Not sure, I stopped bothering to look into the photo when Ty and Nick basically admitted he wasn't in their presence. When Nick streamed last night he never once said or indicated Ty has notarized the documents properly or that people claiming Ty and the Slatosch were in different places were wrong. Instead he went with "Does it matter though?" reinforcing the idea that Ty and the affiant(s) were not in the same location.
Ty's response to stream chat was just "I admit, I fucked up I won't make excuses" etc...
At this point there is every reason to believe that the documents were not notarized properly. As a reminder:
- Slatosch was scheduled to be a con during this time, and did post a photo at the very least implying he was there, although he may not have been physically in the frame, so maybe tried to fake being there for some reason? Unlikely and unnecessary imo, but whatever, moving on.
- Ty has repeatedly affirmed there were "defects in form" and while he hasn't specifically enumerated what "defects in form" means, he immediately withdrew the documents in question and resubmitted minus the notary and has as of yet not produced any Notary log to verify the notarization was proper
- Ty has admitted to messing up, and never specifically denied that Slatosch was in San Antonio
- The running line by Nick and Ty has not been to deny the improper Notary, but instead to contest the relevance or significance of it
If anyone still denies that Ty fucked up the Notary they are fighting a battle even Ty and Nick have opted out of. Argue that you think it doesn't matter, but arguing it didn't happen at this point is... beyond optimistic.
You forgot to add that notary record books are public information in Texas, and that notaries are required to provide certified copies of it when requested by any person. Which is what Johnson did on 31.09.2019. The fact that a notary decided not to provide the copies but went the "does it matter tho?" way is quiet telling and really alarming both for his standing as a notary and his credibility as a lawyer.
I'm quiet surprised at the level of fanboyism in this thread among some people. When you start talking about "concern trolling" when people with experience in the legal field are concerned about this type of behavior from a notary, maybe you should try to understand why it seems such an important matter to them before sperging.
While the notary profession differs in its form and functions from country to country, the basic principle is the same: there is a need for trust in certain contractual relations, that trust can be achieved by authenticating documents through the notary process. For instance, by establishing a will and bearing witness of its signing by the relevant parties, so that no one can claim later that the person who did his will was not a pretender, or was sound of mind.
That power of authenticating, that power of trust, is given one form or another by the State. In continental law theory we go as far as to say that notaries are private persons executing privately a public power. This is why when a notary does something he shouldn't it creates a lot of problems:
1. A problem for any person who might suffer direct harm from this.
2. A problem for the court.
3. A problem for the notary's former and future clients, because he broke that trust.
4. A problem for society itself, from the misuse of this delegation of public power.
5. A problem for the notary himself, his reputation and credibility.
The idea that Ty did it through laziness is not good, but the fact that he can't provide his notary record book is quiet outraging, especially if prodiving his record book should prove he did nothing wrong. Then you begin to wonder: "Hey that Ty guy, so carefree with this important notary stuff, is it an anecdotal event? Or is there something more to it?". Remember "TRUST"?....
I already shitposted quiet a long thing for my first post here ever but I'm gonna go on a tangent on e-celeb lawyers.
I understand many here love Nick and Ty because they're /ourguys/, and when it's like that, it's not really a discussion about the case and its participants, it becomes a sperging Nick/Ty fangroup on the level of the ones on the opposite side. No rational legal argument being discussed without people sperging.
Take in mind that the underlying duty of a lawyer, that predicates every others, is the duty of upholding the interests of the client. Before anything else, including the lawyer's envy to be an e-celeb, or to be some publicly recognizable figure. For these things can actually be against your due diligence at upholding the interests of your clients.
And this is why I have a lot of snak for youtube lawyers in the first place. I'm just gonna remind everyone the Leonard French Imagos v. Alex Mauer debacle.
And now we have a similar thing with Nick, cashing in the weeb wars drama, doing hot takes that the audience likes for donations.
This is pretty sad for the profession of lawyers/attorney as a whole.
After all, e-celeb lawyers are today's form of public figure lawyers from the previous decade, just worse, but the same overall.
What is interesting tho, is that a competent high public profile lawyer is a rarity, mediocre being the norm.
But in the quiet and boring world of normal lawyers who network between them, these are the people who know who is hot shit. Not the layman public.
I find Nick screeching on 3 hours long livestream about a weeb war almost as exceptional as the couple of rarted attorneys on the opposite side.
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