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It would be funny if he castrated himself with that thing. It reminds me of the thing they use to castrate pigs.I mean, othrwise? Putting your nuts in a truss thing to force them to say parallel and then shoving all that into your wife and stimulating her to orgasm - that doesn't sound like fun. A ruptured testicle is what it sounds like.
I'm honestly not seeing where. I mean I was pretty unimpressed by the quality of filings by all sides (again except Sam Johnson), and multiple people were clearly working on the many lengthy filings, as style and typography would drastically change sometimes even in the same section. The writing was also not terribly inspiring. However, they were all at least workmanlike quality. Really the worst thing about them was a profusion of often duplicative or weirdly formatted exhibits, but better that than leaving something out that turns out important later.Rekieta defended Ty a month or so ago by saying Ty feels terrible but was being so kind for being silent and taking all the blame for the Vic case and implied that other people fucked up too, which in my mind could imply multiple groups of people. I 'm interested if he commented any further on last night's show.
However, these quibbles aside, the briefs would not have killed the case. They stated the arguments clearly enough to be understood even by Chupp.
Not having any of the affidavits admitted into evidence, though, was huge. I don't think it should have been, nor do I think the appeals court should have hung their hat on that, but I'm just some (biased) guy and the panel is three Texas appellate judges.
This only could have happened had Ty, a) chose to file at the very last minute, b) submitted something fundamentally fucked up because of his own notarizations, and c) signed a bad Rule 11 agreement that the appellate panel used as a justification for why a day late re-filing with corrected "sworn declarations" instead of notarized affidavits, which would have been sufficient in the first place, should have excluded them from evidence.
This fatal, triple-barrelled blunder could have been avoided by dotting ts and crossing is before the drop dead deadline, just using sworn declarations in the first place, or using a qualified notary to do remote notarizations, none of which would have been difficult or expensive. So for want of getting a detail that would have been free or a couple hundred bucks to get right, a million dollars and years of everyone's time got flushed down the toilet.
This is the kind of thing that will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. It is the nightmare scenario. It is the kind of thing lawyers wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night worried they did.
I'm sure he's sorry about it, but I'm also sure that despite Nick's slithering, it really was this one thing Ty did that sunk the ship.
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