rprasad

8 ms·

1.
by rprasad 14y ago
I have 3 sudoku apps on my phone; I can tell you what you are missing: scratch marks. At higher difficulties, it is absolutely necessary to be able to note eliminations or possibilities within a square. Without that, the best you can hope
2.
by rprasad 14y ago
The Piers Morgan petition was only a softball to those capable of rational thought. To the many people who signed it, it was a legitimate petition. The purpose of raising the signature limit was to prevent petitions like that from reachin
3.
by rprasad 14y ago
America is not a democracy. It is a republic. The states are also republics, though feature some democratic traits, i.e., the initiative process.
4.
by rprasad 14y ago
It's an uninformed comment by some woman taking advantage of the case to burnish her own image. However, if he plead guilty to a felony, he could have been sentenced to as many as 5 years, despite the government's agreement not to argue fo
5.
by rprasad 14y ago
Two weeks after the Secret Service raided his house in conjunction with the investigation led by Heymann into the theft of tens of thousands of credit card numbers, James was found dead. Innocent people do not kill themselves when confron
6.
by rprasad 14y ago
California became a one-party state in 2012. Prior to 2012, it was very much a two-party state, and the problems date as far back as the 1990s, when it was still considered a swing state.
7.
by rprasad 14y ago
You are. You're skipping the most important part of the criminal process: the trial . * don't bet on a fair trial, even if you're completely innocent. * Hyperbole, and dangerous exaggeration. The "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard is a v
8.
by rprasad 14y ago
That's not how criminal procedure works. Pursuant to constitutional law, you are required to start with the charges first, so the defendant knows what they are being accused of and can prepare a defense. In some but not all jurisdictions
9.
by rprasad 14y ago
Getting rid of plea bargaining doesn't make the problem better; it makes it worse by removing any compromise between walking away and the maximum sentence. From my own experience: in mental committment proceedings, there is no halfway poi
10.
by rprasad 14y ago
When a legislator say they will "look" at something, it means they don't intend to actually do anything about it but are simply attempting to pacify their constituents by promising something .
11.
by rprasad 14y ago
Wrong country. If they had pulled those stunts in America, 2 of them wouldn't be sitting in a prison cell right now.
12.
by rprasad 14y ago
This petition is guranteed to fail. The domain of writing, passing, and modifying laws is the domain of Congress , not the President. You can pester the President all you want, but it is not within his Constitutional powers to do anythin
13.
by rprasad 14y ago
Unfortunately, because they can. Though generally, "loser" cases are handed off to younger lawyers as training exercises. The lawyers aren't expected to win the case but get the experience of trying a case before a real jury. It's a lot
14.
by rprasad 14y ago
My perspective probably differs, since I used to work for the public defender and never lost a jury trial, so I can see how most people would find the situation very stressful. But I do stand by my point that most defendants do not commit s
15.
by rprasad 14y ago
For conflicting evidence, I would point to the California initiative process, which is the reason California's government is nonfunctional and almost bankrupt right now.
16.
by rprasad 14y ago
The Death Star petition and the Piers Morgan petition were the straws that broke the camel's back, according to a friend in the WH PR dept.
17.
by rprasad 14y ago
It's likely that Ms. Ortiz would choose to fight such charges, i.e., go to trial, and would triumph before a jury. This is generally the outcome when the government tries to pursue outlandish charges -- it loses in court. Thus, the desired
18.
by rprasad 14y ago
That's like saying that if your father raped someone, you raped that person too. It's the same logic that was applied to Jews, Gypsies, and slaves for centuries (and is still applied in the Middle East today). It has no place in modern di
19.
by rprasad 14y ago
America's population is also larger than the combined populations of those (all European) countries, and the is significantly larger geographically, making the provision of health care much more difficult. The outcome changes when you only
20.
by rprasad 14y ago
Marching down the middle of the street is not illegal. Indeed, many fundamental cases of constitutional law note that the street is a "per se" public forum, i.e., the most public a forum can be, and is thus subject to the highest protectio
21.
by rprasad 14y ago
Well, unlike most defendants he chose not to find out how well it would work out, so we'll never know.
22.
by rprasad 14y ago
It's not easy to check: PACER does not provide that sort of functionality and the courts have not bothered to record death of defendant as a data field. You're welcome to attempt this project by hand; it will probably take you the rest of
23.
by rprasad 14y ago
According to the WSJ, about 6-7 months, which is what the prosecutor actually sought against Swartz. 35 years was the maximum potential prison sentence allowed by the law; it was not the prison sentence that the prosecutors were seeking.
24.
by rprasad 14y ago
USG, having become entirely inconsistent with its founding philosophy, the purported highest law of the land, and the People's will, has ceased being a legitimate government by or for the People. I suggest you read up on your U.S. history
25.
by rprasad 14y ago
You're overthinking it. It's a pro forma activity that takes all of 30 seconds, and doing it now means they can close the case file sooner rather than later.
26.
by rprasad 14y ago
The state is not a person, and ergo cannot be your friend. However, the state is a collection of persons, both elected, appointed, and hired, and many of those persons can be your friend. Indeed, I count a number of such persons among my
27.
by rprasad 14y ago
Cruel? He hasn't been excuted for exposing private government communications, including internal communications on national security issues and correspondence with foreign governments. That is potentially treason, and just a few decades
28.
by rprasad 14y ago
Pvt Manning was a member of the armed forces at the time of his alleged crime, and thus is not subject to most of the procedural protections afforded to civilian defendants.
29.
by rprasad 14y ago
In some countries they do (take a guess), but not in the West.
30.
by rprasad 14y ago
Rayiner's writings are some of the most informed writings on this topic that I've seen this week. They are all far more informed and intellectually honest than anything you've written.

More ›