Judge Marchan has enormous latitude in sentencing, from suspended sentence/probation to years in prison. A non-violent first-time offender in state court would often get lenient treatment—if they were sufficiently contrite and committed to rehabilitation.
And if not, not.
This is also a circumstance where spending the next six weeks pissing off the judge is a very VERY bad idea.
If the jurors are asking about this, it implies they are arguing about what crime the falsified business records were made in furtherance of. Which itself implies they’ve already decided that the business records were falsified—otherwise this question is moot. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112530584150882692
@mcc I haven’t heard anything about that. One of the big controversies in this case is that the 37 counts are misdemeanors, but are elevated to 5-year felonies if it is proved they were committed in furtherance of a crime. And that crime is not charged here, it doesn’t have to be proven.
The judge has latitude in sentencing the felony, from 0 jail time to 37x5 years. I don’t know whether he considers the serious of the underlying crime—but I don’t think that’s a matter for thje jury.
With the disclaimer that this is absolutely not a prediction of what the jury will do, not much in the jury instructions change what I had to say here:
@Teri_Kanefield if I were a juror I would key on this exchange:
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HOFFINGER: On whose direction and whose behalf did you commit that crime?
👉🏼COHEN: On Mr. Trump's behalf.
HOFFINGER: What was the purpose of your working with AMI in paying off Karen McDougal?
COHEN: In order to make sure Mr Trump was protected and also so that story would never be released, 👉🏼for the purpose of ensuring that it also wouldn't affect the presidential campaign.
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That’s the crime that triggers the felonies.
@Teri_Kanefield The crime discussed there was one of the three felony counts that Cohen pled to—making false statements to a financial institution, willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution,making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign. He served time for those, and the underlying facts were in evidence in this trial.
For example, he misrepresented the reason for his HELOC saying it was real estate.
@Teri_Kanefield On page 29 (which the jurors had re-read to them this morning) Marchan enumerates the $2,700 FECA contribution limit, which Pecker was wary of violating and which Cohen pled guilty to violating. I’m pretty sure that was the crime that the prosecutor was asking Cohen about, and Cohen testified that he did it “on Mr. Trump’s behalf.” I agree that the tax crime is weak and the falsification one is circular, but Pecker’s refusal to pay off Daniels because of FECA is pretty damning.
TIL that a portion of Northern California’s Eel River, impounded at Lake Van Arsdale Reservoir in Mendocino County, is diverted into a penstock to feed a hydroelectric powerhouse a mile away in Potter Valley. The discharged water forms the headwaters of the East Fork of the Russian River, in an adjacent watershed.
Most of the water at Van Arsdale enters the ocean at Eureka, but the diverted water flows all the way to Jenner, 150 miles to the south.
At this point the conclusion is inescapable that the IDF repeatedly has “mishaps” resulting in the sudden violent death of dozens of Gaza civilians because they have zero interest in avoiding the sudden violent deaths of dozens of Gaza civilians. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112514401412979659
May 26, 2024—Right-wing blogger Summer Bushnell ordered to pay $926,000 in compensatory and $250,000 in punitive damages to an Idaho performer whom she falsely claimed exposed his genitals to children during a 2022 performance. Jurors were shown an unedited video of the performance, along with Bushnell’s version that blurred Eric Posey’s groin area, and her published claim that she blurred Posey’s “fully exposed genitals.” She admitted at trial she never saw exposed genitals.
It's really difficult to search search engines for information about the Apple 1 and Apple 2 due to the ambiguous and symbol-heavy naming of Apple 2 vs Apple II vs Apple //
@mcc We just called it Monitor. There was a limited version in the Apple I, and I documented all the Monitor commands for the Apple II in the Apple II Reference Manual (1979). Later the Apple II+ started in AppleSoft BASIC, then the Autostart ROMs booted off floppy, and the Monitor was buried and only accessible through an intentional command.
I don’t ever recall it being called “Wozmon,” just the Monitor.
@mcc The entire monitor ROM in the Apple 1 was only 256 bytes. It only supported three commands: store, examine, and run. That’s it.
The Apple II had 4K ROM which held both a larger Monitor as well as Integer BASIC. The Monitor in the Apple II ROMs added a lot of commands. Move and compare memory ranges; load and save from cassette tape; assemble and disassemble 6502 mnemonics; set and print registers; and single step and trace, plus 8-bit arithmetic.
@mcc In the Apple I, the cassette tape board was a plug-in, and had its own ROM with the read and write firmware, which were called from the Monitor by executing code at documented entry points. When the cassette hardware infergace got integrated onto the main board of the Apple II, Woz had to put the read/write code in the main Monitor.
You know, if a private citizen directs government employees to seize private property at a private event on bogus grounds of a potential security threat, I think “delegates to the Libertarian convention” are the worst choice of people to do this to
And LA isn’t so weird. “USA” stands for “Underground Service Alert” and means the sidewalk and street have been marked for electric, gas, sewer, and storm drain pipes before somebody digs.
