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Jose Gomez
Speaking of pseudonyms, what well-known person was tried and convicted under the pseudonym Jose Gomez in 1971? (Having criminal defendants be tried pseudonymously is extremely rare.)
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Hitler.
Spiro Agnew!
(We’re doing wrong answers only, right?)
José Jiménez
My name, Jose Jimenez!!
“What do you call that Mr. Jimenez, your Crash Helmet???”
“Oh I hope Not!!!!!”
Close, but it was actually Senor Wences.
S’alright!
S’all right?
Trick question, Jose Gomez
I. P. Freely. Since the charge was indecent exposure his name was prejudicial.
Author of the well known book, The Yellow River.
I believe that was “Daily,” not “Freely.”
They were twin brothers separated at birth and raised by different families.
Along the eight-mile drive between my hometown and the Mississippi River there was a guy named I.P. Rainwater. At least that’s what his mailbox said.
I’d tell you but I want to speak to my Attorney first.
That is the right answer (obliquely). You can see more about this on the last page of this.
https://www.fedbar.org/phoenix-chapter/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2019/10/Materials-distributed-at-Phoenix-Chapter-NCOP-kickoff-event-pdf.pdf
Ernesto Miranda
One of your better comments.
You’ve definitely used this joke before
As Joe Biden is fond of saying “not a joke”.
Yep
Drackman got it first, he was just too subtle for me to get it until later.
Wonder if he ever said “Hey, read me my “Me” Warning”
He did, and it was used against him.
Reminds me off the old joke where it was phrased as “will be held against you” and the response was Raquel Welch or some other then current hottie.
Hey Now!! I think Raquel in Fantastic Voyage was my first Spank Bank deposit, (and “1 Milion B.C.”, 1966, what a year!!!)
Frank
Why would this ever be done?
Of course illegal aliens may well do this frequently.
You have an unhealthy obsession with illegal aliens. And your impressions of them seem to be based on (conservative) media narrative rather than actual interaction.
They “may well” do this frequently but in real life they don’t.
Says you, based on nothing.
“Tex” Watson? The only guy I could think of that was tried in 1971.
I believe it was “Eugene Volokh,” who as a three year old asserted his parents had no right to shut him up. In protest, he soiled his bed wherein his parents sought charges against him for malicious mischief. (Eugene had already been talking for two years, and they had had enough.) Unsurprisingly, Volokh filed a fit of motions seeking pseudonymity, claiming that to proceed with his real name would cause lasting, irreparable harm. He wore down the judge who eventually granted Volokh’s motion, and a verdict in the case, in one of the most terse decisions ever written: “For the moment, we’ll call you Jose Gomez, but forever, we’ll call you Guilty.”
(And now you now the *rest* of the story.)
The decision implies that the in-court identification would have been improper had not the defendant spent so much time during the kidnap-robbery with the victim, but I’m not following the logic as to why the lineup and confrontation were improper. The defense was free to argue that she was mistaken, but even if the incident had been brief I see no good reason why her identification should have been excluded.
Don Keedic?