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- Jul 18, 2017
Its a term to mean that the State has you in their power and you have become its plaything. We use it as a colloquial term that means "You are got and there is no escape", but it is actually derived from the justice system. When you are "Dead to Rights", it means you can make whatever legal argument possible, raise any procedural issue, and assert any right under the law, and none of it will matter. You are so provably guilty that there is no Right you can fall upon as a technicality to save your hide.Dead to rights?
Rekieta is without question "Dead to Rights", and you could see this in the hearing today as the judge magnanimously entertained and ignored his 8th amendment claim, as well as let him talk with his co defendant as if he was legitimately an attorney. Setting aside the issues that raises for the actual trial judge. The Judge legitimately had no care what issues Rekieta raised with regards to his rights because nothing he raised mattered. He was quite literally "dead" to them.