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maggie is so funny for being the only person in the leverage universe who can immediately see through scams lol. in most spy/cop/crime/etc shows the audience is meant to assume that the loud stage whispering is inaudible in-universe, that the obvious "lying voice" is much less obvious, and that those things are made clearer for the audience’s benefit. sure, maggie has the advantage of knowing to be suspicious but the team deal with a lot of people who should be suspicious of any newcomers, and whose lives or careers depend on being able to spot a double cross. so i guess in-universe maggie is like… uniquely & superhumanly perceptive. she’s a tv character who’s immune to tv logic. her life must be so weird

adaquinn

You know the fascinating thing about Maggie, is that she knows a con, because she used to RUN cons. When Blackstone talks about Maggie, he states that she used to work with Nate to get art back, episode one, when he runs the con on Dubenich, he says that running cons is how he got a lot of art work back. Maggie, has seen Nate work. Nate loves strong, smart, independent women. His first wife is a reflection of that. No one ever says anything bad about Maggie, least of all Nate, because Maggie is amazing. Besides, when Sophie needs someone to run a con who does she call to help her.... Maggie. I always wanted a Girls Night episode with Maggie involved.

My New Snackpack! Two kittens, Jellybean and Skittles

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Little 🍄 🍄 🍄 in my garden ( ^.^) By NatureSpiritHeart Photography

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garden cat

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They’re both right i guess

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Heheh

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‘Water Break’, a deermouse with a juniper hairstreak butterfly. :3

mixed media (mostly colored pencil and watercolor) on hotpress watercolor paper, 5x7"

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‘Monarch Puppies’, a harvestmouse wrangling some caterpillars (in a hat). Maybe they use the adults to send messages long-distance when the birds can’t be trusted?

Mixed media (mostly colored pencil and watercolor) on hotpress watercolor paper, 5x7"

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Reunification of bee ‘n mouse. c: Plus a few ridiculously high-res scans, for fun.

mixed media (mostly colored pencil and watercolor) on hotpress watercolor paper, 5x7"

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Comic by PetFoolery

Hands up if you'd also adopt that little noodle! ✋

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Tags by @interstellarvagabond

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THERE'S A SEQUEL!

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MR. NOODLE

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The adventure continues!

Awesome dad is awesome.

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Hopefully the mother will get used to it

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Mom finally warmed up to Mr Noodle.

Made by PetFoolery

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ty for stealing this one much appreciated

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people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

A juror was held in criminal contempt and fined more than $11k for researching his case online. The man, named as Stephen Miele, told other

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As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

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For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

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Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.

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