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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Stupid tv I'm watching Law & Order "Castle in the Sky" 5/2/2024 (spoilers)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 20:54:09 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>>. . . 

>>>Price argues that case law about privacy in a homeless 

>>NOTE: they don't use the word homeless anymore. All the way through the
>>show they continued to use the new term "unhoused"

>In L.A., you can't even say that. All the government officials and their 
>media stenographers use the phrase "people experiencing homelessness" 
>because (they say) the emphasis must be on the fact that they are people 
>first and that homelessness isn't their defining trait. Everything is 
>"people experiencing X" now.

I'm a person experiencing a person who hasn't showered nor laundered his
clothing in months when I encounter them on the "L".

>You're not a drug addict, you're a person experiencing drug addiction.

It's not a lifestyle choice either. Evil drugs forced their way into
your bloodstream.

>You're not a convicted felon, you're a person who has experienced 
>incarceration.

Haven't you heard justice-system related? I can't tell if the dude is
the court clerk or a felon out of prison and now on parole.

>You're not an illegal alien, you're a person who is not yet an American 
>citizen.

><vomit>

>>>. . . 

>>>What will Dixon do? She waits till the very last moment, just before
>>>Price enters the conference room at his own office to offer the plea
>>>bargain to the defense. Price tells the defense he won't offer the plea
>>>after all. Price puts Dixon on the stand to rebut the girl's testimony.

>>Why isn't all of this heresay? She "overheard" the little girl signing
>>to her son at a distance, and only caught a couple of keywords and
>>bullied the son and the deaf daughter into telling her a story and
>>then she's allowed to testify to it in court?

>It would typically be hearsay and the defendant's lawyer objected to 
>just that but it was overruled because Price rightly pointed out that it 
>was a statement against penal interest and therefore the hearsay rule 
>didn't apply.

It must make you do a double take that the script got something right
about trial procedure.