Barisone assessment

IM said that pleading NGRI was hugely risky and there was no telling what a jury would do. He also pointed out that defendants who successfully plead NGRI sometimes spend just as long confined to a mental institution as they would have spent in prison.

Whether Barisone was found NGRI or guilty, how would that permit them to “take over everything he owns in Florida and proceed to go after MHG”? If you don’t want any discussion of MHG, why do you keep bringing her up?

Whether Barisone was found not guilty, guilty, or NGRI, the only legal avenue LK has against Barisone is the civil suit.

Nobody here is “eating crow” in response to the NGRI verdict. But isn’t the celebration for the NG part of the verdict a bit premature, given the RI part? Are people assuming that he’ll be released after the first hearing?
Perhaps he will be, but the risk that he’ll be confined for years is still there.

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She has applied for and received the full HE tax benefit, according to the property records. She is the only permanent resident and he does not live there, even if/when he goes to visit her. Her father is just listed as a co-owner for legal purposes, so that if/when she dies, he keeps the property and can do what he pleases with it and also gets the property ownership status that lets him “do what needs to be done” when she won’t or when he has to step in and write checks for something, which also has it’s own tax implications. It also gives his wife, who often visits, legal power to act in his stead. LK is listed as co-owner for tax and legal purposes, so that she can legally do what a property owner can do in terms of ownership/upkeep and reap all benefits thereof, including the HE. Also, so that if/when her father dies, she can keep the property and also to give her some protection from creditors, per FL law.

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Big time problematic and the fact that RG was a straight NG and so many of the public as well as the jury seem not to believe the very bizarro narrative of LK/RG just adds to that.

I wouldn’t suggest a criminal trial in this regard, that’ll never happen but a civil one? My brain is cha-chinging thinking about it.

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How often does a party withdraw their suit after depositions or anywhere else in the process?

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Nope.
I’m assuming he was driven to this mental break, intentionally (as the other party testified), and that without their nonsense he would have carried on, super successfully, as he had done for decades.
AK will hopefully repair the harm the K Klan wrought, and maybe with some long term help like he’d previously used by choice, he’ll be back to his old successful, well regarded self.
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Most probable is a settlement. I’m about to enter into the deposition faze of a case myself and we know it’ll be most probably settled.

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I was talking about Barisone’s Loxahatchee property being mortgaged, not LKs.

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One of the things that’s worth mentioning is that the court dismissed it without prejudice. The attorneys for the township even asked the court to amend the dismissal to with prejudice, and the court did not respond. I find that intriguing.

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You’re saying “Nope” to which question?
The question as to whether the celebration for NGRI is premature?
Or the question as to whether you’re assuming he’ll be released after the first hearing?

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In my time in the courts and having recorded literally tens of thousands of civil case dispositions, 80% at least were DWOP.

The other 20% (or less) of Dismissed WITH prejudice were cases where the Defense had basically proven their defense, or as part of a paid settlement or as a result of duplicative or absurd filings. They were odd enough that when I recorded the disposition I would capitalize “WITH” to make it clear.

In the case against the police none of those things happened so I’m not surprised.

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:rofl:

How does one get their vacuum to do a square halt?

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It’s just interesting to me that the Court left that opening there on this particular suit. Probably means nothing, but it caught my eye.

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There’s no mortgage on the FL property. MHG testified to that in court. Also, I just checked.

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You have to spend the extra money for one of those fancy European vacuums.

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Some of those have built-in extensions. Whoosh!

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