Random Friday Morning Thoughts

I'm not finding that any criminal case was ever filed in court against the guy. His bond was "released" on 12/17/15 which would happen if a decision was made to decline the case for prosecution or if no-billed by the grand jury. 

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• Gold.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my! Simone Biles from the top rope!
  
  
  
• Bad lawyer. "The Texas attorney who was arrested on charges of attempting to buy the unborn children of Tarrant County inmates led an adoption agency whose accreditation for international services was canceled in 2019. Jody Hall, 68 — a Texas-based family and immigration attorney — was booked into" jail on a Tarrant County warrant.
  

  

  
  
• Legally, this is pretty wild. The trial judge who just finished presiding over the case decided (PDF) that he shouldn't have let an expert witness on damages testify and decided that the jury's award was calculated because they relied soley on his testimony.  (Here's a great thread explaining it.)
  
  
  
• This story dropped a few moments ago by the Washington Post. It's pretty wild.
  
  
  
• MAGA darling Kyle Rittenhouse announces his presidential choice and it is not Trump.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• My love of newspaper front pages takes another body blow.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. This confused because I figured Austin was booming. But it looks like Southwest is cutting into their business.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Flashback: 30 years ago this week.
  
  
  
• Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 5 years and 28 days.