https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1638606792505565196
I know you all aren't lawyers so let me explain this. In literally every US criminal case, the prosecutor is obligated to turn over all evidence they have which could possibly help the defendant, called Brady disclosure. Based on Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). This is one of the most basic, fundamental rights in the US criminal justice system, and is a very very common basis for defense motions in criminal cases.
This dumbass is a magistrate judge in Denver who’s been selected for a federal district court seat there. His background is that he worked for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board in Denver, Colorado in 2000, then private practice for Rothgerber, Johnson, & Lyons LLP in 2001. In 2011, Judge Crews left Rothgerber and started practicing in a smaller firm, Mastin, Hoffman & Crews. In 2018, Judge Crews was selected to serve as a United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
He's been a magistrate judge for 5 years. Magistrates are the main people who decide discovery issues in criminal cases like Brady motions. There is no excuse for him not to know this. It's unbelievably basic. I'm not a criminal lawyer at all and yet I know all about it just because I worked as an intern at the federal court for only six months when I was in law school! This motherfucker has been on the bench for 5 years!
I can only imagine 1 explanation for why he doesn't know something so basic: he is lazy and doesn't do his job. He has his law clerks (basically law students) do all his work for him, and he just signs off on it.
It's entirely possible that he did not rule on a "Brady Motion" directly styled as such, though any discovery related motion would have implicated Brady. A formal "Brady Motion" would arise when the defense becomes aware of evidence that the prosecution did not turn over, either at trial or afterwards. The reason Brady comes up so often pre-trial is that the defense is always going to threaten that if the prosecution does not fulfill its discovery obligations, the defense will be forced to bring a Brady motion.
He's never even heard of Brady v. Maryland! He claims he recalled the case when asked (a lie) and then said it involved... the 2nd Amendment! LOL.
He's not qualified. He's only there because he's black. What a joke. What a racket. How is the United States going to have a legal system that isn't a total farce when we pick people who couldn't even pass a criminal law bar exam question to be federal judges?
"It's not coming to mind"
How come this guy used the exact same phrase that the other one did who could not say anything about any article of your constitution?
Wait, there are non-criminal lawyers? (Sorry.)
Those are the lawyers that steal the other side's money. 🙃
This is the reality of “equity”, people who have no place being there and who will cause massive harm that has to constantly be covered up, lied about, and when the lies fail, calling everyone who brings it up racist for daring to have standards.
He's black. That's all the qualification he needs.
Same shit in Germany. One state made some African woman justice minister. Her only experience was working as a clerical assistant.
Here's a second one. It's the new era of justice.
The state did not give the J6 defendants all the evidence. Rittenhouse team received doctored evidence. Chauvin team was unable to exclude evidence that was admitted to being falsified (the autopsy that was revised because they "saw the video").
This "justice" that the left wants, where bad people are guilty even when innocent because they are bad, By any yardstick they've succeeded. Even the Soviet Union at least tried to put on their air of self-consistency.
Judge doesn't recognize Brady disclosure? That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Brady is one of the most important aspects of criminal law 🤦♂️
But is he a biologist?
I doubt he would be able to answer the question alluded to by your question either.
Democrats do not pick judges on the basis of intelligence or record.
Democrats pick judges based on the amount of skeletons they have in their closets so they can control them like a bull with a ring in its nose.
I'm about to change my party affiliation to Democrat and see if Biden will appoint me lmao
Nah, you have internalized white supremacy
I learned about it watching My Cousin Vinny, which everyone should watch regardless of an interest in law because not only is Joe Pesci hilarious in it but Marisa Tomei is outstanding in it, and rightly won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for it.
I don't do this lightly, but as an engineer I don't know how else to help the guy but post on a thread made by a lawyer.
One of /ourguys/ is a lawyer in LA looking for work. He is admitted to the bar in CA and NY and things are apparently getting desperate. Guy's talking about working at fucking Subway to pay rent and feed himself. If true that is a travesty for any lawyer vaguely on this side of things.
Guy just wants a human being to accept or reject his application instead of some online HR system.
Did this guy get fired from multiple jobs?
Honestly there is a labor shortage in LA right now and I have had multiple defense firms I litigate against tell me they are understaffed, so unless this dude had gotten himself fired multiple times to the point where he is unemployable, no idea why he can't find a job.
I don't know since I'm not a lawyer, but I also know a physics PhD who works as a stock boy at a big box store because he couldn't figure out how to get a post-doc position in his area of expertise.
Maybe the guy isn't good at his job, but also maybe he's just weird and should just be doing research shit behind the scenes while normal people talk with clients. I assume that is a thing that happens in legal circles the same as it happens in engineering ones.