Huge win for Diddy

 Now the judge has the tough part on sentencing.  What do you get if the jury acquits you of all the major counts and convicts on the one minor count.  It should be credit time served... we shall see.  In the meantime, who is buying this shirt?

 

What should happen with Diddy juror?

After the jury started deliberating yesterday, the foreperson quickly sent a note that one of the jurors wasn't following the judge's instructions.  As the lawyers sparred over how the judge should handle the note, Diddy was seen reading "The Power of Positive Thinking."  Maybe it worked!   Later he was seen with "The Happiness Advantage."  

Judges are always too quick to dismiss "problem" jurors.  

What would you do if you were the judge in this situation?

Tone it down

That was Chief Justice Roberts' message at a 4th Circuit Conference this week.  From the NY Times:

On the day after the Supreme Court issued a decision that sharply curtailed the power of federal judges to block Trump administration policies, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. spoke before a hotel ballroom filled with them.

He didn’t say a word about it.

The chief justice on Saturday gave a public interview with Judge Albert Diaz, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, at a judicial conference in Charlotte attended by lower court judges who will be expected to parse and follow the Supreme Court’s directive limiting their ability to block executive branch policies nationwide.

During the discussion, the chief justice hinted at the stress of the end of the court’s term, which concluded on Friday, a time that he described as “a lot of sharp division and some sharp adjectives.”

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The chief justice called threats against judges “totally unacceptable.” He said he viewed it as dangerous when “it becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem.”

“The danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that, and we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work,” Chief Justice Roberts said. “The political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.”

Meantime, The Hill is covering F bombs from politicians.