Barisone Criminal Case Update

Look up the OJ trial.

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It is odd that people think LK should have left as soon as she realized her coach had a temper. In Hunter/Jumper land, bully coaches are (or were) pretty common, and people would travel far to be bullied by GM. People make a lot of excuses for ā€œtalentā€ and the opportunity to succeed. The last (show) barn I boarded at had a barn owner that had a temperā€¦but we tolerated it for the nice facility. The determination to bully LK and people who make points in support of her as the victim, is intriguing.

Saying I am ā€œnewā€ here (I am not - I just didnā€™t see the point of commenting, but the victim bullying started to really bother me) to discount my comments is childish. Anyone using logic would know that a building is only condemned with merit, which is assessed officially. Regardless of if LK brought the issue to the spotlight is irrelevant - if there hadnā€™t been an issue, the building(s) would not have been condemned.

@Sdel My comment about ā€œwhat should they have doneā€ clearly meant what should the police have done. But you quoted only part, so that you had an easy answer.

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Oh youā€™re right - thatā€™s all the time. Thanks.

If trials like OJā€™s happened all the time, there would not have been a mini series made reenacting it decades after it was over.

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WTHā€¦.easy answer? My whole answer was about MB should have done to avoid the whole damn thing at allā€¦ā€¦what, pray tell is so wrong about him no longer wanting LK as a client and doing whatever it takes to extract himself?

Oh, right, you wanted me to suggest that he should have assumed guilt for something when you donā€™t even know the real circumstances of the incident.

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As I knew you possess the intelligence to google for yourself i did not feel you were actually tasking posters to do the research on your behalf.

Criminal cases often twist in unimaginable ways especially when high powered lawyers enter the mix.

Of course the example I quoted is a giant such example.

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Since you replied before my edit I will add it here again:

If trials like OJā€™s happened all the time, there would not have been a mini series made reenacting it decades after it was over.

Most trials that take place all over the US day after day proceed without huge surprises, high drama, and discovering that the victim is actually the perpetrator. Are there surprises sometimes? Of course there are. Are defendants sometimes let off on technicalities or hung juries? Of course they are. But to imply often times that the prosecution gets their case so wrong that it turns out they jailed and charged the wrong person? Come on, donā€™t be obtuse.

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There are surprises very often. Not every time. Often.

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I guess itā€™s as easy for you to say ā€œoftenā€ when you donā€™t have to define what that means with regards to numbers as it is for me to say ā€œnot oftenā€ regarding the same thing. However, if surprises happened more often than not, they wouldnā€™t be considered surprises now, would they?

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Have you ever heard of the Innocence Project, or whatever itā€™s called? They seem to find people who were wrongly jailed and convicted on a pretty regular basis, sometimes involving DNA evidence to exonerate the convicted people.

And there have certainly been times when people were convicted and executed, and then exonerated after the fact, which did not really do them much good, unfortunately.

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RND, CHT, Currently Horselessā€¦ā€¦itā€™s so nice to see 3 sane people on here taking on the forces of hate, misery and victim shaming.
I applaud you all. Get ready to be abused for speaking truth. But if you consider the sources of the abuse youā€™ll be able to laugh it off.

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Right?

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Bingo

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Aaaand, theyā€™re off!

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MBs attorney is not a public defender. He is a high priced, highly valued criminal defense attorney for a reason: success. And as criminal trials have many mechanisms that are in the defendantā€™s favor you can bet your sweet patootie that this case certainly qualifies under ā€œanything can happenā€.

Debating this reality is unusual.

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Yes, and that is completely different than what we are discussing here. Those cases typically involve racial inequalities with regards to bias at the time of arrest/quality of defense/jury bias; they do not typically involve well off-white males who are charged with shooting their well-off white female clients. Although if, after MBā€™s trial is over, someone associated with the Innocence Project feels that he is worth their time, Iā€™m sure they will step in on his behalf. Until then I really donā€™t think he has anything remotely in common with the people who do need the help of the Innocence Project, and itā€™s more than a little insulting that you would imply anything otherwise.

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I agreeā€¦.Iā€™m a big supporter of the Innocence Project, both emotionally and financially.
Fortunately, Michael is not facing the death penalty so if heā€™s convicted or takes a plea heā€™ll be able to go free if new evidence emerges to exonerate him.

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Youā€™re aware that ā€œall the timeā€ is a phrase thatā€™s not meant literallyā€¦ Or I gave you too much credit?

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I mean, imo itā€™s a pretty large step from staying at a barn despite the trainer ā€œhaving a temperā€ or even being a verbally abusive a-hole, to staying at a barn despite allegedly overhearing the trainer hiring a hit man to murder you.

All I know at this point is I think Iā€™m glad I havenā€™t had the occasion to deal with either MB or LK.

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Didnā€™t he lose that high profile trial for the teacher in NJ?

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Rephrase please. Sentence defective.

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