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From The Hill:

Minnesota Supreme Court denies Chauvin request for public defender in George Floyd murder appeal

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Derek Chauvin’s request for a public defender as the former Minneapolis police officer prepares to appeal his murder conviction in the death of George Floyd.

Chief Justice Lorie Gildea signed an order that said Chauvin failed to prove that he qualifies for representation from a public defender, according to the Star Tribune.

The court determined that Chauvin did not illustrate that he was too poor to pay for a private attorney. Gildea did not, however, reveal further details regarding his assets or debts, according to the Star Tribune.

The chief justice wrote in the order, citing state law, that a defendant is considered too poor to provide their own lawyer if they, “through any combination of liquid assets and current income,” are not able to finance their own attorney.

The former police officer claimed in an affidavit that he has no earnings other than nominal prison wages he has received, according to The Associated Press. He contended that his debts are larger than his assets.

Chauvin also said he does not currently have legal representation for his appeal.

According to the Sixth Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

The right to counsel is one of the few, in only, positive rights in the Constitution.

Chauvin is in jail, he’s not a cop anymore, and he probably went bankrupt paying for his last defense.

But the Progressives on the Minnesota Supreme Court have decided to deny him a public defender because he’s an undesirable.

This is effectively denying him his Sixth Amendment guarantee to right to counsel if he can’t find an attorney to work pro bono.  And we all know that any attorney who agreed to take Chauvin’s case pro bono will be harassed by the mob for being a white supremacist.

It it more clear everyday that rights are only for the politically favored.  We are living in a Progressive Banana Republic.

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1445670541159907334

That much is obvious, early in the special, where he talks about an idea for a film centered on an ancient civilization that discovered space travel, left the planet and then came back, determined to claim the Earth for their own. His punchline is the title for the film: Space Jews.

Even the adoring audience in Detroit took a breath on that one. “It’s gonna get worse than that,” Chappelle retorts, laughing. But I’m not sure it did. Because that was pretty awful.

For Dave Chappelle, punchlines are dares. His new special, ‘The Closer,’ goes too far

The author pretty much has a conniption explaining the comedy special and the jokes that pushed past the limits according to him and even accusing Chapelle of antisemitism.  I would not accuse him of being anti-Jew but of stealing material from Mel Brooks.

I am not a fan of Chapelle, but I have to respect the guy who simply does not give a damn about “Wokenism” and the Cancel Culture.

Yes, totally believable that the best swordman and best soldier in the French Army was a midget.

Woke ergo stupid.

Almost 3 months later and we are still dealing with the packed crap. I had been in a foul mood trying to figure out where the heck I had a couple of crates with ammo and  brass I knew I loaded in the container but now I could not find. I was specially mad because one of them had my small stash of .22LR.

BINGO! Found them.

You guys read the tribulations of finding ammo in Miami, so you can imagine how pissed off I was thinking I had misplaced it or had it stolen somehow.  Funny thing, that bag of .223 shells has been with me years before I ever got my first AR. I tried to sell it a couple of times, but there were no takers because ammo was cheap back then.  And it is no longer for sale, suckers! The other shells are part of the 357 magnum stock for which I do have a revolver but eventually I will hunt for a lever action rifle.

If you excuse me, Dr. Motrin awaits. I keep forgetting ammo is heavy.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is lashing out at Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for citing “mutual combatants” in her decision not to press charges against those arrested in a deadly daylight neighborhood shootout caught on camera last week between rival gang members.

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One person was killed and five others were taken into custody and later released in connection to the shootout that happened in the Austin neighborhood Friday on the city’s West Side. Three gang members began shooting into a single-family home in broad daylight in an effort to draw out members of an opposing gang faction. Three individuals inside returned fire, killing one of the offenders outside.

Chicago shooting: Lightfoot, prosecutor Foxx exchange war of words over no charges filed in gang gunfight | Fox News

What is hilarious is that Gun Control people have been warning us for decades now that every time we manage to recover more and more of our 2A rights, we will surely head for Old West Shootings/ High Noon fights and nothing comes to past. But in Gun Control Chicago, not only they have High Noon Duels, they are now good shootings that won’t be prosecuted. according to the Liberal State Attorney.

Irony.

Hat Tip Royko