 pm By: Big Bob

Again, I echo what Commissioner Deatherage said. Why do we need a 52 million dollar dinosaur if the student population is shrinking? Why not use the 52 million to renovate already existing antiquated buildings?

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 2:51 pm By: John Valley