Tuesday, May 7, 2019

TMZ: Loughlin has pretty good chance at "not guilty" verdict

TMZ reported on this poster that appeared at USC looking for recruits for the women's rowing team.

"NO EXPERIENCE? NO PROBLEM," the poster reads.


According to TMZ:
...turns out, the poster is real because we've been educated on how USC women's rowing teams work when it comes to recruiting walk-ons and the like. 
A USC alum who was actually a coxswain at the university tells us women's rowing teams often recruit potential teammates who have zero experience in the sport -- which is kinda what Olivia Jade and Isabella were coming to the table with. 
Typically, the way it works is that you already have to be a student to qualify for the team ... it's not for some random people on the street who want in at USC. 
But, here's the thing ... in Lori's case, prosecutors have to prove criminal intent to seal a conviction. Sources connected with Lori's defense claim Lori didn't know the $500k payoff was shady, even if the plan was to pretend her daughters were crew-team ready. The poster would seem to help Lori and her husband, both of whom are charged with multiple felonies, because crew experience doesn't seem to be essential. 
Prosecutors are trying to squeeze Lori and her husband to cop a plea, but our sources say their lawyers believe they have a real shot at getting a not guilty verdict if push comes to shove.
Well, I'm...I guess I'm rooting for them.

I'm anti-Olivia Jade, of course, I'm generally hostile to the rich and admissions to these universities has always been a cruel fraud.

But I'm also anti-prosecutor and I tend to identify with people facing prison, although I also tend to lose all interest in them once they're actually behind bars.

We had a case here in town. Two 18-year-old morons decided to exchange gunfire in a crowded apartment during a party. It was a bit of a miracle that only one by-stander was killed. But then the killers were on the run. Police were looking for them. In the news, they ran their school pictures. They were high school kids. They looked cute. People were posting comments on the news websites worried about their well-being, poor frightened, confused heavily armed kids who started shooting in a crowded apartment.

Every now and then there would be a comment from someone about the 16-year-old boy who was murdered. And it did seem heartless and perverse that people were more worried about the killers than the victim. But I knew from other events like this that, as soon as they were caught, people would forget all about them. They're a lot less sympathetic once you know where they are.

They turned themselves in the next day and people forgot all about them. I don't even remember the outcome of the case.

Like Bill Cosby. I wondered how a rich geezer like him would cope with prison. Should he go to prison? What would be a just sentence for an elderly physical wreck whose crimes were committed years earlier?

Now that he's in prison, I haven't thought twice about it.

Now I wonder how he's doing.

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