• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    He’s also skipping Barron’s graduation after whining that the judge wouldn’t let him go to the graduation even though the judge never said that.

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      Would that not irritate the judge? How do you trust a defendant who lies about what they present as legitimate scheduling conflicts? They could just continue to make shit up and delay the trial. I’m sure there are plenty of excuses to dig up involving family he usually ignores who are suddenly in poor health, etc. Hell, he could hospitalize one of them just to point to…

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      I can already see it in front of me. "Your honor, I am sorry but I can come to court on May 17 because (looks at a little piece of paper) of the beautiful graduation of Barron. Looks confused to his lawyer and asking “who is Barron ?”

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      6 months ago

      Was that confirmed? All I read is that the ceremony is in the morning and he’s scheduled to be in Minnesota in the evening.

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      6 months ago

      This is still news worthy, but not “Front page” news worthy. Back in the newspaper days this would be sent to the back of the paper.