At least 2, maybe 3, FBI experts attested that the fingerprints found on a bag near the Madrid train bombings belonged to Brandon Mayfield. The FBI "experts" said they were 100% sure about the prints. Mayfield would be an international villain, rotting away in infamy forever, were it not for the Spanish National Police conducting a competent investigation and identifying the real bomber.
After that, Congress ordered the NAS to find out what the hell was going on. The NAS reported that much of forensic "science" is a hot mess--something created by law enforcement and never vetted by actual scientists. A Popular Mechanics article addressed fingerprint ID and wrote,"In one recent experiment, veteran examiners looking twice at the same print came to different conclusions each time." Fingerprint experts don't even agree with their own previous conclusions.
Still, courts allow this shit as evidence, and we allow law enforcement to not only continue using flawed practices, but also to devise new ones. All without input from trained and neutral scientists. And, of course, without input from the citizenry or, heaven forbid, congress.
I'd love to see the plaintiffs' lawyers pay 50% of the defendants' legal bills after a ruling like this one. Right now these amoral pieces of garbage bill their thug clients for representation in these nuisance suits, so they walk away with a lot of money no matter what. Unless the scumbag lawyers have skin in the game, they have no incentive to stop filing these crap suits.
Generation Bubble Wrap, the first generation whose members believe they have a right to never be uncomfortable.
Good luck on planet Earth, kids. The adults who should be teaching you autonomy, decency and resilience are crippling you, and ensuring that you think the solution to every problem is giving government more power.
Of course, this is assuming there's a judge who actually, you know, has a stray thought now and then about the Constitution. But that's a different issue.
Do people who are wrongly arrested for crimes and later exonerated get to have every single record of their arrest removed forever from the Internet? No. So what makes this jackass lawyer (sorry to be redundant) special?
Yes ik [I know] I bullied Rebecca nd she killed her self but IDGAF [I don't give a (expletive)].
The girl who made that statement may be a horrible human being, but I don't think one heartless text is the way we can determine that.
14 year olds say things they don't mean all the time. They wish people dead a lot too--mostly their parents. Thank god I came of age before the time when my every horrid thought could be electronically preserved in perpetuity.
The "justice system" needs a new name, to better reflect its real-world function. I think that The Thug Enabling System: Where the rich get their way has a nice ring to it.
If this was all kept quiet (not in local and national news), I wonder if the DA would have gone along with the rest of the power structure on this one. That office did, evidently, allow the kid to be prosecuted in the first place.
I generally try to keep an open mind about things, but I just can't come to any other conclusion--Judge Maureen McGraw is a disgrace as a judge and a piece of crap as a human being.
Of course college should the place where people grow into citizenship, recognize the power of their voices, embrace their responsibility to participate in government and become invested in the political process.
Through its administration's brilliant, yet unconventional, teaching methods, Ashuntuck Community College made sure that this young man is even more committed to speaking up now then he was when he asked his question of the governor.
Well done, President James Lombella! I'm sure other institutions have already flooded your inbox, looking to poach you from Ashuntuck.
I think that legal threats must still bring about a company's desired result more often than not, and so some businesses still consider threatening critics to be a good strategy.
What these fools have yet to learn is the fact that even if their sue-'em-now! strategy pays off just as much and just as often as before, the cost of failure has risen steeply. Ask Ms. Streisand.
So if the cobbler's children have no shoes, and the cobbler's customers have no shoes either...should the cobbler really refer to himself as a superhero cobbler? Does the cobbler's goat have shoes?
I guess some people are dumb enough to think that whacking a hornets' nest is a good idea. And some people are even dumber than that--they think it's a good idea to stand next to a hornets' nest and pay someone else to whack it.
Nowhere does it say that Baybrook threw anyone out. You are confusing Baybrook Remodelers with the City of Milford. I will confess that I have also had trouble distinguishing between the two throughout this drama.
2. If you look at the July letter from Kuchta, the permit number referenced is the permit pulled by Baybrook Remodelers. It was on this basis that she was thrown out. There is an actual document that proves that your statement above is false. Another word for a provably false statement is lie.
3. I don't know anything about "threatening phone calls" telling you to get an elevation certificate. I suspect you're completely fabricating that. But on the very slim chance that you aren't, call the police. Or, hey, sue 'em!
3. Posting a negative online review of Baybrook Remodelers is not an "outrageous action" born from "rage". Nor is creating a website. This will help you understand that.
4. Why don't you elaborate or offer evidence of this purported rage directed at "the family of the owner"? You are just ridiculous sometimes.
5. This has always been one of my favorites: You claim that you have had over 16,000 customers since 1992. 1992 to 2014 is 22 years. 16,000/22 = 727 customers a year, or 2 customers a day. Over 22 years, you claim that Baybrook Remodelers has signed an average of 2 new contracts a day. That's assuming you sign these contracts 365 days/year. No weekends or holidays. 2 contracts a day. Uh huh. Sure you do.
6. As for whether my mother was happy with you...I will let her speak for herself on that in the trial, but there are actual written letters that she wrote to you where she makes it abundantly clear that she is unhappy. There are actually written letters where you write back and address her unhappiness. You're again making a statement that is provably false. I'd work on that before the trial if I were you.
7. I am not sure that the best business strategy is to say, hey we sue our customers more than they sue us. Just sayin'.
I am blown away by this article and support. Thanks for putting it out there. This kind of fight can get dispiriting at times, and reading this article (and seeing my site visits skyrocket thanks to your platform) has been fantastic.
Just one point of clarification:
Kristen's mother moved out of her own house in 2011 rather than continue battling Baybrook Remodelers and the city of Milford.
My mother spends winters in Florida and summers here in CT. She did elect to remain in Florida rather than to try to live in her house due to the City of Milford's unchecked lunacy and abuse. She thought the city might try to force her out somehow, and wasn't going to subject herself to that kind of additional stress. She has never stopped fighting this, though.
Those signs are still up on her house. If I were a betting woman I would count on them remaining up for as long as the property is in the family. Ken Carney and Baybrook Remodelers are still suing her (although I sense they are anxious to settle rather than incur the cost of traveling to Florida to depose her!) The City of Milford is still suing her too.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Kristen.
At least 2, maybe 3, FBI experts attested that the fingerprints found on a bag near the Madrid train bombings belonged to Brandon Mayfield. The FBI "experts" said they were 100% sure about the prints. Mayfield would be an international villain, rotting away in infamy forever, were it not for the Spanish National Police conducting a competent investigation and identifying the real bomber.
After that, Congress ordered the NAS to find out what the hell was going on. The NAS reported that much of forensic "science" is a hot mess--something created by law enforcement and never vetted by actual scientists. A Popular Mechanics article addressed fingerprint ID and wrote,"In one recent experiment, veteran examiners looking twice at the same print came to different conclusions each time." Fingerprint experts don't even agree with their own previous conclusions.
Still, courts allow this shit as evidence, and we allow law enforcement to not only continue using flawed practices, but also to devise new ones. All without input from trained and neutral scientists. And, of course, without input from the citizenry or, heaven forbid, congress.
Charge the lawyers
I'd love to see the plaintiffs' lawyers pay 50% of the defendants' legal bills after a ruling like this one. Right now these amoral pieces of garbage bill their thug clients for representation in these nuisance suits, so they walk away with a lot of money no matter what. Unless the scumbag lawyers have skin in the game, they have no incentive to stop filing these crap suits.
Just what we need
Generation Bubble Wrap, the first generation whose members believe they have a right to never be uncomfortable.
Good luck on planet Earth, kids. The adults who should be teaching you autonomy, decency and resilience are crippling you, and ensuring that you think the solution to every problem is giving government more power.
Faraday bag
I agree with There is something else. The police can completely prevent the phone from being accessed , then get their warrant if they have grounds.
Of course, this is assuming there's a judge who actually, you know, has a stray thought now and then about the Constitution. But that's a different issue.
Do people who are wrongly arrested for crimes and later exonerated get to have every single record of their arrest removed forever from the Internet? No. So what makes this jackass lawyer (sorry to be redundant) special?
The girl who made that statement may be a horrible human being, but I don't think one heartless text is the way we can determine that.
14 year olds say things they don't mean all the time. They wish people dead a lot too--mostly their parents. Thank god I came of age before the time when my every horrid thought could be electronically preserved in perpetuity.
When I put the fake Twitter post against what this jackass Jim Ardis has done in response to it, I have to say I like the fake Jim Ardis much more.
The "justice system" needs a new name, to better reflect its real-world function. I think that The Thug Enabling System: Where the rich get their way has a nice ring to it.
I wonder
If this was all kept quiet (not in local and national news), I wonder if the DA would have gone along with the rest of the power structure on this one. That office did, evidently, allow the kid to be prosecuted in the first place.
I generally try to keep an open mind about things, but I just can't come to any other conclusion--Judge Maureen McGraw is a disgrace as a judge and a piece of crap as a human being.
Brilliant
Of course college should the place where people grow into citizenship, recognize the power of their voices, embrace their responsibility to participate in government and become invested in the political process.
Through its administration's brilliant, yet unconventional, teaching methods, Ashuntuck Community College made sure that this young man is even more committed to speaking up now then he was when he asked his question of the governor.
Well done, President James Lombella! I'm sure other institutions have already flooded your inbox, looking to poach you from Ashuntuck.
Another genius
I think that legal threats must still bring about a company's desired result more often than not, and so some businesses still consider threatening critics to be a good strategy.
What these fools have yet to learn is the fact that even if their sue-'em-now! strategy pays off just as much and just as often as before, the cost of failure has risen steeply. Ask Ms. Streisand.
Re: Rocks
Can I shoot people who sneeze on me? Like 20,000 people die from the flu every year.
Re: Todd Ramos SEO Goat Fornicator for Baybrook Remodelers deletes his Twitter
So if the cobbler's children have no shoes, and the cobbler's customers have no shoes either...should the cobbler really refer to himself as a superhero cobbler? Does the cobbler's goat have shoes?
Who thought this was a good strategy?
I guess some people are dumb enough to think that whacking a hornets' nest is a good idea. And some people are even dumber than that--they think it's a good idea to stand next to a hornets' nest and pay someone else to whack it.
Re:
2. If you look at the July letter from Kuchta, the permit number referenced is the permit pulled by Baybrook Remodelers. It was on this basis that she was thrown out. There is an actual document that proves that your statement above is false. Another word for a provably false statement is lie.
3. I don't know anything about "threatening phone calls" telling you to get an elevation certificate. I suspect you're completely fabricating that. But on the very slim chance that you aren't, call the police. Or, hey, sue 'em!
3. Posting a negative online review of Baybrook Remodelers is not an "outrageous action" born from "rage". Nor is creating a website. This will help you understand that.
4. Why don't you elaborate or offer evidence of this purported rage directed at "the family of the owner"? You are just ridiculous sometimes.
5. This has always been one of my favorites: You claim that you have had over 16,000 customers since 1992. 1992 to 2014 is 22 years. 16,000/22 = 727 customers a year, or 2 customers a day. Over 22 years, you claim that Baybrook Remodelers has signed an average of 2 new contracts a day. That's assuming you sign these contracts 365 days/year. No weekends or holidays. 2 contracts a day. Uh huh. Sure you do.
6. As for whether my mother was happy with you...I will let her speak for herself on that in the trial, but there are actual written letters that she wrote to you where she makes it abundantly clear that she is unhappy. There are actually written letters where you write back and address her unhappiness. You're again making a statement that is provably false. I'd work on that before the trial if I were you.
7. I am not sure that the best business strategy is to say, hey we sue our customers more than they sue us. Just sayin'.
I am blown away by this article and support. Thanks for putting it out there. This kind of fight can get dispiriting at times, and reading this article (and seeing my site visits skyrocket thanks to your platform) has been fantastic.
Just one point of clarification:
Kristen's mother moved out of her own house in 2011 rather than continue battling Baybrook Remodelers and the city of Milford.
My mother spends winters in Florida and summers here in CT. She did elect to remain in Florida rather than to try to live in her house due to the City of Milford's unchecked lunacy and abuse. She thought the city might try to force her out somehow, and wasn't going to subject herself to that kind of additional stress. She has never stopped fighting this, though.
Those signs are still up on her house. If I were a betting woman I would count on them remaining up for as long as the property is in the family. Ken Carney and Baybrook Remodelers are still suing her (although I sense they are anxious to settle rather than incur the cost of traveling to Florida to depose her!) The City of Milford is still suing her too.