u/The_Amazing_Emu

My jurisdiction is big on furloughs to drug treatment programs. Basically, they won't agree to bond, but will agree to release them directly to an inpatient program for the length of the program and then return them to the jail upon completion of the program.

My client entered a guilty plea to a drug charge and the court ordered a pre-sentence report for sentencing. Since that's a 3-month wait, we got a furlough for a 28 day program. He completed that program and got accepted to a step-down program. The only problem was that the step-down program was outpatient, so we needed to do a bond hearing. Since his furlough was expiring, I got an order extending his current furlough to attend the inpatient step-down program at the facility he was at (by agreed order) while waiting for a bond hearing date on the other program. Unfortunately, the program decided they didn't want to wait until the end of the day to return him to the jail, so he got returned before the Judge signed the order, the jail then accepted him early (for some reason), and then he was back in jail.

So I go and do the bond motion to get him to the outpatient program with the backup plan of a furlough to the inpatient program he was supposed to go to anyway except that they brought him back to the jail early. Judge approves the furlough to the inpatient program. I reach out to the program to get a bed date and have them pick him up.

They tell me he needs to fill out the application again. The problem, because he's been at their program and then was in the jail, he hasn't used drugs in the last 30 days. So they're probably going to reject his application.

It doesn’t look like the original plan was to have her connected to the Hand. In fact, quite the opposite. But it does look like the plan was to always have her connected to Kun Lun. So what was the plan?

I have a client very clearly on video using a firearm to defend himself. Great if he was charged with that, but, unfortunately, he is charged with possessing a firearm by convicted felon.

There's no real legal defense in this case. However, I'm sure any overt appeal to nullification will meet an objection. Are there good tips and tricks? Everything from voir dire to closing arguments would be appreciated.

This is Virginia, so I will be able to tell the jury during voir dire that it's a mandatory five years if he's convicted.

ETA: I appreciate people brainstorming actual defenses on the merits. I've considered them already. If I felt there were any, I wouldn't have needed to post this. That means that I will not be able to meet the elements of a necessity defense. I will not be able to argue self-defense (which overlaps to begin with). I will not be able to argue there was no evidence it was a firearm.

My wife got sent money from her aunt and was then told it was a mistake and to send it back. She sent the money back. Later that day, her Aunt reached out and told her her account was hacked. She never withdrew the money, it was the same money in the account.

What happens next? It at least wasn’t a stranger, it was her Aunt’s account. But I do know this is a scam (if I had known, I would have flagged it for her). Will she end up on the hook for the money sent back and is there anything she can do to prevent that?

Did anyone ever figure out who the villain would have been for this show. They hyped him up but kept it secret. I’ve never heard even a rumor since, but it was supposedly a well-known comics character.