Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-02 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 16:17:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 18:17:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f218b21c30c481ecce87b79e12d0cdde"; logging-data="677358"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tf585811f129N2HFphW014D174f+xNVI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ybfBsFLTLrw9syx3npdEjrNr5cs= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2202 Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >Law & Order - "Castle in the Sky" - A homeless man and his daughter are >squatting in a penthouse and when the real owner shows up one night he >winds up dead. Everybody gets this wrong, including Steve Lehto in his videos. Living in a unit not yet sold in a mostly finished building is not squatting. It's trespass. Squatting has to do with a hostile encroachment upon ABANDONED land after a number of years which varies by state. Getting the semantics right makes a huge difference in these discussions and who can be arrested for what. The fact that this guy was HIRED as a security guard to PREVENT trespass is evidence that the property wasn't abandoned and that he cannot convert it for his personal use. >Fortunately for the man his daughter can alibi his self >defense claim. Doesn't the defense have to reveal that defense ahead of >time? Doesn't matter, this is Law & Order. I don't know if notice is required to assert self defense at trial. >Unfortunately for the man >the writers are on the DA's side so they concoct a convoluted way for >the guy to be convicted anyway. I was half rooting for the guy to not >be convicted. Why? The victim did nothing wrong. The perpetrator was entirely in the wrong.