(12-10-2022 06:09 AM)emu79 Wrote:  

(12-10-2022 01:31 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(12-10-2022 12:15 AM)holybovine Wrote:  

(12-10-2022 12:04 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(12-09-2022 11:14 PM)holybovine Wrote:  I don’t think anyone is scrutinizing Bates. Some are trying to explain how the situations are different, that’s all. People here are trying to lump them together in order to hypothesize that UM received preferential treatment. To that I would say:

1) It’s UM, so who cares one way or another?
2) The cases are not the same.

Frankly, I would love to see this thread nuked into high heaven, but people really get rage boners against UM for whatever reason.

More similarities than differences in the case. Shockingly similar.

There is a tendency to be upset if "they received fairer treatment than us"`? It is as American as cherry pie.

The differences are significant enough to warrant differential treatment.

Having a gun with shaved serial numbers in one’s possession is a BIG deal.

Once again, not his car or gun.

But wasn't he driving without a license? Also having 4 ounces of weed is over the 2.5 ounce limit and you have to be 21 to legally possess it.

The UofM player was also driving without a license.

Don't remember reading if Smith had been drinking. Regardless, drinking or smoking are kind of secondary to a felony charge about weapons.

The big difference, other than the S/N issue is: Emoni was driving a family car and a family owned gun. Smith apparently was driving his own car and owned the gun. Being a 'wordsmith' one possessed a gun while the other 'possessed' a gun (in quotes). To call upon my knowledge of English: One ACTIVELY possessed a gun; the other PASSIVELY possessed a gun.

Example: Last year, I transported someone's luggage to SoCal. I also had my luggage. I knew what was in mine. Did not know what was in the other. Sometimes folks send luggage ahead of themselves (e.g., if leaving from work). If there were female related things, surely they were not mine (Hint: I'm not a cross dresser and can't wear clothes for some weighing 120).