Disagree. If this was a important matter to Chupp (for political reason or whatever), he would have read the documents.-Furthermore, check the hearing. Again, by firing from the hip like that he wasn't just being lazy, he was making his job harder than it needed to be. Why? Well if twitter and Nick are to be trusted (I'd say one is more tan the other, but either way), the reason is because he literally fears the Dallas Morning News. Let me be clear here: while I won't say this is definite, there is a strong possibility that Chupp is seeing this case as a POLITICAL issue which he should be CAMPAIGNING around, not a legal issue. And that opens a whole can of beautiful spergery for us. But now that I made this case, let me say, if he's just lazy… it still could go wrong.
Instead, he didn't read anything before the hearing, didn't read much during the hearing, and used excuses to rule things on the fly (like he didn't decide Vic to be a public figure based on any argument the defendants made, he just used the hearing attendance as an excuse not to listen any argument from any side). He didn't even let Lemoine go throught his presentation.
It's quite obvious Chupp didn't give a fuck, not about Vic, not about the defendants, he basically just put his finger in his mouth, raised it up in the wind, and issued his rulings based on the temperature of the room.
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