I've had fireflys in my back yard for the past two years. They have been multiplying like crazy and there is the "Firefly Disco" every night during the summer. Hundreds of them flashing around for hours. This is a 3 second exposure I took.
Only starting last year they’ve been visible. The hounds snap at them on the patio, but they also try to eat every flying insect. They had a butterfly buffet at the Pinery last weekend.
When a conviction is overturned like that, how quickly can he be released? Are we talking tomorrow? Next Week? Next Month? I have not seen anything online about when he is considered a free man.
Define “free” *edit* just heard on the news that he’s getting released this afternoon. the attorney for Janice Dickinson is being interviewed. I had a cigar with her shortly after she came forward with the accusations, I think ive told the story before. Beautiful woman. Horrible botox, but incredibly sweet.
If that article is to be believed, then it sounds fair. Sounds like the prosecutor was taking a tough case and trying to set up the plaintiff for the best chance and any form of justice in the civil suit.
Bike gauge read 107 today. Any hotter and the whole instrument cluster is just going to read "wtf". I have to imagine that in some parts of the world this kind of heat comes with a body count....every year.
Wasn't the issue in the first place that the statute of limitations had run out on all the others and this was the last chance they had to prosecute?
That's fine... but we can't just make shit up as we go. If that was the only one that could stick, they made the best deal with him that they could, because despite all the shit in the media, it was a weak case. He agreed to testify civilly, waiving his 5th amendment rights, only if he was immune from criminal prosecution as a result. Again, the prosecutor at the time said "we don't have enough without his testimony", so he set her up in the civil case to walk away with $3 million that she never would have seen otherwise. SHE is the only one who I give a shit about right now, and it sounds like she got at least a little bit of justice that could help her. I know everyone wants him to be in jail, but the law is the law, and I tend to think the prosecutor made the best of a shitty situation, even if Cosby got off way lighter than most wanted. He's now got a public stigma, and I doubt anyone is going to go to his place for drinks any time soon. I'm OK with that.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you said; I just may have misinterpreted you when you said "go after the others" as meaning go after his other accusers to get him back in jail, to which I was just pointing out that legally they can no longer do.
Yeah, which was my shitty way of saying "there are no others to go after". Welcome to the Statute of Limitations. Hate the game, not the player. If only they'd stood up and said something sooner. Not their fault, but it is what it is now.
Cosby is 83 years old. I can't imagine prison is fun, but at his age, it's not like he was going to miss doing motocross on the weekends. His legacy is tarnished and I think that matters more than incarceration at this point. I think he was a complex dude: truly evil shit, but also he was a ground breaking entertainer.that inspired folks like Dave Chappelle and paved the way for black comedians of all stripes. It sucks to find out someone so beloved and wholesome was capable of this kind of evil.
I wonder if the victim actually considers this to be a better outcome now? Like sure, sending an aging man to prison might be "justice" to an extent. But release him now? In the middle of Hurricane Cancel Storm? The media has already started dunking the dude. Okay, he might be "technically" clear, but if everyone else is saying you fucked up, then you fucked up! And this tv dinner motherfucker is walking into the middle of this storm. Isn't that.... better punishment? The a prisoner is released only to be stoned in the town square kinda thing?
It's Bobby Bonilla Day! The day the Mets pay the guy retired since 2001. "Toward the end of his final stint with the Mets, the two parties agreed on a contract buyout in 2000. New York still owed the slugger $5.9 million and agreed to pay him $1.1 million in annual installments starting from 2011 and ending in 2035."