Mildly Infuriating

He said his client is being treated unfairly because he’s a white outsider.

Are we serious with this one? Hawaii has been ethnically cleansed since like 200 years ago. Even if that were true this defense ostensibly makes things far far worse.

Would you walk into a Lakota reservation and shoot a Bison? And then bitch about being a white outsider?

Myles is a real sack of shit that seeks high profile cases. Everyone, regardless of how heinous their crime, deserves good representation and due process. But the purpose of defense is not to get guilty clients off on technicalities or public sympathy, it’s to make sure they receive a fair trial and that the legal consequences fit the crime. Getting you ass-whipped by a crowd stopping you in the act and the public being disgusted with you as a human being are extra legal consequences that inevitably occur when you commit a crime and have no bearing on your defense or eventual sentence.

Myles also takes on cases of Proud Boys and crooked cops/prosecutors, so he’s got a type.

“Honolulu-based defense attorney Myles Briener has gained recognition in Hawaii for taking on high-profile clients and cases in recent years. In 2021, Breiner represented Nicholas Ochs, the founder of Hawaii’s Proud Boys chapter who landed in court in 2021 after his participation in the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Breiner also represented Louis and Katherine Kealoha, a former police chief and deputy prosecutor in Honolulu who were indicted for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and drug charges in 2017.”

https://www.theinertia.com/environment/igor-lytvynchuks-lawyer-says-he-threw-rock-at-seal-to-save-turtles/

Also, Lytvynchuk has hired crisis management firm Red Banyan to try and suppress stories and push the narrative he was “saving turtles”.

https://redbanyan.com/about-red-banyan/

So his lawyer pinky promises he was horrifically beat up, but was just too noble to press charges? lol

So this dude is absolutely awful and deserves all the hate he’s getting but there was video of the beat down (lemme try and find it, one sec). It isn’t worth pressing charges because no one in Hawaii will ever convict the perpetrator. It would be political suicide for a prosecutor to even try to advance a case. I think a local politician (state senator? Mayor?) even commended the guy.

ETA: found it! Apologies for the shit source (YouTube & NY Post) but it also includes video of the state senator giving a commendation with a delightfully amused attorney in the background

https://youtu.be/7tiL8hbKN9c

While people's information (in the US) is considered public information, doxxing is the act to distribute a specific targets information maliciously with the intent to harass or cause harm to them... their information was public but someone gave it out with that intent to a large group of people who'd otherwise not bother going through the trouble of obtaining the information. Now they have it readily available, it's and easy target for the victim.

Well, there wasn't a column in the white pages for ‘Seal Abuser’

I think the original Terminator movie did a good job illustrating how phone books could still be pretty unreliable

I had that happen to me once, but I reassured them it was only ice cream on my face

But that would break the system that keeps the rich free and the poor incarcerated and even more impoverished. The rich suffer enough as it is when they commit a crime, judges consider how much their lawyers and crisis management PR firms bill and deduct that from the final fine. The poor get a free ride on public defenders. Won’t someone think of the rich’s feelings?!?

What's an ass violin and do they make it in regular sizes??