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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,186 posts)
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 08:04 PM Apr 2021

Dershowitz: 'Murder charges should have never been brought against Chauvin'

Professor Alan Dershowitz is focusing his attention on freedom of speech. The progressive left has an attitude and they’re justifying a pattern of silencing opposing viewpoints because they believe they are correct.

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As an attorney, Dershowitz also shares his thoughts on the Chauvin verdict.

“This was a manslaughter case… those two [murder] charges should have never been brought,” he says.

He believes the jury wasn’t sequestered in time and politicians like Maxine Waters and Joe Biden had a direct influence on the verdict. There was no way the jurors weren’t aware of the looming threat of violence.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/dershowitz-murder-charges-should-have-never-been-brought-against-chauvin/ar-BB1fYGMp

Keep your shorts on and your mouth shut Dershowitz before you make a bigger fool of yourself.

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Dershowitz: 'Murder charges should have never been brought against Chauvin' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
AD is a sick fuck jpak Apr 2021 #1
Who? ProfessorGAC Apr 2021 #2
He shares a room with MyOwnPeace Apr 2021 #8
Does The Room Have Rubber Walls? ProfessorGAC Apr 2021 #14
FU Dersh. sheshe2 Apr 2021 #3
he's never been more irrelevant... spanone Apr 2021 #4
Another Narcissitic Freak who can't get enough of his self. Tommymac Apr 2021 #5
Books in the Trash leftieNanner Apr 2021 #6
;-{) Goonch Apr 2021 #7
Didn't he use to be a lawyer or something? Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #9
Yes, a high powered defense attorney. ShazzieB Apr 2021 #42
I guess I should have used the sarcasm tag. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #43
This bastard needs to go down "bigly." BigmanPigman Apr 2021 #10
My hope exactly. Mr. Kept his underwear on. Ya right. nt Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #33
Dersh: "... silencing opposing viewpoints...." area51 Apr 2021 #11
Shouldn't he be getting a massage somewhere, in his undershorts? Xipe Totec Apr 2021 #12
Now you tell us lame54 Apr 2021 #13
Yeah, we went to all that trouble to convict Chauvin of murder charges gratuitous Apr 2021 #28
Not Surprising Akbar Apr 2021 #15
Biden waited till after the jury was sequestered. And the sad fact of the matter is, pnwmom Apr 2021 #16
ignore all pedos bringthePaine Apr 2021 #17
To late for him to make a bigger fool of himself. LiberalFighter Apr 2021 #18
Douche O Wits has to say things like this Ohioboy Apr 2021 #19
My thoughts exactly Ob DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #25
Yup. Sounds like the Dersh alright. Notice he didn't offer any pro bono work. marble falls Apr 2021 #20
Only does pro boner work... Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #34
got enough problems to clean up after the republican's! keep his yap shut . ol' fool. monkeyman1 Apr 2021 #21
A douche defending a douche kimbutgar Apr 2021 #22
Dersh seems to have lost his freaking mind of late years Hekate Apr 2021 #23
and his opinion robleb Apr 2021 #24
AG Keith Ellison and the state's prosecution team can run circles around Dershowitz in their sleep. ancianita Apr 2021 #26
he stopped being serious weissmam Apr 2021 #27
I'm so old I even remember when he moonscape Apr 2021 #41
If not for this, then for what, Mr Dershowitz? elias7 Apr 2021 #29
Obviously, I didn't know enough at the time, but I once respected Dershowitz, thinking of him as.... BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #30
Poor Alan. Sogo Apr 2021 #31
He is a horrible person. And he relishes in it. Bristlecone Apr 2021 #32
👆👆👆 Drum Apr 2021 #37
Bullshit Alien Life Form Apr 2021 #35
Dershowitz is compromised and corrupt. yardwork Apr 2021 #36
Well, I'm no star crim law attorney, but as I recall... DFW Apr 2021 #38
another old fart (generous description) in love stopdiggin Apr 2021 #39
He is obviously angling for more air time on Fox News. n/t totodeinhere Apr 2021 #40
Dershowitz, who got massages at Jeffrey Epstein's? Kid Berwyn Apr 2021 #44
Hello Alan newdayneeded Apr 2021 #45

ProfessorGAC

(65,166 posts)
2. Who?
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 08:09 PM
Apr 2021

Why is he being quoted? Who believes he's relevant?
He barely ever was. What credibility he ever had was squandered long ago.

ProfessorGAC

(65,166 posts)
14. Does The Room Have Rubber Walls?
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:20 PM
Apr 2021

I'm certain there's no bookshelves. Those dolts didn't even read the books they supposedly wrote.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
5. Another Narcissitic Freak who can't get enough of his self.
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 08:15 PM
Apr 2021

Tried to read his auto biography - made it about 20 pages in, then realized how in love with himself he is and tossed it in the trash.

Usually I share books but that one was really really really bad.

I don't care how brilliant he thinks he is, he is a moron.

leftieNanner

(15,148 posts)
6. Books in the Trash
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 08:20 PM
Apr 2021

We ALWAYS donate our no-longer-needed books to the local library or used book store. Someone can enjoy those words again.

Cleaning out a cupboard, I came across my 50 year old copy of Atlas Shrugged. Hard cover. Threw it in the garbage. Nobody needs to read those awful words again. Sorry, Paul Ryan.

ShazzieB

(16,503 posts)
42. Yes, a high powered defense attorney.
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:57 AM
Apr 2021

He helped with OJ's defense. Also defended a number of other celebrities, including Mike Tyson.

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
10. This bastard needs to go down "bigly."
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:12 PM
Apr 2021

I hope he was involved with Epstein and gets sent to prison. This asshole has been around far too long.

area51

(11,920 posts)
11. Dersh: "... silencing opposing viewpoints...."
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:13 PM
Apr 2021

Oh, like how he was able to get psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee fired?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
28. Yeah, we went to all that trouble to convict Chauvin of murder charges
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:11 PM
Apr 2021

Uh, Mr. Dershowitz? When you get a conviction in a criminal trial, it means the charges were justified.

Akbar

(307 posts)
15. Not Surprising
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:20 PM
Apr 2021

I'd expect Dersh to relate to Chauvin.

After all, Chauvin kept his underpants on throughout the entire encounter.

pnwmom

(108,991 posts)
16. Biden waited till after the jury was sequestered. And the sad fact of the matter is,
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:20 PM
Apr 2021

most non-political people in Minnesota, which means most people, wouldn't even know who the CA Rep Maxine Waters is.

They know their own Reps, maybe, but not all the ones across the country.

Ohioboy

(3,243 posts)
19. Douche O Wits has to say things like this
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:30 PM
Apr 2021

It will be revealed that he didn't have his underwear on during that massage on Epstein's Island if he doesn't.

robleb

(162 posts)
24. and his opinion
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 09:58 PM
Apr 2021

is significant how? does he actually think he is still considered a law scholar or an expert? how this man has shrunk to insignificance.

ancianita

(36,132 posts)
26. AG Keith Ellison and the state's prosecution team can run circles around Dershowitz in their sleep.
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:01 PM
Apr 2021

As some armchair legal scholar these days, Dershowitz believes what he wants to believe.

But no one asked him. He just wants to believe they should have.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
41. I'm so old I even remember when he
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:42 AM
Apr 2021

was a respectable non-fool, if I reach way way back past the cobwebs.

elias7

(4,026 posts)
29. If not for this, then for what, Mr Dershowitz?
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:20 PM
Apr 2021

It’s like the crazy DOJ claim that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. What can’t the police do if this is ok? There was no justification for taking that man’s life. Nothing Mr Floyd did justified what Chauvin did to him. Nothing. Shall we all sit down together and watch this murder take place again? Dershowitz has a broken soul, and no longer has any moral bearing.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
30. Obviously, I didn't know enough at the time, but I once respected Dershowitz, thinking of him as....
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:21 PM
Apr 2021

...an ACTUAL Constitutional scholar, interpreting the law that way. Man, it's sure been all downhill for him since the slow white Bronco chase, hasn't it?

Alien Life Form

(370 posts)
35. Bullshit
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:57 PM
Apr 2021

This disgusting thing is always playing this game..taking the most outrageous and inflammatory positions to gain notoriety ..its a very profitable strategy,,for those that have no conscience

DFW

(54,436 posts)
38. Well, I'm no star crim law attorney, but as I recall...
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 01:07 AM
Apr 2021

If Chauvin had leaned on Floyd for ten seconds after hearing him say he couldn't breathe, and the gotten off only to find that he had killed him, THEN he might have limited the verdict to manslaughter.

If he leaned on him for six minutes after hearing Floyd say he couldn't breathe, and was motionless after that, at some point it evolves into deliberate action with predictably fatal consequences. That passes into a more sinister realm.

stopdiggin

(11,358 posts)
39. another old fart (generous description) in love
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 03:57 AM
Apr 2021

with his own voice. The fault lies in the people that keep handing him a microphone. Hasn't contributed anything useful in years.

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