UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassinated In NYC

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Later this year, after the economy has crashed and large numbers of people find themselves impoverished without a whisper of government assistance, these kinds of indiscriminate incidents will increase exponentially.
Neo-anarchism. It'll be like the anarchist movements 100 years ago.
 
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I note that the article explains

Speaking generally, Sam Roberts, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s homicide defense task force, said that police can gather DNA from items such as a beverage cup at the station. Using this as evidence at trial, however, could prove tricky as there are issues surrounding potential contamination.

Roberts said that while people might think some cases just crumble outright from evidence issues, this is rarely true.

“In high-profile violent felony cases, a murder case, there’s this whole popular perception that ‘the killer walked free on a technicality’,” Roberts said. “That is kind of what the perception is in the popular mindset. So judges are going to, in my opinion, bend over backwards to find a way to keep the evidence in.
To my mind, if we can agree that the interests of justice require not only that innocent defendants should be acquitted but also that guilty defendants should be convicted, I'd have thought that the test ought to be whether the manner in which the evidence was collected, stored and handled renders it unreliable. If the judge thinks that, despite any irregularities in the way in which it was obtained, it's nevertheless reliable and not unduly prejudicial, then it should be allowed in.

As a noted jurist remarked during one revision of the rules of criminal procedure over here many years ago, the point of the rules is to ensure a fair trial, not to give a guilty defendant, nevertheless, a sporting chance of acquittal.
 
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Did I find this one through here? I hope not.

The internet’s obsession with Luigi Mangione is testing Reddit’s limits

“This sub has been placed in restricted mode, and the main mod was suspended for approving comments that mentioned ‘luigi,’” a post on r/popculture claimed. “Apparently, saying ‘luigi’ is now against the rules too, even though they never told us. All comments with the word ‘luigi’ get flagged as possibly inciting violence.”

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Separately, Reddit’s safety team recently issued a warning to users that subreddits found promoting or amplifying violent content could face consequences. “Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site,” the alert read. “Starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.” (Upvotes and downvotes are core to Reddit’s algorithm, determining a post’s visibility.)
Not just censoring use of the word, but your up/downvotes too.
 

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The phonetic pronunciation of the name "Luigi" in Italian is roughly [luˈi.d͡ʒi]
 

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Open link in The Guardian

I note that the article explains



To my mind, if we can agree that the interests of justice require not only that innocent defendants should be acquitted but also that guilty defendants should be convicted, I'd have thought that the test ought to be whether the manner in which the evidence was collected, stored and handled renders it unreliable. If the judge thinks that, despite any irregularities in the way in which it was obtained, it's nevertheless reliable and not unduly prejudicial, then it should be allowed in.

As a noted jurist remarked during one revision of the rules of criminal procedure over here many years ago, the point of the rules is to ensure a fair trial, not to give a guilty defendant, nevertheless, a sporting chance of acquittal.
Having checks on the ability of police to collect evidence is one of the few ways to ensure civil rights are protected. Police cannot detain an individual, even if only to have a conversation, without reasonable suspicion, and can then only investigate anything related to the probable cause [a higher standard], anything covered by the "plain view" doctrine, or anything confessed by the detainee - which is also why there is widespread instruction not to talk to the police without a lawyer present. Evidentiary rules exist to protect average citizens from police harassment, and are rather jealously guarded by the courts in the U.S.

The courts are not just concerned with protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, but to keep a leash on police powers lest they grow out of control - a special concern that has always been prominent here.
 
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The phonetic pronunciation of the name "Luigi" in Italian is roughly [luˈi.d͡ʒi]
In Japanese, the word 類似 [Ruiji] means likeness or similarity.
 

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Having checks on the ability of police to collect evidence is one of the few ways to ensure civil rights are protected. Police cannot detain an individual, even if only to have a conversation, without probable cause, and can then only investigate anything related to the probable cause, anything covered by the "plain view" doctrine, or anything confessed by the detainee - which is also why there is widespread instruction not to talk to the police without a lawyer present. Evidentiary rules exist to protect average citizens from police harassment, and are rather jealously guarded by the courts in the U.S.

The courts are not just concerned with protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, but to keep a leash on police powers lest they grow out of control - a special concern that has always been prominent here.
Would not a better way of protecting the public both from criminals and from police harassment be to use the criminal and civil law to punish officers who abuse their powers rather than to allow both guilty defendants and guilty officers to get away with their misdeeds?

ETA: I understand your point, but in the UK we manage perfectly well with the presumption that if evidence is not collected in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and subsequent legislation, or if the manner of its collection contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights, then the judge should exclude it, but that decision is up to the judge. It's not automatic in all circumstances.

From an admittedly great distance this looks to me like one of those examples of what can go wrong if you take what might seem to be a good idea ("people should enjoy free speech," "people should be allowed to keep firearms for self-defence and for recreation," "the police should be subject to constraints on how they collect evident") and turn it into a hard and fast rule that applies at all times and in all circumstances without regard for the consequences.
 
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The phonetic pronunciation of the name "Luigi" in Italian is roughly [luˈi.d͡ʒi]
You can't just make up fake letters. It's Italian not Japanese.

In Japanese, the word 類似 [Ruiji] means likeness or similarity.
See, someone gets it.

Also, side note, is Luigi named that because he is a "likeness of Mario" as Player 2?
 

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You can't just make up fake letters. It's Italian not Japanese.



See, someone gets it.

Also, side note, is Luigi named that because he is a "likeness of Mario" as Player 2?
They're not fake letters. luˈi.d͡ʒi is the pronunciation for Luigi as defined by the International Phonetic Association. I offered it as a way to include Luigi's name without having a post censored or deleted. You often see the IPA symbols in dictionaries as a pronunciation guide.

While I only have surface-level knowledge of the symbols, it roughly breaks down to lu = lu,ˈi = i, .d͡ʒ = a soft g, and i = i
...guess you have to be a word nerd to get it


Filtering systems probably don't even have it coded in as a block, although eventually they could include the unicode in their filters.
 
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