Operation Chris Eater commences

[Chipmunk With A Banana]

I'm gonna call it here and now. When Chris posts his side of the story on Facebook (oh, you know he will), he's going to claim that he spotted both troll observers from a mile away in the courtroom. We all know that ManBaby reads these forums, and he's sure to use his discovery of trolls from the reports to act like he knew all along who they really were. If he didn't use his mental gymnastics so much, he'd never get any exercise at all.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Long-ass update!

Spoiler

That was them leaving the courthouse. You can confirm it is them because Chris is wearing the same clothes in Zeonista's description.

Why am I getting an "Oliver Stone" vibe while watching this?

 

[yarly1]

It's actually a perfect disguise. People will just think he's a drunk male prostitute.

Spoiler

Smokey's back at the strip mall, Julian's on the swish...

 

[24isthehighestnumber]

I know it's a pretty silly thing to get excited about (but c'mon, we all were pretty excited, right?), but I think it's so fucking cool that people go out to the Charlottesville courthouse and give us full reports on this weird man's misadventures. It's at the point where we can almost entirely expect someone to step up and go on one of these missions.

 

[Chipmunk With A Banana]

I know it's a pretty silly thing to get excited about (but c'mon, we all were pretty excited, right?), but I think it's so fucking cool that people go out to the Charlottesville courthouse and give us full reports on this weird man's misadventures. It's at the point where we can almost entirely expect someone to step up and go on one of these missions.

I salute these careful, well-planned efforts. It reduces the amount of rampant speculation in the forums, as well as gives us the true story of what really happened instead of getting only Chris' side via Facebook, which is always guaranteed to be a steaming sack of twisted, self-aggrandizing horseshit.

 

[RV 229]

So, two months 'till the next continuation. Anybody with the legal expertise know if this will be the real deal?

 

[CWCissey]

So, two months 'till the next continuation. Anybody with the legal expertise know if this will be the real deal?

Better call Saul!

Hey Saul? Any ideas?

 

[Rammspieler]

Is that like an inside joke I don't get? I feel like I would pay extra attention to any man wearing aviators and a cowboy hat outside my house.

Hey, if I'm going to be singled out as a troll, I might as well leave an impression! Besides, I rock the stetson.

Why am I getting an "Oliver Stone" vibe while watching this?

I was actually going for Hunter S. Thompson. I knew I should if have gone in blazed!

 

[4Macie]

So, two months 'till the next continuation. Anybody with the legal expertise know if this will be the real deal?

The next one will be what this one was suppose to be. Chris saying if he's pleading not guilty/guilty or if he's taking a plea bargain. Why the hell they couldn't do it this time is beyond me.

 

[CWCissey]

The next one will be what this one was suppose to be. Chris saying if he's pleading not guilty/guilty or if he's taking a plea bargain. Why the hell they couldn't do it this time is beyond me.

Apparently the courts may have hired the wrong kind of lawyer.

 

[RV 229]

The next one will be what this one was suppose to be. Chris saying if he's pleading not guilty/guilty or if he's taking a plea bargain. Why the hell they couldn't do it this time is beyond me.

Last time he was on trial, it took a couple tries before the final July 10th(?) trial that Indigo and I went to. We're thinking about going again, but I personally don't want to take the time off of work and drive up there for another bum arraignment.

Edit: This is what I'm talking about. Chris and Barb both had to show up to court five times before finally taking the plea bargain.

 

[4Macie]

Apparently the courts may have hired the wrong kind of lawyer.

If it's a PD, there's no way it's the courts fault. They literally assign you an attorney based on your case and the information of the court.

What I'm leaning towards is that Chris was uncooperative (or Barb was). If the bit about the PD being terse with them for asking the date again is true, this means he's already super frustrated with them. For a PD, someone who works with sucktastic people all the time, to be fed up with you... means you fucked up big. It's possible that Chris said he'd take the plea deal, or that he'd plead whatever, but then changed his mind that day; told his lawyer, and now his lawyer has to fill out some different paperwork/forms or something. Like I said, PDs are assigned based on your case information. If, by some chance, Chris was assigned the wrong PD, they would have found out Day 1 of him going in to talk to the PD and they would have switched it out then, not the day of the court appearance.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

If nothing else, Chris doesn't have the finances to keep rejecting pleas this time so it should get to the "good stuff" faster than his last experience with the court system. I still can't shake the idea that he might actually take this to trial because bans give him prickly-wicklies and hurt his delicate female soul.

 

[A Ghost]

The most facisnating thing for me is that Barb seems to have embraced Christal in his tomgirl tranny cross-dresser born with a male body and lesbian female soul form. I recall a while back either Marvin or Thetan saying that Barb had threatened Chris over his tomgirlism.

im thinking she is just going along for the ride because she knows if she fights chris over this it may push him away and she wouldn't have her man slave anymore

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I just want to plant a bug under the desk and listen to the PD's conversation with Chris and Barb.

 

[cahoots]

I just want to plant a bug under the desk and listen to the PD's conversation with Chris and Barb.

Barb has enough bugs under her.

 

[EI 903]

If nothing else, Chris doesn't have the finances to keep rejecting pleas this time so it should get to the "good stuff" faster than his last experience with the court system. I still can't shake the idea that he might actually take this to trial because bans give him prickly-wicklies and hurt his delicate female soul.

I have zero legal experience, but I would think that rejecting plea proposals would be his right. You can't legally be forced to do something because of how much of the public defender's time you are taking.

With Barb and Chris having a lot more influence on things than they did when Bell was running the show, almost anything is possible. Just knowing that Chris wanted to inform the judge about the trolls gives an indication that he very well might try to fight this out.

 

[AnOminous]

I am no legal expert, why do you all think the judge decide to continue his trial?

Because they asked. Counsel not being ready is always a good reason. Continuances, especially first continuances, are granted as a matter of course.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Last time he was on trial, it took a couple tries before the final July 10th(?) trial that Indigo and I went to. We're thinking about going again, but I personally don't want to take the time off of work and drive up there for another bum arraignment.

Edit: This is what I'm talking about. Chris and Barb both had to show up to court five times before finally taking the plea bargain.

While that was continued for an extended period of time they also had the money to do so. I think it was @Marvin (could have been someone else) who said that they only settled because they didn't have any more money continue.

 

[repentance]

Like I said, PDs are assigned based on your case information. If, by some chance, Chris was assigned the wrong PD, they would have found out Day 1 of him going in to talk to the PD and they would have switched it out then, not the day of the court appearance.

From what has been posted, Chris didn't even know who his PD was going to be until the morning of the hearing so it sounds like there may have been no prior meeting to review the case. Maybe they work on a "duty lawyer" basis for minor stuff like this and the PDs just pick up the minor cases on the day, asking for adjournments once they become aware that they'll need to prepare a defence and/or negotiate a plea.

And yeah, it's his absolute right to reject plea deals and to testify in his own defence. Neither would be a good idea, but his lawyer can't stop him from doing either.