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I keep seeing reference made to a plea deal having been offered Chris, that he refused to cooperate and that the continuances were issued in an attempt to get him to reconcile with counsel. Is there any actual evidence of a plea deal having been offered or is it just speculation?
No direct evidence, just educated guesses. Chris' ramblings aren't to be taken at face value, but he kept describing what sounded like a plea deal.
The case was transferred from General District Court to J&DR court, and then stayed in J&DR for a year, which would indicate that they weren't hellbent on convicting him on a felony out of the gate.
Plea deals are normal and almost always offered, though the plea deals tend to be worse the more they intend to use you as an example of how they're keeping their constituents safe or avenging the victims.
Finally, Chris has a history of chimping out in court, and in the Snyder case had the illusion that Rob Bell would get him off entirely, leading to it languishing in district court for a while, until he finally broke and took a plea deal in circuit court that wasn't any worse than the one he could have had in district court (other than it being an Alford plea where he got to still profess innocence).
I definitely think dismantling the asylums was the Reagan-era GOP's biggest L.
It started well before the Reagan era. Reagan gets the blame a lot because he signed the bill that dismantled them in California *when he was governor*. He wasn't responsible for the other 49 states. Since most entertainment comes from California, people heard him getting blamed a lot, and eventually people associated that with his presidency rather than his time as governor (since most people don't even know he was governor of California).
So it sounds like they can/are holding him in jail for more then a year? Its not mentioned in the FAQ but I thought someone said that the tugboat could be suspended for that reason? If he was using it for commissary up until this point, that could another rude awakening, yeah?
The FAQ explains it in the tugboat section. Being incarcerated doesn't remove Chris' entitlement to the tugboat. Being incarcerated *after* he's convicted puts the tugboat on pause. He gets it back after he's released, it doesn't get shut off. He's on SSDI, specifically the variety you get from when you're crippled/retarded from childhood.
IAnother reason why Chris won’t be let out is because his bond request has been denied. It is possible to get it back, but in order for it to be reinstated it must be under these circumstances: the bond is deemed excessive or under unreasonable terms of recognizance (a type of bond where a prisoner is released on a specific condition or conditions). Chris meets neither condition and since it’s already been about a year, there’s a very slim chance he’ll be released.
Chris chimped out in his bond hearing at precisely the wrong moment. The judge still offered to let him have another shot, but I'm pretty sure there was never any possibility for a reasonable way to ensure that Chris would be at a known location since he didn't have anywhere to go.