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I have so many questions. And they start with, what if the technology fails? What happens to the defendant? The article I read relies on cell technology, headphones, and this robot in some other location. I can see those systems crashing and the person sitting there relying on all that just absolutely stuck.
And I totally agree with @Knights_Mom. So much of lawyering is emotional. You rely on reading the judge, the jury, the witnesses. No robot or Artificial Intelligence is going to be able to pick up that the guy turning Beet Red and spinning in the witness chair is lying his butt off and it’s time to really go hard on said witness.
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Exhibit B: Mr. B’s closing argument in MB’s trial.
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But, on the other side, it would save the jurors from seeing the prosecuting attorney laughing at a teenager as they testify. So maybe that would be a positive for that side.
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Except like many Borderline Personalities, I think she believes her lies.
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Maybe the robot lawyer idea would work for people like Jonathan Kanarek (@Inigo-montoya) and Kirby Kanarek (@Seeker1) to answer their subpoenas in a more timely manner.
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Robot lawyers are too George Jetson for me.
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Is anyone going to watch the new Night Court series tonight?
I am!
Night Court is dear to me. I worked Manhattan Arraignments for 18 months in the 80s. It went 24/7. 3 shifts. The guys routinely worked double shifts. 12 am to 8 am was called the lobster shift.
I worked 9 to 5.
4 pm was wine and cheese time.
Remembering:
Phil Necci
Frankie Ullman
Ralph Loggia (supervising Court Clerk)
Rosanna
Ronnie Fennell
The real clerks of Manhattan Arraignments
100 Centre Street
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mycentraljersey/name/ralph-loggia-obituary?id=18735735
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It is good that you have fond memories of those people you worked with!
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FYI the character of the tall Court Officer Bull was based on a real Court Officer. He worked with my dad. Sadly I don’t remember his name.
In real life the judges rotated.
When I started, we’d get the number of defendants awaiting arraignment at any one time. The number could be 300+ and it could take 36 hours to get arraigned. After a lawsuit, it was mandated arraignment had to be within 24 hours. I velieve its been extended again to as much as 72 hours.
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I don’t think I get the channel to watch tonight. You will have to let us know if you like the show. Boo hoo.
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It’s on NBC
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I will double check my channels. I hope I can watch it.
If you are in the US it’s NBC broadcast TV
I have it! Yay!
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To be honest, don’t recall having read anything about a real western rider (show circuit wise) that was totally BSC, besides Rita Crundwell (and that wasn’t really crazy so much as well planned larceny, since one woman killed her husband (OD of horse tranquilizer if memory serves) and stored his body in a fridge until she buried him out in the California desert. That was an interesting discussion on the Pleasure Horse Forum!
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I expect it’s also a feature of usage patterns. We just don’t get that many Western members as the larger COTH entity is sporthorse focused.
It is possible that out of the sport horse disciplines that dressage is more likely to attract poseurs and frauds because bad dressage is less likely to get you actually killed than bad jumping. That said, there is the Heather Hill saga in jump world. She’s baaaack current thread
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I recall some eventing threads that made even the nuttiest dressage threads look a bit tame. Some threads in the Racing forum have addressed bizarre people. There were threads in the Breeding forum that ran amok. It may not get a lot of traffic here on the COTH forums - but there have been some astounding scandals about western pleasure trainers…
So basically, no discipline is immune from the BSC aspects of the horse world!
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