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This is incorrect. The sentencing guidelines are the same whether you are convicted after trial or whether you plead guilty. For someone with her category of criminal history (which was none and put her in Column A on the sentencing scoring sheet) her guidelines were 144 months - 288 months -...

That wouldn't be unusual at all. Lot of work to do to prepare for a murder or any other complicated case. Just off the top of my head at this late hour, a case involving a fire, DNA evidence, expert witnesses, multiple murders, video tapes, alleged eye witnesses, numerous other witnesses...

In this quote, Bach is making an objection to what she regards as an irrelevant question by Ago who she sees as trying to suggest that if another person could be involved then that negates probable cause. That's why she's using this argument. I think people are making too much of it. Bach is...

Remember that Owens didn't interview JW and he was going on hearsay from those who did. We don't even know if the officers who interviewed JW used the word "lie" or that was just an impression Owens got from what he was told. He didn't even review the videotapes. Neither Owens nor Bach - nor...

IIRC neither Bach nor anyone else has ever said there was any evidence that is was committed by more than one person. So far as we know, the more-than-one-person scenario has always just been a theory. ETA it's important to rule people out and that includes people who some would feel it...

I really appreciate the time you put into this but we really aren't basing any of this on known facts are we? We are assuming certain details based on assumptions about other details. We don't know for a fact the following: time(s) of info received by JW about the fire, the time he left Va and...

I certainly appreciate our colleague's efforts in trying to retrace JW's journey but the time seemed rather long to me. Especially for someone who seems to like speed and would know how to maneuver that route in the shortest time. I can't imagine that journey ever taking longer than maybe 40...

This does happen. Until we see the video(s) it isn't possible for us to know whether or not the police fairly characterized JW's answers. People speak imprecisely in conversation as a rule and these interviews are usually conversational. Further everyone describes events in their own way -...

There are no stupid questions, rkf. Well, almost none. ;) Yes they can charge others.

Thanks for the reference, jjenny. Very interesting and, of course, it's in Texas.

DC doesn't play these games and IMO that's all that is when prosecutors do that. In fact, I'm not even sure they can do that. Again, he hasn't been formally charged yet. That will come after he is indicted and at his formal arraignment. The indictment should include all the charges possible...

Keep in mind DW hasn't been indicted yet. Even after indictment you can amend it with a superseding indictment.

Let me add my thanks for your efforts in securing the transcript. Good work!

She's not but it IS her courtroom. Most judges in Superior Court hate speaking objections. It is funny though that all Bach was going to say was she wanted to make an ex parte proffer.

I'm just reading starting back at page 8 so forgive me repeating if already answered. Short answer: no. I was trying to think why the defense would be entitled to this via the normal rules of discovery. Unless this information is somehow Brady information or somehow impeachment evidence...

My experience has been that the USAO is impervious to pressure from the city and local politicians. If anything, the USAO pressures and unduly influences the city council all the time. Why do you think we no longer have jury trials for misdemeanors in the city? It's a rare day the city council...

I just saw a face and now I can't get the Beatles' song out of my head. Thanks. :gaah: I had to go to that awful Daily Mail site and look at their photo of allegedly DW walking away from the burning car. The face (looks like an African American male short cropped hair) is looking toward the...

Thank you, blessedlife and AmazonianAbroad. I noticed some posts have no mechanism to thank the poster. How does that work? ETA: I think I figured it out. A special thank you for ordering the PH transcript. I meant to register at the time when everyone had questions about that but the...

Thanks, rkf, for pointing that out. I didn't think the Md sexual assaults were convictions but I'm too tired to look it up. Depending on how the CPO was handled it might or might not have immigration consequences. If he violated it there could be consequences. Now RSP could be a problem if...

Jenny, it is too bad that the NY charges weren't dealt with more severely. From what I read, they were not only violent but troubling in their manner and motivation. The immigration consequences of criminal convictions and some un-convicted criminal behavior can be convoluted. In addition to...