- It could also very well be budget reasons. Flying in two witnesses from out of state for a case like this seemed like unusual spending. And within the last month there is suddenly alot of drama about the state budget.
On that note it's a huge tell that even though it has now been a full
month since the prosecutor obtained the
interstate Certificates issued by the Minnesota court on February 11th for later filing in New York, the state
still hasn't lifted a finger to even so much as
commence the New York proceeding to this very day let alone see it through:
[L]
That completely unnecessary and avoidable delay could only mean one of three things:
1. An overzealous assistant county attorney with
less than five years of experience got in over her head starting the easiest opening step of the Uniform Act process without yet realizing how much hassle and expense would be involved in not only enforcement against Geanu and reimbursement of Geanu later on, but moreover in seeking out and hiring locally licensed counsel to even handle the New York proceeding
in the first place, upon further exploration of which her more budget-conscious boss looked at some retainer price quotes and told her WTFNOWAI;
2. The prosecution never truly intended in good faith to follow through with a New York proceeding and they obtained the Minnesota certificates solely as a shot across the bow attempting to scare Geanu into unenforceable assurances of voluntary appearance and/or to scare Aaron into accepting the desired plea terms, only to be left empty-handed when both Geanu and Aaron correctly called the bluff; or
3. The prosecution perhaps genuinely intended to follow through with a New York proceeding but were so lazy and incompetent as to let a critical month go by, in which case they probably would have continued being too lazy and incompetent to complete every single step of the likely-contested process in time for the May trial date anyway.
In any one of these scenarios it makes perfect sense why they would now just call up Peterson and say uncle as Aaron was suggesting. The only thing that seems strange is why Aaron would have been on the phone constantly for about
"three or four hours" if there was a simple counteroffer of some plea terms watered down from the last offer, which would have been a simple matter of saying "yes please" and maybe hashing out a few drafting particulars in a half-hour.
It's hard to imagine what on earth could have taken that "three or four hours" on the phone other than perhaps a supplemental interview of the putative victim of another crime that can finally be charged once Aaron's case is over with and no longer poses any conflicts of interest. If the prosecutors and investigators are supremely disappointed that this case didn't go as hoped and all their hard work familiarizing themselves with these degenerates didn't get their man, the vindictive urge to get their seven pounds of flesh out of
anyone with criminal exposure could be motivation enough to turn around and take all seven pounds out of Nick's ass for the cybercrime shit that Aaron's lawyer had already handed to them on a silver platter for then-defensive purposes that can now be so easily repurposed to offensive. Bring on the
's, but fuck it, a guy can dream can't he? Nothing stops the threepeat train. Nothing.
This is interesting. I didn't see this before. And last time I checked wasn't too long ago.
That was definitely there ever since the breakdown of the January 22nd settlement conference led to scheduling dates that went out in the January 23rd hearing notices. There was some discussion here or in Aaron's thread back then about what sort of motion Peterson was planning to file that they felt the need to schedule a separate motion hearing for, but now that there's apparently a resolution in the works, we'll never get to know what request for relief Peterson even had in mind unless Aaron chooses to blab about it after the dust settles.
EDIT: ninja'd by Aaron just now blabbing about the $50. So much for that coming "in the next couple weeks."
