PA Supreme Court Session from Philadelphia, recorded on September 9, 2025
00:09 - >>GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
00:09 - >>WELCOME TO THE FIRST DAY OF
00:13 - OUR FALL 2025 ORAL ARGUMENT
00:16 - SESSION HERE
00:17 - IN PHILADELPHIA. AS YOU MAY
00:18 - KNOW, THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME
00:19 - COURT IS THE OLDEST APPELLATE
00:22 - COURT IN
00:23 - NORTH AMERICA. OUR ROOTS TAKE
00:24 - BACK TO WILLIAM PENN'S
00:27 - PROVINCIAL COURT OF
00:28 - 16. 84 AND THE SUPREME COURT
00:30 - WAS FORMALLY ESTABLISHED
00:31 - PURSUANT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA
00:35 - JUDICIARY ACT OF 17. 22.
00:39 - >>IN MAY 2022, WE CELEBRATED
00:41 - THE COURT'S 3 100TH ANNIVERSARY
00:44 - HERE IN PHILADELPHIA.
00:44 - >>WE ON THE COURT ARE VERY
00:47 - PROUD OF OUR RICH HISTORY.
00:51 - ITS EARLIEST YEARS, OUR COURT
00:53 - ACTUALLY CONVENED IN PRIVATE
00:56 - RESIDENCES. WELL, THE LOWER
00:57 - COURTS.
00:59 - >>CONVENED AN ALE HOUSES.
01:03 - IN 17. 0, 7. THE CITY OF
01:04 - PHILADELPHIA CONSTRUCTED THE
01:05 - TOWNHOUSE, A 2 STORY, HOUSE
01:06 - AND MARKET.
01:07 - >>THAT FUNCTIONED AS AN EARLY
01:11 - CITY HALL. THE COURT CONDUCTED
01:13 - ITS BUSINESS AT THE TOWNHOUSE
01:15 - UNTIL 17. 43 WHEN IT MOVED TO
01:16 - ITS OWN COURTROOM IN THE STATE
01:17 - HOUSE. NOW INDEPENDENCE HALL.
01:24 - BEGINNING CONSTRUCTION IN 18,
01:24 - 71. IT TOOK 30 YEARS TO
01:28 - CONSTRUCT THIS CITY HALL.
01:29 - IT WAS DESIGNED IN THE FRENCH
01:32 - SECOND EMPIRE STYLE BY JOHN
01:33 - MACARTHUR JUNIOR AND THOMAS WHO
01:37 - STICK WALTER SITTING ATOP THE
01:38 - BUILDING IS A BRONZE STATUE
01:41 - OF WILLIAM
01:42 - PENN STANDING. 37 FEET TALL AND
01:45 - WEIGHING
01:47 - 27 TIMES MR. PENCE STATUE FACES
01:49 - NORTHEAST AND POINTS TO A SPOT
01:51 - WHERE HE SIGNED A TREATY OF
01:53 - FRIENDSHIP WITH THE LOCAL
01:54 - NATIVE AMERICANS AND 16.
01:57 - 82.
02:00 - CITY HALL HAS 700 ROOMS WHICH
02:01 - AISLES FUNCTIONING OFFICES FOR
02:03 - ALL 3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.
02:06 - THIS COURT BECAME THE FIRST
02:08 - TENANT IN THIS BUILDING ON
02:11 - JANUARY. FIRST 18, 77.
02:15 - AFTER THE OFFICIAL OPENING
02:16 - REPORTERS TEAM THIS TO BE THE
02:18 - MOST HANDSOME COURTROOM IN THE
02:20 - COUNTRY AND CONCLUDED THAT SOME
02:23 - OF THE MORE FASTIDIOUS LAWYERS
02:24 - WILL HE RUN AFTER TAKE ONLY
02:27 - SUPREME COURT CASES IN ORDER
02:28 - THAT THEY MAY PRACTICE IN THIS
02:32 - COURT PALACE? I HOPE THAT THIS
02:33 - COURT ROOMS, HISTORY IS
02:34 - INSPIRATIONAL TO ALL OF YOU.
02:37 - I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE SOME
02:39 - STUDENTS WHO ARE HERE WITH US
02:42 - TODAY. THEY ARE FROM TEMPLE
02:44 - UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF
02:47 - LAW AND THEY'RE HERE WITH
02:48 - THEIR PROFESSOR. MARION BROUGHT
02:51 - UP A PROFESSOR BROUGHT YOU AND
02:52 - YOUR STUDENTS, WOULD YOU STAND
02:52 - SO THAT WE CAN WELCOME YOU.
02:56 - THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
03:04 - WE HOPE THAT YOU LEARNED
03:05 - SOMETHING TODAY, STUDENTS AND A
03:08 - CAUTIONARY WORD OF ADVICE TO
03:10 - THE LAWYERS TRY NOT TO DISSUADE
03:10 - THE STUDENTS ARE PURSUING A
03:14 - CAREER IN LAW TODAY.
03:14 - APPELLANT'S COUNSEL, PLEASE.
03:19 - APPROACH THE PODIUM WHEN YOUR
03:19 - CASE IS CALLED, I WILL THEN
03:22 - GIVE A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE
03:24 - CASE. POLICE BEGAN BY
03:25 - INTRODUCING YOURSELF AND YOUR
03:27 - CO-COUNSEL TO THE COURT.
03:30 - AND DANA, FIND THE PARTY
03:31 - REPRESENT. THE JUSTICES ARE
03:33 - FAMILIAR WITH YOUR CASES.
03:35 - SO WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD AVOID
03:37 - ANY UNNECESSARY RECITATION OF
03:39 - THE FACTS ARE PROCEDURAL
03:41 - HISTORY AND INSTEAD TRY TO
03:42 - FOCUS ON THE MAIN ISSUES ON
03:46 - WHICH WE GRANTED HER A FEW
03:47 - COUNCIL IS WELCOME TO RELY ON
03:48 - THEIR BRIEFS FOR ANY PARTICULAR
03:51 - ISSUES IN CASES WHERE THERE ARE
03:54 - MULTIPLE PARTIES REPRESENTED BY
03:55 - SEPARATE COUNSEL COUNSEL SHOULD
03:56 - AVOID REPEATING THE SAME
03:57 - ARGUMENTS AS PRIOR COUNSEL.
04:00 - PLEASE TRY NOT TO INTERRUPT THE
04:01 - JUSTICES WHEN WE ARE ASKING YOU
04:04 - A QUESTION, ALTHOUGH WE MAY
04:08 - INTERRUPT YOU. JUSTICE'S
04:09 - QUESTION IS NOT MEANT TO TRICK
04:11 - PEOPLE OUT RATHER. IT INDICATES
04:12 - THAT THERE ARE PARTICULAR
04:14 - ISSUES WE WISH TO EXPLORE
04:15 - FURTHER. I REMIND YOU THAT IN
04:16 - THIS COURT WE DO NOT PERMIT
04:19 - FOR A BATTLE.
04:21 - FINALLY, WHILE WE HAVE NO SET
04:24 - TIME LIMIT FOR ARGUMENT, I WILL
04:25 - ADVISE COUNCIL WHEN THE COURT
04:26 - IS SATISFIED THAT ALL OF ITS
04:28 - QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
04:30 - AND AT THAT TIME I WOULD LAST
04:32 - THAT YOU CONCLUDE YOUR
04:34 - ARGUMENT, MR. MEN ARE PLEASE
04:35 - CALL. THE FIRST CASE SAYS PRIOR
04:37 - COUNSEL.
04:39 - PLEASE TRY NOT TO INTERRUPT THE
04:40 - JUSTICES. WHEN WE ARE ASKING
04:43 - YOU A QUESTION, ALTHOUGH WE
04:47 - MAY INTERRUPT YOU. JUSTICE'S
04:48 - QUESTION IS NOT MEANT TO TRICK
04:50 - PEOPLE OUT RATHER. IT INDICATES
04:51 - THAT THERE ARE PARTICULAR
04:53 - ISSUES WE WISH TO EXPLORE
04:54 - FURTHER. I REMIND YOU THAT IN
04:55 - THIS COURT WE DO NOT PERMIT
04:59 - FOR A BATTLE.
05:00 - FINALLY, WHILE WE HAVE NO SET
05:03 - TIME LIMIT FOR ARGUMENT, I WILL
05:04 - ADVISE COUNCIL WHEN THE COURT
05:05 - IS SATISFIED THAT ALL OF ITS
05:07 - QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
05:09 - AND AT THAT TIME I WOULD LAST
05:11 - THAT YOU CONCLUDE YOUR
05:12 - ARGUMENT, MR. MEN ARE PLEASE
05:15 - CALL THE
05:16 - FIRST CASE.
05:16 - >>HELLO AND WELCOME TO CITY
05:17 - HALL HERE WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA
05:20 - SUPREME COURT.
05:21 - >>WE'RE GETTING READY FOR ORAL
05:23 - ARGUMENT. EXCUSE ME.
05:25 - >>COMING AT YOU IN SEPTEMBER
05:28 - 2025.
05:30 - I'M BEN BEAR. I'M A LAWYER AT
05:31 - INJURY LAW PARTNERS HERE IN
05:32 - PHILADELPHIA AND I HAVE OFFICES
05:35 - IN PITTSBURGH.
05:36 - I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
05:36 - DISCUSSING SOME OF THE CASES ON
05:39 - TODAY'S LIST WITH YOU.
05:41 - HI, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ADAM
05:42 - BONIN. I'M A SOLO PRACTITIONER
05:46 - HERE IN PHILADELPHIA.
05:46 - >>SPECIALIZING IN POLITICAL
05:47 - LAW. I'M DELIGHTED TO BE HERE
05:49 - WITH BEN TO BE DISCUSSING
05:50 - WHAT'S GOING TO BE EXCITING
05:51 - WEEK OF ARGUMENT BEFORE THE
05:53 - COURT. AND WHICH LIKE TO
05:56 - PREVIEW THE
05:56 - FIRST CASE.
05:56 - >>THE FIRST CASE IS CHALOUH
06:00 - TV. UBER IN THE MAIN ISSUE
06:00 - THAT'S GOING TO BE BEFORE THE
06:04 - COURT IN THIS CASE IS THE
06:05 - VALIDITY OF ONLINE ARBITRATION
06:07 - AGREEMENTS. A FASCINATING
06:09 - SUBJECT. A QUICK BACKGROUND
06:11 - ON THIS PARTICULAR CASE, AN
06:13 - INDIVIDUAL IS RIDING IN AN UBER
06:16 - IN SUFFERS AN INJURY BRINGS A
06:17 - PERSONAL INJURY LAWSUIT AGAINST
06:18 - THE COMPANY. UBER. THE
06:21 - RIDESHARE COMPANY.
06:25 - THE DEFENSE OF
06:26 - UBER INVOLVES.
06:26 - >>IN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT THAT
06:28 - THE PLAINTIFF CLICKED ON WHEN
06:31 - THEY SIGNED UP TO USE THE APP.
06:33 - NOW, WHAT'S UNIQUE HERE IN THIS
06:34 - PARTICULAR CASE IS THAT THE
06:37 - ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WAS IN
06:38 - THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
06:40 - THE APP. SO WHEN A PERSON SIGNS
06:42 - UP THE USE, UBER, THEY'RE
06:45 - MAKING THIS AGREEMENT. IT IS
06:46 - NOT, HOWEVER, EXPLICITLY STATED
06:50 - IT'S NOT IN BOLD. IT'S NOT
06:51 - HIGHLIGHTED AN OBVIOUS TO THE
06:52 - PERSON SIGNING UP TO USE THE
06:53 - APP THAT THEY'RE WAIVING THEIR
06:55 - RIGHT TO THE JURY.
06:56 - SO THE ISSUE THAT THE COURT IS
06:57 - GOING TO LOOK AT AND WE'RE
06:58 - GOING TO HAVE ARGUMENTS FROM
06:59 - BOTH SIDES ON THIS MATTER.
07:02 - IT IS.
07:04 - CAN A PERSON WAIVE THE
07:05 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JURY?
07:09 - WITHOUT IT BEING OBVIOUSLY AND
07:11 - APPARENTLY THIS CLOSE TO THEM
07:12 - IN THE MANNER IN WHICH UBER DID
07:16 - IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IN
07:16 - WHILE THE FACTS OF THE CASE
07:17 - MATTER WHAT THE COURT'S GOING
07:19 - TO BE LOOKING AT HAS GREATER
07:20 - IMPLICATIONS ESSENTIALLY HAS
07:22 - IMPLICATIONS FOR.
07:24 - ANYONE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF
07:27 - PENNSYLVANIA. HE USES UBER
07:27 - ANYONE WHO USES ANY TYPE OF
07:31 - QUICK. FOR ANY APP THAT HAS
07:32 - TERMS AND CONDITIONS. THAT
07:34 - INCLUDES AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE
07:35 - AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE IMPACTS
07:39 - ON CORPORATIONS ALL ACROSS THE
07:40 - COUNTRY THAT HAVE BUSINESSES IN
07:40 - PENNSYLVANIA. THIS COULD AFFECT
07:43 - ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS.
07:44 - SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO
07:44 - HEARING ARGUMENT ON BOTH SIDES
07:47 - OF THIS ISSUE.
07:48 - >>GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU,
07:48 - MADAM. CHIEF JUSTICE, MAY IT
07:51 - PLEASE? THE COURT MICHAEL KICK
07:53 - LINE ON BEHALF OF THE UBER
07:54 - PELLETS. AND I'M HERE WITH MY
07:55 - COLLEAGUE THIS MORNING. MATTHEW
07:57 - CLAIMANT.
07:59 - >>THE SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION
08:01 - AND THE CHILL LOUISE POSITION
08:03 - ON APPEAL RESTS ON. DID YOU
08:04 - MISS THE MICROPHONE? CLOSER?
08:06 - THANK YOU. ALWAYS. THANK YOU.
08:07 - THE SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION
08:10 - AND THE CHILL LOUISE POSITION
08:11 - ON APPEAL RESTS ON SEVERAL
08:12 - ERRONEOUS DEPARTURES FROM
08:15 - SETTLED LAW. THIS APPEAL SHOULD
08:16 - HAVE NEVER PROCEEDED BECAUSE
08:18 - THE SUPERIOR COURT LACKED
08:19 - JURISDICTION. THE TRIAL COURT
08:21 - ORDER IS NEITHER A FINAL ORDER.
08:24 - NORRIE COLLATERAL WATER.
08:24 - AND EVEN IF THIS SUPERIOR COURT
08:28 - HAD JURISDICTION, THE COURT,
08:31 - THE SUPERIOR COURT'S NEWLY
08:31 - INVENTED STRICTER BURDEN OF
08:32 - PROOF FOR DEMONSTRATING A SENT
08:35 - TO ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS
08:35 - VIOLATES THE FEDERAL
08:36 - ARBITRATION ACT. AND SUPREME
08:38 - COURT PRECEDENT BY SINGLING
08:40 - OUT ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS FOR
08:43 - DISFAVORED TREATMENT BASED ON
08:44 - RULES THAT ARE NOT APPLICABLE
08:46 - TO CONTRACTS, GENERAL? WELL, NO
08:47 - ONE'S CLAIMING IT'S A FINAL
08:48 - ORDER, RIGHT? THE QUESTION IS,
08:51 - IS IT A COLLATERAL OR THAT'S?
08:52 - THAT'S CORRECT. YOUR HONOR AT
08:53 - THAT DEBATE. THE PRINCIPAL
08:54 - ARGUMENT HERE IS THAT AS A
08:54 - COLLATERAL WATER UNDER THE
08:58 - RULE, 3.13. AND FINALLY.
08:59 - APPLYING OBJECTIVE STANDARDS TO
09:01 - THE QUESTION OF CONTRACT
09:03 - FORMATION. THE CHILI'S WERE
09:04 - PROVIDED REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS
09:06 - NOTICE OF THE TERMS OF THEIR
09:08 - AGREEMENTS AND THEY OBJECTIVELY
09:08 - MANIFESTED THERE ARE SENT BY
09:10 - TAKING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND
09:12 - THEY'RE BOUND BY THOSE ARE
09:14 - GREAT FOR THOSE REASONS.
09:15 - WE BELIEVE THE SUPERIOR COURT'S
09:16 - DECISION SHOULD BE VACATED OR
09:18 - REVERSED.
09:19 - THE SUPERIOR COURT LACKED
09:20 - JURISDICTION TO HEAR THIS
09:22 - APPEAL BECAUSE I SAID ORDER
09:24 - STAYING LITIGATION PENDING
09:26 - ARBITRATION. IT'S NOT FINAL.
09:27 - AND THIS IS CONFIRMED BY THE
09:28 - UNIFORM ARBITRATION ACT, WHICH
09:31 - DOES NOT PERMIT AN IMMEDIATE
09:32 - APPEAL OF AN ORDER, STAYING
09:33 - LITIGATION AND ORDERING THE
09:36 - PARTIES TO PROCEED IN
09:37 - ARBITRATION. AND THAT WAS THAT
09:37 - WAS THE CRUX OF THE MALESKY
09:40 - HOLDING MORE THAN 40 MORE THAN
09:42 - 30 YEARS AGO WHERE THIS COURT
09:43 - FOUND THAT THERE WAS NO EXPRESS
09:47 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY AUTHORIZING
09:49 - APPEAL OF A COURT ORDER.
09:51 - STAYING LITIGATION PENDING
09:52 - ARBITRATION. BUT AS YOU'RE AS
09:53 - THE CHIEF JUSTICE POINTED OUT,
09:56 - THE QUESTION HERE IS WHETHER
09:58 - WILL 3.13 APPLIES AND WHETHER
10:01 - THE TRIAL COURT ORDER SATISFIES
10:03 - THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 3.13,
10:06 - AS THIS COURT WELL KNOWS WILL
10:08 - 3.13, IS AN EXCEPTION TO THE
10:09 - FINAL WORD. A RULE THAT MUST
10:11 - BE STRINGENTLY AND NARROWLY
10:13 - APPLIED IN ORDER TO AVOID WHAT
10:14 - THE COURT HAS REFERRED TO AS
10:17 - CORROSION OF THE FINAL ORDER
10:17 - RULE AND TO PREVENT THAT DELAY
10:20 - OCCASION BY PIECEMEAL APPEALS
10:23 - OF TRIAL COURT ORDERS.
10:25 - THE TUILERIES CANNOT ESTABLISH
10:27 - THE IRREPARABLE LOSS
10:27 - REQUIREMENT UNDER THE RULE.
10:28 - 3.13. AND THAT'S REALLY THE
10:32 - KEY ISSUE HERE. THEY CANNOT
10:33 - DEMONSTRATE THAT THE QUESTION
10:36 - PRESENTED, NAMELY WHETHER THEY
10:38 - ENTERED INTO AN ARBITRATION
10:39 - AGREEMENT WITH UBER WILL BE AN
10:40 - REVIEWABLE IF THEY HAVE TO
10:43 - AWAIT
10:44 - FINAL JUDGMENT REVIEW, THEY
10:46 - WILL NOT SUFFER ANY IRREPARABLE
10:48 - LOSS AS THIS COURT HAS THE
10:51 - FIGHT. NOW, THE 2 LOUISE.
10:52 - WILL NOT LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO
10:53 - FINAL REVIEW. THEY MAY APPEAL
10:56 - THE TRIAL COURT TO ORDER.
10:58 - AFTER ARBITRATION AND UPON
11:01 - RETURN TO THE TRIAL COURT WHERE
11:02 - THERE WILL BE CONFIRMATION
11:03 - PROCEEDINGS AND POST
11:04 - ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS AND
11:05 - FINAL JUDGMENT WILL BE ENTERED.
11:09 - WHICH LADIES DID NOT CITE ANY
11:10 - AUTHORITY HOLDING THAT ONCE
11:12 - THEY PROCEED TO ARBITRATION
11:14 - THEIR RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW
11:15 - OF THE QUESTION I JUST
11:16 - ARTICULATED. THAT IS WHETHER AN
11:20 - AGREEMENT WAS FOR WE'LL BE
11:21 - IRREVOCABLY EXTINGUISHED TO BE.
11:22 - TO BE CLEAR, THOUGH, IT'S A
11:25 - VERY
11:25 - STANDARD SCOPE OF REVIEW.
11:28 - IF THEY SEE.
11:29 - >>APPELLATE REVIEW AFTER AN
11:30 - ARBITRATION.
11:33 - >>WELL,
11:34 - YOUR HONOR.
11:35 - >>THEY BEAT THE STANDARD OF
11:37 - REVIEW. I THINK YOU'RE
11:38 - REFERRING TO IS THE STANDARD OF
11:39 - THAT COMES FROM SECTION 73.
11:40 - 41 OF THE UNIFORM ARBITRATION.
11:45 - >>THAT WAS THE BASIS OF THE
11:47 - SUPERIOR COURT'S RULING SOLE
11:50 - BASIS THAT IRREPARABLE LOSS
11:53 - REQUIREMENT WAS MET HERE.
11:57 - SUCH AN 73. 41 PROVIDES THAT
11:59 - AND A WARD OF AN ARBITRATOR MAY
12:01 - NOT BE VACATED OR MODIFIED
12:01 - UNLESS IT IS CLEARLY SHOWN THAT
12:06 - A PARTY WAS DENIED A HEARING OR
12:06 - THAT FRAUD, MISCONDUCT,
12:07 - CORRUPTION OR OTHER
12:11 - IRREGULARITIES RENDERED CAUSE
12:12 - THE RENDITION OF AN UNJUST AND
12:12 - EQUITABLE OR UNCONSCIONABLE
12:17 - HAVING CONCLUDED THAT 73 41
12:18 - APPLIES THE SUPERIOR COURT AND
12:21 - REASON THAT THE QUESTION
12:22 - PRESENTED HERE WOULD NOT BE
12:24 - THAT WOULD NOT SATISFY THE
12:25 - REQUIREMENT THAT THERE BE SOME
12:28 - MALFEASANCE AS DEFINED IN 73.
12:29 - 41 AND THE SUPERIOR COURT WENT
12:31 - ON TO FIND THAT EVEN IF THE
12:34 - PARTIES DID AGREE TO
12:34 - ARBITRATION, THERE'S ALWAYS
12:38 - THE POSSIBILITY THAT A COURT
12:41 - MAY FIND A SUBSEQUENT
12:41 - ARBITRATION FAIRING THAT'S
12:42 - REMAINED BINDING ON THE
12:43 - PARTIES. AND THAT WAS THE CRUX
12:47 - OF THE RULING FOR WHY THE COURT
12:49 - CONCLUDED THERE WAS AN
12:50 - IRREPARABLE LOSS OF THE RIGHT
12:51 - HERE OR THAT THE MATTER WOULD
12:51 - BE EFFECTIVELY AND REVIEWABLE.
12:57 - THAT SECTION. 73. 41 WOULD NOT
12:59 - GOVERN A POST APPEAL POST
13:00 - ARBITRATION APPEAL BY THE
13:01 - CHALOUH. HE'S ON THE QUESTION.
13:02 - THEY'RE THEY'RE PRESENTING HERE
13:05 - ON ITS FACE. 73 41 APPLIES FOR
13:08 - A PARTY SEEKS TO VACATE AN
13:11 - ARBITRATION AWARD.
13:14 - BASED ON ARBITRARY OR
13:14 - MALFEASANCE OR IRREGULARITY IN
13:15 - THE ARBITRATION PROCESS ITSELF.
13:21 - IT DOES NOT APPLY
13:22 - TO APPEAL CHALLENGING THE TRIAL
13:24 - COURT'S ORDER DIRECTING THE
13:26 - PARTIES TO ARBITRATION IN THE
13:30 - FIRST 73 41 GOES TO THE
13:30 - ARBITRATOR CONDUCT THE
13:31 - ARBITRATION PROCESS AND THE
13:32 - BASIS UPON WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE.
13:35 - 2, THEY CAME TO WAR. THAT DOES
13:40 - NOT APPLY HERE WHERE?
13:43 - THE DATE THE PARTIES WILL.
13:44 - THE CHILI'S WOULD SEEK TO
13:45 - APPEAL THE TRIAL COURT'S
13:46 - QUARTER DIRECTING THEM TO
13:47 - ARBITRATION IN THE FIRST PLACE.
13:58 - CORRECT THAT THAT STANDARD.
13:59 - JUST THE 73. 41 JUST DOES NOT
14:00 - APPLY. AND THE APPEAL THE TRIAL
14:03 - COURT'S ORIGINAL ORDER WOULD BE
14:05 - OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF 73.
14:06 - 41 THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE
14:06 - STANDARD OF REVIEW. THE SPIRIT
14:08 - COURT APPLY BELOW HERE.
14:10 - THEY DIDN'T APPLY THE
14:11 - DIFFERENTIAL ARBITRATION
14:12 - STANDARD. WHATEVER STANDARD
14:13 - THEY APPLY BELOW WOULD BE THE
14:14 - SAME STANDARD. THEY WOULD APPLY
14:16 - EVENTUALLY WHEN IT CAME UP.
14:16 - >>AT THE END OF THE
14:19 - ARBITRATION.
14:20 - >>WELL, THEY WON'T APPLY THIS
14:23 - ANY STANDARDS AND ARE 73 FOR
14:27 - THAT WILL WRAP IT BE THE SAME
14:29 - PROCEDURAL POSTURE AS THEY
14:29 - EXERCISE. HERE WOULD BE THE
14:30 - SAME STANDARD OF REVIEW WOULD
14:31 - BE DEFERENTIAL ARBITRATION TO
14:33 - BE THAT'S CORRECT. YOUR HONOR,
14:36 - THAT THAT THAT THAT IS CORRECT.
14:39 - >>SO IN A IN A POST ARBITRATION
14:40 - POST, FINAL JUDGMENT POSTURE,
14:41 - THE SUPERIOR COURT MAY REVIEW
14:43 - THE TRIAL COURT ORDER IF IT
14:44 - DETERMINES THAT THE PARTIES
14:46 - DID NOT ENTER INTO A VALID
14:49 - ARBITRATION AGREEMENT.
14:50 - A COURT CAN ON REVIEW REMAND
14:54 - THE MATTER FOR A TRIAL.
14:55 - >>AND THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S
14:57 - EXACTLY WHAT HAS AND HAPPENING
14:58 - IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. IF YOU
15:01 - LOOK AT
15:01 - CASES LIKE SAVANT AND DO AND
15:02 - MOST RECENTLY, THE CARD
15:05 - DECISION.
15:08 - IN ALL OF THOSE CASES, PARTIES
15:08 - LIKE CHILES WHO ARE OBJECTING
15:10 - TO ARBITRATION ON THE GROUNDS
15:12 - OF LACK OF AN AGREEMENT TO GO
15:15 - THERE. THEY OBTAIN.
15:16 - APPELLATE REVIEW ON THAT
15:17 - PRECISE QUESTION IN EACH OF
15:18 - THOSE 3 CASES. SO THE WATER HAS
15:21 - BEEN PERMITTING THIS TYPE OF AN
15:22 - APPEAL POST ARBITRATION FOR
15:26 - SOME TIME.
15:51 - WELL, WHAT WHAT MAKES WHAT
15:55 - MAKES
15:56 - AN ORDER DENYING A PETITION TO
15:59 - COMPEL ARBITRATION
16:00 - IMMEDIATELY APPEAL IS THAT THE
16:00 - LEGISLATURE IN THE UNIFORM
16:01 - ARBITRATION ACT AS
16:04 - SPECIFICALLY.
16:06 - DEFINED THAT AS A BASIS UPON
16:06 - WHICH AN APPEAL MAY BE TAKEN
16:10 - IMMEDIATELY. SO THE ANSWER IS
16:11 - THAT IT'S NOT IT DOESN'T COME
16:12 - FROM COMMON LAW WERE DECISIONS
16:13 - OF THIS COURT. IT COMES FROM
16:16 - THE DELIBERATE POLICY CHOICE BY
16:18 - THE LEGISLATURE, THE GENERAL
16:21 - ASSEMBLY TO MAKE CERTAIN ORDERS
16:22 - APPEALABLE AND CERTAIN ORDERS
16:22 - NOT AUTOMATICALLY APPEALED.
16:32 - CORRECT? IT'S IF THERE'S AN
16:34 - ORDER DENYING THE PETITION TO
16:35 - COMPEL ARBITRATION FOR
16:36 - MEDICALLY APPEALABLE AS OF
16:37 - RIGHT, PURSUANT TO THE UNIFORM
16:39 - ARBITRATION ACT.
16:42 - I DO WANT TO ADDRESS ONE
16:43 - ARGUMENT AND IT APPEARS TO BE
16:44 - THE MAIN ARGUMENT. I THINK THAT
16:46 - THE 2 LADIES ARE MAKING FOR
16:49 - WHY 3.13 IS MET. THEY ARGUE
16:51 - THAT IRREPARABLE LAW SHOULD BE
16:52 - FOUND BASED ON THE COST AND
16:56 - THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO
16:57 - LITIGATE THE FINAL JUDGMENT
17:00 - AFTER ARBITRATION. THEY THEIR
17:04 - ARGUMENT IS THAT'S A
17:04 - SUFFICIENT LOSS TO TRIGGER A
17:05 - FINDING OF IRREPARABLE LOSS
17:07 - UNDER 3 13TH. BUT AS THIS COURT
17:11 - WELL KNOWS, HISTORICALLY
17:12 - IRREPARABLE LOSS HAS BEEN FOUND
17:14 - IN THOSE SETTINGS WHERE YOU
17:16 - CAN'T AND RING THE BELL, RIGHT?
17:18 - SO FOR EXAMPLE, THIS COURT HAS
17:19 - HAS FOUND THAT THE IRREPARABLE
17:23 - LOSS REQUIREMENT IS MET IN
17:24 - CASES INVOLVING PRIVILEGE WHERE
17:25 - THE RIGHT TO CONFIDENTIALITY
17:28 - OF INFORMATION WATCH DISCLOSED.
17:29 - WHAT YOU MOVE PAST THAT YOU
17:31 - CAN'T ON RING THE BELL MATTERS
17:33 - INVOLVING SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY,
17:34 - RIGHT? WE'RE FORCING THE
17:35 - DEFENDANT TO PROCEED TO FINAL
17:38 - JUDGMENT WOULD NEGATE THE VERY
17:39 - PURPOSE OF THE DEFENSE TO BE
17:41 - ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM SUIT.
17:42 - AND THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER
17:44 - INSTANCES. BUT BUT WHAT THEY
17:46 - ALL INDICATE IS THAT THERE MUST
17:48 - BE IT CLEAR AND A REP FOR THE
17:48 - LAST COUPLE OF THE RIGHT TO
17:51 - CLAIM
17:52 - OR DEFENSE. BUT THE LOSS OF
17:54 - KIND OF MONEY DOES NOT.
17:56 - SUFFICE. AND IN MAKING THE THIS
17:58 - ARGUMENT, I THINK THAT REALLY
17:59 - IS IGNORE THIS COURT'S
18:01 - LONGSTANDING PRECEDENT HOLDING
18:03 - THAT COST BURDEN INCONVENIENCE
18:04 - OF LIVING IN THE FINAL
18:05 - JUDGMENT. IT'S NOT SUFFICIENT.
18:08 - IN FACT, IN THAT JCB DECISION
18:11 - THIS COURT HELD THAT AN ORDER
18:14 - GRANTING
18:15 - PAIR GRANDPARENTS STANDING TO
18:16 - SEEK PRETRIAL CUSTODY OF THEIR
18:17 - CHILDREN WAS NOT A COLLATERAL.
18:18 - WERE THE COURT FOUND THAT THE
18:22 - PARENTS COULD APPEAL THAT IF
18:24 - THERE WAS AN AWARD OF CUSTODY,
18:25 - EVENTUALLY, EVEN THOUGH AS THE
18:29 - COURT RECOGNIZED THE PARENTS
18:29 - WOULD BE FORCED TO LITIGATE
18:31 - TO CONCLUSION AND INDOOR.
18:35 - THE HEAVY COST BURDENS AND
18:35 - EMOTIONAL ENERGY ATTENDANT TO
18:39 - CUSTODY LITIGATION. BUT BUT
18:40 - THAT BURDEN THAT COST IT WAS
18:42 - NOT ENOUGH. AND AS JUSTICE
18:42 - WECHT OBSERVER IN CONCURRENCE
18:45 - IN THE J C D DECISION
18:46 - EXPENDITURE OF TIME. MONEY AND
18:49 - ENERGY IS IS PRESENT. IN EVERY
18:50 - CASE YOU CAN FIND THAT IN JUST
18:51 - ABOUT ANY SITUATION. AND AS THE
18:54 - JUSTICE NOTED, IF THE
18:57 - EXPENDITURE ALONE WERE
18:58 - SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY WILL
18:59 - 3.13, THEN EVERY INTERLOCKING
19:01 - TORY ORDER PRESUMABLY WOULD
19:03 - SATISFY THE IRREPARABLE LOSS
19:04 - CRAW AND THE EXCEPTION WOULD
19:09 - DEVOUR THE RULE. THE 2 CHILIS
19:10 - BASE. THIS ARGUMENT PRIMARILY
19:13 - ON THAT PRIDGEN VERSUS PARKER
19:16 - HANIF IN CASE.
19:18 - PRIDGEN INVOLVE THE STATUTE OF
19:20 - REPOSE IN THE FEDERAL GENERAL
19:21 - AVIATION REVITALIZATION ACT IN
19:25 - 1994. WHICH SOUGHT IMMUNIZED
19:26 - AVIATION MANUFACTURERS FROM THE
19:27 - COST OF LITIGATION. AND THERE
19:31 - THE FEDERAL COURTS HAD
19:32 - INTERPRETED THE STATUTE AS
19:33 - CREATING AN EXPLICIT STATUTORY
19:35 - RIGHT NOT TO STAND TRIAL AFTER
19:39 - THE STATUTE OF REPOSE. SO
19:40 - PRIDGEN IS IT CAN DO UNITY
19:41 - CASE. AND WHILE THIS COURT DID
19:44 - IN THAT CASE, FIND THAT
19:46 - SUBSTANTIAL LITIGATION COST
19:47 - WITH SUFFICE FOR PURPOSES.
19:50 - IN THAT CASE OF RULE 3.13.
19:52 - AS JUSTICE WECHT NOTED IN JCB.
19:55 - THAT DECISION WAS UNIQUELY
19:57 - GROUNDED IN A STRONG AND CLEAR
19:58 - FEDERAL POLICY OF CONTAINING
20:00 - COSTS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
20:02 - SIMILAR TO THE IMMUNITIES
20:04 - SITUATION WHERE THAT, YOU KNOW,
20:05 - YOU PROTECTION FROM COST IS
20:07 - PART OF PROTECTING THE PUBLIC.
20:08 - FISK. BUT THERE'S NO SUCH
20:11 - POLICY IMPLICATED HERE AND
20:12 - PRIDGEN CERTAINLY DOESN'T STAND
20:16 - FOR A GENERAL RULE THAT
20:17 - SUBSTANTIAL COST OF LITIGATING
20:18 - TO FINAL JUDGMENT IS SUFFICIENT
20:22 - FOR PURPOSES OF RULE 3.13.
20:22 - AND FINALLY, I'D THIS POINT I
20:26 - WOULD NOTE.
20:27 - THE POLICY STAKES HERE WEIGH
20:29 - HEAVILY AGAINST ALLOWING AN
20:31 - IMMEDIATE APPEAL OF EVERY TRIAL
20:32 - COURT ORDER STAYING LITIGATION
20:34 - PENDING ARBITRATION.
20:35 - ARBITRATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE
20:37 - EFFICIENT. AND THAT'S WHY BOTH
20:38 - PENNSYLVANIA AND FEDERAL POLICY
20:41 - STRONGLY FAVOR ARBITRATION AND
20:42 - ALLOWING IMMEDIATE APPEALS.
20:44 - EVERY TIME THERE'S AN ORDER,
20:45 - COMPELLING ARBITRATION AND STAY
20:49 - IN LITIGATION WOULD BE CONTRARY
20:50 - REALLY TO THAT THAT POLICY AND
20:54 - THERE IS A POLICY CHOICE
20:54 - REFLECTED HERE. AS I SAID
20:55 - EARLIER IN THE IN THE UNIFORM
20:57 - ARBITRATION ACT.
21:02 - SPECIFICALLY ALLOWS APPEAL OF
21:03 - AN ORDER DENYING A PETITION TO
21:04 - COMPEL ARBITRATION BUT MAKES
21:06 - NO PROVISION FORT APPEALING
21:09 - ORDER SUCH AS THE ONE AT ISSUE
21:12 - HERE. SO I THINK ON THE
21:13 - JURISDICTIONAL QUESTION, IT'S
21:13 - PLAIN THAT THE CHILI'S WILL
21:15 - SUFFER NO REPUTABLE IRREPARABLE
21:17 - LOSS IS DEFINED BY THIS COURT
21:18 - AND THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
21:20 - THEY ENTERED INTO AN
21:21 - ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WILL NOT
21:23 - BE RENDERED AND REVIEWABLE.
21:25 - AND THAT'S THE THAT'S THE TEST
21:25 - THAT WE BELIEVE. IT'S NOT THAT
21:29 - BAD HERE. AND THEREFORE.
21:30 - SUPPORTS THE CONCLUSION THAT
21:32 - THE SUPERIOR COURT, ERIN,
21:33 - FINDING THAT THERE WAS
21:33 - COLLATERAL OR JURISDICTION.
21:36 - >>ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM
21:39 - THE JUSTICES?
21:39 - THANK MARK. JUST ONE WILL HEAR
21:42 - FROM MR. MESSAGE. I WAS OH, I'M
21:45 - SORRY. ARE I WAS GOING TO
21:47 - ADDRESS THE PREEMPTION ARGUMENT
21:49 - AS WELL AS THAT SOUNDED LIKE
21:51 - A CONCLUSION TO A CONCLUSION ON
21:53 - THE FIRST ARGUMENT ON
21:54 - JURISDICTION. I THOUGHT YOU
21:55 - WERE SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU WERE
21:58 - GOING TO WATCH THE WE'RE MOVING
21:59 - ON.
22:01 - >>WELL, I I AM I AM CONFIDENT,
22:02 - BUT A -10. ALL RIGHT. GO AHEAD
22:03 - WITH THIS SHIP.
22:06 - >>SURE.
22:09 - BECAUSE THE COURT LACKED
22:10 - JURISDICTION THIS COURTNEY NOT
22:11 - REACH THE MERITS QUESTION, BUT
22:14 - IF IT DOES, THE COURT SHOULD
22:15 - REVERSE THE SUPERIOR COURT'S
22:18 - DECISION BECAUSE ITS NEWLY
22:19 - INVENTED RULE IMPOSING A
22:23 - STRICTER BURDEN OF PROOF.
22:24 - FIRST STAB WISHING IS SENT TO
22:26 - AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT IS
22:26 - PREEMPTED BY THE FEDERAL
22:29 - ARBITRATION ACT.
22:31 - SECTION 2 OF THE FAA. I'LL
22:34 - REFER TO THAT AS THE FAA
22:34 - PROVIDES THAT ARBITRATION
22:36 - AGREEMENTS MUST BE ENFORCED,
22:37 - QUOTE, SAVE UP ON SUCH GROUNDS
22:40 - AS EXIST. THAT LAW WE'RE IN
22:42 - EQUITY FOR THE REVOCATION OF
22:43 - ANY CONTRACT. AND THAT'S REALLY
22:47 - THE CRITICAL LANGUAGE OF ANY
22:48 - CONTRACT. AND WHAT THAT MEANS
22:49 - IS A COURT MAY NOT SINGLE OUT
22:51 - ARBITRATION PROVISIONS FOR
22:53 - SUSPECT STATUS AND DISFAVORED
22:55 - TREATMENT AND MUST PLACE THEM
22:57 - ON EQUAL FOOTING WITH ALL OTHER
23:00 - CONTRACTS.
23:03 - THE SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION
23:06 - DOES JUST THE OPPOSITE.
23:08 - BY BY ITS OWN ADMISSION, THE
23:08 - SUPERIOR COURT CREATED THE
23:12 - STRICTER BURDEN OF PROOF TO
23:13 - APPLY THE ARBITRATION
23:13 - AGREEMENTS AND ONLY ARBITRATION
23:17 - AGREEMENTS. AND IT DID SHOW
23:19 - OUT OF CONCERN FOR THE RIGHT OF
23:21 - PROTECTING THE JURY TRIAL.
23:22 - RIGHT? BUT THE STRICTER BURDEN
23:25 - OF PROOF. THAT HAS BEEN
23:29 - ARTICULATED REQUIRES THAT THESE
23:30 - REGISTRATION WEB SITES AND
23:31 - APPLICATIONS SCREENS MUST
23:34 - EXPLICITLY
23:35 - EXPLICITLY NOTIFY A CONSUMER
23:36 - THAT THEY'RE WAIVING THE JURY
23:37 - TRIAL, RIGHT? IF THEY AGREE TO
23:40 - REVERSE TERMS. THE COURT ALSO
23:43 - OR IS NOW REQUIRING THAT THE
23:44 - REGISTRATION PROCESS CANNOT
23:47 - BE COMPLETED.
23:47 - UNTIL THE CONSUMER IS FULLY
23:48 - INFORMED OF THAT WAIVER
23:51 - COUNCIL. WHAT'S THE HARM?
23:52 - WHAT'S THE HAR THE HARM?
23:54 - AND THAT IS THAT IT VIOLATES
23:57 - THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION
23:58 - ACT BECAUSE IT SINGLES OUT
24:00 - ARBITRATION FOR SPECIAL NOTICE
24:02 - REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE NOT
24:05 - APPLICABLE. 2 OTHER COP, OTHER
24:08 - BASED ON THE LANGUAGE OF
24:08 - SECTION 2 OF THE FAA AND THE
24:10 - LONGSTANDING SUPREME COURT
24:13 - AUTHORITY INTERPRETING IT THAT
24:13 - THE THE HARM AND THAT IS THAT
24:16 - IT WOULD VIOLATE TO
24:18 - THE FANS. WATCH. HOW IS THAT
24:19 - POSSIBLE IF OTHER BUSINESSES
24:20 - CAN USE THESE HYPERLINKS AS
24:21 - WELL?
24:24 - >>THE ISSUE IS NOT ISOLATING
24:25 - IN ARBITRATION. THE ISSUE IS IF
24:28 - WE GET TO IT PROPER NOTICE THAT
24:29 - YOU'RE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A
24:32 - JURY TRIAL FOR A TRIAL. WELL,
24:39 - >>AND WHAT'S THE HARM IN
24:39 - REQUIRING THE SPECIAL NOTICE IS
24:40 - GOING TO GET IT GOING DOWN.
24:42 - 6 PAGES TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS
24:44 - AND SAY, YEP, CHECK IT ALL FOR.
24:45 - >>SOMEHOW ADDING WILL KIND OF A
24:48 - RESTRICTIONS. WHAT IS THE HARM
24:50 - BY SAYING? WELL, AT SOME POINT
24:55 - YOU HAD TO ACKNOWLEDGE READING
24:56 - IN RECEIPT OF THAT NUMBER WILL
24:57 - JUSTICE DAUGHERTY? I DON'T KNOW
24:58 - THAT THERE'S HARM AND NOT IN IN
25:00 - DOING THAT.
25:02 - >>ARGUMENT IS THAT A
25:03 - REQUIREMENT THAT WE DO THAT
25:06 - VIOLATES?
25:09 - THE FAA. I MEAN, IF YOU SHARE
25:10 - WITH US IN PARTICULAR, WHAT
25:10 - PART OF THE FAA DOESN'T
25:13 - VIOLATE? WELL, IT VIOLATES
25:15 - SECTION 2, RIGHT, WHICH SAYS
25:17 - THAT THE ONLY GROUNDS UPON
25:19 - WHICH YOU CAN REFUSE TO ENFORCE
25:20 - AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT OR
25:21 - INVALIDATE AN ARBITRATION
25:23 - AGREEMENT MUST BE BASIS.
25:26 - THAT'S UP LIKE A BULL TO ANY
25:28 - CONTRACT. ALL CONTRACTS CAN'T
25:31 - JUST BE A LIKABLE SPECIFICALLY
25:31 - TO ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS THAT
25:33 - HAVE TO BE IT RULE THAT APPLIES
25:36 - TO ALL CONTRACTS. PURCHASE AND
25:39 - SALE AGREEMENTS. LEASES YOU
25:44 - >>RIGHT. THE LAW TO BE ANY USE
25:47 - OF A HYPERLINK.
25:48 - THAT AFFECTS NOT JUST OUR
25:50 - ATTRACTION, ANY BUSINESS THAT
25:53 - WOULD LIKE TO ENGAGE IN A
25:56 - CONTRACT THROUGH.
26:00 - >>WELL, I THINK I THINK THE
26:02 - THE USE OF HYPERLINKS IS
26:03 - OBVIOUSLY QUITE PREVALENT AND
26:03 - THERE'S NOTHING IN PERMISSIBLE
26:05 - ABOUT THEM AND ONE CAN USE
26:07 - THEM. AND THAT'S AND THAT'S
26:08 - WHAT WAS WAS DONE HERE. THEY
26:10 - WERE GIVEN RECENTLY CONSPICUOUS
26:12 - NOTICE OF THOSE HYPERLINKS.
26:13 - THE HYPERLINKS TAKE YOU TO THE
26:16 - TERMS. THE TERMS
26:17 - ARE ALL THEY'RE TO BE READ TO
26:21 - BE UNDERSTOOD TO DO WHATEVER
26:23 - YOU WANT WITH THEM. THE PEOPLE
26:23 - THAT'S THAT'S GENEROUS TO A I.
26:27 - >>I GUESS I'M TRYING. I'M
26:28 - TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THIS THIS
26:29 - ASSUMING WE GET TO THE MERITS.
26:35 - IN AN INFLECTION OF THE
26:36 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JURY
26:38 - TRIAL.
26:40 - >>WHICH I UNDERSTAND IS MORE OF
26:41 - A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE
26:43 - GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE.
26:44 - >>THE GOVERNMENT NOT BE ABLE TO
26:44 - DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR RIGHT TO
26:46 - A JURY TRIAL.
26:48 - >>WHY ISN'T THIS? WHY? WHY IS
26:49 - THAT? THE FOCUS ON WAS JUST A
26:51 - MATTER OF A MEETING OF THE
26:52 - MINDS, CONTRACT PRINCIPLES.
26:55 - TO YOUR POINT, IF THE SUPERIOR
26:56 - COURT JUST APPLIED A BASIC
26:59 - MEETING OF THE MINDS.
27:01 - STANDARD 4 CORNERS OF THE
27:02 - DOCUMENT WAS THEIR MUTUAL IS
27:05 - SET TO ARBITRATION.
27:07 - ISN'T THAT THE PROPER PARADIGM
27:08 - THAT THERE SHOULD BE LOOKING
27:10 - THROUGH THIS AND THEN YOU CAN
27:11 - SAY OR MAKE AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT
27:13 - VIOLATING THE FEDERAL
27:15 - ARBITRATION ACT THAT THERE WAS
27:16 - NO THAT THAT GIVEN THE NATURE
27:20 - OF THIS HYPERLINK AND THE
27:21 - ABSENCE OF SOME SORT OF A
27:21 - PRIVATE INSURANCE THAT THERE
27:24 - WAS A READING OF IT, THAT THERE
27:24 - WAS NO MEETING OF THE MINDS.
27:25 - THEREFORE, THERE WAS NO
27:28 - CONTRACT.
27:28 - WHY ISN'T THAT THE BETTER
27:29 - PARADIGM THAT TALKING ABOUT
27:32 - SOME HYPER?
27:33 - RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL UNDER THE
27:34 - PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION WHEN
27:35 - THERE'S NO GOVERNMENT ENTITY
27:36 - OF ALTAR.
27:39 - >>WELL, YOUR HONOR, THE THE
27:41 - TEST AND THE TEST THAT WE URGE
27:42 - THIS A COURT TO ADOPT. IF YOU
27:45 - WERE TO GET TO THE MERITS IS IS
27:46 - A TEST THAT'S BASED ON
27:48 - OBJECTIVE STANDARDS OF OF
27:49 - CONTRACT.
27:49 - >>SO THAT IS THE TEST ON
27:51 - SUGGEST YES IS WHICH IS IT?
27:53 - WHAT'S YOUR BEST ARGUMENT THAT
27:54 - THERE WAS AN ACTUAL MEETING
27:57 - OF THE MINDS IN THIS CASE TO
28:00 - ARBITRATE?
28:02 - >>THE MEETING OF THE MINDS IS
28:04 - AN INTERESTING TERM BECAUSE IT
28:05 - THE WAY IT'S BEEN USED IN THIS
28:06 - CASE, IT COULD SORT OF IMPLY
28:09 - THAT THERE HAS TO BE SOME
28:10 - KNOWING VOLUNTARY CONSCIOUS
28:11 - UNDERSTANDING, BUT THAT'S NOT
28:12 - WHAT OBJECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF
28:15 - CONTRACT LAW REQUIRED UNDER
28:16 - UNDER THE OBJECTIVE PRINCIPLES
28:18 - WHICH THIS COURT HAS ESPOUSED
28:21 - AND HELD IN IN
28:22 - NUMEROUS CASES. YOU LOOK TO
28:23 - THE PARTY'S PROTECTIVE
28:25 - MANIFESTATIONS OF A CENT SO
28:27 - THAT EVEN IF EVEN IF THERE'S A
28:28 - LACK OF ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF
28:29 - WHAT THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT
28:32 - CALLED FOR UNDER THE UNDER THE
28:33 - OBJECTIVE PRINCIPLES LOOKING
28:37 - AT THE THE OBJECTIVE INDICATORS
28:39 - AS MANY COURTS HAVE DONE AND WE
28:40 - CITED THOSE CASES. YOU LOOK
28:44 - TO WEATHER. THE PARTIES WERE ON
28:47 - NOTICE. THE TERMS WERE BEING
28:47 - OFFERED THAT THEY WERE PROVIDED
28:50 - AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THOSE
28:54 - TERMS AND THAT THEY OBJECTIVELY
28:55 - MANIFESTED THEIR ASCENT TO
28:57 - THOSE TERMS BY IN THIS CASE
28:59 - CLICKING A BUTTON THAT SAYS BY
29:01 - CLICKING THE BUTTON, YOU AGREE
29:02 - TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
29:05 - WERE BY CLICKING
29:06 - A NARROW. SO THE THE OBJECTIVE
29:08 - STANDARD WE THINK IS THE RIGHT
29:11 - IF THE RIGHT STANDARD THAT THE
29:11 - COURT SHOULD APPLY IF THE COURT
29:12 - WERE TO REACH THE MERITS OF
29:15 - THE QUESTION.
29:16 - >>I HAVE A FACTUAL QUESTION ON
29:18 - THAT PROMISE. DO YOU OR WAS ARE
29:21 - UNCOVERED DURING THE COURSE OF
29:21 - WHATEVER DISCOVERY WAS DONE.
29:26 - THE CASE? ABLE TO TELL THE
29:29 - COURT OF THE NUMBER OF BURGER
29:30 - SUBSCRIBERS, HOW MANY ACTUALLY
29:32 - CLICK THE HYPERLINK?
29:33 - >>YOUR HONOR. THAT TO MY
29:35 - KNOWLEDGE IS NOT.
29:36 - >>IN IN THE RECORD EVIDENCE IN
29:40 - THIS CASE
29:41 - I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT IN A
29:41 - POSITION TO GIVE THE COURT AN
29:45 - ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
29:46 - BUT I SUSPECT THERE UP QUITE A
29:47 - NUMBER THAT THAT BUT DO NOT
29:50 - REVIEW THE TERMS. I THINK
29:53 - THAT'S, YOU KNOW.
29:56 - SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ALL
29:56 - RECOGNIZE. I MEAN, MAYBE PEOPLE
29:57 - DON'T DO IT.
29:58 - >>BUT UNDER YOUR ARGUMENT, IT
30:00 - DOESN'T MATTER. AND THE
30:02 - ARGUMENT IT DOESN'T MATTER
30:03 - BECAUSE
30:05 - >>THE TESTS SHOULD BE.
30:06 - WERE THEY AWARE THAT TERMS ARE
30:09 - BEING PRESENTED? WERE THOSE
30:12 - TEARS AVAILABLE TO THEM?
30:14 - DID THEY MANIFEST THE SET?
30:16 - IT'S IT'S IT'S REALLY
30:19 - COMPLETELY ALIGNED WITH THE
30:20 - LONGSTANDING CONTRACT WHILE THE
30:22 - COMMONWEALTH WHERE THE COURT
30:24 - HAS NEVER ASKED WHETHER A PARTY
30:28 - TO A CONTRACT READ IT.
30:30 - UNDERSTOOD IT. NOT NOTHING OF
30:31 - THE SORT. IN FACT, THE CASES
30:31 - GO THE OTHER WAY TO SAY IF YOU
30:35 - DON'T READ THE CONTRACT.
30:38 - THEN THEN THAT'S YOUR
30:39 - PREROGATIVE. BUT USE THAT'S
30:39 - STILL OVERSEES. THE ONLY
30:40 - DIFFERENCE, I THINK.
30:41 - >>THERE'S THAT THAT WAS NOT
30:44 - ABOUT.
30:50 - >>THAT WAS LOWER ON
31:11 - >>WHAT A DIFFERENCE CASES WAS
31:14 - THAT THAT WAS.
31:14 - >>IS THIS ONLINE? AND THAT WAS
31:18 - IN TRADITIONAL PERSON TO
31:20 - PERSON.
31:20 - >>THAT THAT'S CORRECT. YOUR
31:21 - HONOR, THAT THAT IS JUST A
31:22 - DISTINCTION. BUT I THINK THE
31:23 - PRINCIPLES REMAIN THE SAME.
31:25 - AND I THINK YOU BRING UP, YOU
31:27 - KNOW, TAYLOR BE EXTENDED CARE.
31:29 - >>IN THAT, THAT THAT
31:32 - >>DECISION
31:33 - VERY NICELY ARTICULATE. A LOT
31:33 - OF PREEMPTION UNDER UNDER FAA
31:38 - SECTION 2, WHICH WE THINK LEADS
31:39 - TO THE CONCLUSION I WAS I WAS
31:41 - DISCUSSION PREVIOUSLY, WHICH IS
31:41 - WHAT THE SUPERIOR COURT DATE
31:46 - HERE. IS TO CREATE SPECIAL
31:46 - RULES. SPECIAL NOTICE RULES
31:48 - AND APPLY ONLY TO ARBITRATION.
31:53 - IF THERE ARE NO GENERAL
31:56 - CONTRACT PRINCIPLES.
31:58 - ARE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE
31:59 - SUIT PERIOD COURT DID. SO, FOR
32:01 - EXAMPLE, IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
32:03 - SAYS IF YOU HAVE TO TELL THE
32:04 - PERSON UP FRONT ON THE
32:06 - REGISTRATION WEBSITE THAT BY
32:07 - AGREEING TO THE TERMS YOU'RE
32:10 - WAIVING A JURY TRIAL. THERE IS
32:12 - NO GENERALLY APPLICABLE
32:14 - CONTRACT PRINCIPLE THAT
32:14 - REQUIRES DISCLOSURE OF THE OF
32:15 - THE CONSEQUENCES OF ENTERING
32:16 - INTO AN AGREEMENT. THAT'S NOT 8
32:18 - PRINCIPAL BROADLY APPLICABLE TO
32:20 - ALL CONTRACTS OR WHEN THE
32:24 - SUPERIOR COURT SAYS, WELL, THIS
32:25 - PROVISION HAS TO BE AT THE TOP
32:27 - OF THE PAGE AND PROVIDED IN
32:29 - ALL BOLD, ITALICIZED WORDS.
32:31 - THERE IS NO GENERAL PRINCIPLE
32:32 - THAT APPLY SUCH A REQUIREMENT
32:35 - TO ALL CONTRACTS. AND THAT'S
32:37 - THAT'S WHERE THIS RUNS AFOUL
32:38 - OF THE FAA IS ARBITRATION
32:41 - SPECIFIC. AND IT'S NOT
32:44 - CONSISTENT WITH.
32:45 - GENERALLY APPLICABLE CONTRACT
32:47 - RULES, WORK OR DEFENSES.
32:49 - SO FOR THAT REASON, I MEAN,
32:52 - IF IF YOU LOOK AT THE CASTLE
32:53 - RADO CASE, THAT'S A SUPREME
32:55 - COURT CASE FROM 1996, THEIR
32:58 - MONTANA HAD ADOPTED A LAW THAT
32:59 - SAID IN THE ARBITRATION
33:01 - SETTING, YOU HAVE TO PUT THAT
33:02 - AT THE TOP OF THE OF THE
33:05 - CONTRACT THAT THE CONTRACT
33:08 - SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION
33:09 - 8 TO ONE DECISION. JUSTICE
33:11 - CONVERT GINSBURG STRUCK THAT
33:16 - DOWN. YOU CANNOT REQUIRE
33:16 - SPECIAL NOTICE FOR AN AGREEMENT
33:18 - BECAUSE IT'S ARBITRATION
33:18 - AGREEMENT OR THAT IT WAIVES THE
33:20 - JURY TRIAL LIKE SIMILARLY IN
33:22 - THE KINDRED CASE, SAME ARGUMENT
33:25 - RIGHT THERE. THEY'RE THE
33:27 - KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT HAD
33:29 - ADOPTED WHAT IT CALLED A CLEAR
33:29 - STATEMENT RULE THAT BEFORE AN
33:32 - ATTORNEY, IN FACT.
33:35 - HE'S OR POOR KIDS ARE HER
33:37 - PRINCIPAL TO AN ARBITRATION
33:38 - AGREEMENT. THAT TO BE A CLEAR
33:39 - STATEMENT. THEY HAD AN
33:41 - EXPRESSION AUTHORIZED THAT
33:43 - ACTION AND THE COURT STRUCK
33:44 - THAT DOWN AGAIN IN THE 8 TO ONE
33:46 - DECISIONS ON THE BASIS THAT
33:48 - WHEN YOU ADOPT A RULE THAT AS
33:52 - JUSTICE KAGAN SAID HINGES.
33:54 - HENTGES. THE RULE IS HINGED ON
33:55 - THE VERY FACT THAT THE THAT
33:58 - THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT.
34:02 - IN WAVES, A JURY TRIAL THAT
34:03 - VIOLATES THAT VIOLATES THE LAW.
34:04 - AND THE FAA SECTION 2 AND I
34:06 - KNOW THE SUPERIOR COURT WAS
34:10 - ACTING OUT OF CONCERN FOR THE
34:10 - JURY TRIAL LIKE THE
34:12 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT FOR A
34:13 - JURY. BUT THE SUPREME COURT
34:15 - HAS BEEN VERY CONSISTENT THERE
34:19 - THAT YOU CAN'T JUSTIFY THESE
34:20 - RULES TO TRY TO PROTECT THE
34:22 - JURY TRIAL. RIGHT? I MEAN THAT
34:27 - IN THE KINDRED CASE THE SUPREME
34:28 - KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT ACTED
34:30 - OUT OF ITS DESIRE TO PROTECT
34:31 - THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A
34:32 - JURY TRIAL IN THE IN THE
34:35 - KENTUCKY.
34:35 - CONSTITUTION. THE COURT SAID
34:39 - NO, WE ARE. YOU CAN'T HAVE
34:41 - SPECIAL RULES IN THE NAME OF
34:42 - PROTECTING THE JURY TRIAL.
34:46 - RIGHT? THAT VIOLATES THE FAA.
34:48 - SO WE WE THINK THAT UNDER FAA
34:51 - SECTION 2 AND ALL OF THE
34:52 - SUPREME COURT CASES THAT WE
34:55 - CITED THE TYPES OF RULES AND
34:56 - THE STRICTER BURDEN THAT WAS
34:58 - ADOPTED HERE RUNS AFOUL OF THE
35:03 - FAA MEAN. I'LL STOP THERE.
35:05 - JUST QUICKLY MOVING ON TO THAT.
35:11 - THE MERITS QUESTION ABOUT THESE
35:14 - CONTRACTS, IT IT IS CLEAR.
35:17 - FROM THE RECORD THAT WHEN THE
35:18 - 2 LOUISE REGISTER FOR AN
35:21 - CREATED
35:22 - TROOPER RECOUNTS. THE INTERFACE
35:23 - IS WHERE THE FLOWS AS WE AS
35:25 - WE CALL THEM IN THIS AREA.
35:25 - THE ONES THAT THEY ENCOUNTERED
35:27 - WOULD HAVE ALERTED A REASONABLY
35:31 - PRUDENT. INTERNET USER. THAT
35:34 - TERMS ARE BEING OFFERED.
35:35 - THE TERMS WERE AVAILABLE FOR
35:37 - REVIEW.
35:39 - VIA THE HYPERLINKS AND THAT BY
35:40 - CREATING THEIR COUNT, THEY WERE
35:43 - AGREEING TO
35:43 - THOSE TERMS. AND IF YOU IF YOU
35:46 - LOOK AT THAT, THE FLOWS THAT
35:47 - ARE IN THE RECORD, YOU CAN SEE
35:49 - THAT IN EACH OF THEM, ALL OF
35:50 - THEM. THEY ALL EXPLAINED THAT
35:53 - BY CLICKING ACCOUNT. LIKE
35:54 - LICKING CREATE A COUNTER
35:55 - TAPPING A NARROW YOU AGREE TO
35:58 - THE TERMS. SO IT EXPRESSLY AND
36:01 - EXPRESSLY EXPLAIN THE
36:02 - CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT OF
36:05 - CLICKING THE BUTTON AND THEN IN
36:07 - THE LINE WHERE IT SAYS BY
36:08 - CLICKING THE BUTTON IN CREATING
36:09 - AN ACCOUNT, YOU'RE AGREEING TO
36:11 - BE BOUND. THE HYPER LAKE IS
36:13 - IN THAT VERY SENTENCE ITSELF.
36:15 - SO IT'S NOT LIKE THESE THINGS
36:17 - ARE FOUND IN DISTRICT PARTS
36:20 - OF THE REGISTRATION PROCESS.
36:22 - IT'S IT'S ALL BROUGHT TO ONE
36:25 - DISCREET EITHER SECTION OF THE
36:26 - REGISTRATION WEBSITE THAT
36:26 - MISSUS TO LOONEY WOULD HAVE
36:28 - SEEN OR ON THE UBER APP SCREEN
36:29 - THAT MISTER CHILL THAT HE SAW.
36:34 - THAT THE USER HAS TO GO TO THAT
36:37 - PARTICULAR LOCATION OF THE
36:39 - WEBSITE OR THE OR THE APP.
36:40 - YOU CAN'T AVOID IT BECAUSE TO
36:43 - CREATE THE CAP YOU MUST YOU
36:44 - MUST CLICK THOSE BUTTONS AND
36:45 - YOU CANNOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT
36:48 - UNLESS YOU CLICK THOSE BUTTONS.
36:50 - >>COUNSEL, YOU USE THE PHRASE A
36:51 - REASONABLE INTERNET USERS.
36:54 - WHAT IS THAT?
36:59 - WHO IS THAT? WELL, THAT'S I
37:00 - GUESS. THAT'S ALL OF US.
37:03 - YOUR
37:05 - >>I TRY MASK. WELL, I'M GLAD
37:07 - YOU COULD MAKE YOU SOON THAT
37:08 - EVERYONE IS A REASONABLE
37:09 - INTERNET USERS. I I THINK I
37:10 - THINK WHAT WHAT? AND THAT'S A
37:12 - TERM THAT'S EMPLOYED BY THE
37:16 - COURTS THAT HAVE
37:16 - >>ADOPTED THE STANDARD WE URGE
37:19 - WHICH IS CONSPICUOUS NOTICE
37:22 - AND OBJECTIVE MANIFESTATION OF
37:22 - INVESTED DEFINED IN WITH THE
37:23 - REASONABLE AND GAVE IT UP OR IS
37:25 - IT THE NAME THE TERM?
37:26 - >>THEY'VE THEY'VE THEY'VE NOT
37:27 - SPECIFICALLY DEFINED IT, BUT
37:29 - THEY HAVE THEY HAVE. I THINK
37:29 - WHAT WHAT WHAT IT'S INDICATING
37:33 - IS THAT
37:36 - SOMEONE USING THE WEB WEBSITE
37:39 - OR SOMEONE USING THE
37:43 - >>THE APP SCREEN WHICH SEE THAT
37:44 - THERE'S NO TERMS BEING OFFERED,
37:47 - ET CETERA. AND I THINK WHAT
37:47 - THAT IS DESIGNED TO TAKE
37:51 - ACCOUNT OF IS YOU CAN'T HAVE
37:53 - A SUBJECTIVE STANDARD FOR THIS
37:54 - TYPE OF THING BECAUSE YOU'LL
37:57 - HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS
37:58 - SOPHISTICATED, YOUR PEOPLE WHO
38:02 - ARE MORE SOPHISTICATED AND
38:04 - >>YOU CAN THIS IS THIS IS SORT
38:06 - OF A DANGEROUS PLACE TO GO.
38:07 - WHEN YOU LOOK OUT FOR THE IDEA
38:22 - >>NOT LIKE IT MIGHT OFFER AISD.
38:27 - STRAY SHUN. WELL, SITUATION
38:29 - WHERE I MEAN, I'M I'M I THINK
38:30 - IT HAPPENS MORE FREQUENTLY THAN
38:31 - YOU'RE WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE.
38:33 - AND FOR THAT.
38:34 - >>YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES CHILDREN
38:37 - HELP THEIR PARENTS FILL OUT
38:40 - ONLINE ACCOUNTS OF THE RIVER
38:41 - APPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
38:41 - AND THAT INSTANCE, THAT'S NOT
38:44 - THE FACTS HERE. BUT WE DO.
38:45 - BUT
38:46 - >>YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT PLAY
38:48 - INTO REASONABLE INTERNET USER?
38:50 - WE JUST ASSUMING THE ASSUMING
38:51 - THAT EVERYONE SETS UP THEIR
38:52 - OPPONENT ON THE SETTING UP
38:53 - THEIR OWN ACCOUNT.
38:53 - >>WELL, YOUR HONOR, I THINK
38:56 - YOU'RE RIGHT. THESE THIS CASE
38:57 - DOESN'T PRESENT THOSE FACTS.
39:02 - BUT IN A IN A SETTING LIKE
39:03 - THAT, I MEAN, THERE THERE THERE
39:04 - ARE CASES BELIEVE IT OR NOT,
39:08 - THAT THE TALK ABOUT SORT.
39:09 - AGENCY PRINCIPLES AND THE LIKE
39:12 - IN TERMS OF WHEN WHEN PEOPLE
39:13 - SET UP ACCOUNTS FOR OTHER
39:14 - PEOPLE AND AND THE COURTS HAVE
39:15 - FOUND THAT THERE'S AN AGENCY
39:17 - PRINCIPAL, THEIR THEORY THERE
39:20 - THAT UNDER THE LAW CAN BE
39:22 - RELIED UPON TO TO FIND THE
39:25 - PARTY
39:28 - >>THE COUNCIL'S THE NOTION OF A
39:29 - REASONABLE INTERNET YOU SHARE
39:30 - GOES TO THE MEETING OF THE
39:32 - MINDS PRINCIPLE.
39:34 - THAT YOU'RE RELYING LINE, WHICH
39:36 - IS WHY I AM REALLY PROBING THE
39:38 - QUESTION BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW.
39:39 - I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS.
39:42 - I MEAN, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
39:43 - MAY JUST NEED AN UBER ACCOUNT
39:44 - BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET TO THEIR
39:48 - MEDICAL, YOU KNOW, PROVIDERS
39:50 - ANY OTHER WAY. AND SO THEY DO
39:53 - WHAT THEY CAN TO SET UP AN
39:55 - ACCOUNT AND QUICKLY AGREE.
39:56 - AND THEN THEY MOVE ON NOT
39:56 - REALIZING THAT WHAT THEY'RE
39:59 - ACTUALLY DOING IS ENTERING
40:00 - INTO A.
40:02 - >>I READ THE DETAILED CONTRACT
40:03 - FOR SERVICES. I MEAN, IT
40:04 - REASONABLE INTERNET USERS TO
40:06 - THAT.
40:06 - >>WELL, YOUR HONOR, I THINK.
40:10 - >>YOU NEED YOU NEED TO HAVE US
40:13 - US A STANDARD. WRITING AND
40:16 - REASONABLY.
40:18 - PRUDENT USER IS ONE WHO LOOKS
40:21 - AT THE
40:23 - LOOKS AT THE CLICKABLE SCREENS
40:23 - AND IS BEING AND TAKES NOTE OF
40:26 - BEING PROVIDED AND AUTHOR OF
40:30 - TERMS IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN
40:32 - OBJECTIVE STANDARD LIKE THAT,
40:32 - IT WOULD BASICALLY UNDO ALL OF
40:33 - THIS COMMERCE THAT YOU'RE
40:34 - TALKING ABOUT A FEB. IF EVERY
40:35 - CONSUMER COULD COME IN AND SAY,
40:41 - WELL, YOU KNOW, I AM I'M NOT A
40:42 - REASONABLY PRUDENT INTERNET
40:43 - USER. I'M I'M ILLITERATE AND
40:44 - THOSE MATTERS. SO I'M NOT BOUND
40:48 - BY MY CONTRACT. MEAN.
40:50 - THAT'S NEVER PREVENTED THE
40:52 - ENFORCEMENT OF CONTRACTS
40:55 - OUTSIDE OF THE ONLINE CONTEXT.
40:58 - THAT'S NEVER BEEN A VALIDLY
41:00 - EXCEPTED DEFENSE OR EXCUSE TO
41:01 - RELIEVE SOMEONE OF CONTRACTUAL
41:03 - OBLIGATION. SO I THINK IT'S
41:05 - IMPORTANT THAT THERE BE IT AND
41:07 - OBJECTIVE STANDARD THAT THE
41:10 - COURTS
41:11 - EMPLOYEE IT IN THE FASHION THAT
41:13 - WE'VE ARGUED, WHICH IS TO
41:15 - UNDERSTAND WHETHER RECENTLY
41:17 - PRUDENT PERSON WOULD WITH AND
41:23 - YEAH, WELL, WE'RE BACK TO A
41:24 - REASONABLY PRUDENT PERSON.
41:25 - I MEAN, THE RECENT THE RECENT I
41:26 - I I PRESS A POINT HONESTLY IS
41:29 - BECAUSE SAW.
41:30 - >>I AGREE WITH THE BASIC
41:31 - CONCEPT THAT IF SOMEONE IS
41:33 - GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW
41:37 - A CLIENT, A CONTRACT, WE'VE WE
41:38 - PRESUME THAT THEY HAVE. IT
41:38 - DOESN'T REALLY MATTER IF THEY
41:42 - ACTUALLY HAVE. BUT I'M JUST
41:45 - WONDERING ABOUT THE SALIENT SEE
41:45 - OF THAT OPPORTUNITY WHEN WE'RE
41:48 - TALKING ABOUT MULTIPLE
41:50 - HYPERLINKS WITHIN A RATHER
41:50 - LENGTHY INTERNET DOCUMENT.
41:53 - IN THE FIRST INSTANCE.
41:56 - >>THE PROCESSES ARE JUST
41:59 - DESIGNED TO BE.
42:02 - A LESS CUMBERSOME, MORE
42:02 - EFFICIENT, ALLOWED TO ALLOW THE
42:06 - CONSUMER TO
42:09 - >>EASILY MAKE THE ARRANGEMENTS
42:10 - TO REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT WITH
42:11 - UBER
42:15 - >>AND SO WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?
42:16 - OVERDOES IN THIS PARTICULAR
42:19 - INSTANCE IS IT MAKES THOSE
42:20 - TERMS AVAILABLE VIA THE
42:23 - HYPERBOLE, WHICH MEANS THAT
42:25 - YOU CAN ACCEPT ACCESS THOSE
42:26 - TERMS. YOU CAN READ THE
42:28 - CONTRACT. YOU CAN DECIDE NOT TO
42:31 - READ THE CONTRACT, BUT THE LAW
42:32 - DOESN'T WE LEAVE YOU IF YOU
42:34 - PROVIDED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY
42:35 - TO REVIEW THE CONTRACT AND THEN
42:36 - YOU NEED WHEN YOU NEED TO READ
42:38 - IT.
42:41 - UNLESS THE COURT HAS ANY
42:44 - FURTHER QUESTIONS. ALL. INCLUDE
42:47 - THE ARGUMENT. WE THINK THAT
42:48 - THIS COURT SHOULD NOT REACH ANY
42:51 - OF THE MERITS QUESTIONS.
42:52 - WE THINK 3.13, IS PLAINLY NOT
42:54 - SATISFIED. AND EVEN IF IT WERE.
42:58 - THE FAA HAS BEEN VIOLATED HERE
43:02 - BY VIRTUE OF THE NEW STRICTER
43:03 - BURDEN OF PROOF. A NEW RULES
43:05 - THAT THE COURT IS FASHION.
43:08 - WHEN YOU PUT THAT ASIDE, WHEN
43:09 - YOU REJECT THAT RULE AND APPLY
43:09 - JUST ORDINARY CONTRACT
43:12 - PRINCIPLES. REASONABLE NOTICE
43:14 - THE TERMS AND OBJECTIVE
43:16 - MANIFESTATION OF A CENT UNDER
43:18 - THIS COMMONWEALTH LAW. A
43:19 - CONTRACT IS FORMED, WHETHER
43:24 - YOU? I DIDN'T READ IT. THAT'S
43:27 - THAT'S BEEN THE LAW IN THE
43:27 - COMMONWEALTH FOR. WE PROBABLY
43:30 - HAVE AN INHERENT.
43:31 - >>THE PROBLEM AND NOT SOCIETY,
43:35 - IF NOT IN THE LAW THAT PEOPLE
43:37 - ARE TRYING TO ENGAGE IN
43:37 - COMPLICATED TRANSACTIONS
43:40 - GENERALLY WELL ON THEIR IPHONE
43:42 - AND TO THE READING OF A
43:43 - CONTRACTOR, THOSE TERMS IN THAT
43:47 - SETTING IS SOFT, MUCH DIFFERENT
43:49 - THAN WHAT WE ORIGINALLY
43:50 - CONCEIVED OF. WHEN WE TALKED
43:52 - ABOUT THE CONTRACT
43:53 - INTERPRETATION. BUT APPRECIATE
43:53 - YOUR ARGUMENT VERY MUCH.
43:54 - LET'S HEAR FROM MR. MESS WITH.
44:10 - >>GOOD MORNING. MADAM CHIEF
44:13 - JUSTICES, MAY IT PLEASE, THE
44:15 - COURT? I'M JOE AND WITH MY
44:16 - CO-COUNSEL IN COLLEAGUES HERE,
44:17 - TOM SWEENEY AND MEGAN KWOK.
44:20 - REPRESENT THE APPLE LEE'S
44:23 - SHANNON, KEITH, TRUDY.
44:24 - I'M GOING TO START WITH THE
44:25 - MERITS BECAUSE IT'S NOT THAT
44:28 - COMPLICATED.
44:30 - PENNSYLVANIA CONTRACT. LOT
44:30 - ISSUE HERE HAS EXISTED FOR
44:32 - CENTURIES BEFORE THE FORMATION
44:35 - OF THE UNION AND BOND PANEL
44:37 - APPLIED WELL SETTLED,
44:38 - PENNSYLVANIA CONTRACT FORMATION
44:41 - AND WAIVER LAW.
44:45 - REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS NOTICE
44:48 - IT DOESN'T EXIST HERE IN A
44:50 - HIDDEN HYPERLINK WHICH IS
44:52 - SMALLER INFANT AND LIGHTER IN
44:54 - COLOR. THEN THE REST OF THE
44:57 - TEXT WHEN HE ASKED MY SON.
44:59 - >>BECAUSE I WAS INTRIGUED BY
44:59 - THIS PROOF. COURTS CRAFTING
45:02 - A PAY.
45:06 - >>FOR BOTH FACING OR FOG OR
45:06 - WHATEVER IT WAS THAT WHERE DOES
45:08 - THAT COME FROM? WHAT'S THAT?
45:11 - WHAT'S THE PRINCIPAL?
45:14 - THAT YOU WOULD HAVE US
45:17 - ARTICULATE FOR
45:21 - >>HOW PROMINENT IS IT? A 16
45:21 - POINT FOLLOWING A 2 POINT FARM.
45:24 - IS THAT GOLD? IS IT, ALEX?
45:24 - IT?
45:25 - >>IS IT ON THE FIRST PAGE?
45:25 - IS THAT ON EVERY PAGE? WHAT'S
45:29 - THE LEGAL?
45:29 - >>PRINCIPAL THAT EMPOWERS A
45:33 - COMMON LAW COURT.
45:36 - >>TO
45:39 - CRAFT THESE, THESE ARE SPECIFIC
45:42 - GUIDELINES FOR THE OUT HOW A
45:43 - PROMINENT A CONTRACTOR MUST
45:44 - SPEAK.
45:46 - >>WELL,
45:47 - THE REQUIREMENTS, NOT THAT
45:48 - SPECIFIC JUSTICE. AND I THINK
45:48 - WE HAVE TO LOOK AT PENNSYLVANIA
45:51 - CONTRACT WHILE THAT'S
45:53 - A BOLD OVER THE YEARS WITH
45:55 - RESPECT TO TO NOT SPECIFICALLY
45:56 - SAYING IT'S GOT TO BE A
45:56 - PARTICULAR FOUGHT, BUT IT CAN'T
45:59 - BE HIDDEN YEAR. IT'S NOT JUST
46:00 - REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS NOTICE.
46:05 - BUT HERE WE ALSO HAVE NO
46:06 - EVIDENCE OF AN AMBIGUOUS MUTUAL
46:11 - ASCENT AND THE ARGUMENT ABOUT
46:11 - THIS.
46:12 - >>STRICTER OR HIGHER BURDEN.
46:15 - DOESN'T RELATE SPECIFICALLY
46:17 - TO ARBITRATION CLAUSES IS NOT
46:18 - DISCRIMINATORY AT ALL.
46:22 - >>IT RELATES TO A STANDARD
46:23 - REQUIRED, WHICH IS A HIGHER
46:27 - BURDEN IN THE LAW. ALREADY WHEN
46:28 - WAVING A RIGHT GUARANTEED BY
46:29 - ARTICLE ONE, SECTION 6 OF OUR
46:32 - CONSTITUTION.
46:35 - OF COURSE.
46:38 - >>WHAT'S THE
46:39 - >>HOW DO YOU AVOID A SLIPPERY
46:42 - SLOPE? WRONG?
46:44 - >>IF WE WORK WITH OUR T THE
46:47 - SUPERIOR COURTS.
46:48 - LINE OF REASONING ON THIS
46:51 - POINT.
46:54 - >>AND ROLL OUT A A.
46:55 - >>A RULE THAT YOU SAY IS NOT A
46:57 - STRICT RULE, SORT OF KIND OF
46:58 - SORT OF LOOKS LIKE A STRICT
46:59 - COVID. WERE WE TO ROLL THAT
47:01 - OUT?
47:02 - WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS
47:05 - ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA?
47:09 - >>FOR CONTRACTING GENERAL.
47:13 - GIVEN THAT PEOPLE WANT TO.
47:14 - GET IN THE MARKET AND BUY ALL
47:15 - KINDS OF GOODS AND SERVICES.
47:21 - WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE POINT
47:25 - OF DISTINCTION?
47:25 - THAT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO PREVAIL
47:29 - ON THIS POINT? BUT
47:30 - NOT DISRUPT ALL MANNER OF
47:30 - CONTRACTS. ARBITRATION AND
47:34 - OTHER WAS. AROUND. IT ARE CALM.
47:36 - I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
47:38 - HERE. JUSTICE IS SPECIFIC TO
47:39 - ONLINE.
47:40 - >>CONTRACTS AND THE WAY
47:41 - BUSINESS IS BEING DONE IN THIS
47:42 - NEW DIGITAL AGE AND FRANKLY.
47:46 - IF WE LOOK AT OTHER STATES,
47:47 - FOR EXAMPLE, NEW JERSEY, WITH
47:48 - THE AT LEAST CASE THAT HAS A
47:54 - REQUIRED SPECIFIC NOTICE AND
47:55 - INFORMATION HASN'T AFFECTED
47:57 - COMMERCE AT ALL. THESE FOLKS
48:00 - KNOW WHAT TO DO. THEY KNOW HOW
48:01 - TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION
48:02 - OTHERWISE, WHY WOULD THEY HIDE
48:07 - IT IN A HYPERLINK THAT'S
48:07 - SMALLER SIZE SPOT. A LIGHTER
48:10 - PRINT. TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT IN
48:13 - THIS CASE THAT IS ON THE 10TH
48:15 - PAGE OF SOMETHING A HYPERLINK.
48:18 - WHEN YOU'RE WAVING A
48:20 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. WHAT'S
48:22 - THE REASON FOR THAT OTHER THAN
48:25 - TO GET PEOPLE TO AGREE TO WAIVE
48:29 - THAT RIGHT WITHOUT ACTUALLY
48:30 - BEING AWARE OF IT AND CONSIDER
48:32 - IT. PART OF IT IS THAT.
48:35 - >>IT'S EITHER THAT OR THEY CAN
48:37 - OPEN UP A STORE FRONT.
48:38 - EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE TO SCHLEP
48:39 - INTO THE STOREFRONT AND SIGN A
48:39 - CONTRACT IN THE PRESENCE OF
48:40 - A LAWYER.
48:43 - >>WELL, COURTS HAVE.
48:46 - THESE TYPES OF AGREEMENTS WHERE
48:48 - IT SAYS WHEN YOU SIGN UP, FOR
48:50 - EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON
48:51 - SOMETHING THAT SAYS YOU ARE
48:54 - GIVING UP YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY
48:57 - TRIAL BY AGREEING TO THIS.
48:57 - YOU ARE WAVING A CONSTITUTIONAL
48:59 - RIGHT OR THE TERMS OF THAT ARE
49:01 - CONTAINED IN THE HYPERLINK
49:04 - RIGHT BY THE HYPERLINK THAT HAS
49:05 - A CLEAR APPEARANCE OF A
49:08 - HYPERLINK IN BLUE. BOLD PRINT
49:10 - WITH A BLUE LINE UNDERNEATH IT
49:14 - THAT THOSE TERMS INCLUDE AN
49:15 - ARBITRATION PROVISION OR WAIVER
49:17 - OF YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL
49:18 - THAT GET YOU THERE. IT SIMPLE
49:19 - FOR THEM TO DO. THEY HAVE
49:21 - PEOPLE THAT ARE WAY SMARTER
49:23 - THAN ME. THAT CAN DO THAT BY
49:23 - OPPAGA IS HOW DO WE GET AROUND
49:25 - A KINDRED NURSES?
49:25 - >>U.S. SUPREME COURT'S
49:28 - DECISION.
49:31 - SIMPLY JUSTICE KINDRED NURSING
49:32 - WAS STRUCK DOWN BECAUSE IT WAS.
49:37 - >>A NEW RULE THAT WAS
49:39 - ARTICULATED BY THE SUPREME
49:39 - COURT OF KENTUCKY THAT IT NEVER
49:42 - BEEN ARTICULATED BEFORE AS
49:43 - OPPOSED TO CENTURIES-OLD
49:48 - CONTRACT LAW AND THAT RULE
49:48 - RELATED ONLY TO ARBITRATION
49:52 - AS OPPOSED TO WAVING A
49:54 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IN AN
49:55 - ONLINE AGREEMENT WHERE THAT
49:58 - INFORMATION IS NOT REASONABLY
49:59 - CONSPICUOUS TO PROVIDE THAT
50:00 - REASON. THESE CONSPICUOUS KNOW
50:02 - TO SCORE EVIDENCE AN AMBIGUOUS
50:04 - EVIDENCE OF MUTUAL SENT IN AS
50:07 - THIS COURT HAS SAID.
50:13 - OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
50:14 - REQUIRES A KNOWING AND
50:14 - INTELLIGENT WAIVER IN
50:15 - COMMONWEALTH PURSES. BARNETT.
50:17 - THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT.
50:20 - >>THAT'S HOW A PERSON IS.
50:21 - WE'RE NOT THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S
50:23 - CASE. THIS IS PRIVATE CONTRACT
50:23 - BETWEEN 2 PARTIES. THE UBER DID
50:24 - YOUR CLIENT RIGHT TO A JURY
50:27 - TRIAL.
50:30 - >>BUT THE CONSTITUTION
50:31 - GUARANTEES A CLIENT OR BREAK TO
50:34 - A JURY TRIAL AND THIS COURT
50:35 - IMPROPER. THE GOVERNMENT HAS
50:38 - NOT DEPRIVED YOUR CLIENT A
50:39 - RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. THE GOT
50:41 - THE 2 PARTIES ENGAGED IN THE
50:42 - CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT TO
50:45 - PROVIDE A SERVICE AND YOUR
50:46 - CLIENT TOOK A BIT NOT JUST
50:46 - SIGNED THE AGREEMENT, BUT
50:47 - ACTUALLY THEN USE THE SERVICE.
50:52 - AND NO GOVERNMENT ENTITY HAS
50:54 - THE BRIDE TO PRIVATE YOUR
50:54 - CLIENT OF A JURY TRIAL. IT'S
50:56 - IT'S IF THIS IS A BETTER
50:58 - CONTRACT THAT RATE APPLIES
51:02 - JUSTICE. NOT JUST IN THE
51:04 - GOVERNMENTAL SETTING, BUT THIS
51:04 - COURT SAID IN A ROCK SHOW
51:07 - VERSUS
51:08 - FRANKFORT HOSPITAL, THE
51:09 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JURY
51:11 - TRIAL APPLIES EQUALLY IN THE
51:13 - CIVIL SETTING. AND YES, THAT
51:14 - MY CLIENT USED THE SERVICE.
51:16 - THEY DID. BUT WITHOUT THE
51:17 - INFORMATION, WHAT DOES YOUR
51:18 - QUIET THINK? THE TERMS AND
51:21 - CONDITIONS WERE? MY CLIENTS
51:22 - NEVER CLICK ON THE TERMS AND
51:23 - CONDITIONS ARE EVEN UNDERSTOOD
51:26 - THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE IN
51:27 - SMALLER FONT ON A COMPLICATED
51:30 - SCREEN, NOT ON THE FIRST PAGE,
51:31 - BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE TYPICAL
51:33 - APPEARANCE OF A HYPERLINK TERMS
51:34 - AND CONDITIONS COULD BE
51:37 - ANYTHING. WE'RE QUIET TOO.
51:38 - >>TAYLOR WAS THE SEXES. FIRE
51:41 - CALL CORRECTLY, ESSENTIALLY THE
51:44 - SAME THING JUST WASN'T ONLINE
51:45 - IT WITH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE
51:47 - THESE LONG CONTRACTS AND WE
51:49 - ALL SIGNED THEM, RIGHT? I MEAN,
51:52 - WE WE ALL CLICKED OR WE OR ARE
51:53 - WE SEEING IN PERSON AND JUST
51:55 - FLY THROUGH TO THE END?
51:56 - >>I MEAN, THE CONSEQUENCES ARE
51:57 - ON US. IF WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE
51:59 - THE TIME TO READ I JUST DON'T
52:02 - SEE THAT THE THE POINT AT WHICH
52:06 - THIS IN FINANCIAL ICING OF
52:08 - CONTRACT PARTIES IS GOING TO
52:09 - END. WELL, IF YOU PREVAIL ON
52:11 - THE MERITS, I DON'T KNOW HOW
52:15 - WE AVOID HEARING ALL KINDS OF
52:18 - LITIGATIONS WHERE SOMEBODY
52:19 - SAYS, OK, SIGN THE CONTRACT,
52:22 - BUT IT WASN'T BIG, BIG ENOUGH
52:24 - ON OR WASN'T OLD ENOUGH OR I
52:25 - YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT WAS BLUE
52:25 - INK. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
52:28 - READING. WHERE DOES THAT?
52:29 - >>WELL, JUSTICE FIRST, I WOULD
52:30 - SAY THE WAY WE AVOID THAT OF
52:31 - THE WAY THE COURT AVOIDS THAT
52:35 - IS BY MAKING A CLEAR ROLL THAT
52:36 - PEOPLE CAN FOLLOW AND INDUSTRY
52:37 - WILL CERTAINLY FOLLOW IT.
52:38 - IF THIS COURT MAKES THE RULE.
52:41 - SECONDLY, JUSTICE WITH RESPECT
52:44 - TO
52:46 - IN-PERSON PAPER CONTRACT WHERE
52:47 - YOU SIT ACROSS THE TABLE FROM
52:47 - SOMEONE WHO PRESENT YOU WITH A
52:51 - 20 PAGE CONTRACT, YOU HAVE THE
52:52 - TERMS. THEY'RE THEY'RE RIGHT IN
52:53 - FRONT OF YOU THERE IN REGULAR
52:55 - SIZE PRINT. YOU CAN READ THEM.
52:55 - YOU DON'T HAVE TO HUNT FOR THEM
52:59 - OR FIND THEM IN A HYPERLINK
53:01 - HERE. THE DUTY TO RE DOESN'T,
53:03 - YOU KNOW, MORPH INTO HAVING TO
53:07 - GO ON A SCAVENGER HUNT AND
53:08 - SEARCH FOR TERMS THAT ARE NOT
53:12 - READILY AVAILABLE.
53:13 - >>PERSONAL CONTRACT CASES.
53:15 - WE WERE SEEING THEM COME UP IN
53:17 - TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE YOU
53:18 - KNOW.
53:19 - >>DIFFERENT ARE DIFFERENT
53:19 - ARGUMENTS BEING MADE ABOUT THE
53:20 - ENFORCEABILITY OF ARBITRATION
53:21 - AGREEMENTS WITH SOMEBODY
53:24 - ACTUALLY SIGNS IT IN WAS TOO
53:24 - COMPLICATED WAS TOO BROAD.
53:26 - THERE'S A RIGHT TO A JURY
53:27 - TRIAL. I MEAN, WHAT IF WHAT IF
53:28 - WHAT, IF THERE WAS A DAMAGES
53:31 - CAP?
53:32 - WHAT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING IN
53:32 - THE CONTRACT? THE CAPTURE
53:34 - CLIENTS DAMAGES OF $75,000?
53:36 - I MEAN, WOULD YOU ARGUE THAT
53:37 - THAT'S A VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT
53:39 - TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS UNDER
53:40 - THE CONSTITUTION, THE REMEDIES
53:41 - CAUSE AND AND THEREFORE, THAT'S
53:42 - UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THAT HAS TO
53:45 - BE BOLDED PUT IN THE FRONT OF
53:48 - THE CONTRACT UNDER A LIST OF
53:48 - BANNER THINGS WHERE YOU'RE BUY
53:49 - IT, WHERE YOU'RE WAVING A RIGHT
53:51 - UNDER
53:51 - THE CONSTITUTION.
53:53 - >>WELL, A CAP ON DAMAGES WOULD
53:56 - BE VIOLATIVE OF THE
53:57 - CONSTITUTION. HOWEVER, JUSTICE
53:58 - THAT INFORMATION JUST LIKE IN
54:00 - CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT CAUSES
54:03 - HAS TO BE PRESENTED IN A WAY
54:05 - THAT SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS THEIR
54:05 - WEIGHT AND WHAT THEY'RE WAVING
54:06 - THERE, WAVING A CONSTITUTIONAL
54:08 - RIGHT. THIS COMMONWEALTH HAS
54:08 - ALLOWED CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT
54:11 - CAUSES FOR.
54:12 - DECADES, AT LEAST. AND THERE
54:14 - ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THERE.
54:15 - WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
54:17 - TO CERTAINLY DIFFERENT WHEN
54:19 - YOU'RE IN A CONFERENCE ROOM
54:20 - WITH SOMEONE OR REAL ESTATE
54:21 - OFFICE OR WHATEVER IT IS AND
54:24 - YOU HAVE TO TIME TO READ THE
54:26 - CONTRACT. IT'S THERE IN FRONT
54:28 - OF YOU AND THEN YOU GET A KIOSK
54:31 - AT A AT A NEWS REPORT.
54:33 - >>YOU'VE GOT TO TERMS AND
54:34 - CONDITIONS ABOUT YOUR ACCESS TO
54:36 - THE AMUSEMENT PARK WITH DAPI
54:37 - DIFFERENT FROM THIS ONLINE
54:39 - TERMS AND CONDITIONS SITUATION.
54:41 - >>SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE REFERRING
54:41 - TO THE SANTIAGO CASE JUSTICE,
54:45 - BUT FOR IT IN IN IN THAT
54:47 - CIRCUMSTANCE.
54:48 - >>I IT'S.
54:48 - >>GOES BACK TO PENNSYLVANIA.
54:51 - LAW CONTRACT FORMATION IS.
54:51 - >>THE REASON THE CONSPICUOUS
54:54 - NOTICE IS THERE.
54:55 - AND AMBIGUOUS EVIDENCE OF
54:56 - MUTUAL CENT. AND IF YOU'RE
54:59 - WAIVING HER RIGHT TO A JURY
55:00 - TRIAL, THAT HIGHER BURDEN TO
55:01 - SHOW KNOWING AND INTELLIGENT
55:05 - WAIVER AND JUSTICE WORK.
55:07 - I DON'T THINK THIS RUNS AFOUL
55:09 - OF TAYLOR AT ALL. TAYLOR
55:10 - REFERENCES CONCEPCION AND
55:13 - TAYLOR IN CONCEPCION, BOTH
55:14 - SPECIFICALLY REFERENCE.
55:15 - >>THAT THE THE FAA EXCEPTION,
55:16 - THE SAVINGS CAUSE.
55:19 - >>THOSE.
55:22 - THINGS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO
55:23 - STATE LAW CONTRACT FORMATION.
55:26 - THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
55:26 - AND THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
55:27 - COURT RECENTLY IN MORGAN VERSUS
55:29 - SUNDANCE HAS SAID ARBITRATION
55:30 - IS ENTITLED TO NO GREATER
55:33 - TREATMENT.
55:34 - AND OTHER CONTRACTS. IN A
55:36 - UNANIMOUS 9, 0, DECISION.
55:37 - THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
55:39 - HERE. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR
55:41 - GREATER TREATMENT. OR FOR REP.
55:46 - TO TO SUPPLEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE,
55:49 - ARBITRATION WERE LOOKING FOR
55:50 - EQUAL TREATMENT. WHAT UBER
55:53 - WANTS IS TO GIVE.
55:53 - ARBITRATION THIS SUPER CONTRACT
55:56 - STATUS.
56:00 - BE ABLE TO.
56:03 - BY PEOPLE TO THESE ARBITRATION
56:04 - CLAUSES AND WAVING THEIR
56:05 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT WITHOUT
56:07 - EVER HAVING MADE A KNOWING
56:10 - INTELLIGENT WAIVER. TO
56:13 - CONTINUE.
56:18 - BOND PORT COURT'S OPINION
56:19 - INDICATES THAT THE WEBSITE
56:20 - DIDN'T PROVIDE REASONABLY
56:21 - CONSPICUOUS NOTICE AND THERE'S
56:23 - NO ACTION BY THE 2 LADIES THAT
56:26 - MANIFESTS MUTUAL ASCENT.
56:29 - >>IT'S A SERVICE.
56:32 - >>AND I THINK THE RECORD
56:32 - INDICATED THAT.
56:35 - >>MR. MS JUNIE.
56:36 - >>RIYADH'S THEY THEY RE
56:37 - CLICKED. IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN,
56:39 - THEY RENEW ONE OR MORE
56:42 - OCCASIONS. THEIR AGREEMENT
56:44 - >>IT IS THE
56:47 - >>CONTINUED USE
56:48 - BY IT. SENTIENT DULL TO THERE'S
56:49 - NO EVIDENCE OF INTELLECTUAL
56:51 - INCOMPETENCE HERE.
56:55 - NOT SIGNAL THEIR ASCENT TO THE
56:57 - TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT WITH
56:58 - THE PROVIDER MEAN THEY'RE NOT
56:59 - FORCED TO USE THEM OR THEY
57:00 - COULD HAVE WALKED. YOU COULD
57:01 - USE A LIFT. THE CUBA YELLOW
57:03 - CAP, BUT BY CONTINUING TO USE
57:05 - THE SERVICE AND CLICKING HENRY
57:06 - CLICKING, IS THAT NOT IN THE
57:08 - SENT TO THE TERMS THAT UBER IS
57:11 - PROPOSING TO THEM?
57:13 - >>NO JUDGE FOR THIS REASON
57:13 - BECAUSE THAT INFORMATION WAS
57:14 - NEVER PRESENTED TO THEM.
57:15 - IT'S THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCE
57:17 - WHERE YOU HAVE TERMS HIDDEN
57:19 - IN A HYPERLINK THAT THEY NEVER
57:22 - KNEW WERE AWARE OF BEFORE YOU
57:24 - HAVE TO PROVIDE THE
57:24 - INFORMATION. THERE'S NO
57:25 - REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS NOTICE.
57:26 - AND THAT'S WHERE THIS ALL
57:28 - STARTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
57:31 - >>CONTRACT LAW THEY HAVE TO.
57:34 - WE ARE A FREE AGENT PROVISION
57:34 - UNDER YOUR THEORY ABOUT THIS
57:35 - BEING A COST RIGHT WITHIN OUR
57:38 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.
57:41 - >>AN APP CLICKING TERMS AND
57:42 - CONDITIONS. DO THEY HAVE TO
57:45 - SPECIFICALLY ADVISE? IT'S SOME
57:47 - KIND OF A BOLD THING. THE
57:48 - PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION
57:49 - GRANTS YOU A RIGHT TO A JURY
57:52 - TRIAL BY ENGAGING OUR SERVICE.
57:53 - YOUR HERE BY WAIVING YOUR RIGHT
57:53 - TO A JURY TRIAL IN AGREEING
57:55 - TO ARBITRATE. DOES IT HAVE TO
57:59 - BE THAT SPECIFIC?
57:59 - >>NO JUSTICE, BUT IT PROVIDES
58:00 - NO INFORMATION. IT DOESN'T USE
58:04 - THE TERM ARBITRATION. IT
58:04 - DOESN'T DEFINE MEAN THAT EVEN
58:05 - IF YOU GET TO THE 10 PAGE FRONT
58:08 - IN CONSPICUOUS HYPERLINK, IT
58:09 - DOESN'T DEFINE ARBITRATION.
58:10 - IT DOESN'T SAY YOU'RE GIVING UP
58:13 - YOUR RIGHT TO APPEAL THOSE 2
58:14 - RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO A JURY
58:14 - TRIAL DOESN'T SAY JURY TRIAL.
58:18 - YOUR BUTT IF IT DOESN'T FIT THE
58:19 - FINES, ARBITRATION AND SAY
58:19 - YOU'RE GIVING UP YOUR RIGHT TO
58:20 - APPEAL AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
58:22 - BE IN COURT. I THINK THAT'S
58:23 - SUFFICIENT. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO
58:25 - BE ABLE TO SEE IT. YOU'VE GOT
58:26 - TO GET THERE. THERE HAS TO BE
58:28 - REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS NOTES TO
58:30 - HAVE A RIGHT TO APPEAL AN
58:31 - ARBITRATION WHERE IT'S JUST A
58:32 - VERY NARROW VIEW OF WHAT YOU
58:32 - CAN APPEAL. BUT I'M JUST TRYING
58:33 - TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY HOW
58:35 - MANY?
58:37 - >>IT DOESN'T HAVE TO
58:37 - SPECIFICALLY SAY YOU ARE HERE
58:40 - BY WAIVING ACTS. I THINK IT HAS
58:45 - TO PROVIDE REASONABLE
58:45 - INFORMATION, REASONABLE NOTICE
58:46 - AND THAT WOULD IN THAT MOTION
58:47 - IS YES. JUST AS YOUR DEFINITION
58:50 - OF REASONABLE NOTICE. NOT ONLY
58:50 - WHAT YOU'RE AGREEING TO WHAT
58:53 - YOU'RE
58:53 - GIVING UP. IT COULD HAVE SPREAD
58:54 - INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE
58:55 - GIVEN OUT. YOU DON'T HAVE THE
58:57 - RIGHT TO PROCEED IN COURT.
58:57 - FOR EXAMPLE, OR YOU DON'T HAVE
59:00 - A RIGHT OF APPEAL.
59:01 - IT HAS TO DEFINE WHAT
59:02 - ARBITRATION IS THE DEFINITION
59:04 - OF ARBITRATION. IT TELLS YOU
59:06 - THAT. I MEAN, IT SHOULD.
59:09 - BUT FRANKLY.
59:10 - THE CONSUMERS DON'T KNOW THAT.
59:11 - I MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU GO
59:14 - TO ARBITRATION IN A CASE IN THE
59:15 - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. YOU HAVE
59:18 - A RIGHT OF APPEAL.
59:19 - WHAT WHAT ARE CONSUMERS KNOW?
59:20 - THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE
59:22 - EVER. YOU'RE ALSO THE SO THAT
59:23 - ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN THIS
59:23 - AGREEMENT. YOUR CLIENTS
59:26 - WOULDN'T HAVE CHOPPED YES.
59:27 - IF I FALL, IF ALL OF THIS, IT
59:28 - HAPPENED THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL
59:30 - OF THIS WAS DISCLOSED IN THE
59:31 - ARBITRATION EVER GO BACK TO
59:32 - YOUR CLIENTS WOULD NOT HAVE
59:34 - USED UBER.
59:35 - >>JUST JUST I DON'T KNOW
59:37 - BECAUSE I DIDN'T ASK MY CLIENT
59:39 - WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE.
59:41 - HOWEVER, THAT SORT OF BEGS THE
59:43 - QUESTION OF THE OBLIGATION TO
59:45 - PROVIDE THE INFORMATION TO FORM
59:46 - A CONTRACT FOR THAT TO BE
59:47 - REASONABLY CONSPICUOUS NOTICED
59:49 - AN AMBIGUOUS MANIFESTATION OF
59:50 - MUTUAL CENT AND WHEN A
59:50 - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IS
59:53 - INVOLVED.
59:54 - A KNOWING INTELLIGENT WAIVER
59:55 - AND THE EVIDENCE OF THAT
59:56 - 100 DOESN'T EXIST. IN THIS CASE.
01:00 - 05.902 >>PLACE THE FINE PRINT ARGUMENT
01:00 - 06.603 TO MEMORIALIZE AND THAT FAMOUS
01:00 - 09.872 DISSENT BY JUSTICE MUST BE, YOU
01:00 - 10.607 KNOW ABOUT THAT. THE TINY
01:00 - 11.307 WRITING ON THE TOP OF THE DOOR
01:00 - 12.642 CALL HIM IS THAT THE ELDERS
01:00 - 15.311 CASE? I CAN REMEMBER WHICH CASE
01:00 - 19.248 SAYS, BUT I BUT A PRETTY SHOWS
01:00 - 19.882 OF DISSENT BECAUSE LOTS OF
01:00 - 20.717 DISSENT BY JUSTICE ON IN THEIR
01:00 - 23.920 COMMUNITY FULLY WRITTEN.
01:00 - 26.456 BUT FLOOR THE WRITTEN. BUT
01:00 - 27.490 IT MIGHT NOT CORRECT THAT THE
01:00 - 29.626 FINE PRINT ARGUMENTS HAVE NOT
01:00 - 30.493 GAINED TRACTION IN THIS COURT.
01:00 - 33.463 IN OTHER WORDS, COMING BACK TO
01:00 - 34.597 THIS POINT ABOUT ASCENSION IT
01:00 - 37.700 ALL UNDER DETECTIVE STANDARD
01:00 - 38.835 IS DEEMED TO
01:00 - 41.804 HAVE A INCOMPETENT TO HAVE READ
01:00 - 42.505 AND SIGN THE AGREEMENT AND WE
01:00 - 44.107 WILL HOLD AS A MATTER OF
01:00 - 44.841 CONTRACT LAW. THAT PERSON BOUND
01:00 - 50.113 TO THEIR AGREEMENT. ABSENCE
01:00 - 50.847 OF FRAUD, ARREST, INCOMPETENCE.
01:00 - 51.514 WHAT HAVE YOU, WHICH NONE OF
01:00 - 56.085 WHICH ARE ALLEGED HERE. TAKE
01:00 - 59.022 THIS IS WHAT IS THE BASIS FOR
01:00 - 59.722 ON YOUR LOCATION AS I TAKE IT
01:00 - 01.858 HERE OF A FINE PRINT ARGUMENT
01:01 - 04.560 WHICH SORT YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S
01:01 - 06.629 JUST IT'S SO. IT'S A HOMESPUN
01:01 - 07.330 WISDOM OUT IN THE WORLD ABOUT,
01:01 - 10.867 YOU KNOW, WE DON'T LIKE FINE
01:01 - 11.567 PRINT, BUT THE COURTS.
01:01 - 12.135 IF THEY DO STRIKE DOWN
01:01 - 16.839 CONTRACTS ON THAT BASIS, DOING.
01:01 - 18.908 >>WELL, I THINK THERE'S
01:01 - 20.677 2 DISTINCTIONS HERE. JUSTICE
01:01 - 21.210 AND ONE IS WAIVING A
01:01 - 23.379 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT,
01:01 - 25.448 GUARANTEED BY ARTICLE ONE
01:01 - 26.449 SECTION 6 TO A JURY TRIAL
01:01 - 29.652 THAT'S CONSIDERED OR IN OUR
01:01 - 31.587 CONSTITUTION IS INVIOLATE.
01:01 - 32.188 2 IS FINE. PRINT IN THE
01:01 - 35.591 CONTRACT IS ACTUALLY THERE.
01:01 - 37.560 YOU CAN READ AND YOU DON'T HAVE
01:01 - 40.697 TO GO ON A HUNT FOR A HYPERLINK
01:01 - 43.866 THAT DOESN'T APPEAR ON THE PAGE
01:01 - 44.901 AT ALL. LIKE A TYPICAL
01:01 - 48.705 HYPERLINK THAT DOESN'T APPEAR
01:01 - 49.439 ANYWHERE NEAR A STATEMENT ABOUT
01:01 - 50.039 WEAVER, OF ANYTHING THAT
01:01 - 50.707 DOESN'T APPEAR ANYWHERE NEAR
01:01 - 53.276 WHAT YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON.
01:01 - 55.645 NOT.
01:01 - 56.345 TO WAIVE ANYTHING OR OR AGREE
01:01 - 58.748 TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS, BUT
01:01 - 02.385 JUST TO SIGN UP.
01:02 - 03.219 THE SERVICE, WHICH IS WHAT
01:02 - 06.255 HAPPENED HERE. SO I SEE A STARK
01:02 - 07.690 DISTINCTION
01:02 - 10.893 AND AND THAT GETS BACK TO THE
01:02 - 15.031 DUTY TO RE.
01:02 - 17.967 >>SO MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT
01:02 - 18.601 YOU SAID EARLIER, BUT I'M
01:02 - 22.038 LOOKING AT THE BEGINNING.
01:02 - 22.972 I SAID MAYBE I YEAH, IT IS TIME
01:02 - 26.142 THEY MAY BE UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU
01:02 - 26.843 SAID EARLIER. BUT I'M LOOKING
01:02 - 27.510 AT THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT
01:02 - 29.412 AND IT DOES, IN FACT, SAY THAT
01:02 - 30.980 I
01:02 - 31.714 >>YOU AND THE ROUTE OR ARE EACH
01:02 - 34.217 WAIVING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY
01:02 - 36.152 JURY?
01:02 - 38.721 THE PROBLEM IS IT WAS IN
01:02 - 41.157 CONSPICUOUS ENOUGH. I MEAN,
01:02 - 41.824 IT TELLS YOU YOU CAN'T GO TO
01:02 - 44.393 COURT. YOU WAIVE THE RIGHT TO
01:02 - 45.962 TRIAL BY JURY.
01:02 - 48.898 SO WHAT WHAT? WHAT'S THE
01:02 - 49.532 PROBLEM? AND IT'S NOT THE
01:02 - 53.169 LANGUAGE. IT'S THEIR LACK OF
01:02 - 55.138 EMPHASIS OF THE LACK OF.
01:02 - 56.005 >>I APOLOGIZE, JUSTICE. I'M
01:02 - 58.307 NOT SURE WHICH WHAT IN THE
01:02 - 58.975 RECORD YOU'RE REFERRING TO.
01:02 - 02.512 >>BUT BUT HAITIAN AGREEMENT.
01:03 - 03.045 AGREEMENT TO BINDING
01:03 - 04.313 ARBITRATION BETWEEN YOU AND
01:03 - 07.350 UBER.
01:03 - 09.819 >>THAT'S IN.
01:03 - 12.021 ON THE 10TH PAGE OF THE
01:03 - 14.824 HYPERLINK IN A SUBSEQUENT
01:03 - 15.825 VERSION, NOT THE ORIGINAL
01:03 - 16.959 VERSION GOING SO FAST THAT THE
01:03 - 20.263 THIS IS THIS IS NOT THE VERSION
01:03 - 20.997 THAT YOUR CLIENTS, I'M NOT THAT
01:03 - 21.731 I DIRECT, YOU KNOW, YOUR HONOR.
01:03 - 23.900 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE
01:03 - 26.936 VERSION MY CLIENT SIGNED.
01:03 - 27.637 >>OR CLICK TO SIGN UP FOR THE
01:03 - 28.337 SERVICE IS ON THE 10TH PAGE OF
01:03 - 33.142 A HYPERLINK. IT DOES REFERENCE.
01:03 - 36.012 A JURY TRIAL. IT DOES SAY
01:03 - 38.147 ARBITRATION, IT DOES NOT THE
01:03 - 40.116 FINE. WHAT AN ARBITRATION IS
01:03 - 40.783 OR INDICATE YOU'RE GIVING UP
01:03 - 42.819 RIGHTS OF APPEAL. IF YOU EVER
01:03 - 43.186 GET THERE.
01:03 - 46.155 >>WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
01:03 - 46.789 MUST A MESS OF BETWEEN THE
01:03 - 48.257 >>PROVISION THAT'S ATTACHED
01:03 - 51.327 TO IT. JUST A STUNNING VIEW.
01:03 - 53.462 THIS
01:03 - 54.764 READING FROM AND THE PROVISION,
01:03 - 55.464 THE CONTRACT THAT YOUR CLIENT
01:03 - 57.800 SIGNS. ARE YOU SAYING IT WAS A
01:03 - 01.704 SUBSEQUENT FOR JEN? I BELIEVE I
01:04 - 04.774 IF YOU GIVE ME A MOMENT, I CAN
01:04 - 31.033 ABSOLUTELY.
01:04 - 31.701 THIS IS WHAT COACH COUNSELOR
01:04 - 32.001 FOR BY
01:04 - 39.342 >>I THINK THE HELP THAT I CAN
01:04 - 41.177 IF YOU HAVE A RECORD CITATION
01:04 - 44.447 THAT WOULD I DO. I WILL GET IT
01:04 - 48.451 FOR YOU. IT'S IN THE RECORD
01:04 - 50.553 AT ONE 20
01:04 - 53.322 THERE'S A REFERENCE TO IT IN
01:04 - 56.759 THE BRIEF. THAT'S AS SPIKE.
01:04 - 58.928 CLICKING CREATE ACCOUNT.
01:04 - 01.731 YOU AGREED IT WILL BURST TERMS
01:05 - 03.532 AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY
01:05 - 04.467 POLICY. YOU CAN SEE THAT TERMS
01:05 - 07.536 AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY
01:05 - 08.871 POLICY ARE.
01:05 - 12.008 SMALLER FONT. THEN EVERYTHING
01:05 - 14.410 ELSE ON THE APP AS WELL AS
01:05 - 18.814 WRITER, COLOR PRINT. THIS IS
01:05 - 19.448 OBVIOUSLY BLOWN UP FOR THE
01:05 - 21.651 PURPOSES OF OF THE PAGE AND
01:05 - 22.451 AND READABILITY AND NO
01:05 - 27.356 INFORMATION THERE WHATSOEVER
01:05 - 29.859 ABOUT WAVING ANYTHING. YOU'RE
01:05 - 30.426 RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.
01:05 - 32.561 ARBITRATION, A CONSTITUTIONAL
01:05 - 33.829 RIGHT OR OTHERWISE THAT IT
01:05 - 36.899 DOESN'T COME LESS. YOU
01:05 - 37.266 ACTUALLY.
01:05 - 40.202 I HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING THERE'S
01:05 - 41.203 REASONABLE NOTICE WITH RESPECT
01:05 - 43.005 TO ANYTHING IN THOSE TERMS AND
01:05 - 46.008 CONDITIONS UNDERSTAND THAT IS
01:05 - 46.642 HYPERLINK. IT'S CLICKABLE.
01:05 - 47.777 AND THEN WHEN YOU CLICK THERE,
01:05 - 50.846 YOU GET TO THE 10TH PAGE, BUT
01:05 - 53.115 DIFFERENT.
01:05 - 53.783 >>IF YOU'RE NOT WEARING THAT
01:05 - 57.053 LINGERIE TRIAL WAIVER LANGUAGE
01:05 - 58.287 IS FOUND. ON THE HYPERLINK.
01:05 - 59.922 IF YOU CLICK IT IN THE 10TH
01:05 - 04.927 PAGE ON THE 10 PAGE S.
01:06 - 05.528 >>SO THIS. SET UP ON THE
01:06 - 09.799 >>PHONE ON YOUR PHONE OR ON
01:06 - 10.399 YOUR. A LAPTOP OR IPAD,
01:06 - 13.102 WHATEVER.
01:06 - 15.371 >>YOU ARE ABLE TO.
01:06 - 17.873 >>OBTAIN A
01:06 - 18.541 >>UBER ACCOUNT WITHOUT EVER
01:06 - 21.243 CLICKING THE TERMS OF USE
01:06 - 22.244 BUTTON.
01:06 - 24.146 >>1000%, ALL YET TO DO WAS
01:06 - 27.049 CLICK TO CREATE ACCOUNT.
01:06 - 28.584 BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO EVER GET
01:06 - 29.285 TO THAT 10 PAGES A HYPERLINK.
01:06 - 32.221 IF YOU EVEN KNOW THAT THAT IS
01:06 - 32.621 A HYPERLINK.
01:06 - 37.960 IT'S JUST CREATE THE ACCOUNT.
01:06 - 39.829 WAS YOUR OTHER QUESTION ON MOVE
01:06 - 43.032 ON TO THE RULE? 3.13, ARGUMENT.
01:06 - 43.733 SO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, I'M
01:06 - 44.333 SORRY CAN GO BACK TO THE
01:06 - 46.602 BEGINNING. AND SO BACK TO THE
01:06 - 50.406 BEGINNING.
01:06 - 54.176 YOUR HONORS RULES. 3.13, IS NOT
01:06 - 55.111 THE RIGID
01:06 - 55.745 FORMULAIC RULE THAT PALIN
01:06 - 57.480 SUGGESTS COURTS HAVE
01:06 - 58.080 INTERPRETED PRACTICAL
01:06 - 01.117 CONSIDERATIONS IN EVALUATING
01:07 - 04.220 RULED 3.13, LIKE THOSE
01:07 - 05.221 RECOGNIZED BY ON PANEL.
01:07 - 06.355 WE SHOULDN'T BE SUPPLEMENTING A
01:07 - 09.325 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO IT.
01:07 - 11.694 A JURY TRIAL TO A RULE APPROVED
01:07 - 13.796 APPELLATE PROCEDURE WHERE THERE
01:07 - 16.565 IS NO CLEAR PATH. OF APPELLATE
01:07 - 20.970 REVIEW. AS SUCH. IF THAT
01:07 - 22.805 OCCURRED. THE RULE.
01:07 - 23.706 IT WOULD ALLOW THE RULE TO
01:07 - 30.513 DEVOUR THE CONSTITUTIONAL
01:07 - 32.548 >>AND KUZ UP AT THE BACK END
01:07 - 35.618 UP CHALLENGING. IT'S A
01:07 - 38.788 JURISDICTIONAL MATTER.
01:07 - 40.089 WHETHER THE MATTER SHOULD
01:07 - 40.823 >>ATTRITION FIRST CLOSE, FAR AT
01:07 - 43.859 THE BACK AND WITH VERY LIMITED
01:07 - 45.061 POSSIBILITY,
01:07 - 46.762 GETTING THERE FOR LAY FOLKS
01:07 - 47.897 WHO ARE LITIGANTS CHEN IN CHILE
01:07 - 53.102 WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR AT THE TIME
01:07 - 58.841 AND KEEP TRULY WORKED.
01:07 - 59.175 THE WAY.
01:07 - 03.279 RULE 3.13, AS WRITTEN, FRANKLY.
01:08 - 03.946 ARBITRATION IS GIVEN
01:08 - 05.147 PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FROM THE
01:08 - 08.884 OUTSET. THEY HAVE AN AUTOMATIC
01:08 - 10.352 APPEAL FROM A DENIAL OF
01:08 - 15.224 ARBITRATION, AN INJURED PERSON
01:08 - 16.058 HAS NO RIGHT OF APPEAL.
01:08 - 19.028 >>THEY CHOSE THEY MADE THE LAW.
01:08 - 20.496 WE DIDN'T MAKE IT. THEY GAVE
01:08 - 21.797 THE RIGHT IN THE ONE HAND AND
01:08 - 25.101 NOT IN THE OTHER. AND I MEAN,
01:08 - 25.734 IF YOU'RE RIGHT. IF YOU'RE
01:08 - 27.636 RIGHT.
01:08 - 28.270 >>ISN'T IT THE CASE THAT?
01:08 - 30.439 >>WE'LL BE FLOODED WITH ALL
01:08 - 34.310 THESE WILL BE FLOODED WITH ALL
01:08 - 34.844 OF THESE FOR AN END.
01:08 - 35.544 ARBITRATION CHALLENGES RATHER
01:08 - 37.046 THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW, WHICH
01:08 - 40.583 IS WEAK. WE HAVE CHALLENGES ALL
01:08 - 41.283 THE TIME AFTER THE FACT THAT'S
01:08 - 43.719 HOW IT MOVED. THIS WOULD BE A
01:08 - 44.386 SEA CHANGE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
01:08 - 48.457 >>PRACTICE PUTTING ASIDE.
01:08 - 49.158 >>THIS IS WHY IT WON'T JUSTICE
01:08 - 50.159 BECAUSE WE LOOK AT THE
01:08 - 52.661 PRACTICAL ASPECT OF THIS.
01:08 - 55.698 >>PEOPLE.
01:08 - 56.565 >>ARE INJURED.
01:08 - 57.199 AND THEIR LAWYERS WHO ARE
01:08 - 59.668 REPRESENTING THEM ON A
01:08 - 01.036 CONTINGENCY BASIS.
01:09 - 03.606 THEY'RE MAKING DECISIONS BASED
01:09 - 04.206 ON WHAT THE EVIDENCE IS.
01:09 - 04.840 RIGHT. IF THERE'S SIGNED A
01:09 - 06.242 CONTRACT, IT'S CLEAR THEY
01:09 - 06.942 SIGNED THE CONTRACT, CONTINUE
01:09 - 09.478 TO SEE LAWYERS NOT GOING TO
01:09 - 11.313 PURSUE IT AFTER THAT. AND A
01:09 - 12.448 PLAINTIFF WHO NEEDS
01:09 - 13.115 COMPENSATION IS NOT GOING TO
01:09 - 15.651 CONTINUE. THIS IS VERY LIMITED
01:09 - 18.921 SCOPE.
01:09 - 20.756 THERE HAS TO BE A SITUATION
01:09 - 22.024 WHERE CONTRACT RULES. THEY HAVE
01:09 - 24.293 BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR EVER ARE
01:09 - 28.998 COMPLIED WITH NO REASON BECAUSE
01:09 - 30.099 BECAUSE NOTICE NO MUTUAL
01:09 - 30.900 ASCENT, NO KNOWING AND
01:09 - 34.837 INTELLIGENT WAIVER. AND HOW DO
01:09 - 36.839 WE HOW DO WE GET AROUND THE
01:09 - 37.840 FACT THAT THE LEGISLATURE
01:09 - 38.774 SPECIFICALLY INDICATED THAT
01:09 - 41.710 IT'S THE DENIAL OF ARBITRATION.
01:09 - 42.912 THAT'S IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE.
01:09 - 46.015 >>CAN WE CAN WE TAKE THAT AND
01:09 - 48.417 SAY, WELL?
01:09 - 49.385 IN ALL FAIRNESS, IF WE'RE GOING
01:09 - 49.985 TO ALLOW IT IN NILES OF
01:09 - 53.589 ARBITRATION, WE SHOULD ALLOW
01:09 - 54.523 IT IN GRANTS OF ARBITRATION.
01:09 - 57.560 I MEAN, DOES THAT GET ANYWHERE
01:09 - 58.127 WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF?
01:09 - 00.896 >>ROLE? I?
01:10 - 02.398 >>3.13. WELL, IT'S IN THE.
01:10 - 05.634 APPLICATION.
01:10 - 06.335 >>OF THE RULE JUSTICE. I MEAN,
01:10 - 08.871 IT'S A RULE OF APPELLATE
01:10 - 09.672 PROCEDURE THAT I THINK.
01:10 - 12.908 THIS COURT CONTROLS. BUT THERE
01:10 - 15.244 IS ALSO A STATUTE THAT GIVES
01:10 - 16.478 RISE TO THE RULE. BUT
01:10 - 19.548 >>WHAT'S YOUR READ? WHAT'S YOUR
01:10 - 22.484 REP?
01:10 - 23.652 >>WE ARE. TV'S IS IRREPARABLE.
01:10 - 26.755 WHAT'S PRABAL?
01:10 - 29.091 >>WELL, I
01:10 - 30.059 SUGGEST YOUR HONOR, YOUR REP
01:10 - 33.462 RULES WAS A CIRCUMSTANCE LIKE
01:10 - 34.263 THIS WHERE LAYPEOPLE A COUPLE
01:10 - 36.065 WHO ONE OF WHOM IS SERIOUSLY
01:10 - 40.436 INJURED. HAS TO GO THROUGH.
01:10 - 43.606 JUMP THROUGH HOOPS. GO OVER
01:10 - 46.976 HURDLES OF THE TIME.
01:10 - 50.079 PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL EFFORT
01:10 - 52.481 OF.
01:10 - 55.217 AND COUNCIL PREPARING FOR AN
01:10 - 55.985 ARBITRATION GOING TO AN
01:10 - 57.653 ARBITRATION. THEN THE NEXT STEP
01:10 - 00.889 IS THEY HAVE TO ATTEMPT TO SHOW
01:11 - 03.359 FRAUD MISCONDUCT, WARM, A STATE
01:11 - 04.093 WHERE NO RIGHT OF APPEAL EXIST.
01:11 - 08.530 AND THEN EVEN WITH THE SOME
01:11 - 09.198 WILL CHANCE. BUT THAT COULD
01:11 - 09.832 OCCUR, THOUGH, THROUGH THE
01:11 - 12.968 ENTIRE APPELLATE PROCESS TO
01:11 - 14.203 TRY DAY.
01:11 - 14.870 WE GET THAT OVERTURNED THAT
01:11 - 17.940 THEY DIDN'T SIGN A CONTRACT.
01:11 - 19.074 OR COMPLY. A CONTRACT THAT
01:11 - 21.377 COMPLIED WITH PENNSYLVANIA LAW
01:11 - 23.512 IN THE FIRST PLACE. AND THEN IF
01:11 - 27.116 THEY WIN ON APPEAL. START ALL
01:11 - 30.252 OVER AGAIN IN COURT. FIRST,
01:11 - 30.886 THOUGH, STILL UP 2 THINGS.
01:11 - 31.620 ONE.
01:11 - 33.656 >>I'M STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING
01:11 - 35.357 YOUR ARGUMENT THAT THEY WOULD
01:11 - 37.993 HAVE TO SHOW FRAUGHT THEY WOULD
01:11 - 40.663 BE ABLE TO. ARGUE TO A COURT AT
01:11 - 42.531 THAT POINT. THE ARGUMENT THAT
01:11 - 45.334 YOU'RE MAKING UP, BUT YOU MAY
01:11 - 45.968 BE THE FIRST PART OF YOUR.
01:11 - 47.636 THERE'S THERE'S NO BASIS FOR
01:11 - 50.072 SAYING IN OTHER WORDS, THAT
01:11 - 50.706 IF THE BACK END OF SUCH AN
01:11 - 52.074 ARBITRATION THAT COULDN'T COME
01:11 - 53.709 TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
01:11 - 54.843 IN OUR VIEW, WHY YOU THINK, YOU
01:11 - 00.382 KNOW, THIS FINE PRINT THING
01:12 - 00.816 IT MEANS THAT
01:12 - 01.517 THEY WILL IF THEY'RE PUT OUT A
01:12 - 02.184 COURT IN ENDURE A GEISHA OF
01:12 - 08.290 RIGHTS JURY TRIAL. SO THAT'S
01:12 - 11.527 NUMBER ONE. AND NUMBER 2,
01:12 - 13.429 IT WOULD SENIOR ARGUING
01:12 - 14.096 ULTIMATELY, THEN THERE'S NO
01:12 - 15.998 TOWARD ARBITRATION AND ALL WE
01:12 - 16.932 PRESUME WILL GIVE CONTRACT
01:12 - 18.867 ARBITRATION. BUT THERE'S NO
01:12 - 20.269 ARBITRATION LOT TOWARDS AT ALL.
01:12 - 20.903 CAN YOU RESPOND TO BOTH OF
01:12 - 21.904 THOSE POINTS? YES, JUST AS I
01:12 - 24.707 TRY TO RESPOND TO THEM IN ORDER
01:12 - 27.743 FIRST OF ALL, THAT THE
01:12 - 30.012 STANDARD.
01:12 - 31.146 >>IN THAT UNIFORM ARBITRATION
01:12 - 34.083 ACT AND TRIPLE-A ARBITRATION,
01:12 - 35.951 WHICH IS WHAT THIS QUOTE,
01:12 - 39.088 UNQUOTE AGREEMENT REQUIRES IS
01:12 - 40.589 A SHOWING.
01:12 - 43.726 BRULE 3.13, REFERENCING
01:12 - 49.231 FOLLOWED THE RULE 3.13.
01:12 - 50.766 THE RIGHT OF APPEAL. ONLY
01:12 - 52.668 EXISTS WHERE THE PLAINTIFF CAN
01:12 - 55.771 SHOW FRAUD, MISCONDUCT. MISTAKE
01:12 - 56.638 OR OTHER IRREGULARITIES.
01:12 - 01.443 THE EVALUATION OF A CONTRACT.
01:13 - 02.177 AT THE END OF ALL THE PROCEDURE
01:13 - 06.048 THAT THOSE FOLKS HAVE TO GO TO.
01:13 - 10.753 QUALIFY. FOR. THAT STANDARD OF.
01:13 - 12.621 FRAUD AND STATE.
01:13 - 17.493 MISCONDUCT. OUR REGULARITY.
01:13 - 19.294 IF. WE EVEN GET THERE.
01:13 - 22.798 >>NOW, JUST TRYING TO SORT THIS
01:13 - 25.934 OUT IN MY OWN MIND, IF THERE IS
01:13 - 27.035 AN APPEAL AFTER THE ARBITRATION
01:13 - 28.837 AND YOU WIN ON REVIEW OF THIS
01:13 - 31.006 QUESTION. SHOULD THIS APPEAL
01:13 - 34.243 SHOULD THIS ARBITRATION HAVE
01:13 - 37.045 BEEN COMPEL?
01:13 - 39.081 ISN'T THE ACTUAL ARBITRATION
01:13 - 44.553 PROCEEDING VERDICT ANALOGY.
01:13 - 45.287 >>IF YOU WIN, HOWEVER, AND I'LL
01:13 - 47.189 GET BACK TO YOUR ADDRESS.
01:13 - 56.331 YOUR QUESTION. JUSTICE WECHT,
01:13 - 00.102 THE REALITY OF IT IS.
01:14 - 02.538 THESE THINGS ARE NOT. LIKELY TO
01:14 - 05.574 COME BEFORE THIS COURT AND THE
01:14 - 07.743 PROBLEM.
01:14 - 08.310 INVOLVES THE LOSS OF A
01:14 - 12.781 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. THE
01:14 - 13.549 CAUSE. ULTIMATELY.
01:14 - 15.651 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF A
01:14 - 18.720 LAY PERSON? CITIZEN GOES
01:14 - 20.489 THROUGH.
01:14 - 21.089 AND ARBITRATION PROCESS.
01:14 - 22.524 AND IN THIS CASE CHANT REALLY
01:14 - 25.461 WAS A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE
01:14 - 28.564 A CAR CRASH CASE. GOES TO THAT
01:14 - 29.164 PROCESS AND GOES TO THE
01:14 - 30.833 ARBITRATION AND AS A PASSENGER
01:14 - 37.139 IN A VEHICLE IS LIKELY TO WIN.
01:14 - 38.407 THE ARBITRATION.
01:14 - 42.778 BE INADEQUATELY COMPENSATED.
01:14 - 44.446 IN THAT SETTING. THAT'S LIKELY.
01:14 - 47.616 BUT EITHER WAY IT ADEQUATELY
01:14 - 51.420 COMPENSATED OR NOT.
01:14 - 54.623 THE LIKELIHOOD OF AN APPEAL OR
01:14 - 55.357 THE COURT ACCEPTING AND APPEAL.
01:14 - 56.925 WE'RE GIVING THAT ANY
01:14 - 59.995 COUNTENANCE. IN A CIRCUMSTANCE
01:14 - 01.797 WHERE?
01:15 - 04.867 THEY HAVE TO SHOW FRAUD
01:15 - 09.037 MISTAKE.
01:15 - 09.638 THE MISCONDUCT OR OTHER
01:15 - 10.906 IRREGULARITIES, HIGHLY UNLIKELY
01:15 - 13.775 IN A LOT. I'M SORRY, NOT
01:15 - 15.010 ASKED TO KEEP GOING TO BE OUR.
01:15 - 15.844 >>LET'S LET'S JUST IMAGINE
01:15 - 17.913 UNDER YOUR HYPOTHETICAL.
01:15 - 18.514 THE ARBITRATION AWARD IS
01:15 - 19.147 TERRIBLE REPLIES. I'M NOT
01:15 - 19.781 WILLING TO ASSUME THAT THE
01:15 - 22.184 LET'S JUST ASSUME IT'S A
01:15 - 22.618 TERRIBLE WAR.
01:15 - 26.588 THE TRIAL COURT LITIGATION IS
01:15 - 27.055 JUST 8.
01:15 - 27.789 >>AND IN THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO
01:15 - 30.225 WITH WHAT HAPPENS AT THE
01:15 - 32.194 ARBITRATION.
01:15 - 32.861 >>WAS THE ARBITRATION AWARDS
01:15 - 33.562 DECIDED YOU MAY OR MAY NOT WIN
01:15 - 35.497 ON THE FIELD, BUT THAT DOESN'T
01:15 - 37.533 REALLY MATTER. WHAT MATTERS IS
01:15 - 39.167 THAT STAYS GOING TO GET LIFTED
01:15 - 41.003 AND YOU WILL THEN BE ABLE TO
01:15 - 42.504 APPEAL THE TRIAL COURT'S ORDER
01:15 - 43.272 FORCING YOU TO GO TO
01:15 - 48.710 ARBITRATION. SO LET'S FOCUS
01:15 - 49.378 ON BACK AND NOT WHAT LIMITED
01:15 - 51.046 APPEAL RIGHTS YOUR CLIENT MAY
01:15 - 51.747 HAVE FROM THAT RACIAL BECAUSE
01:15 - 52.414 THAT'S THE QUESTION. I THINK
01:15 - 54.449 JUST A SWIPE AT THE CHASE FOR
01:15 - 56.585 ASKING YOU. HOW IS THAT APPEAL
01:15 - 59.354 FROM THE STATE ORDER WHEN IT'S
01:15 - 02.391 EVENTUALLY LIFTED? IRREPARABLY
01:16 - 02.724 LAST. I.
01:16 - 04.293 >>I APOLOGIZE IF I WASN'T
01:16 - 07.462 ANSWERING THE QUESTION CLEARLY
01:16 - 10.566 ARE DIRECTLY. HOWEVER. JUSTICES
01:16 - 11.533 THE
01:16 - 16.038 THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A
01:16 - 19.107 JURY TRIAL. HELD IN VIOLET IS
01:16 - 21.944 LOST BECAUSE
01:16 - 29.885 ONCE THE ARBITRATION HAPPENS.
01:16 - 30.519 IF THERE IS AND AWARD. THE
01:16 - 33.221 LIKELIHOOD OF GOING BACK TO
01:16 - 35.123 COURT AND
01:16 - 35.791 FILING A CLAIM TO SHOW SOME
01:16 - 39.528 IRREGULARITY, MISTAKE OR FRAUD.
01:16 - 41.363 AND ACTUALLY EXERCISING THAT
01:16 - 44.766 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT IS HIGHLY
01:16 - 46.802 UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN.
01:16 - 48.637 INCLUDING GETTING OVER THOSE
01:16 - 50.038 HURDLES. A COUNCIL SUCH THAT
01:16 - 52.774 I'M SORRY JUST IS SUCH THAT
01:16 - 54.776 THAT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HAS
01:16 - 56.912 BEEN LOST IN ALL PRACTICALITY.
01:16 - 59.214 >>I THINK WE UNDER I MEAN, I
01:16 - 59.781 JUST TRY ONE MORE TIME
01:16 - 02.351 FOLLOWING THAT CRIME JUSTICE
01:17 - 04.252 LAWSON'S QUESTION.
01:17 - 06.254 THERE'S A IT'S AN ORDER AT SOME
01:17 - 09.358 DOCKET NUMBER SOMEWHERE,
01:17 - 11.526 STAYING THE ARBITRATION.
01:17 - 12.260 SUB, IF THE CIVIL TRIAL AND THE
01:17 - 15.430 TRIAL DATE WORK A SOUTHPORT.
01:17 - 18.066 OKAY. SO SUBSEQUENTLY THERE IS
01:17 - 20.268 AN ARBITRATION. THERE IS AN
01:17 - 20.969 AWARD WHEN THERE'S AN ATTEMPT
01:17 - 23.805 TO REDUCE THAT AWARD TO
01:17 - 24.539 JUDGMENT.
01:17 - 30.312 DOES THAT HAVE TO BE FILED AT
01:17 - 31.013 THE SAME DOCKET NUMBER AS THE
01:17 - 33.181 ORDER STAYING THE HIGH COURT
01:17 - 35.951 ACTION PENDING THE ARBITRATION.
01:17 - 38.220 >>YES, JUSTICE. OKAY. SO SO.
01:17 - 41.289 >>WHY ISN'T IT THEN WHEN YOU'RE
01:17 - 43.191 BACK IN THAT
01:17 - 45.127 TRIAL COURT WHO STAYED THE EYE
01:17 - 46.862 WITH THE GEISHA IMPENDING THE
01:17 - 51.600 ARBITRATION. WHY AT THAT POINT,
01:17 - 53.669 CAN YOUR ARGUMENT BE YOU STAYED
01:17 - 57.339 LITIGATION PENDING THE NOW
01:17 - 57.973 RAISING MY QUESTION AGAIN,
01:17 - 59.975 QUESTIONING THE LEGITIMACY OF
01:17 - 02.878 THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.
01:18 - 05.847 IT'S A DIFFERENT ISSUE. THEN
01:18 - 06.481 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
01:18 - 09.451 ARBITRATION? IT'S A QUESTION OF
01:18 - 11.319 WHAT THE TRIAL COURT DID.
01:18 - 13.088 PRIOR TO THE ARBITRATION TAKING
01:18 - 13.388 PLACE.
01:18 - 15.924 >>YOU CAN JUSTICE, HOWEVER,
01:18 - 16.491 WITHOUT RAISING FRAUD.
01:18 - 20.429 >>WHATEVER ELSE YOU'RE ARGUING,
01:18 - 21.396 ILLEGALITY, IRREGULARITY, WHY
01:18 - 24.332 ISN'T IT AT THAT JUNCTURE?
01:18 - 24.966 JUST THE TRIAL COURT'S ON
01:18 - 25.701 ORIGINAL DECISION TO STAY IN.
01:18 - 28.770 YOU'RE SAYING THERE WAS NO
01:18 - 29.771 CONTRACT.
01:18 - 30.505 THAT'S WHAT THE THAT'S WHAT THE
01:18 - 33.842 SUPERIOR COURT HERE IS GOING
01:18 - 34.543 WITH MY SON. IT PRECISELY THAT
01:18 - 36.611 SITUATION.
01:18 - 37.312 >>YES, BUT AN ORDERED OVERTURN
01:18 - 40.315 THE ARBITRATION AWARD TO GO
01:18 - 44.152 BACK. TO COURT. YOU HAVE TO
01:18 - 44.853 GET AROUND THOSE REQUIREMENTS.
01:18 - 47.322 THOSE HURDLES OF FRAUD IN THE
01:18 - 49.357 STATE.
01:18 - 50.192 >>I'M NOT SURE THAT'S THE CASE.
01:18 - 54.863 WE HAVE. WE'VE SAID THE OFFICER
01:18 - 55.864 IN THE GOLDSTEIN CASE IN 1938.
01:18 - 57.632 >>WE ALL THE OFFICES. THAT A
01:18 - 58.300 DISPUTE ABOUT WHICH PARTIES
01:18 - 01.269 WERE INCLUDED IN AN ARBITRATION
01:19 - 02.170 AGREEMENT WAS A QUESTION
01:19 - 02.871 FOR THAT. OF COURSE, THE SIDE
01:19 - 06.241 BEFORE THE ARBITRATION AWARD IS
01:19 - 08.376 ENFORCED AND THE SUPERIOR COURT
01:19 - 09.010 IN THE 2018 CASE OF SIMON
01:19 - 12.781 VERSUS WINDERMERE SAID, QUOTE.
01:19 - 14.816 THE NARROW STANDARD RIVERVIEW
01:19 - 18.453 DRIVE FROM SECTION 73. 41 IS
01:19 - 19.154 NOT APPLICABLE. WHEN REVIEWING
01:19 - 22.491 A PETITION TO VACATE BASED UPON
01:19 - 25.560 A CLAIM THAT THE PARTIES DO NOT
01:19 - 26.094 HAVE A VALID REMAIN
01:19 - 26.795 ARBITRATION. SO, YOU KNOW, THE
01:19 - 27.496 SCENARIO OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE
01:19 - 30.165 ASKING ABOUT WHEN YOU COME BACK
01:19 - 30.832 TO COMMENT, PLEASE AFTER AN
01:19 - 33.235 ARBITRATION WITH WHICH YOU'RE
01:19 - 36.104 NOT SATISFIED, YOU CAN. YOU CAN
01:19 - 37.806 CERTAINLY BRING YOUR ARGUMENT
01:19 - 38.473 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE FAA AND
01:19 - 40.976 ALL THIS, THIS UNIFIED FRONT
01:19 - 42.644 STUFF, ETC.
01:19 - 43.345 THE ARGUMENT IS, IS THAT THESE
01:19 - 47.315 PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT.
01:19 - 48.984 TO BRING THEIR TORT CLAIM.
01:19 - 49.718 BUT IF YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THAT,
01:19 - 51.153 AND THEN THAT APPLIES NOT JUST
01:19 - 54.022 TO YOUR CASE, BUT ANY ANY CASE
01:19 - 55.624 IN COURT.
01:19 - 56.324 >>AND IF I MAY JUSTICE WECHT,
01:19 - 59.861 IF THAT IS CORRECT, WHICH I
01:19 - 03.064 BELIEVE IT IS, THEN IF YOU WIN
01:20 - 04.800 ON THAT INITIAL APPEAL.
01:20 - 07.869 THE APPEAL OF THAT INITIAL
01:20 - 08.670 ISSUE, THEN
01:20 - 09.704 THE ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS, AN
01:20 - 13.308 AWARD BECOME LEVY. BUT IF YOU
01:20 - 15.210 LOSE ON THAT ISSUE, THEN YOU'RE
01:20 - 15.977 APPEALING THE ARBITRATION AWARD
01:20 - 20.215 ON THAT NARROW STANDARD OF
01:20 - 23.018 PROOF FOR YOU. BUT STILL.
01:20 - 23.618 >>THESE FOLKS HAVE TO GO
01:20 - 29.157 THROUGH ALL THOSE HURDLES COST
01:20 - 29.758 AND EXPENSE FINANCIALLY
01:20 - 32.894 EMOTIONALLY PERSON, PERSONALLY
01:20 - 33.562 TACTIC AND OTHERWISE AND AND
01:20 - 37.132 THAT'S WHAT I REFERENCE BEFORE.
01:20 - 41.002 ABOUT REAL 3.13, NOT BEING
01:20 - 41.703 BRIDGET IN FORMULAIC AND THAT
01:20 - 42.437 THE PARK TO CONSIDERATIONS HAVE
01:20 - 45.407 BEEN CONSIDERED BY THIS COURT.
01:20 - 47.475 FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE PRIDGEN
01:20 - 50.512 CASE, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A
01:20 - 51.213 RIGHT OF APPEAL FOR DENIAL OF
01:20 - 51.913 SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR FINANCIAL
01:20 - 52.581 REASONS. WHEN WE'RE TALKING
01:20 - 53.515 ABOUT CORPORATE INTERESTS WHO
01:20 - 57.886 DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
01:20 - 59.888 FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THE.
01:20 - 01.790 PHILIP MORRIS CASE. THAT WAS
01:21 - 03.692 THAT COMMONWEALTH COURT CASE
01:21 - 05.861 THAT JUSTICE PROPS AND
01:21 - 06.528 PARTICIPATED IN. AND I THINK
01:21 - 07.996 INSTRUCTIVE HERE, ALTHOUGH
01:21 - 11.867 CERTAINLY NOT BINDING ON THIS
01:21 - 13.935 COURT. THE SHARES CASE THAT
01:21 - 15.370 OPINION, WHICH WAS PARTICIPATED
01:21 - 18.607 IN BY CHIEF JUSTICE EMERITUS,
01:21 - 21.276 A SAILOR.
01:21 - 21.977 HOLDING THAT THE 3RD PRONG OF
01:21 - 25.180 RULE 3.13, BE IRREPARABLE HARM
01:21 - 25.847 IS MET BECAUSE THE RULES OF
01:21 - 30.118 AAA ARBITRATION DO NOT PROVIDE.
01:21 - 34.723 FOR RIGHT OF APPEAL.
01:21 - 36.491 THERE WAS ALSO REFERENCE TO
01:21 - 37.225 THE CIVIL CASE. LET'S TALK
01:21 - 37.993 ABOUT 7 FOR A MINUTE'S. YVONNE
01:21 - 38.627 WAS A COMPLETELY FACTUALLY
01:21 - 41.563 DIFFERENCE. A NARROW SAVE ON.
01:21 - 42.230 YOU HAVE MR. GAMBLE OWN WHO
01:21 - 44.699 WAS NOT A PARTY TO A CONTRACT
01:21 - 47.235 FOR ARBITRATION THAT REFUSE
01:21 - 50.038 TO PARTICIPATE. THE ARBITRATION
01:21 - 53.174 WENT AHEAD WITHOUT HIM AND
01:21 - 56.011 THERE WAS AND AWARD.
01:21 - 56.611 AGAINST HIM. HE THEN WAS
01:21 - 57.879 PERMITTED TO FILE AN APPEAL
01:21 - 00.015 DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE
01:22 - 03.018 OBJECTED. TO THE PROCEEDING AND
01:22 - 04.853 THAT WAS DETERMINED TO BE A
01:22 - 05.553 BASIS FOR VACATING THE AWARD.
01:22 - 07.355 THE CHILI'S DON'T HAVE THAT
01:22 - 10.258 OPTION HERE. THEY CAN'T REFUSE
01:22 - 11.860 TO PARTICIPATE. THEY'RE THE
01:22 - 13.895 PLAINTIFFS IF THEY DON'T
01:22 - 16.998 PARTICIPATE. THEIR CLAIMS
01:22 - 17.465 DISMISSED IT NO
01:22 - 20.135 LONGER EXISTS AND INDEL CO DO.
01:22 - 23.171 THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT. TO
01:22 - 24.306 ARBITRATE
01:22 - 25.006 THERE'S NO DISPUTE. I'M SORRY
01:22 - 26.141 THAT THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT TO
01:22 - 26.975 ARBITRATE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
01:22 - 28.843 IT WAS A DOCUMENT WHICH WAS
01:22 - 30.045 SIGNED IN THE CONTRACT. BUT
01:22 - 34.382 THERE WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT
01:22 - 36.117 REASONABLE NOTICE.
01:22 - 36.751 AND BIG U.S. MANIFESTATION
01:22 - 38.320 MUTUAL CENT.
01:22 - 40.221 >>OR
01:22 - 40.889 >>IN KNOWING AND INTELLIGENT
01:22 - 42.357 WAIVER OF A CONSTITUTIONAL
01:22 - 45.260 RIGHT.
01:22 - 48.229 >>IS
01:22 - 48.897 >>MY QUESTION ABOUT TORT AND
01:22 - 50.498 CONTRACT.
01:22 - 56.137 >>IS IS YOUR ARGUMENT IS THERE
01:22 - 59.674 PRINCIPAL DISTINCTION?
01:22 - 00.275 >>IN BETWEEN THE
01:23 - 02.243 >>WAIVER OF THE JURY, RIGHT IN
01:23 - 05.246 MY TENDING ARBITRATION
01:23 - 05.981 AGREEMENT IN THAT SHORT
01:23 - 06.681 CONTEXT, IT DOESN'T APPLY THE
01:23 - 07.415 CONTRACT CONTEXT. I'M THINKING,
01:23 - 09.451 OF COURSE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ALL
01:23 - 15.790 THOSE. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS
01:23 - 16.424 OF SECURITIES CLAIMS GO TO
01:23 - 17.125 ARBITRATION. IS THAT IS THAT A
01:23 - 19.527 DIVIDING LINE THAT YOU STAND
01:23 - 20.962 ON?
01:23 - 21.563 BECAUSE THEY'RE WAIVING?
01:23 - 23.498 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE WAIVING
01:23 - 24.165 A JURY TRIAL RIGHT? IT COULD
01:23 - 25.834 INVOLVE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS
01:23 - 28.903 OF DOLLARS.
01:23 - 32.440 >>THOSE ARE SOPHISTICATED.
01:23 - 33.141 SOPHISTICATED AND A TEASE AND
01:23 - 34.342 PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS THAT
01:23 - 38.246 ARE WAVING A JURY TRIAL RIGHTS
01:23 - 42.384 AND FRANKLY, THE FAA ORIGINALLY
01:23 - 44.319 WAS PAST BECAUSE OF
01:23 - 45.286 >>WANTING TO ENCOURAGE THE
01:23 - 49.924 ABILITY FOR THOSE SOPHISTICATED
01:23 - 53.795 PARTIES TO ARBITRATE, NOT
01:23 - 55.697 INITIALLY INTENDED TO BE
01:23 - 56.398 RELATED TO TO INDIVIDUALS LIKE
01:23 - 59.134 THAT. RUDY'S IN THE 6TH IN THIS
01:23 - 02.404 CIRCUMSTANCE AND FRANKLY.
01:24 - 04.939 >>WELL, YOU TOO.
01:24 - 05.607 >>2 HIKERS THAT WAS ONCE THE
01:24 - 06.908 CEO OF SHOWS THAT LEHMAN AND
01:24 - 10.245 THE OTHERS THAT, YOU KNOW, CEO
01:24 - 11.880 OF LAW.
01:24 - 12.614 >>KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS EVERY
01:24 - 14.582 WHAT HOW THIS INVESTIGATION
01:24 - 17.652 FIGURE.
01:24 - 17.986 >>WELL,
01:24 - 19.087 I THINK.
01:24 - 19.788 >>ORIGINALLY TALKING ABOUT THE
01:24 - 23.124 FAA WENT TO THE BUSINESS AND
01:24 - 24.959 CORPORATE INTERESTS. BUT
01:24 - 26.227 WITH I WASN'T REFERRING TO FIST
01:24 - 27.896 SOPHISTICATION OF INDIVIDUALS.
01:24 - 30.965 I THINK YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO
01:24 - 31.599 THE PRINCIPLES OF CONTRACT
01:24 - 32.300 FORMATION IN PENNSYLVANIA AND
01:24 - 34.269 WHAT'S REQUIRED TO WAIVE THAT
01:24 - 35.804 RIGHT.
01:24 - 39.274 THAT LONGSTANDING LAW HAS BEEN
01:24 - 40.475 THERE AND SHOULD BE FOLLOWED
01:24 - 42.544 AND UBER KNOWS HOW TO FOLLOW
01:24 - 45.613 IT. AND THEY CERTAINLY KNOW HOW
01:24 - 46.214 TO CHANGE.
01:24 - 49.851 TERMS AND PROVIDE THE
01:24 - 50.585 INFORMATION UP FRONT. THEY WERE
01:24 - 53.822 PROVIDED A ROAD MAP BY THE ON
01:24 - 54.522 BUCK OPINION AND FRANKLY,
01:24 - 55.223 THEY'VE CHANGED THEIR WEB SITE
01:24 - 57.659 AND THEY'RE SIGN-UP PROCESS
01:24 - 01.830 SINCE THAT.
01:25 - 03.998 >>ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER
01:25 - 04.732 QUESTIONS FOR MISTER MASSA WANT
01:25 - 08.937 TO CONCLUDE? CERN FINISHED?
01:25 - 10.672 >>YES, JUSTICE THAT THAT'S THIS
01:25 - 13.741 IS VERY OF YOUR TIME. AND I
01:25 - 19.881 WOULD RESPECTFULLY SUGGEST THAT
01:25 - 23.518 MOCK OPINION SHOULD THEM.
01:25 - 24.119 BE UPHELD BY THIS COURT?
01:25 - 25.253 THANK YOU.
01:25 - 25.920 >>THANK YOU BOTH. EXCELLENT
01:25 - 29.991 ARGUMENTS. AND I THINK FOR OUR
01:25 - 30.892 LAW STUDENTS, THEY GOTTA A NICE
01:25 - 31.192 TASTE.
01:25 - 32.694 >>A COURT WILL BE HEARING
01:25 - 33.394 ARGUMENT IN THE CASE. THE CITY
01:25 - 34.829 OF PHILADELPHIA VERSUS THE
01:25 - 37.866 ESTATE OF J S THE FACTS OF THE
01:25 - 40.001 CASE
01:25 - 40.969 ARE HORRIFIC. JS WAS AN INMATE
01:25 - 44.105 AT KERN FROM ALL CORRECTIONAL
01:25 - 45.073 FACILITY. SEE FCF IN
01:25 - 46.541 PHILADELPHIA WHERE IT'S ALLEGED
01:25 - 47.175 HE SURVIVE SUFFERED SEXUAL
01:25 - 49.944 ASSAULT AND ABUSE ON ONE OF
01:25 - 52.747 THE CARDS HE SOUGHT TO HOLD THE
01:25 - 55.517 CITY LIABLE FOR THE SEXUAL
01:25 - 57.285 ASSAULT UNDER WHAT HE BELIEVED
01:25 - 58.253 IS AN EXCEPTION TO THE GENERAL
01:25 - 01.122 IMMUNITY THAT THE CITY HAS
01:26 - 02.724 TOWARDS SUCH TORTS. WHAT HE'S
01:26 - 04.893 RELYING UPON IS A 2019
01:26 - 08.029 EXCEPTION THAT WAS ADDED THAT
01:26 - 09.364 ACCORDING TO
01:26 - 11.366 THE CITY, ONLY PROVIDE RELEASES
01:26 - 13.434 IMMUNITY WHEN IT WHEN IT JUST
01:26 - 14.769 WHEN IT PERTAINS TO SEXUAL
01:26 - 16.738 ABUSE SUFFERED BY PEOPLE WHO
01:26 - 18.406 WERE MINORS AT THE TIME OF
01:26 - 19.240 THEIR INJURY, ACCORDING TO J
01:26 - 20.475 S AND NOW CHANCES ESTATE
01:26 - 23.144 BECAUSE CHANCES PASSED AWAY
01:26 - 24.946 THE WAY THAT THE PROVISION IS
01:26 - 25.713 WRITTEN. THAT'S AN EXCEPTION
01:26 - 27.815 FOR ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER WHO
01:26 - 29.417 SUFFERED FROM SEXUAL ABUSE AT
01:26 - 30.118 THE HANDS OF OFFICIAL ACTION.
01:26 - 32.954 AGAIN, THIS IS ALL THESE ARE
01:26 - 34.989 AWFUL FACTS. THE QUESTION IS,
01:26 - 36.257 AS A MATTER OF STATUTORY LAW
01:26 - 38.693 THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:26 - 42.697 INTENDED TO AND DID THEY EXEMPT
01:26 - 43.398 ALL ACTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE FROM
01:26 - 47.101 THIS UP FROM IMMUNITY OR WAS
01:26 - 47.802 WAS THEIR LANGUAGE ABSOLUTELY
01:26 - 48.436 LIMITED TO PEOPLE WHO ARE
01:26 - 49.070 MINORS AT THE TIME OF THE
01:26 - 51.439 ASSAULT.
01:26 - 53.508 >>GOOD MORNING.
01:26 - 57.178 >>GOOD MORNING. YOUR HONOR.
01:26 - 58.146 JASON JAB BEFORE THE APPELLANTS
01:26 - 00.281 AND MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT
01:27 - 04.118 AND YOUR A LOT TALLER THAN
01:27 - 04.819 MISTER MASSA. SO IF YOU COULD
01:27 - 05.486 PULL THAT MICROPHONE ON THAT
01:27 - 07.021 AND MOST PEOPLE, YEAH, A LITTLE
01:27 - 07.655 BIT HIGHER. THAT BE GREAT.
01:27 - 16.631 >>THANK YOU, SIR. YES, YOUR
01:27 - 17.298 >>IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE
01:27 - 17.932 SEX ABUSE EXCEPTION TO THE
01:27 - 20.435 LOCAL POLITICAL TORT CLAIMS
01:27 - 22.237 ACT.
01:27 - 25.273 APPLIES TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN
01:27 - 27.675 ALIKE.
01:27 - 30.712 THIS COURT NEED LOOK NO FURTHER
01:27 - 31.546 THAN THE PLAIN LANGUAGE.
01:27 - 34.682 OF THE STATUTE THAT WAS ENACTED
01:27 - 39.053 BY THE LEGISLATURE.
01:27 - 41.589 THE LANGUAGE AT ISSUE BREEDS
01:27 - 43.558 CONDUCT WHICH CONSTITUTES AN
01:27 - 45.827 OFFENSE. A NEW MURRAY DID UNDER
01:27 - 48.863 SECTION 5, 5, 5, 1, SUBSECTION,
01:27 - 49.731 7.
01:27 - 52.800 IN PARENTHESES RELATING TO NO
01:27 - 55.637 LIMITATION APPLICABLE.
01:27 - 57.772 CLOSE PARENTHESES. IF THE
01:27 - 58.840 INJURIES TO THE PLAINTIFF WERE
01:27 - 59.674 CAUSED BY ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS
01:27 - 03.578 OF THE LOCAL AGENCY WHICH
01:28 - 08.483 CONSTITUTE NEGLIGENCE. THE TERM
01:28 - 11.619 CONDUCT IS DEFINED IN TITLE 18
01:28 - 14.889 SUB SECTION 103.
01:28 - 15.590 CONDUCT IS LIMITED TO ACTIONS,
01:28 - 19.460 OMISSIONS ACCOMPANYING STATES
01:28 - 22.530 OF MIND OR WHERE RELEVANT A
01:28 - 23.031 SERIES OF ACTS AND
01:28 - 25.767 >>YOU SAY THE PLAIN LANGUAGE.
01:28 - 27.435 SO.
01:28 - 30.538 >>IT SAYS 55 1, 7, AND WE TURN
01:28 - 31.406 TO IT.
01:28 - 33.875 IT LIMITS IT TO VICTIMS UNDER
01:28 - 35.877 18 YEARS OF AGE AND TIME.
01:28 - 42.517 WHY DOESN'T? PLAIN LANGUAGE?
01:28 - 45.553 >>THERE'S A COUPLE OF
01:28 - 48.923 DIFFERENT.
01:28 - 49.624 ANSWERS TO THE FIRST IS ITS 8.
01:28 - 51.993 IT'S ACROSS REFERENCE TO THE
01:28 - 52.293 WEST.
01:28 - 54.962 >>IT WOULD BE THE MY POSITION
01:28 - 58.032 MEETING THAT. THE LEGISLATURE
01:28 - 01.302 IN.
01:29 - 03.237 SUBSECTION 8, 5, 4, 2, BE 9
01:29 - 06.341 IS SPECIFICALLY POINTING THE
01:29 - 07.875 COURT WHERE THE READER.
01:29 - 10.712 TO THE LIST OF THE OFFENSE IS
01:29 - 12.513 NOT NECESSARILY. PREAMBLE TO
01:29 - 15.616 THE LIST, BUT EVEN MORE
01:29 - 17.785 IMPORTANTLY.
01:29 - 18.353 WHEN YOU GET INTO THE
01:29 - 22.590 DEFINITION OF ELEMENTS OF THE
01:29 - 25.860 OFFENSE. CONDUCT.
01:29 - 28.830 THE AGE OF THE VICTIM. STATUTE
01:29 - 29.831 OF LIMITATIONS WOULD BE IN
01:29 - 31.265 ATTENDANCE CIRCUMSTANCE, NOT
01:29 - 34.402 CONDUCT THAT AMOUNTS TO AN
01:29 - 35.036 OFFENSE. THE LEGISLATURE.
01:29 - 37.472 >>WOULD YOU AGREE, SIR? THE
01:29 - 40.441 LEGISLATURE HAS THE POWER.
01:29 - 44.379 IT'S CALLED IN SHAPE.
01:29 - 45.079 PUNISHABLE CONDUCT. BY VARIOUS
01:29 - 48.015 CATEGORIES, INCLUDING THE AGE
01:29 - 49.884 OF THE VICTIM.
01:29 - 52.987 AND IN FACT, THAT THEY'VE DONE
01:29 - 56.190 THAT A DIRECT FUNDS.
01:29 - 58.559 >>AND I THINK THAT THAT'S 100%
01:29 - 01.896 CORRECT. BUT WHAT'S TALLY ABOUT
01:30 - 06.300 THIS PARTICULAR STATUTE IS THE
01:30 - 08.102 USE OF THE TERM CONDUCT AS
01:30 - 10.905 OPPOSED TO CONDUCT AN ATTENDANT
01:30 - 11.606 CIRCUMSTANCES. THE WHEN YOU'RE
01:30 - 14.175 TALKING ABOUT AN OFFENSE,
01:30 - 14.976 WHETHER IT BE.
01:30 - 15.710 AND WE COULD JUST PICK ONE FROM
01:30 - 19.547 THE LIST, INVOLUNTARY DEVIANT
01:30 - 23.117 SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. THERE ARE
01:30 - 23.851 CERTAIN SUBSECTIONS OF THAT
01:30 - 24.519 STATUTE THAT DO REQUIRE THE
01:30 - 27.488 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
01:30 - 30.591 TO PROVE THE AGE OF THE VICTIM
01:30 - 33.060 BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
01:30 - 37.365 IS WHAT WOULD BE CALLED IT.
01:30 - 39.066 AN ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCE NOT
01:30 - 40.535 CONDUCT WHO CAUGHT ONE MORE
01:30 - 41.135 THING WE CAN CALL IT AN
01:30 - 42.370 ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCE OR THE
01:30 - 45.540 CALL THE CAT MAY HAVE. BUT
01:30 - 48.276 >>IF WE AGREE
01:30 - 49.043 WITH YOU, THEY ARE WE DIRECTLY
01:30 - 49.610 FLOUT WHAT THE GENERAL
01:30 - 50.978 ASSEMBLY'S TELLING US. IN OTHER
01:30 - 53.881 WORDS, WE'RE DOING THE OPPOSITE
01:30 - 55.016 WHAT THEY SAID BECAUSE THE
01:30 - 55.683 OFFICES OF UNDER 18 YEARS OF
01:30 - 02.089 AGE IS OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE.
01:31 - 05.193 >>I SUPPOSE I WOULD ANSWER THAT
01:31 - 08.463 QUESTION IN THIS FASHION.
01:31 - 11.132 >>IF THE COURT BELIEVES THAT
01:31 - 11.833 THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE
01:31 - 14.368 WAS TO INCORPORATE THE
01:31 - 19.707 PREAMBLE.
01:31 - 20.341 >>I SUPPOSE TO THE CASE IS
01:31 - 20.975 OVER. THAT'S THE PROBLEM,
01:31 - 22.076 THOUGH, EVEN IF WE FIND YOUR
01:31 - 25.112 ARGUMENT TO BE PERSUASIVE, IF
01:31 - 25.680 THE LANGUAGE IS CLEAR.
01:31 - 28.015 >>WE DO GET TO THE INTENT OF
01:31 - 28.850 THE LEGISLATURE.
01:31 - 29.584 >>AND THAT'S AND THAT'S EXACTLY
01:31 - 32.653 CORRECT. AND THAT'S WHY I
01:31 - 33.754 STARTED WITH.
01:31 - 35.756 WITH WITH THAT WITH THE PLAIN
01:31 - 37.758 LANGUAGE, BECAUSE I DO THINK
01:31 - 39.861 THAT UNDER THE PLAIN LANGUAGE
01:31 - 43.130 YOU HAVE TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY
01:31 - 44.599 TO GET THE
01:31 - 48.369 H QUALIFIER IN 2 SUBSECTION
01:31 - 48.970 OR EXCUSE ME. 8 SECTION.
01:31 - 51.539 85. 42 BE 9 COUNCIL SHARE WITH
01:31 - 54.308 US.
01:31 - 56.244 >>WHY WOULD THE GENERAL
01:31 - 56.911 ASSEMBLY HAVE JUST A WRECKED
01:31 - 59.680 MAKE REFERENCE TO THOSE SEXUAL
01:31 - 00.715 STATUTES THAT IT
01:32 - 01.382 WANTS TO INCLUDE AS OPPOSED
01:32 - 08.389 TO CONTAINING AN AGE QUALIFY.
01:32 - 12.460 >>IT SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO 55.
01:32 - 13.928 51 SECTION 7, WHICH INCLUDES AN
01:32 - 14.562 8 QUALIFIER. IT COULD HAVE
01:32 - 16.998 EASILY REFERRED TO THE SEXUAL
01:32 - 20.067 STATUTES.
01:32 - 20.835 >>THAT'S TRUE.
01:32 - 21.502 EXCEPT THAT THERE'S IT'S NOT
01:32 - 28.142 ALL OF THE SEXUAL STATUTES.
01:32 - 28.843 STATUTES THAT ARE LISTED UNDER
01:32 - 34.949 5, 5, 5 SUM, ONE SUBSECTION, 7.
01:32 - 37.818 TO RISE AS SOME OF THE MOST
01:32 - 40.955 SERIOUS AND HEINOUS OF.
01:32 - 44.926 >>OF THOSE THE SAME PLANT.
01:32 - 47.628 ARE SORT OF THE SEXUAL
01:32 - 48.329 OFFENSES, ONE OR 2. WELL, IT'S
01:32 - 50.798 THE MOST SERIOUS SPENCER OR
01:32 - 51.299 NOT.
01:32 - 53.868 >>CORRECT. BUT I THINK THE
01:32 - 56.337 ISSUE BECOMES ONE OFF. SO ONE
01:32 - 59.440 ISSUE FOR REGISTRATION. I'M
01:32 - 01.042 STILL.
01:33 - 03.344 I'M STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING
01:33 - 05.513 YOUR ARGUMENT THAT WE ARE TO
01:33 - 09.917 EXCLUDE THE AGE WHILE A FIRE
01:33 - 11.986 FROM A DIRECT REFERRAL TO A
01:33 - 13.988 STATUTE BY THE GENERAL
01:33 - 15.056 ASSEMBLY, WHICH IS BASED UPON
01:33 - 15.656 THE 8 QUALIFIER FOR ITS
01:33 - 19.093 IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION.
01:33 - 22.997 HOW DO YOU GET AROUND? YOU'RE
01:33 - 24.165 ASKING US IS MY COLLEAGUES
01:33 - 24.832 THERE AT THE OTHER END SAID
01:33 - 26.300 YOU'RE ASKING US TO CUT THE
01:33 - 29.203 STATUE. DIDN'T HAPPEN. JUST
01:33 - 30.638 SAY ALL THESE ARE THE OFFENSES
01:33 - 32.974 AND NOT QUALIFIED BY THESE ARE
01:33 - 33.641 OFFENSES CONDUCTED AGAINST A
01:33 - 35.042 MINOR WHICH WAIVES THE STATUTE
01:33 - 38.179 OF LIMITATION.
01:33 - 40.047 >>SO I DON'T THINK THAT IT ASKS
01:33 - 40.781 THE COURT TO CUT THE STATUTE IN
01:33 - 43.184 HALF BECAUSE AGAIN, TO WAIVE
01:33 - 47.188 IT.
01:33 - 48.155 B, 9 OPERATES. IS IT CROSS
01:33 - 50.291 REFERENCES? THE LIST IS SECTION
01:33 - 55.296 5, 5, 5, ONE, SUBSECTION, 7
01:33 - 59.100 IS 8. IT COMPLETELY OPERABLE
01:33 - 01.035 STATUTE IN SO FAR AS IT
01:34 - 03.104 CONCERNS US THAT THE STATUTE OF
01:34 - 05.172 LIMITATIONS FOR A CRIMINAL
01:34 - 06.874 PROSECUTION OF THOSE DEFENSES.
01:34 - 09.977 YOUR ARGUMENT, THE 55 51 7,
01:34 - 12.513 THAT STATUTE IS AMBIGUOUS.
01:34 - 15.082 >>NO, SIR, THE STATUTE IS IS
01:34 - 15.650 NOT AMBIGUOUS BECAUSE
01:34 - 18.219 >>I MEAN, IT SAYS WHAT IT SAYS.
01:34 - 20.655 IT SAYS.
01:34 - 23.658 >>THAT IN A IN A CRIMINAL
01:34 - 24.659 PROSECUTION FOR THE FOLLOWING
01:34 - 26.427 OFFENSES WHEN THE WHEN THE
01:34 - 27.161 MINOR VICTIM IS UNDER 18, THERE
01:34 - 29.664 IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
01:34 - 35.536 THAT'S WHAT THAT'S S SUBSECTION
01:34 - 36.203 >>85, 42 BE 9 HAS NOTHING TO
01:34 - 39.540 DO WITH THE STATUTE OF
01:34 - 41.342 LIMITATIONS THAT.
01:34 - 41.742 CARVES OUT.
01:34 - 45.680 >>IT'S AN OFFENSE ENUMERATE AND
01:34 - 46.347 OFFENSE MURRAY AND A FENCE.
01:34 - 49.350 A RATED UNDER SECTION 5, 5, 1,
01:34 - 53.554 7,
01:34 - 54.255 >>I SAID WHAT IT SAYS CONDUCT.
01:34 - 57.224 >>KNOW, CONDUCT WHICH
01:34 - 57.825 CONSTITUTES AN OFFENSE.
01:34 - 01.529 SO IT HAS TO BE CONDUCT.
01:35 - 02.563 THAT IS AN OFFENSE. NUMERATOR
01:35 - 05.399 SECTION 5, 5, 5, 1, 7, THAT'S
01:35 - 06.033 CORRECT. AND THE OFFENSES
01:35 - 11.038 ENUMERATED UNDER 5, 5, 1, 7,
01:35 - 12.673 OUR OFFENSE IS WHERE THE
01:35 - 13.374 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS AS RENT
01:35 - 15.876 IS WAIVED, WHERE THE VICTIM
01:35 - 18.012 IS UNDER 18.
01:35 - 19.513 >>I MEAN THAT YOU THAT THAT IS
01:35 - 20.214 CORRECT. THAT IN THE CRIMINAL
01:35 - 25.753 IN THE CRIMINAL CONTEXT, RIGHT?
01:35 - 26.620 WHAT? I'M WHAT I'M SUGGESTING.
01:35 - 27.521 YOU'RE SUGGESTING TO ME THAT I
01:35 - 28.222 THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE
01:35 - 31.092 SUGGESTING, THOUGH, IS, IS YOUR
01:35 - 33.527 FOCUS ON CONDUCT?
01:35 - 34.095 >>WELL, I THINK WE'RE
01:35 - 34.762 STRUGGLING WHY WE'RE ASKING
01:35 - 37.131 THESE QUESTIONS TO YOU IS
01:35 - 38.766 BECAUSE
01:35 - 40.835 IF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:35 - 42.803 SPECIFICALLY WANT TO SAY THESE
01:35 - 43.704 WHAT UNITY IS WAY FOR THESE
01:35 - 45.139 CRIMINAL OFFENSES, THEY WOULD
01:35 - 45.806 HAVE DONE EXACTLY WHAT THEY
01:35 - 48.976 DID. AND 5, 5, 5, 1, 7,
01:35 - 50.878 CREATING A LIST.
01:35 - 51.879 HOW ARE WE TO INTERPRET THE
01:35 - 52.580 INTENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:35 - 54.648 BY NOT REFERRING TO SPECIFIC
01:35 - 56.717 THAT LIST?
01:35 - 01.622 >>MEETING 5, 5, 1, THROUGH
01:36 - 02.857 WHATEVER. AND REFERENCING JUST
01:36 - 06.627 7. I MEAN, THAT HAS TO BE IN A
01:36 - 08.229 TENT BEHIND THAT IN THAT STATUE
01:36 - 08.896 WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY TO
01:36 - 11.132 WAIVE IMMUNITY AND EVEN SAYS IT
01:36 - 11.799 IN WITH REGARD TO WAIVER OF
01:36 - 14.435 IMMUNITY FOR OFFENSES AGAINST
01:36 - 15.569 JUVENILES.
01:36 - 17.638 HOW ARE WE TO INTERPRET THE
01:36 - 18.339 GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S INTENT FOR
01:36 - 20.975 REFERRING TO THAT AS OPPOSED TO
01:36 - 25.846 THE CRIMES CODE PROVISION?
01:36 - 27.014 >>5, 5, 5, 1, 7, DOESN'T WAIVE
01:36 - 27.715 IMMUNITY. WITH RESPECT TO JUST
01:36 - 30.084 CATCH A LIMITATION. RIGHT?
01:36 - 34.321 AND SO.
01:36 - 37.224 IT GOES BACK TO THE USE OF THE
01:36 - 37.858 TERM CONDUCT AS OPPOSED TO
01:36 - 38.392 CONDUCT AN ATTENDANT
01:36 - 41.295 CIRCUMSTANCES CONDUCT WHICH
01:36 - 41.896 CONSTITUTES AN OFFENSE,
01:36 - 43.964 CORRECT. AND THE ONLY OFFENSES
01:36 - 44.665 ENUMERATED ARE UNDER 5, 5, 5,
01:36 - 45.299 1, 7, OUR OFFENSE AGAINST
01:36 - 47.468 JUVENILE. THAT'S INCORRECT.
01:36 - 47.968 BECAUSE JUVENILES.
01:36 - 50.704 >>IT SAYS UNDER 18 VICTIM WHERE
01:36 - 53.707 THE VICTIM IS UNDER 18.
01:36 - 54.408 >>THAT WOULD BE IN ATTENDANCE
01:36 - 55.109 CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT RATE CAN BE
01:36 - 57.845 WHICH IS ONE OF THE ENUMERATED
01:36 - 01.081 OFFENSE IS CAN BE COMMITTED.
01:37 - 03.284 >>AGAINST.
01:37 - 04.051 >>A GROUP OF THE STATUTE OF
01:37 - 05.052 LIMITATIONS IS NOT WAY FOR FAT
01:37 - 05.753 FOR RAPE AGAINST ADULT IN THE
01:37 - 08.255 CRIMINAL CONTEXT. I WOULD
01:37 - 14.762 AGREE.
01:37 - 15.529 AND THEN IF I COULD JUST
01:37 - 17.765 CONTINUE WITH WE'RE TALKING
01:37 - 18.299 ABOUT THE ATTENDANT
01:37 - 22.002 CIRCUMSTANCES.
01:37 - 24.872 >>THAT'S DEFINED. AS A.
01:37 - 26.140 >>INCLUDING THE DESCRIPTION
01:37 - 26.874 OF THE FORBIDDEN CONDUCT IN THE
01:37 - 29.109 DEFINITION OF THE OFFENSE,
01:37 - 32.213 WHICH WOULD BE YOUR WHY.
01:37 - 34.648 >>WHY YOU GET TO?
01:37 - 40.020 PARTS OF 7 THAT YOU LIKE AND
01:37 - 40.621 NOT THE PARTY TO DO THE
01:37 - 43.157 LEGISLATURE THE LEGISLATURE
01:37 - 46.227 SAID THE NUMERATOR UNDER
01:37 - 47.328 SECTION.
01:37 - 48.562 >>55, 51 7 AND THEN WE GO TO 50
01:37 - 51.031 WALKED 5, 1, 7 SEEMS TO ME YOUR
01:37 - 52.499 ARGUMENT RELIES ON ON ASKING
01:37 - 54.235 US TO SAY, GIVE ME THE PART
01:37 - 57.271 OF 7 THAT I LIKE, BUT NOT THIS
01:37 - 01.475 OTHER PART. ARE WE REQUIRED
01:38 - 02.109 TO APPLY ALL OF THAT. THE
01:38 - 05.045 LEGISLATURE TOLD US AND NOT
01:38 - 08.582 JUST DEPARTMENT WANTS TO.
01:38 - 09.717 >>I THINK THAT
01:38 - 10.684 THE THE THIS AGREEMENT, IF YOU
01:38 - 14.521 WILL, THAT I HAVE WITH SOME
01:38 - 15.256 OF THE QUESTIONING IS THAT MY
01:38 - 15.956 POSITION IS THE LEGISLATURE
01:38 - 19.059 DIDN'T TELL YOU TO APPLY THAT
01:38 - 21.595 HOLE.
01:38 - 24.465 THE ENTIRETY OF SUBSECTION 7
01:38 - 25.666 THAT THIS STATUTE SPECIFICALLY
01:38 - 28.802 POINTS YOU TO THE LIST OF A NEW
01:38 - 32.640 MARINA DEFENSES.
01:38 - 35.476 WOULD MAKE NO SENSE TO TALK
01:38 - 36.310 ABOUT A CRIMINAL STATUTE OF
01:38 - 37.945 LIMITATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF A
01:38 - 40.814 WAIVER OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.
01:38 - 44.051 BUT BECAUSE THE WITH DOESN'T
01:38 - 44.885 OFFER OR ADD ANYTHING.
01:38 - 45.519 >>WELL, SHORT IS BECAUSE I
01:38 - 48.789 THINK WHAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:38 - 49.523 IS SAYING IS JUST AS WE CREATED
01:38 - 52.293 AN EXCEPTION TO THE STATUTE
01:38 - 54.995 OF LIMITATIONS FOR OFFENSES
01:38 - 55.696 AGAINST JUVENILES. WE ARE ALSO
01:38 - 56.363 GOING TO WAIVE IMMUNITY FOR
01:38 - 58.432 OFFENSES AGAINST JUVENILES.
01:38 - 59.133 THAT'S WHY THEY'RE LINKING THE
01:38 - 01.735 2. WHY ISN'T THAT WHAT GENERAL
01:39 - 02.236 ASSEMBLY INTENDED?
01:39 - 03.671 >>I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO THE
01:39 - 06.707 WAY THAT THEY WROTE. THE
01:39 - 10.110 STATUTE.
01:39 - 10.778 AND AGAIN, I GO BACK TO YOUR
01:39 - 13.247 CONDUCT IS THERE'S NO LOGICAL
01:39 - 16.450 CONNECTION BETWEEN.
01:39 - 18.619 >>AND STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
01:39 - 19.186 AND I JUST GAVE YOU A
01:39 - 19.787 CONNECTION. THE GENERAL
01:39 - 20.487 ASSEMBLY SAID IF WE'RE GOING
01:39 - 22.423 TO WAIVE THE STATUTE OF
01:39 - 23.257 LIMITATIONS FOR PROSECUTING
01:39 - 25.926 THESE CRIMES AGAINST JUVENILES
01:39 - 26.527 WERE ALSO GOING TO WAIVE
01:39 - 27.194 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY FOR CIVIL
01:39 - 28.696 LIABILITY FOR CRIMES AGAINST
01:39 - 31.799 THESE JUVENILES. WHY IS IT THAT
01:39 - 33.734 A LOGICAL CONNECTION?
01:39 - 34.468 >>BECAUSE THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT
01:39 - 35.703 ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES AND
01:39 - 38.973 THE ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES
01:39 - 41.709 WOULD BE WHAT?
01:39 - 44.345 THE VICTIM OR FACTS THAT
01:39 - 44.712 IMPLICATE.
01:39 - 47.381 >>OR.
01:39 - 48.515 >>BUT LOOK AT THE STATUTE OF
01:39 - 48.916 LIMITATIONS.
01:39 - 50.250 >>COUNCIL, WHY SHOULD THIS
01:39 - 50.884 COURT NOT BE GUIDED BY THE
01:39 - 54.221 FEDERAL CASE OF CHEESE? FIRST,
01:39 - 54.955 THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, WHICH
01:39 - 57.124 INTERESTINGLY IS A SEXUAL
01:39 - 00.194 OFFENSE AT THE VERY SAME.
01:40 - 04.465 INSTITUTIONS. THE FCF.
01:40 - 06.633 >>I ADDRESSED GENE IN MY
01:40 - 08.369 BRIEFING BOTH IN THIS COURT AND
01:40 - 11.338 AND BEFORE THE COMMONS WORK AND
01:40 - 14.274 I SAY IT WITH THE UTMOST
01:40 - 16.043 RESPECT TO A JUDGE WILL BECAUSE
01:40 - 19.580 I I RESPECT HIM AS A JUSTICE.
01:40 - 20.948 I DON'T THINK THAT HE GRAPPLES
01:40 - 23.984 WITH THE FINER POINTS THAT I'M
01:40 - 25.786 TRYING TO TO
01:40 - 29.890 TO MAKE IN HIS IN HIS OPINION.
01:40 - 33.093 >>HE SEEMS TO EQUATE AGE OF
01:40 - 33.694 THE VICTIM WITH CONDUCT.
01:40 - 36.397 AND I THINK WHEN YOU GO INTO
01:40 - 40.234 THE WAY THAT
01:40 - 41.802 THE LEGISLATURE DEFINED.
01:40 - 44.972 THE TERMS CONDUCT THE TERMS
01:40 - 48.709 ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES.
01:40 - 50.477 HE'S SILAGE WERE THAT THAT HE'S
01:40 - 55.516 LOGICAL REASONING DOES NOT
01:40 - 57.551 STAND UP. BECAUSE AGAIN.
01:40 - 00.621 WHEN IT'S WE'RE FOCUSING ON
01:41 - 01.155 CONDUCT
01:41 - 03.057 CONDUCT IS SOMETHING THAT THE
01:41 - 08.896 THAT AN ACTOR DOES. IT'S NOT.
01:41 - 11.698 FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
01:41 - 12.599 NOT IN THAT ACTORS CONTROL.
01:41 - 14.168 AND I WOULD SAY JUST THE
01:41 - 16.904 PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT.
01:41 - 19.740 BECAUSE
01:41 - 20.274 >>WELL, CERTAINLY A
01:41 - 23.077 >>IT UP USER COULD PICK A
01:41 - 26.580 VICTIM.
01:41 - 27.448 THE ABUSER IS NOT THAT THE
01:41 - 28.182 CONDUCT OF THE ABUSER AND THE
01:41 - 30.084 STATE OF MIND OF THE ABUSER HAS
01:41 - 31.218 NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AGE.
01:41 - 33.787 >>THAT'S THAT THAT'S WHAT
01:41 - 36.890 CONDUCT CONCERNS. AND SO WHEN
01:41 - 42.329 JUDGE FOR BREE KNOW,
01:41 - 45.432 I WOULD SAY CONCISELY.
01:41 - 46.266 >>SAID THAT.
01:41 - 48.102 >>AGE OF THE VICTIM IS PART
01:41 - 52.773 OF WHAT CRIMINALIZES.
01:41 - 53.073 >>BUT
01:41 - 53.774 >>EXCUSE ME, PAGE, THE VICTIM
01:41 - 55.075 IS PART OF WHAT CRIMINALIZES
01:41 - 58.979 THOSE OFFENSES. I THINK THAT
01:41 - 01.014 THAT'S INCORRECT. THE OTHER
01:42 - 01.982 THING THAT IT'S IT'S SORT OF AN
01:42 - 02.683 ARGUMENT THAT I NEED MUCH MORE
01:42 - 03.884 STRONGLY BEFORE THE
01:42 - 04.585 COMMONWEALTH COURT BECAUSE IT
01:42 - 06.987 KIND OF CAME UP A LITTLE BIT
01:42 - 10.057 DIFFERENTLY. THE STATUTE OF
01:42 - 10.657 LIMITATIONS TO WAIVE IT.
01:42 - 13.260 THIS COURT'S EXPLAIN THE SEXUAL
01:42 - 15.529 THAT HAITIANS IS IT'S.
01:42 - 17.464 NOT YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A
01:42 - 18.599 RIGHT TO THE TO THE STATUTE OF
01:42 - 19.266 LIMITATIONS. THE STATUTE OF
01:42 - 20.434 LIMITATIONS IS SOMETHING THAT
01:42 - 23.303 AT A CERTAIN POINT I WILL CUT
01:42 - 26.206 OFF THE ABILITY. FOR
01:42 - 29.376 PROSECUTION TO BE BROUGHT.
01:42 - 30.077 BUT THE FACT THAT
01:42 - 35.582 THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IS
01:42 - 37.618 RIGHT. DOESN'T MEAN.
01:42 - 38.285 CONDUCT IS ANY MORE OR LESS
01:42 - 40.787 CRIMINAL THAN IT WAS AT THE
01:42 - 42.923 TIME IT OCCURRED.
01:42 - 45.993 AND SO THAT'S YET ANOTHER
01:42 - 46.560 REASON WHY I THINK.
01:42 - 49.596 FOCUSING ON THE STATUTE OF
01:42 - 50.597 LIMITATIONS.
01:42 - 53.400 IF YOU END UP WITH AN ABSURD
01:42 - 57.204 RESULT. BECAUSE SOMEBODY THAT
01:42 - 00.307 WAS. RATE, FOR EXAMPLE, AFTER A
01:43 - 02.142 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.
01:43 - 03.410 MAYBE THE STATUTE OF
01:43 - 04.144 LIMITATIONS COMES INTO PLAY AND
01:43 - 07.414 THAT PERSON CAN'T BE PROSECUTED
01:43 - 08.115 ANYMORE. WHAT IT STILL DOESN'T
01:43 - 10.551 MEAN THAT THERE WAS THERE WAS
01:43 - 10.918 AN ARRAY.
01:43 - 13.854 WHAT WAS IT WAS VERY MUCH
01:43 - 18.292 ILLEGAL.
01:43 - 20.627 WITH RESPECT TO.
01:43 - 22.996 AND I KNOW THAT IT WAS ALLUDED
01:43 - 23.730 TO IN THE CITY'S BRIEF AND SOME
01:43 - 26.333 OF THE QUESTIONS HERE OF
01:43 - 30.737 ALLUDED TO IT.
01:43 - 32.239 ASKING THIS COURT TO SORT OF
01:43 - 35.342 REGARD CERTAIN LANGUAGES
01:43 - 39.479 SURPLUS FOR SURPLUS. I WOULD
01:43 - 41.915 RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THAT.
01:43 - 42.716 THIS IS A DIFFERENT
01:43 - 43.383 CIRCUMSTANCE BECAUSE OF THE
01:43 - 46.019 WAY THAT A CROSS REFERENCE
01:43 - 48.922 WORKS.
01:43 - 49.623 IF IT'S A IT'S A FULLY ACTIVE
01:43 - 50.457 STATUTE AND THERE'S A LIST OR
01:43 - 55.195 SOMETHING IN THE STATUTE THAT.
01:43 - 55.762 LEGISLATURE DECIDES TO
01:43 - 56.396 REFERENCE. AND THAT'S WHAT
01:43 - 02.970 HAPPENED HERE. IT WAS THE LAST.
01:44 - 05.505 ANOTHER POINT THAT I THINK WAS
01:44 - 08.542 RAISED AND I WANT TO TOUCH ON
01:44 - 09.409 BRIEFLY.
01:44 - 12.512 IS THAT THE ISSUE OF THE
01:44 - 14.047 PARENTS AT A COOL?
01:44 - 14.715 I CITED IN THE BRIEF TO THE
01:44 - 18.652 LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING MANUAL.
01:44 - 23.357 BECAUSE MY OPPONENT HAS MADE.
01:44 - 25.559 MUCH OF THE FACT THAT THE MEET
01:44 - 28.729 THE PARENTS THAT A CULL WAS
01:44 - 31.732 INCLUDED IN SECTION B 9.
01:44 - 32.432 MY POSITION WITH THAT IS THAT
01:44 - 33.634 REALLY ADDS NOTHING TO THE
01:44 - 35.369 COURT'S ANALYSIS BECAUSE THAT'S
01:44 - 36.837 WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN WHEN
01:44 - 40.073 EVER THE LEGISLATURE REFERENCES
01:44 - 42.909 ANOTHER SECTION.
01:44 - 43.543 UNSWORN, FALSIFICATION TO
01:44 - 46.013 AUTHORITIES IS ONE WHERE YOU'LL
01:44 - 46.713 SEE
01:44 - 47.447 THAT LISTED. WE'RE LEADING TO A
01:44 - 48.715 NICE, WARM FALL. SUFFOCATION OF
01:44 - 51.818 US ARE NICE. IT'S JUST A A
01:44 - 53.353 STYLISTIC REQUIREMENTS.
01:44 - 57.591 ASSUMING THAT THE COURT STICKS.
01:44 - 59.660 THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY IS
01:44 - 04.431 IMPORTANT TO GO INTO. I HAVE A
01:45 - 05.032 COUPLE OF AND BEFORE YOU
01:45 - 08.402 APPROACH IT THAT WAY, THAT'S
01:45 - 09.036 APPROACHING THIS WAY. YES.
01:45 - 11.438 >>LET'S LET'S ASSUME THAT WE
01:45 - 14.508 FIND THIS AMBIGUOUS. WHAT'S
01:45 - 20.047 YOUR ARGUMENT?
01:45 - 21.315 >>I THINK THAT.
01:45 - 24.117 EVEN IF EVEN IF THE IF THE
01:45 - 27.287 COURT FINDS IT AMBIGUOUS.
01:45 - 29.656 I STILL THINK THAT. THE TERM
01:45 - 32.826 CONDUCT SHOULD. HEAVILY IN THE
01:45 - 34.961 IN THE COURT'S MIND.
01:45 - 37.264 BECAUSE IF THE LEGISLATURE IS
01:45 - 37.998 IS FOCUSING ON CONDUCT RATHER
01:45 - 41.068 THAN DOWNBEAT AMBIGUOUS, ASSUME
01:45 - 42.336 WE FOUND
01:45 - 42.803 IT'S AMBIGUOUS.
01:45 - 43.470 >>WHAT WOULD YOU TELL US TO
01:45 - 45.605 LOOK TO TO RESOLVE THE
01:45 - 48.308 AMBIGUITY?
01:45 - 50.811 >>SO I WOULD I WOULD ASK YOU TO
01:45 - 51.478 TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY THAT
01:45 - 54.147 STATUTES CAN BE CROSS
01:45 - 56.416 REFERENCED.
01:45 - 57.117 MEANING THAT THE JUST BECAUSE
01:45 - 01.888 THE STATUTE IS CROSS REFERENCED
01:46 - 02.923 IN A A PARTICULAR PIECE OF
01:46 - 05.425 LEGISLATION DOES NOT INDICATE
01:46 - 06.093 AN INTENT FOR THE COURT TO A
01:46 - 08.795 HOLY. IT INCORPORATES THAT.
01:46 - 11.998 THAT CROSS REFERENCE INTO THE
01:46 - 15.168 STATUTE. ANOTHER POINT THAT I
01:46 - 16.603 WOULD MAKE AND I KNOW.
01:46 - 22.476 THE CITY IS QUOTED A LOT OF
01:46 - 23.577 A LOT OF
01:46 - 26.646 STATEMENTS FROM LEGISLATORS
01:46 - 31.585 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT.
01:46 - 32.285 SEX ABUSE SCANDALS IN CATHOLIC
01:46 - 35.655 CHURCH AND OTHER SITUATIONS.
01:46 - 37.991 AND THAT FOR THEM IS EVIDENCE
01:46 - 41.061 OF THE LIMITATION THAT THIS
01:46 - 42.896 STATUE TO SCHOOL STAFF.
01:46 - 46.099 YOUR ARGUMENT OR MIGHT I WOULD
01:46 - 49.069 ASK DEPOSIT.
01:46 - 52.172 THE FACT THAT A LEGISLATOR OR
01:46 - 53.774 EVEN THE LEGISLATURE.
01:46 - 56.877 PASS A STATUTE SEEKING TO
01:46 - 57.878 ATTACK A PROBLEM.
01:46 - 00.847 IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY'RE
01:47 - 01.515 SEEKING TO ATTACK ONLY THAT
01:47 - 05.585 PROBLEM AND NO OTHER PROBLEM.
01:47 - 08.288 AND I THINK THAT.
01:47 - 10.624 COUNTLESS EXAMPLES OF THAT WHEN
01:47 - 13.059 YOU WHEN YOU SEE THE WAY
01:47 - 16.163 LEGISLATION COMES UP FOR
01:47 - 17.731 CRIMES. I WAS.
01:47 - 18.432 PARENTS ARE THIS THAT THE PAUL
01:47 - 21.234 MUELLER LAW, WHICH IS ABOUT TO
01:47 - 24.004 COME INTO EFFECT. DEALS WITH
01:47 - 27.040 TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. AND THAT
01:47 - 30.177 WAS.
01:47 - 32.979 AFTER THERE WAS A HORRIBLE
01:47 - 33.713 CRASH INVOLVING A TRUCK AND THE
01:47 - 36.149 DRIVER WHO WAS ON HIS PHONE OR
01:47 - 40.287 IPAD, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
01:47 - 43.356 IF A MONTH. I GET STOPS ON THE
01:47 - 47.127 TURNPIKE, TEXTING.
01:47 - 48.195 IT WOULD MAKE NO SENSE FOR ME
01:47 - 51.398 TO TRY TO DEFEND IN COURT
01:47 - 53.033 SAYING, WELL, LOOK.
01:47 - 55.635 THAT STATUTE WAS ENACTED
01:47 - 56.303 BECAUSE THERE WAS THIS TRUCK
01:47 - 57.938 CRASH. AND SO I WAS DRIVING A
01:47 - 59.506 TRUCK. SO IT DOESN'T APPLY WHEN
01:47 - 02.576 IT.
01:48 - 03.243 >>WHAT
01:48 - 07.180 THAT STATUE SAID, SOMETHING
01:48 - 07.581 COURSE. BUT
01:48 - 10.350 >>IF THE STATUTE SAYS SOMETHING
01:48 - 11.117 ABOUT THE AGE OF THE
01:48 - 11.518 TEXT, RIGHT?
01:48 - 12.252 >>THEN YOU WOULDN'T. I MEAN, IF
01:48 - 13.119 IT SAID, YOU KNOW, IT ONLY
01:48 - 13.787 APPLIES TO PEOPLE UNDER THE
01:48 - 16.289 SATE, YOUR OWN PEOPLE OVER THIS
01:48 - 18.525 AGE RIGHT?
01:48 - 21.628 THEN NOT YOUR ARGUMENT WITH
01:48 - 24.197 ARNOLD WATER RIGHT?
01:48 - 25.765 >>WELL, IT AND THAT DOES TAKE
01:48 - 28.068 YOU TO A POINT WHEN YOU HAVE.
01:48 - 31.071 >>HAVE A STATUE.
01:48 - 32.105 >>THAT IS SPECIFICALLY GEARED.
01:48 - 33.874 >>TOWARDS A SPECIFIC PROBLEM OR
01:48 - 36.676 A SPECIFIC CLASS OF PEOPLE.
01:48 - 37.344 >>IT OUGHT SAY THAT IN THIS
01:48 - 39.646 PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE, THAT'S
01:48 - 40.347 NOT WHAT YOU HAVE. YOU HAVE
01:48 - 43.416 A STATUTE THAT TALKS ABOUT SEX
01:48 - 43.917 ABUSE.
01:48 - 47.020 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT
01:48 - 47.587 CONDUCT. IT REFERS YOU
01:48 - 47.988 TO ANOTHER.
01:48 - 50.123 >>A LOT OF YOU WERE TO PREVAIL.
01:48 - 56.062 >>IT WOULD SEE YOUR ARGUMENT.
01:48 - 59.032 THEN WHAT? INTO DOUBT.
01:48 - 59.933 >>THE APPLICABILITY OF A WHOLE
01:48 - 00.567 RANGE OF STATUTES THAT THE
01:49 - 04.237 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RELIES ON TO
01:49 - 06.940 CROSS REFERENCE. OTHER
01:49 - 07.641 PROVISIONS. WHAT THEY HAVE TO
01:49 - 10.210 STOP CROSS REFERENCING OTHER
01:49 - 11.912 PROVISIONS AND INSTEAD START.
01:49 - 14.714 >>RATING, EVERYTHING THEY NEED
01:49 - 17.784 TO INCLUDE.
01:49 - 18.518 >>BECAUSE
01:49 - 20.387 I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S A
01:49 - 21.254 PROBLEM WITH CROSS REFERENCING
01:49 - 25.859 WHAT WHERE? I THINK THE PROBLEM
01:49 - 26.560 COMES IN IS WHEN YOU YOU HAVE
01:49 - 29.362 A STATUTE THAT CROSS REFERENCES
01:49 - 30.063 ANOTHER STATUTE. AND NOW WE'RE
01:49 - 32.499 TRYING TO REACH SAYINGS INTO
01:49 - 35.302 IT.
01:49 - 36.002 IN TERMS OF FIGURING OUT WHAT
01:49 - 39.272 IT SETS WINNING WHEN INDEED.
01:49 - 39.973 THE CROSS REFERENCES AN
01:49 - 44.077 AMBIGUOUS, IT TELLS YOU EXACTLY
01:49 - 45.912 WHAT TO LOOK AT A SPECIFIC
01:49 - 47.113 LIST, NOT THE WHOLE STATUTE.
01:49 - 50.150 WE WILL BE READING INTO IF WE
01:49 - 50.784 IF WE INVENTED NUMBER 18.
01:49 - 51.451 >>WE'RE NOT READING INTO IT.
01:49 - 52.852 WE'RE READING WHAT THEY WROTE.
01:49 - 57.691 AND THEY SIT UNDER 18.
01:49 - 00.160 >>RIGHT? THAT'S
01:50 - 03.196 AND I WOULD AGREE THAT IF THE
01:50 - 03.830 STATUTE SAID SEX ABUSE OF
01:50 - 06.499 MINORS OR IF THE STATUTE TALKED
01:50 - 07.968 ABOUT.
01:50 - 11.037 PUTIN AGE QUALIFIER IN
01:50 - 12.172 SUBSECTION B 9.
01:50 - 15.308 BUT THAT IS THAT IS CLEAR
01:50 - 16.042 INTENT. THAT IS A SPECIFIC
01:50 - 19.145 INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE TO
01:50 - 20.113 CABIN THIS EXCEPTION.
01:50 - 23.183 IN THAT FASHION. BUT THAT'S NOT
01:50 - 24.584 WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
01:50 - 28.221 WE HAVE A STATUTE THAT TALKS
01:50 - 29.856 ABOUT SEX ABUSE. IT TALKS ABOUT
01:50 - 30.590 CONDUCT AND IT GIVES YOU A LIST
01:50 - 31.591 OF OFFENSES THAT YOU'RE HERE TO
01:50 - 37.163 LOOK AT TO DETERMINE WHETHER
01:50 - 37.831 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY HAS BEEN
01:50 - 40.200 WAIVED IN THAT IN THAT
01:50 - 49.909 PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
01:50 - 50.677 THAT I KNOW WAS RAISED IN MY
01:50 - 51.544 OPPONENT'S BRIEF. AND IT'S
01:50 - 54.748 SOMETHING I WANTED TO ADDRESS
01:50 - 58.284 WAS THE
01:50 - 02.722 THE CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC FISK
01:51 - 03.890 AND WHETHER OR NOT THE
01:51 - 11.164 LEGISLATURE IS INTENDING 2.
01:51 - 14.434 I GUESS. SHOT PUT.
01:51 - 16.202 MAKE PUBLIC THE PRIVATE RIGHTS
01:51 - 17.003 OF ACTION OR OR THINGS OF THAT
01:51 - 20.140 NATURE. AND WHAT I WOULD
01:51 - 20.707 SUGGEST TO THE COURT.
01:51 - 24.411 IS THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT
01:51 - 27.747 THIS PARTICULAR STATUTE.
01:51 - 29.949 THIS IS NOT A SITUATION WHERE
01:51 - 32.652 IF THE COURT CONCLUDES WORKER
01:51 - 35.121 ACT THAT NOW THE FLOODGATES OF
01:51 - 35.755 LITIGATION WOULD BE OPENED
01:51 - 41.027 BECAUSE THIS DOES NOT MAKE.
01:51 - 43.830 THE LOCAL POLITICAL
01:51 - 44.464 SUBDIVISIONS, INSURERS FOR
01:51 - 44.898 SEXUAL ABUSE.
01:51 - 47.567 >>IN ORDER TO RECOVER UNDER
01:51 - 48.902 THIS SECTION.
01:51 - 50.937 THERE NEEDS TO BE NEGLIGENCE ON
01:51 - 53.239 THE PART OF THE PARTICULAR
01:51 - 56.342 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.
01:51 - 57.110 >>AND THAT WHAT THAT
01:51 - 59.112 WOULD BE KNOWLEDGE, HOWEVER,
01:51 - 59.713 WOULD COME UP IN IT IN A
01:51 - 03.850 PARTICULAR CASE, YOU WOULD
01:52 - 04.651 STILL NEED TO SHOW.
01:52 - 06.619 >>CULPABILITY ON THE PART OF
01:52 - 07.654 THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
01:52 - 09.756 SO
01:52 - 10.690 >>I THINK IT'S A MISNOMER TO
01:52 - 12.525 SUGGEST THAT IF THIS COURT WERE
01:52 - 15.662 TO SAY YES, MR. JABBING YOUR
01:52 - 17.697 INTERPRETATION IS CORRECT.
01:52 - 20.066 IF THAT THE LEGISLATURE HAS AND
01:52 - 23.136 REALLY INDICATED, BUT IT ONLY
01:52 - 23.870 APPLIES TO MINORS.
01:52 - 24.571 ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S GOING
01:52 - 28.508 TO BE A FLOOD OF LITIGATION
01:52 - 30.577 AND IN LAST THERE'S A SERIOUS
01:52 - 31.277 PROBLEM OF SEXUAL ABUSE GOING
01:52 - 34.714 ON IN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
01:52 - 38.284 I JUST DON'T SEE THAT BEING AN
01:52 - 40.019 ISSUE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THAT
01:52 - 43.156 IT'S INCUMBENT TO SHOW
01:52 - 46.793 NEGLIGENCE ON TOP.
01:52 - 49.028 THE ONE OTHER. AREA THAT I
01:52 - 49.662 WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I
01:52 - 52.198 ADDRESSED WAS THE MOOSE
01:52 - 55.635 AMENDMENTS.
01:52 - 59.405 I ACTUALLY THINK. AND I KNOW
01:52 - 00.273 THAT MY MY COLLEAGUE POINTS TO
01:53 - 03.309 THE MOOSE AMENDMENTS AS
01:53 - 04.511 EVIDENCE.
01:53 - 07.280 SUPPORT OF HIS THERE POSITION.
01:53 - 10.350 BUT I THINK IT ACTUALLY DOES
01:53 - 15.121 THE OPPOSITE.
01:53 - 18.224 THERE WERE 2 PARTICULAR
01:53 - 21.327 AMENDMENTS IF THAT WERE
01:53 - 22.996 ADVANCED BY SENATOR MOVES.
01:53 - 27.834 ONE OF WHICH WOULD HAVE ADDED
01:53 - 31.638 SUBSECTION 8, 2, 42 P A C S
01:53 - 36.709 SECTION 5, 5, 5, 1,
01:53 - 40.079 AMENDMENT.
01:53 - 42.549 HAVE WAIVED THE STATUTE OF
01:53 - 46.719 LIMITATIONS. IN CRIMINAL CASES.
01:53 - 54.861 FOR ALL OF THE SAME OFFENSES.
01:53 - 01.000 WERE LISTED IN 5, 5, 5, 1, 7,
01:54 - 02.902 WITH
01:54 - 03.503 THE EXCEPTION OF THEIR 2
01:54 - 06.439 SECTION SKEWS ME STATUTORY
01:54 - 09.475 SEXUAL ASSAULT.
01:54 - 11.211 WASN'T THERE. NOR WAS THE
01:54 - 11.911 SPECIFIC SUBSECTION FOR HUMAN
01:54 - 14.647 TRAFFICKING THAT PERTAINS TO
01:54 - 18.484 MINORS.
01:54 - 20.320 AND IN ADDITION TO THAT
01:54 - 25.291 AMENDMENT, SENATOR MOVES ALSO
01:54 - 28.895 PROPOSED PUTTING WEST OF A
01:54 - 29.495 CROSS REFERENCE TO THAT
01:54 - 32.398 PROPOSED SUBSECTION IN 2.
01:54 - 33.199 85. 42 BE 9.
01:54 - 36.336 AND I THINK THAT YOU WOULD NEED
01:54 - 37.570 IT. THERE.
01:54 - 39.606 BECAUSE IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE,
01:54 - 42.675 BUT FOR THAT. IN THE INCLUSION
01:54 - 43.910 OF THAT.
01:54 - 46.045 THERE WOULD BE A LOT TO BE READ
01:54 - 49.082 INTO THE FACT THAT ONLY
01:54 - 50.617 SUBSECTION 8.
01:54 - 51.351 WAS CROSS REFERENCED RATHER
01:54 - 53.519 THAN BOTH SUBSECTION 8 AND A
01:54 - 55.088 BOOST. SKEWS ME RATHER THAN
01:54 - 58.658 BOTH SUBSECTION 7 AND
01:54 - 01.728 SUBSECTION 8. AND I THINK THAT
01:55 - 05.231 THAT SHOWS THAT INDEED THERE
01:55 - 08.735 WAS NOT THIS DESIRE.
01:55 - 09.969 IT TOOK ONLY LIMIT THIS 2
01:55 - 12.338 MINERS, PERHAPS MINERS WERE
01:55 - 12.939 SOMETHING THAT THAT THE
01:55 - 17.710 LEGISLATURE WAS THINKING ABOUT.
01:55 - 19.078 BUT LIKE SO MANY OTHER
01:55 - 19.746 CIRCUMSTANCES, US THAT THEY
01:55 - 21.781 PASSED THE STATUTE TO DEAL WITH
01:55 - 24.851 AN ISSUE, BUT IT ALSO CAN
01:55 - 25.585 ADDRESS
01:55 - 26.019 OTHER THINGS.
01:55 - 26.619 >>THAT'S WHAT I'M REALLY
01:55 - 29.289 STRAINING TO UNDERSTAND.
01:55 - 33.626 YOUR LOGIC.
01:55 - 35.561 55. 51 SET. LET'S SAY.
01:55 - 38.865 WE EXERCISE THE PREAMBLE, WHICH
01:55 - 39.699 BRINGS IN THE 8 QUALIFIER,
01:55 - 40.400 CORRECT. AND THE STATUTE JUST
01:55 - 42.535 LIST. THE ENUMERATED OFFENSE
01:55 - 45.405 IS. THAT HOLDS WEIGHT. BUT
01:55 - 48.107 YOU'RE ASKING US TO NOT EXCISE
01:55 - 50.076 THE PORTION OF THE STATUTE THAT
01:55 - 52.812 INDICATES THAT A PROSECUTION
01:55 - 53.513 FOR THESE MEN RATED OFFENSE IS
01:55 - 56.616 PROVIDED THAT THESE OFFENSES
01:55 - 57.917 ARE AGAINST A MINOR.
01:55 - 01.054 IF YOU'RE FAILING TO ADDRESS
01:56 - 02.755 THAT ISSUE, WHAT YOUR EYE.
01:56 - 05.391 YOU'RE ASKING US TO JUSTICE WEX
01:56 - 06.092 SAID TO CUT OUT. THAT PART OF
01:56 - 08.661 THE STATUTE, WHICH YOU DON'T
01:56 - 09.696 LIKE.
01:56 - 13.433 WHEN ALL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:56 - 14.167 HAD TO DO WAS NOT AND INTRODUCE
01:56 - 17.603 THE PREAMBLE OF 8 QUALIFIER IN
01:56 - 18.271 JUST LIST. THE 18 PER DUNN'S
01:56 - 20.306 SECTION OF SEX OFFENSES UNDER
01:56 - 22.742 THE 3,000 SERIES, MAYBE 4,000.
01:56 - 26.012 IF THEY WANT TO CLOSE. AND SO
01:56 - 27.914 THAT'S WHY I'M REALLY
01:56 - 31.117 DISTRACTED BY HOW YOU'RE TRYING
01:56 - 31.818 TO SHARE WITH US THAT IT'S NOT
01:56 - 34.253 IN THIS STATUTE IS NOT
01:56 - 35.855 AMBIGUOUS.
01:56 - 37.323 BUT YOUR ARGUMENT IS THAT IT
01:56 - 39.525 AMBIGUOUS BECAUSE WE'RE
01:56 - 41.694 APPLYING IT INCORRECTLY BECAUSE
01:56 - 42.295 WE'RE NOT TAKING INTO
01:56 - 43.896 CONSIDERATION THE AGE QUALIFIER
01:56 - 45.365 BECAUSE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
01:56 - 49.402 MANDATED THAT WE CAN. IT MAKES
01:56 - 50.436 SENSE TO YOU BECAUSE IF IT
01:56 - 51.771 DOESN'T, THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE
01:56 - 54.407 THE ARGUMENTS GOING TO MAKE A
01:56 - 57.543 SUDDEN IT JUST US. LET ME.
01:56 - 58.945 >>LET ME TRY TO.
01:56 - 59.612 THE CLEAR UP WHAT I'M SAYING
01:56 - 01.647 THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THAT'S
01:57 - 07.587 NOT WHAT I'M SAYING. WHAT I'M
01:57 - 09.088 SAYING IS THE LEGISLATURE
01:57 - 10.556 ENACTED SECTION. 55. 51
01:57 - 13.860 SUBSECTION 7 WITH THE INTENTION
01:57 - 15.495 OF ADDRESSING.
01:57 - 16.396 THE CRIMINAL STATUTE OF
01:57 - 19.499 LIMITATIONS FOR THE PROSECUTION
01:57 - 22.769 OF THOSE OFFENSES.
01:57 - 27.373 AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'S
01:57 - 28.274 ANOTHER SUBSECTION OF IT.
01:57 - 31.177 TITLE. 42. IT DEALS WITH STAFF
01:57 - 31.811 AT THE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.
01:57 - 34.313 AND SPECIFICALLY THE WAIVERS
01:57 - 38.418 OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.
01:57 - 39.552 THE STATUTE SAYS THAT SEX
01:57 - 40.186 ABUSE. IT'S GOING TO BE AN
01:57 - 42.655 EXCEPTION TO SOVEREIGN
01:57 - 46.325 IMMUNITY.
01:57 - 47.326 THEN WHAT THAT DOES IS
01:57 - 50.396 IT SAYS TO TO DETERMINE WHAT
01:57 - 51.631 PARTICULAR.
01:57 - 54.834 >>TO DETERMINE THE PARTICULAR
01:57 - 56.169 CONTOURS OF THE WAIVER.
01:57 - 58.971 WHAT WE WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO
01:57 - 59.572 IS WE WANT YOU TO LOCK.
01:57 - 02.108 >>AT THE OFFENSES THAT ARE
01:58 - 03.509 ENUMERATED.
01:58 - 06.579 AND SECTION 5, 5, 5, ONE
01:58 - 07.280 SUBSECTION, 7.
01:58 - 08.514 >>AND WHY WOULDN'T SAY THAT
01:58 - 11.584 WHEN IT COULD JUST MAKE
01:58 - 15.154 REFERENCE
01:58 - 15.855 2 SECTION? WAS IT 33? 0, ONE.
01:58 - 17.457 31. 21. 22 23. 24. IT MAKES
01:58 - 20.526 NO SENSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
01:58 - 21.227 CROSS REFERENCE. IT WELL THINK
01:58 - 24.697 A DIRECT UNDERSTANDING WOULD
01:58 - 26.999 BE A DIRECT REFERENCE TO THE
01:58 - 27.633 STATUTES OF THE CRIMINAL
01:58 - 30.770 OFFENSES THAT THERE'S PART THE
01:58 - 32.038 CONDUCT THAT THEIR WAIVER.
01:58 - 35.108 I MEAN, I THINK THIS
01:58 - 37.443 DOCUMENTATION.
01:58 - 40.580 >>I SO I I SUPPOSE THE
01:58 - 46.319 LEGISLATURE COULD HAVE.
01:58 - 49.455 >>IN SECTION 85 40 TO BE 9
01:58 - 50.056 LISTED THE THE SPECIFIC
01:58 - 50.723 SUBSECTIONS OF THE OF THE OF
01:58 - 54.093 THE CRIMES CODE. IT COULD HAVE
01:58 - 56.028 DONE THAT. BUT IT'S JUST AS
01:58 - 56.729 EASY IF THEY HAVE A LIST THAT
01:58 - 59.098 THEY LIKE TO. TO POINT TO THAT
01:58 - 59.398 LIST.
01:58 - 00.800 >>THING THAT WILL WAIVE STATUTE
01:59 - 04.103 OF LIMITATIONS FOR OFFENSES
01:59 - 06.606 AGAINST MINORS.
01:59 - 08.141 >>WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE THAT'S
01:59 - 10.576 WHAT, 5, 5, 5, 1, 7, AND
01:59 - 11.677 OPERATES TO DO.
01:59 - 13.980 >>INDEPENDENT.
01:59 - 14.280 >>OF.
01:59 - 14.947 >>SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. WE'RE
01:59 - 17.750 SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. COMES IN
01:59 - 18.017 IS.
01:59 - 21.487 >>THEY'RE THEY'RE FOCUSING THE
01:59 - 24.090 COURT ORDER. THE READER'S
01:59 - 24.457 ATTENTION.
01:59 - 26.492 >>OWEN.
01:59 - 27.126 >>A LIST OF THE FENCES AS
01:59 - 29.729 OPPOSED TO WE LISTING THE
01:59 - 33.032 OFFENSE. IS THERE.
01:59 - 37.737 >>MR. JB, YOU MAKE VERY NUANCED
01:59 - 39.005 ARGUMENT, WHICH I MAY NOT
01:59 - 39.705 COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, BUT I'M
01:59 - 40.273 GOING TO GIVE YOU THE
01:59 - 42.842 OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A
01:59 - 45.444 CONCLUDING STATEMENT.
01:59 - 46.012 >>AND SO YOUR HONOR IN
01:59 - 48.648 CONCLUSION.
01:59 - 50.883 >>I WOULD.
01:59 - 51.684 >>JUST I'D REITERATE WHAT I
01:59 - 52.385 SAID. I WOULD ASK THE COURT TO
01:59 - 55.154 LOOK AT THE PLAIN LANGUAGE OF
01:59 - 55.688 THE STATUTE.
01:59 - 58.758 >>LOOK AT THE WAY THAT CONDUCT
01:59 - 59.659 IS DEFINED.
01:59 - 01.727 LOOK AT THE WAY THAT ATTENDANT
02:00 - 03.029 CIRCUMSTANCES ARE DEFINED.
02:00 - 05.231 LOOK AT THE WAY THAT THE
02:00 - 07.300 ELEMENTS OF THE OFFENSE IS
02:00 - 08.634 DEFINED AND WHAT THE
02:00 - 09.302 LEGISLATURE DID HERE WAS THE
02:00 - 16.209 LEGISLATURE WAVE TO IMMUNITY.
02:00 - 17.243 FOR CONDUCT? THAT IS.
02:00 - 21.247 BASICALLY AMOUNTING TO A NUMBER
02:00 - 23.583 OF CRIMES THAT ARE LISTED IN
02:00 - 29.188 SUBSECTION 5, 5, 5, ONE, 7.
02:00 - 30.790 AND I WOULD ASK THAT YOU.
02:00 - 34.961 WE'RE COMMONWEALTH COURT AND
02:00 - 35.661 >>AND A JUDGMENT ON OUR BACK.
02:00 - 38.598 ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:00 - 42.902 LET'S HEAR FROM IS NOT AN.
02:00 - 44.971 >>ISRAEL WILL SHORT SERVICE
02:00 - 45.805 ANNOUNCEMENT, A HOME IT WAS
02:00 - 47.073 DISTRACTED. DRIVING LAW IS IN
02:00 - 47.807 EFFECT IN PENNSYLVANIA. SO JUST
02:00 - 48.474 WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT IN
02:00 - 49.141 CASE ANYBODY WAS WATCHING A
02:00 - 51.277 FINE ARGUMENT AND BELIEVE THAT
02:00 - 55.615 THEY COULD.
02:00 - 56.515 >>THANK
02:00 - 57.383 >>YOU, PROFESSOR BROUGHT YOU
02:00 - 00.586 FOR BRINGING YOUR STUDENTS.
02:01 - 03.289 I HOPE I HOPE THEY STILL WANT
02:01 - 06.392 TO BE LAWYERS. ALL OKAY.
02:01 - 07.994 THE SAME CANNOT.
02:01 - 08.628 GOOD MORNING. YOUR HONORS.
02:01 - 09.262 MAY IT PLEASE? THE COURT.
02:01 - 11.464 JENNIFER MCNAUGHTON FOR THE
02:01 - 13.466 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.
02:01 - 14.200 >>IF THERE'S AN EXPRESSION THAT
02:01 - 17.470 THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION IS
02:01 - 18.537 USUALLY THE CORRECT ONE.
02:01 - 19.171 AND IN THIS CASE, I WOULD
02:01 - 19.839 SUBMIT THAT THE SIMPLEST
02:01 - 21.040 READING OF THE 9TH EXCEPTION
02:01 - 24.110 TO THE TORT CLAIMS ACT IS THAT
02:01 - 25.711 IT?
02:01 - 26.445 APPLIES ONLY TO VICTIMS WHO ARE
02:01 - 27.580 MINORS AT THE TIME THAT THE
02:01 - 30.616 CRIME IS COMMITTED. THE 9TH
02:01 - 32.852 EXCEPTION.
02:01 - 33.452 INCORPORATES A SEPARATE
02:01 - 35.121 SECTION. THAT WAS PART OF THE
02:01 - 35.788 SAME BILL SECTION. 55, 51 7.
02:01 - 38.291 WE'LL CALL THAT THE LIMITATIONS
02:01 - 40.359 PROVISION. THAT PROVISION
02:01 - 42.695 STARTS WITH AN AGE QUALIFIER.
02:01 - 45.564 THE VICTIM MUST BE UNDER 18.
02:01 - 46.232 THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION IS
02:01 - 48.768 THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET
02:01 - 49.502 TO INCORPORATE THE ENTIRE WELL,
02:01 - 50.436 THAT ASIANS PROVISION,
02:01 - 53.239 INCLUDING THAT HUGE QUALIFIER
02:01 - 54.807 AND AT LEAST 12 OTHER COURTS.
02:01 - 55.474 I HAVE READ THAT STATUTE IN
02:01 - 57.343 THAT MANNER. PLUS THE
02:01 - 58.010 COMMONWEALTH COURT HERE.
02:01 - 01.080 PLUS THE TRIAL COURT HERE WHICH
02:02 - 01.714 REVERSED ITS OWN DECISION.
02:02 - 04.183 OVERRULING OUR PRELIMINARY
02:02 - 05.985 OBJECTIONS.
02:02 - 06.652 VERSUS I HAVE NOT AWARE OF A
02:02 - 09.789 SINGLE CASE WHERE A COURT HAS
02:02 - 10.956 INTERPRETED YOU KNOW, I THINK
02:02 - 11.924 SECTION OR THE SOVEREIGN
02:02 - 15.027 IMMUNITY ACT EXCEPTION AND IN
02:02 - 16.996 THE MANNER THAT MR. JOB
02:02 - 19.165 IS ARGUING.
02:02 - 20.866 >>ALSO, CAN I I MEAN, I MAY BE
02:02 - 21.634 THAT ONE PERSON WHO MIGHT SEE
02:02 - 25.304 THIS OTHERWISE HAVE, BECAUSE
02:02 - 30.676 I DON'T SEE THAT ON SUBSECTION
02:02 - 32.712 9 INCORPORATES 5, 5, 1, 7, IT
02:02 - 37.350 INCORPORATES THE OFFENSES
02:02 - 37.983 ENUMERATED IN 5, 5.7. YOU
02:02 - 41.954 ARE READING SUBSECTION 9, 2,
02:02 - 44.890 SAY KHAN DOCK. FOR WHICH THE
02:02 - 46.525 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IS WAY
02:02 - 48.427 IN 5, 1, 1, 7, THAT'S NOT WHAT
02:02 - 51.430 IT SAYS. IT SAID THAT YOU THEN
02:02 - 55.167 CAPTURING THE LIMITATION TO
02:02 - 56.068 CONDUCT DIRECTED
02:02 - 57.937 TOWARD MINORS. BUT THAT'S WHAT
02:02 - 00.873 THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS CAUSE.
02:03 - 01.540 IT TALKS ABOUT THE OFFENSES
02:03 - 06.312 ENUMERATED UNDER THAT SECTION.
02:03 - 08.214 >>WELL, YEAH, THE ENTIRETY OF
02:03 - 08.848 THE PHRASES CONDUCT WHICH
02:03 - 10.716 CONSTITUTES AN OFFENSE AND YOU
02:03 - 12.251 WERE 8 UNDER SECTION 5, 5, 1,
02:03 - 15.354 7, THOSE OFFENSES ARE
02:03 - 16.922 ENUMERATED UNDER SECTION
02:03 - 17.590 5, 5, 1, 5, 1, 7, WITH THE H
02:03 - 19.759 QUALIFIER AT THE TOP. SO
02:03 - 21.794 READING THAT SECTION, YOU DON'T
02:03 - 23.496 EVEN GET TO THE OFFENSE AGREE
02:03 - 27.299 WITH YOU. I THINK THAT THERE'S
02:03 - 30.469 AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE.
02:03 - 33.139 >>ACTUALLY THE QUALIFIER HAS
02:03 - 36.142 NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT I
02:03 - 37.576 SUBSECTION 9 IS TALKING ABOUT.
02:03 - 39.478 SUBSECTION 9 IS TALKING ABOUT
02:03 - 43.382 THE OFFENSES ENUMERATED UNDER
02:03 - 46.552 5, 5.7.
02:03 - 48.454 NOT THE QUALIFIER.
02:03 - 51.257 IT WOULD'VE BEEN EASY TO SAY.
02:03 - 52.057 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY TO SAY
02:03 - 55.628 KIND ACT FOR WHICH THE STATUTE
02:03 - 58.564 OF LIMITATIONS IS WAY AND 5, 5,
02:03 - 00.232 POINTS HAVING THAT CAPTURES
02:04 - 00.866 YOUR LIMITATION OF CONDUCT
02:04 - 05.137 DIRECTED TOWARD MINORS OR IT
02:04 - 08.040 COULD HAVE SAID CONDUCT IN
02:04 - 08.707 CONGRESS BY 5, 5.7 ONE WHICH
02:04 - 12.878 ONCE AGAIN CAPTURES THE
02:04 - 14.413 QUALIFIER. BUT WHEN THEY
02:04 - 15.080 REFERRED SPECIFICALLY TO THE
02:04 - 17.983 OFFENSES ENUMERATED UNDER THAT
02:04 - 19.285 STATUTE.
02:04 - 21.887 I HAVE A HARD TIME READING IT
02:04 - 22.588 ANY OTHER WAY THAN TO LOOK AT
02:04 - 25.024 THE OFFENSE IS THAT ARE
02:04 - 29.695 ENUMERATED.
02:04 - 30.329 >>THOSE I THINK US AS JUST
02:04 - 31.330 ARKANSAS ROBSON POINTED OUT
02:04 - 32.164 THOSE OFFENSES DON'T SIMPLY
02:04 - 33.666 RESIDE UNDER THAT SECTION.
02:04 - 34.400 THEY ALREADY EXIST IN THE
02:04 - 38.370 CRIMES CODE. THEY WERE LISTED
02:04 - 39.338 UNDER THAT SECTION WITH THE AGE
02:04 - 41.273 12 FOR NOW, IF THE IF THE
02:04 - 41.941 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THE 9TH
02:04 - 43.309 EXCEPTION HAD SIMPLY REFERRED
02:04 - 47.112 BACK TO THE CRIMES CODE,
02:04 - 47.813 CREATED A SIMILAR LIST AND NOT
02:04 - 49.748 INCLUDED IN AN AGE OF 12 MIRE.
02:04 - 52.751 WHY ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY DID?
02:04 - 54.687 >>WHEN THEY REFER TO
02:04 - 56.355 SPECIFICALLY CONDUCT WHICH
02:04 - 59.391 CONSTITUTES AN OFFENSE
02:04 - 00.459 ENUMERATED UNDER 5,
02:05 - 03.896 5.7, THE THERE'S AN ENUMERATED
02:05 - 07.900 LESS UNDER 5, 5.7. WHAT?
02:05 - 09.702 WHY ISN'T THAT I INCORPORATING
02:05 - 11.036 THOSE DEFENSES OFFENSE IS
02:05 - 12.605 BECAUSE I THINK THAT LANGUAGE
02:05 - 14.273 JUST UNDER 5, 5, 1, 7, IT'S
02:05 - 17.510 ONLY UNDER 5, 5, 1, 7,
02:05 - 20.279 >>IF THE VICTIM IS A MINOR AND
02:05 - 21.313 THAT THAT LIST, I MEAN, THAT'S
02:05 - 22.281 NOW WITH THE STATS. I MEAN, I
02:05 - 23.115 UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND HOW
02:05 - 26.552 YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE IS
02:05 - 27.152 APPARENTLY READING MESS.
02:05 - 31.557 BUT
02:05 - 33.359 >>I THINK IT THAT READING TAKES
02:05 - 35.327 OUT THE SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO
02:05 - 37.530 THE OFFENSES ENUMERATED THAT
02:05 - 40.466 STATUTE THERE IS A LESS.
02:05 - 43.869 >>AND NEW OR AIDING OFFENSES.
02:05 - 44.570 9 IS REFERRING YOU TO THE LIST
02:05 - 47.573 OF OFFENSES THAT ARE ENUMERATED
02:05 - 49.341 UNDER THAT SECTION.
02:05 - 49.975 >>AND AND RESPECTFUL YOUR
02:05 - 52.545 HONOR. THE REASON THAT THEY
02:05 - 56.515 ARE ENUMERATED THERE.
02:05 - 57.149 >>IT'S BECAUSE OF THE AGE
02:05 - 57.850 QUALIFIER IS BECAUSE THE U.S.
02:05 - 58.484 AND LEAVE US IS IT BECAUSE
02:05 - 00.386 COUNCIL THEY COULD INSTEAD OF
02:06 - 01.554 SAY INSTEAD OF SAYING
02:06 - 04.623 >>ENUMERATED UNDER SECTION 5,
02:06 - 05.791 5, 1, 7, THEY COULD HAVE SAID
02:06 - 08.327 ENUMERATE UNDER SECTION 30 11.
02:06 - 13.032 3RD, IT WELL, 31, 21 CETERA.
02:06 - 14.433 WHICH WHICH WOULD
02:06 - 16.635 UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES
02:06 - 17.269 APPELLANT'S COUNSEL WOULD
02:06 - 18.203 CLEARLY PREFER PREVAIL. YOU'RE
02:06 - 22.775 RIGHT THAT THE BIDDING. INSTEAD
02:06 - 24.910 THEY USED REFERENCE TO 55, 1,
02:06 - 28.714 7, WHICH CONTAINS THE AGE FALL
02:06 - 29.848 FAR IS THAT THE STATION?
02:06 - 31.884 >>EXACTLY. YOUR HONOR. IT
02:06 - 32.618 AGAIN. USE THESE CRIMES ALREADY
02:06 - 34.353 EXISTED. JUST 5, 5, 1, 1, 7,
02:06 - 36.622 DOES NOT DEFINE THOSE CRIMES.
02:06 - 37.423 IT TAKES THEM AND APPLIES IN
02:06 - 41.827 AGE QUALIFIER TO THEM. SO TO BE
02:06 - 42.928 AN OFFENSE UNDER
02:06 - 43.662 THAT SECTION, THAT IS QUALIFIER
02:06 - 44.330 HAS TO BE MET AND SAY IS IT
02:06 - 47.299 THAT THE LIST OF OFFENSES ONLY
02:06 - 49.802 OFFENSES AGAINST MINORS?
02:06 - 50.502 >>IN THAT SECOND, 5, 5, 1, 7,
02:06 - 53.472 RIGHT? IT ONLY THEY ONLY APPEAR
02:06 - 56.542 THERE WITH THE
02:06 - 57.176 AGE QUALIFIER.
02:06 - 57.810 >>MINERS GREATLY RESPECT.
02:06 - 58.477 JUST STARTING TO HURT US ON
02:06 - 01.480 THIS SO MUCH. SO I'M GOING TO
02:07 - 02.181 ASK YOU. IF HER INTERPRETATION
02:07 - 03.949 IS REASONABLE OR PROPOSED
02:07 - 06.151 INTERPRETATION, WHICH IS
02:07 - 06.719 THINKING ABOUT AND MY
02:07 - 08.120 INTERPRETATION IS REASONABLE
02:07 - 08.754 OR YOUR INTERPRETATION IS
02:07 - 10.723 REASONABLE OR WHOEVER'S
02:07 - 11.824 TRADITIONS WILL CONTRACT.
02:07 - 15.027 THAT BY DEFINITION IS AN
02:07 - 16.462 AMBIGUOUS STATUTE.
02:07 - 17.396 YOU STILL WENT RIGHT BECAUSE
02:07 - 19.198 WAIVERS OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
02:07 - 20.966 HAVE TO BE NARROWLY CONSTRUED
02:07 - 24.637 IN WHICH CASE WE TAKE OF THOSE
02:07 - 25.604 2, WE TAKE THE MOST NARROW
02:07 - 26.972 CONSTRUCTION RIGHT?
02:07 - 28.307 >>YES, SIR, ARE AN ADDITION TO
02:07 - 29.041 THAT THAT GENERAL PRINCIPLE FOR
02:07 - 30.476 INTERPRETING TORT CLAIMS ACT OR
02:07 - 31.977 THE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY ACT.
02:07 - 34.313 WE ALSO HAVE A VERY REMARKABLE
02:07 - 37.783 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY HERE.
02:07 - 38.484 >>WELL, I THINK GUY, I'M NOT A
02:07 - 39.084 BIG FAN OF WHAT I DON'T.
02:07 - 41.920 I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S TOO
02:07 - 42.588 MUCH LEGISLATIVE HISTORY IN
02:07 - 44.890 PENNSYLVANIA. WHAT ONE
02:07 - 45.924 LEGISLATOR SAYS OR WHAT
02:07 - 47.726 AMENDMENTS THEY OFFER IS IS
02:07 - 49.862 ONE LEGISLATORS VIEW OF THE
02:07 - 50.429 WORLD AND IS NOT TRUE
02:07 - 51.096 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY. I THINK
02:07 - 51.764 THAT'S TRUE, EXCEPT WE HAVE
02:07 - 55.901 A LOT MORE THAN ONE. WE HAVE
02:07 - 56.602 JUST THAT BREATH OF DISCUSSION
02:07 - 59.471 AND THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
02:07 - 01.674 REGARDING
02:08 - 02.174 THIS BILL WAS IT'S
02:08 - 04.209 OVERWHELMING. IT'S ALL ABOUT
02:08 - 04.843 PROTECTING MINORS. NOT IN.
02:08 - 07.446 IT WAS THIS WOULD BE WISE OLD
02:08 - 09.581 GENTLEMAN FROM CAMBRIA.
02:08 - 10.282 >>WE'RE THE MUCH AS VICE CHAIR
02:08 - 13.919 OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OR
02:08 - 14.453 SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
02:08 - 15.154 >>NO, YOUR HONOR. BUT CLEARLY
02:08 - 18.190 THIS WAS AN ISSUE THAT WAS OF
02:08 - 19.191 GREAT PERSONAL IMPORTANCE.
02:08 - 21.326 2 OF THE LEGISLATORS SPOKE UP
02:08 - 23.195 AND SAID THAT THEY WERE
02:08 - 25.264 SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEX ABUSE.
02:08 - 26.799 SO CLEARLY THIS WAS WHAT WAS ON
02:08 - 29.068 THE MINDS OF THE LEGISLATORS
02:08 - 30.402 FOR SAYS THERE WAS NOT ANY
02:08 - 31.003 MENTION OF SEXUAL CRIMES
02:08 - 34.940 AGAINST ADULTS AND RAVING
02:08 - 37.042 IMMUNITY FOR THAT. SO AGAIN, TO
02:08 - 39.278 BRIEFLY POINT TO THE MOOSE
02:08 - 39.912 AMENDMENTS, SENATOR, MOST
02:08 - 42.514 CLEARLY INTERPRETED THE BILL
02:08 - 44.349 THAT THE HOUSE BILL.
02:08 - 45.417 PROTECTING CHILDREN ONLY AND
02:08 - 46.985 SHE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS THAT
02:08 - 47.586 WOULD HAVE EXPANDED THE
02:08 - 49.088 STATUTE. LIMITATIONS REFORM AND
02:08 - 52.391 THE IMMUNITY WAIVERS TO ADULTS
02:08 - 53.926 AND THOSE WERE
02:08 - 56.128 VOTED DOWN.
02:08 - 57.229 >>AND IF THE IF THE LEGISLATURE
02:08 - 58.664 INTENDED OR WANTS TO TO FROM
02:08 - 01.834 THIS STATE, THEY CERTAINLY CAN
02:09 - 02.434 REVISIT ABSOLUTELY IRAN.
02:09 - 04.803 >>I THINK THE LEGISLATURE HERE,
02:09 - 07.940 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAD A
02:09 - 08.574 TOUGH JOB FOR THEMSELVES.
02:09 - 11.343 THIS COMMUNITY ACTS, THEY THEY
02:09 - 11.977 HAVE TO BALANCE.
02:09 - 14.113 >>THE NEED TO PROTECT THE FIST
02:09 - 15.914 THE PUBLIC FISK. ON THE ONE
02:09 - 19.084 HAND AGAINST A STRONG DESIRE TO
02:09 - 22.788 TO AID VICTIMS OF OF WRONGDOING
02:09 - 23.388 BY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
02:09 - 25.023 AND BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE
02:09 - 25.724 POLITICAL BRANCH THE
02:09 - 26.425 LEGISLATURE IS FOR. AND IF WE
02:09 - 28.494 LOOK AT THE THOUGHT AND THE
02:09 - 29.161 CARE THAT WENT INTO INITIAL
02:09 - 30.963 DRAFTING OF THE TORT CLAIMS
02:09 - 33.132 ACT AND THE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
02:09 - 33.799 ACT. THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A
02:09 - 34.366 JOINT STATE GOVERNMENT
02:09 - 35.801 COMMISSION THAT WAS CONVENED
02:09 - 39.538 TO STUDY THIS ISSUE AND STUDY
02:09 - 40.272 THE POSSIBILITY OF
02:09 - 41.006 INSURANCE AGAINST TORTS AND THE
02:09 - 43.442 DEBATE THAT WENT INTO THIS
02:09 - 44.510 BILL.
02:09 - 45.244 I THINK WE CAN SEE THAT THE
02:09 - 47.045 LEGISLATURE DID NOT TAKE.
02:09 - 47.780 IT'S THIS THIS ROLE CASUALLY.
02:09 - 50.783 THEY THEY STRUCK THE BALANCE
02:09 - 51.617 THAT THEY STRUCK. THEY USE THE
02:09 - 52.251 LANGUAGE THAT THEY USE AND
02:09 - 54.753 WE'RE SIMPLY HERE TO APPLY THAT
02:09 - 55.788 IN 10.
02:09 - 58.490 >>ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR
02:09 - 59.158 ATTORNEY WITH NON? THANK YOU
02:09 - 02.161 BOTH VERY MUCH. I THANK YOU
02:10 - 04.196 VERY MUCH. YOUR HONORS JUST
02:10 - 05.898 BASED ON THE PLAINLY WHICH
02:10 - 06.598 RESPECTIVELY. SO THE NEXT CASE
02:10 - 07.299 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM
02:10 - 10.202 PREVIEW FOR YOU IS
02:10 - 13.272 COMMONWEALTH. THE OUTLAW.
02:10 - 15.007 >>THIS CASE IS GOING TO LOOK AT
02:10 - 18.110 WHETHER A SINGLE VERBAL
02:10 - 19.278 OUTBURST IN A COURTROOM.
02:10 - 20.012 >>IS ENOUGH FOR A JUDGE TO HOLD
02:10 - 25.684 SOMEONE IN CRIMINAL CONTEMPT.
02:10 - 26.418 SO THE UNDERLYING FACTS OF THIS
02:10 - 28.420 CASE ACTUALLY OCCUR JUST ACROSS
02:10 - 31.390 THE STREET OVER AT THE CRIMINAL
02:10 - 32.324 COURTHOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA,
02:10 - 34.259 A SPECTATOR THAT IS A PERSON
02:10 - 37.362 THAT WAS IN THE GALLERY, A
02:10 - 38.063 PERSON THAT WAS WATCHING COURT
02:10 - 38.664 PROCEEDINGS WATCH IS AN
02:10 - 39.965 ARGUMENT INVOLVING A FRIEND OF
02:10 - 43.068 THEIRS. WERE HIS FRIEND IS A
02:10 - 45.404 CRIMINAL DEFENDANT.
02:10 - 47.406 DURING A BREAK IN THE
02:10 - 49.474 PROCEEDINGS. THE SPECTATOR
02:10 - 53.412 STANDS UP. THAT'S MISTER OUTLAW
02:10 - 54.313 AND YELLED AN OBSCENITY AT THE
02:10 - 55.280 JUDGE. NOT GONNA REPEAT IT FOR
02:10 - 58.483 YOU HERE NOW, BUT THE ESSENCE
02:10 - 59.184 OF IT IS THAT IT IS PROFANE IS
02:10 - 01.119 OBSCENE AND IS INAPPROPRIATE.
02:11 - 02.354 THAT IS NOT DISPUTED. THE NEW
02:11 - 06.592 BILL INDIVIDUAL IN LEAVES THE
02:11 - 07.226 COURTROOM COMES BACK. THE
02:11 - 08.660 SHERIFF, THE CANES AND THE
02:11 - 09.294 JUDGE ENDS UP HOLDING THE
02:11 - 11.830 INDIVIDUAL IN CRIMINAL
02:11 - 14.566 CONTEMPT.
02:11 - 17.169 SENTENCES THAT INDIVIDUAL TO
02:11 - 17.870 SERVE SOME TIME IN CUSTODY, 15
02:11 - 20.739 TO 30 DAYS IN CUSTODY FOR THE
02:11 - 21.373 OUTBURST IN THE COURTROOM.
02:11 - 26.011 NOW, THE ACTUAL ARGUMENT THAT
02:11 - 26.645 YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR IT IS
02:11 - 29.681 ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT
02:11 - 30.682 CONDUCT THE FACTS. AND I
02:11 - 32.050 JUST RELAYED CONSTITUTE AN A
02:11 - 34.253 FOR A JUDGE TO HOLD AN
02:11 - 36.622 INDIVIDUAL IN CONTEMPT AND WHAT
02:11 - 38.257 THEY'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON IS
02:11 - 41.326 WHETHER OR NOT THE CONDUCT
02:11 - 43.428 ACTUALLY.
02:11 - 45.163 OBSTRUCTED THE ADMINISTRATION
02:11 - 45.864 OF JUSTICE BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN
02:11 - 46.565 THE ELEMENTS THAT YOU NEED TO
02:11 - 49.501 SATISFY IN ORDER TO BE HELD IN
02:11 - 51.436 CONTEMPT AND WHAT THE PUBLIC
02:11 - 52.137 DEFENDERS WHO REPRESENT THE MR
02:11 - 53.305 OUTLAW IN THIS CASE ARE GOING
02:11 - 54.706 TO ARGUE OR SOMETHING TO THIS
02:11 - 55.374 EXTENT IS THAT WHILE IT WAS
02:11 - 57.376 INAPPROPRIATE, WHAT WAS SAID,
02:11 - 00.312 WELL, IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
02:12 - 01.013 SAID IT. NEVERTHELESS WAS NOT
02:12 - 04.549 OBSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION
02:12 - 05.183 OF JUSTICE BECAUSE IT WAS
02:12 - 05.851 EITHER JUST AS THE COURT WAS
02:12 - 08.487 TAKING A BREAK OR DURING A
02:12 - 10.622 BREAK.
02:12 - 11.189 BUT INTERESTINGLY, THE
02:12 - 12.357 PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT
02:12 - 14.593 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS SUBMITTED
02:12 - 15.294 BRIEFS THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH
02:12 - 15.961 THE PUBLIC DEFENDER THAT THE
02:12 - 17.596 CONDUCT OF MR OUTLAWED DOES NOT
02:12 - 21.600 EQUATE TO CRIMINAL CONTEMPT.
02:12 - 24.202 THERE WILL BE ARGUMENT AS WELL
02:12 - 24.903 FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY
02:12 - 26.204 GENERAL. THAT IS THE STATE
02:12 - 27.973 PROSECUTOR IN THE COMMONWEALTH
02:12 - 28.640 IN THE AG IS GOING TO ARGUE
02:12 - 30.609 TO THE CONTRARY, WHAT THEY'RE
02:12 - 34.479 GOING TO ARGUE. WE'LL HEAR FROM
02:12 - 37.249 THEM DIRECTLY. IS THAT WHEN AN
02:12 - 37.916 INDIVIDUAL YELLS OBSCENITIES
02:12 - 39.851 AND USES PROFANITY DIRECTED
02:12 - 40.986 TOWARD A JUDGE IN A COURTROOM,
02:12 - 41.653 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT
02:12 - 43.288 WE'RE ON A BREAK OR NOT.
02:12 - 46.358 ON A BREAK THAT IS IN OF
02:12 - 46.992 ITSELF.
02:12 - 49.528 INAPPROPRIATE, DISRESPECTFUL
02:12 - 52.631 AND IT SATISFIES THE ELEMENTS
02:12 - 54.066 OF OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE.
02:12 - 55.233 AGAIN THERE THERE. THERE ARE
02:12 - 58.770 SPECIFIC ELEMENTS AND IT'S FAT,
02:12 - 59.504 SPECIFIC ISSUES HERE. BUT THE
02:12 - 04.343 BROADER IMPLICATIONS APPLY TO
02:13 - 04.910 EVERY COURTROOM IN THE
02:13 - 06.378 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
02:13 - 07.045 AND WHAT SPECTATORS THAT IS
02:13 - 07.713 PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME IN TO
02:13 - 11.583 WATCH COURT WHAT THEY CAN OR
02:13 - 13.452 CANNOT DO IN A COURTROOM IN
02:13 - 14.119 PENNSYLVANIA. SO THAT'S THE
02:13 - 14.820 ISSUE IN THE ARGUMENT THAT WE
02:13 - 18.490 EXPECT TO SEE IN THIS MATTER.
02:13 - 21.693 >>HONORS CHIEF JUSTICE AND MAY
02:13 - 22.361 IT PLEASE, THE COURT? AARON
02:13 - 24.029 MARCUS, FROM THE DEFENDER
02:13 - 27.933 ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA.
02:13 - 28.533 ON BEHALF OF OUTLAW AND
02:13 - 31.136 RUNNERS. NUMBER ONE, I I DID
02:13 - 32.838 NOT INTEND AND REPEATING
02:13 - 33.538 THE PHRASE NONETHELESS, Q YOUR
02:13 - 35.974 WELL CAR, I'LL HOLD YOU IN
02:13 - 38.043 CONTEMPT.
02:13 - 44.783 YOUR HONOR AND EMEKA SUGGEST.
02:13 - 45.817 NEARLY PER SE CRIMINAL OFFENSE
02:13 - 47.219 FOR A PERSON TO INSULT A COURT
02:13 - 50.555 USING PROFANITY. IF THE JUDGE
02:13 - 51.823 SIMPLY HAPPENS TO HEAR IT, NO
02:13 - 52.557 MATTER. THE EFFECTS OF MINUTES.
02:13 - 55.193 HE SAID IT TO THE JUDGE,
02:13 - 56.628 THOUGH, RIGHT?
02:13 - 59.898 THE RECORD IN THAT RESPECT IS
02:13 - 00.899 NOT ACTUALLY PARTICULARLY
02:14 - 02.467 CLEAR. IT WAS SAID IN THE ROOM.
02:14 - 03.168 THE JUDGE SAYS IT WAS DIRECTED
02:14 - 04.569 TOWARDS THE COURT, WHETHER IT
02:14 - 07.739 WAS PRESENTED TO HIM OR TO HER
02:14 - 08.373 IS A QUESTION OF FACT. AND
02:14 - 11.977 ACTUALLY, I WOULD SUBMIT TO
02:14 - 15.580 THIS COURT THAT THE RECORD FROM
02:14 - 17.482 JUNE 16TH 2022, WHICH IS WHAT
02:14 - 18.083 THE COURT CONSIDERS THE
02:14 - 19.718 CONTEMPT HEARING. AMICUS
02:14 - 20.585 CONSIDERS THE CONTEMPT HEARING.
02:14 - 24.790 WE CONSIDER THAT CONTEMPT
02:14 - 25.791 HEARING DESPITE THE COURT
02:14 - 26.725 SAYING THE NEXT DAY THAT I
02:14 - 27.692 DIDN'T, THAT I HELD HIM IN
02:14 - 29.461 CONTEMPT. NOT THAT DAY. THE
02:14 - 33.331 RECORD'S LITTLE SCAMTRACKER.
02:14 - 41.840 IT'S A VERY SCANT RECORD.
02:14 - 44.076 THE TRANSCRIPT IS INCLUDED.
02:14 - 47.045 IT WAS INITIALLY CERTIFIED BY
02:14 - 50.715 THE TRIAL COURT AS AND LABELED
02:14 - 51.416 AS AN EXHIBIT IN THE CERTIFIED
02:14 - 54.386 RECORD FROM THE TRIAL COURT
02:14 - 56.922 TO THE SUPERIOR COURT. THAT IS
02:14 - 57.556 ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE
02:14 - 58.256 SUPERIOR COURT ORIGINALLY AND
02:14 - 01.626 THEIR SEPTEMBER OPINION CLAIM
02:15 - 04.496 THAT THE MCCLAIN TRANSCRIPT HAD
02:15 - 07.299 NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW.
02:15 - 07.966 THEY OVERLOOKED THAT IT WAS
02:15 - 09.334 SUBMITTED BUT SIMPLY LABELS AND
02:15 - 11.536 EXHIBIT NOT AS TRANSCRIPTS.
02:15 - 13.472 THAT'S WHY THE COURT THEN
02:15 - 15.607 RECONSIDERED UPON OUR PETITION.
02:15 - 17.409 BUT NONETHELESS REACH THE SAME
02:15 - 20.512 IN CORRECT RESULT, IN OUR
02:15 - 22.747 OPINION
02:15 - 25.817 SIMPLY SAY THAT FOR MORE THAN
02:15 - 28.587 A CENTURY.
02:15 - 29.688 PROFANITY OR INSULT ALONE HAS
02:15 - 34.559 NEVER BEEN SUFFICIENT TO IMPOSE
02:15 - 35.193 A CONVICTION FOR CRIMINAL
02:15 - 35.894 CONTEMPT FOR THE DEFENDANT IN
02:15 - 39.598 THOSE CASES DID NOT ALSO CAUSE.
02:15 - 41.833 A SIGNIFICANT.
02:15 - 42.501 ACT OR AT LEAST AN IMMINENT
02:15 - 45.270 DISRUPTION OF THE COURT'S
02:15 - 48.140 PROCEEDINGS.
02:15 - 50.242 THE ACT OR AN IMMINENT
02:15 - 53.311 DISRUPTION? I THINK CAN BE
02:15 - 54.546 DEFINED OR
02:15 - 57.149 AT LEAST NARROWED TO THE MOST
02:15 - 58.049 SIMPLE TERMS THAT GO BACK 100
02:15 - 00.952 YEARS TOO COOK, WHICH IS THE
02:16 - 03.088 U.S. SUPREME COURT CASE ABOUT
02:16 - 04.890 WHETHER THE COURT TO CONTINUE
02:16 - 05.957 TO CONDUCT ITS BUSINESS.
02:16 - 08.026 IS THERE AN OBSTRUCTION TO ITS
02:16 - 09.494 PROCEEDING THAT PREVENTS A
02:16 - 12.531 COURT FOR ACTING FAIRLY?
02:16 - 13.165 HOW LONG CAN YOU GIVE ME A
02:16 - 13.632 TEMPORAL LIMIT?
02:16 - 15.167 >>WE'VE ALL BEEN IN A COURTROOM
02:16 - 15.867 WHERE WE'VE HEARD SOMETHING IN
02:16 - 16.601 HIS STRUCTURE. THIS GUIDE STOOD
02:16 - 18.270 UP AND SAID WE SAID IN FRONT OF
02:16 - 19.504 A JURY AND I'D ASKED LADIES
02:16 - 20.205 AND GENTLEMEN THE JURY TO STEP
02:16 - 20.872 BACK WITH THAT BEING A TRUCK
02:16 - 23.074 SHUN JUSTICE UNDER YOUR
02:16 - 24.576 ARGUMENT.
02:16 - 25.410 >>IT COULD BE IN PARTICULAR
02:16 - 27.679 CIRCUMSTANCES. YES, IT COULD
02:16 - 29.948 BE ANYTHING COULD BE A MASK.
02:16 - 30.615 YES, WHEN YOUR ARGUMENT IS,
02:16 - 31.349 WOULD THAT BE AN OBSTRUCTION OF
02:16 - 33.118 JUSTICE IF FACED, IF THEY STOOD
02:16 - 33.785 UP IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRIAL?
02:16 - 38.723 >>AND MADE THE SAME REMARK.
02:16 - 39.824 TO A JURY TO THE JUDGE AND THEN
02:16 - 43.662 WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM. I THINK
02:16 - 44.362 THAT COULD BE CONTEMPT BECAUSE
02:16 - 46.064 THE DESIGN OF THAT, THE INTENT
02:16 - 48.166 IS CLEAR, RIGHT? IT WAS
02:16 - 49.334 DESIGNED TO INTERRUPT THE
02:16 - 50.001 COURT. SO THE MISCONDUCT IS
02:16 - 55.407 PRESENT. THE INTENT IS PRESENT
02:16 - 56.141 AND THE DISRUPTION RIGHT?
02:16 - 58.109 GOOD TO BE SUFFICIENT WEARS
02:16 - 00.312 DESIGNED TO IMPAIR THE JURY.
02:17 - 01.513 I WOULD SUGGEST THAT IF IT WAS
02:17 - 03.615 BOISTEROUS OF THE DEFENDANT
02:17 - 05.517 IMMEDIATELY WALKED OUT OF THE
02:17 - 07.686 ROOM, THEN MAYBE NOT SUFFICIENT
02:17 - 08.486 IF THE JUDGE WOULDN'T SAY THAN
02:17 - 09.187 THE PERSON FROM THE RUE
02:17 - 12.257 INSTRUCTS THE JURY TO DISREGARD
02:17 - 18.330 AND
02:17 - 19.030 AREAS ARE NOT SURE IF THERE'S
02:17 - 20.131 A WAY FOR A SECOND TIME TO
02:17 - 22.701 CHARGE HIM.
02:17 - 25.770 >>I WOULD THINK NOT. I THINK
02:17 - 29.774 >>SHOULD THERE BE ANY MORE OR
02:17 - 30.775 LACK OF RESPECT? BECAUSE IT'S
02:17 - 33.578 A WAY FOR A CLOSE TO A NEW
02:17 - 34.512 REPORT. BUT LET ME LET ME
02:17 - 35.780 >>STEP BACK FROM IT. I ACTUALLY
02:17 - 37.716 THINK THAT IN THIS PARTICULAR
02:17 - 38.516 CASE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
02:17 - 39.985 DISRUPTION. IF THE DEFENDANT,
02:17 - 40.719 WHETHER IT'S A JURY OR A
02:17 - 43.722 WAIVER, STOOD UP IN THE MIDDLE
02:17 - 44.789 OF A HEARING? WELL, THE JURY IS
02:17 - 46.591 IN SESSION OF THE JUDGES
02:17 - 47.292 HEARING THE EVIDENCE AND SAID
02:17 - 50.929 THE SAME COMMENT AND THEN WALKS
02:17 - 53.064 OUT OF THE ROOM. I DO NOT
02:17 - 53.865 BELIEVE IF THE JUDGE SIMPLY
02:17 - 54.599 WARNS THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE.
02:17 - 57.869 NO FURTHER OUT FIRST WILL BE
02:17 - 58.737 TOLERATED. END ANY FURTHER
02:17 - 00.372 OUTBURST WILL RESULT IN A
02:18 - 00.972 CONTEMPT. SO THERE ISN'T
02:18 - 04.342 ADEQUATE DUE PROCESS. NOTICE
02:18 - 05.010 THERE IS ASSURANCE AND THEN
02:18 - 06.578 SOMEBODY FOLLOWS UP CONTINUES.
02:18 - 10.448 THAT WOULD BE CONTEMPT. WE HAVE
02:18 - 11.016 TO GIVE A ONE STRIKE.
02:18 - 11.816 >>ANOTHER WORD. WE'VE GOT TO
02:18 - 12.450 WARN PEOPLE NOW THAT THEY
02:18 - 13.885 SHOULDN'T COME INTO THE
02:18 - 15.820 COURTROOM, STAND UP IN A
02:18 - 17.856 PROCEEDING AND SAY SOMETHING
02:18 - 18.757 OUT LOUD OF DISPARAGING ABOUT
02:18 - 19.391 A JUDGE. THAT'S THE FIRST
02:18 - 21.826 STRIKE. WE HAVE TO GIVE HIM
02:18 - 22.460 ONE STRIKING A WARNING DUE
02:18 - 23.161 PROCESS BEFORE WE CAN ALL COME
02:18 - 25.363 CAN NOT JUST DISPARAGING BUT
02:18 - 28.366 EXCEEDINGLY PROFANE.
02:18 - 30.302 >>I WOULD. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT
02:18 - 32.270 IT IS CERTAINLY IMPROPER AND
02:18 - 33.471 THE JUDGES, THE ABILITY TO
02:18 - 35.540 CONTROL THE ROOM BY HAVING
02:18 - 38.476 SOMEBODY REMOVED BY MORNING,
02:18 - 39.110 RIGHT AND EVEN POTENTIALLY
02:18 - 40.345 OTHER DISCIPLINE TREATMENT.
02:18 - 42.414 YOU ARE BANNED FROM THE COURT.
02:18 - 44.449 YOU ARE ORDERED TO COME BEFORE
02:18 - 46.051 THE COURT AND APOLOGIZE.
02:18 - 46.685 THAT COULD BE A SITUATION
02:18 - 47.419 POUNDS. M ARCUS US FOLLOW THAT.
02:18 - 51.089 VERY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
02:18 - 52.223 IN THIS PARTICULAR SCENARIO.
02:18 - 55.260 >>HER HONOR AND STRUCK THAT
02:18 - 55.894 THE SHERIFF'S STAFF COURT
02:18 - 56.528 PROCEEDINGS INSTRUCTOR TO
02:18 - 58.430 SHERIFF AFTER A DISCUSSION AS
02:18 - 59.230 TO THE CONTENT OF THE COP.
02:18 - 01.933 THE COMMENT AND FOR IT REQUIRED
02:19 - 02.634 THE SHERIFFS TO GO OUTSIDE AND
02:19 - 05.970 THEN BRING THE INDIVIDUAL BACK
02:19 - 07.038 FOR THAT. THIS IS MY FACTUALLY
02:19 - 07.739 CORRECT. I THINK THAT SOMEONE
02:19 - 10.075 IN CORRECT YOUR HONOR, WHAT
02:19 - 10.408 ARE THE
02:19 - 11.109 >>THE FACTS? THE FACTS OF THE
02:19 - 14.179 CASE IS DEMONSTRATED ON THE
02:19 - 15.280 JUNE
02:19 - 16.081 16TH RECORD. AND I THINK THE
02:19 - 18.049 CASE LAW IS VERY CLEAR THAT
02:19 - 20.151 WHAT THE COURT SAYS IN HER
02:19 - 21.252 OPINION AND THEN POST TALK
02:19 - 23.254 REPRESENTATIONS OR NOT THE
02:19 - 24.255 RECORD THAT ARE SUFFICIENT
02:19 - 25.223 COMMONWEALTH, THE AFRICA, WHICH
02:19 - 25.890 WE SITE IN OUR BRIEFS, WHICH
02:19 - 27.192 THEN SLIDE COMMONWEALTH.
02:19 - 29.194 THE YOUNG MAKE IT VERY CLEAR
02:19 - 31.096 THAT THE RECORD IS WHAT
02:19 - 33.965 HAPPENED AT THE HEARING ITSELF.
02:19 - 35.100 THE CONTEMPT HEARING, NOT THE
02:19 - 36.101 OPINION. WHAT IN THE WHAT THE
02:19 - 37.535 RECORD INDICATES IS THAT AFTER
02:19 - 40.605 THE COURT RECESSED IS WHEN
02:19 - 41.873 MISTER
02:19 - 43.575 OUTLAW STOOD UP AND MADE HIS
02:19 - 44.909 COMMENT. THAT SHERIFF WAS WERE
02:19 - 46.511 IN THE ROOM. PEOPLE WERE IN
02:19 - 47.178 THE COURTROOM. THE COURT WAS
02:19 - 49.080 STILL IN. SO, YES, I WOULD
02:19 - 49.781 AGREE THAT PEOPLE WERE IN THE
02:19 - 52.817 ROOM. YES, THERE IS NO DISPUTE
02:19 - 54.319 ABOUT THAT.
02:19 - 57.489 THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED.
02:19 - 59.624 YES, PEOPLE ARE STILL IN
02:19 - 59.991 THE ROOM.
02:19 - 00.692 >>AND SO GREAT TO BE THE TRUMP
02:20 - 05.997 COURTNEY FINDINGS ON RECORD.
02:20 - 09.734 >>AT THE HEARING ON JUNE, 21.
02:20 - 10.101 >>CORRECT.
02:20 - 12.537 >>ANYBODY TAKE ANY OF SECTION
02:20 - 15.740 2 EXCEPTION TO HER FINDINGS?
02:20 - 17.842 NO, FOR SEVERAL REASONS.
02:20 - 20.145 FIRST OF ALL, BY THIS, WE CAN'T
02:20 - 20.845 BELIEVE THAT WHAT SHE SAID HAS
02:20 - 21.546 ACTUALLY OCCURRED. WELL, FIRST
02:20 - 23.515 OF ALL, AS I JUST SUGGESTED,
02:20 - 28.253 THAT'S NOT THAT WAS NOT THE
02:20 - 29.154 CONTEMPT HEARING. THE JUDGES
02:20 - 29.788 STATEMENTS AT THAT HEARING
02:20 - 32.557 WHICH WERE MEANT TO BE THE
02:20 - 34.392 SENTENCING HEARING.
02:20 - 35.393 ACCORDING TO THE COURT, SHE HAD
02:20 - 37.829 ALREADY FOUND MISTER OUT LONG
02:20 - 38.596 CONTEND THAT THE SHERIFF HAD
02:20 - 41.633 GIVEN TESTIMONY. THE AGREED
02:20 - 43.635 WITH WHAT THE JUDGE THAT HEARD.
02:20 - 44.335 >>THE SHERIFF ON THE CONTEMPT
02:20 - 46.871 HEARING. YES, YOUR HONOR.
02:20 - 49.874 BUT ON JUNE, 16TH, GREAT TO
02:20 - 50.575 THE JAN 16TH RECORD IS WHAT I
02:20 - 53.878 SUGGEST. AND I THINK OUR CASE
02:20 - 54.612 LAW IS VERY CLEAR. THIS COURT'S
02:20 - 55.280 CASE LAW ON AFRICA AND COME
02:20 - 55.980 WITH THE YOUNG, MAKE IT CLEAR
02:20 - 59.317 THAT THAT IS THE RECORD WE ARE
02:20 - 00.185 LOOKING AT, WHICH ALSO WOULD
02:21 - 02.187 INCLUDE THE MCLEAN TRANSCRIPT,
02:21 - 04.923 THE NOTES OF TESTIMONY FROM THE
02:21 - 05.590 SUPPRESSION HEARING AND THAT
02:21 - 07.592 WAS OCCURRING THAT DAY FOR
02:21 - 09.694 WHICH MISTER OUT WAS A
02:21 - 10.728 SPECTATOR. THE SHERIFF DID
02:21 - 13.798 TESTIFY AND THE SHERIFF SIMPLY
02:21 - 16.701 SAYS.
02:21 - 18.570 THE SOMEONE GOT UP MADE
02:21 - 21.706 REMARKS, THEN MR. OUTLAWED THAT
02:21 - 22.373 UP, WALKED OUT AND MADE HIS
02:21 - 22.707 COMMENT.
02:21 - 25.210 >>AND THE JUDGE, WHILE HE WAS
02:21 - 26.344 IN THE COURTROOM MADE
02:21 - 28.346 THE COMMENT. NOW THE COMMENT,
02:21 - 29.047 THE JUDGES SAY BLOUNT THE THE
02:21 - 31.115 YELLING IS NOT INDICATED IN THE
02:21 - 34.252 RECORD AT ALL, IT BECOMES MORE.
02:21 - 38.857 THE COURT.
02:21 - 42.093 IN HURT. 25 OPINION MAKES.
02:21 - 44.262 ADDS EMPHASIS TO THE DEGREE
02:21 - 45.897 LEVEL OF COMMENT AND CHANGES
02:21 - 46.531 THE EVIDENCE FROM WHAT WAS
02:21 - 50.468 PRESENTED ON THE RECORD ON THE
02:21 - 51.402 16TH TO OCCURRING WHILE SHE WAS
02:21 - 53.538 MAKING HER FINDINGS BEFORE THE
02:21 - 54.205 FINDINGS HAPPENED WHILE THEY
02:21 - 56.808 WERE STILL TALKING. THAT IS NOT
02:21 - 01.346 IN THE RECORD YEAR.
02:22 - 02.046 >>NOT SO LAWS TO PREVENT JUDGE
02:22 - 04.482 FROM SAYING, QUOTE, WHAT YOU
02:22 - 04.883 SAY.
02:22 - 05.984 >>THAT IS CORRECT. THAT YOU
02:22 - 08.853 HEARD SOMETHING SHE SHE PRETTY
02:22 - 11.122 MUCH.
02:22 - 14.092 >>WHAT HE SAID, BUT IT WASN'T
02:22 - 15.193 YELL BECAUSE OTHERWISE,
02:22 - 16.394 PRESUMABLY A JUDGE WOULDN'T SAY
02:22 - 20.098 WHAT DO YOU SAY? I DON'T KNOW.
02:22 - 22.000 I I CA I THINK THAT I WOULD
02:22 - 22.700 PROBABLY SAY WHAT DID YOU SAY?
02:22 - 23.668 YEAH, WE HAVE NEVER. WE HAVE
02:22 - 26.638 NEVER CONTESTED THE RECORD.
02:22 - 27.472 YOUR HONOR THAT THE COURT
02:22 - 27.839 STATEMENT.
02:22 - 29.674 >>FROM THE 16TH, THE STRONGLY
02:22 - 30.608 SUGGESTIVE THAT IT WAS HEARD
02:22 - 31.309 BY THE COURT. I THINK I THINK
02:22 - 38.182 ALL OF US CAN AGREE THAT WHAT?
02:22 - 39.417 >>WHICH IS UNDISPUTED WAS
02:22 - 40.718 IMPROPER OFFENSIVE. I MEAN, ED,
02:22 - 41.419 WHATEVER, NO, NO DISPUTE HERE.
02:22 - 42.120 YOUR HONOR. I'M I WANT TO IF I
02:22 - 43.755 COULD JUST BRING IT BACK TO
02:22 - 46.157 THE STATUTE.
02:22 - 53.798 >>YES, WHERE YOU LIVE, WHERE I
02:22 - 55.833 >>AUTHORIZES THE COURT TO
02:22 - 56.701 IMPOSE THIS HAMILTON
02:22 - 57.835 MISBEHAVIOR OF ANY PERSON IN
02:22 - 59.637 THE PRESENCE OF THE COURT THERE
02:22 - 00.605 BY OBSTRUCTING THE
02:23 - 01.706 ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE? NO, I
02:23 - 02.807 DON'T KNOW HOW WE WENT FROM THE
02:23 - 04.709 STATUTORY LANGUAGE TO WHAT THE
02:23 - 05.777 SUPREME COURT HAS SAID THAT
02:23 - 06.644 THIS COURT HAS SAID HAS TO BE
02:23 - 07.245 WHAT'S UP SIGNIFICANT OR
02:23 - 09.581 SUBSTANTIAL INTERRUPTION OF
02:23 - 10.248 PROCEEDING. I'M NOT SURE HOW
02:23 - 10.949 THAT JIBES WITH THE LANGUAGE,
02:23 - 13.818 BUT I'LL GO WITH WHAT THE COURT
02:23 - 14.352 SAID.
02:23 - 18.289 I WAS CONFUSED BY THE RECORD.
02:23 - 21.159 >>AND AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT.
02:23 - 25.129 AS FAR AS I CAN TELL BETWEEN
02:23 - 25.763 YOU ALL, EVERYBODY SORT OF
02:23 - 28.266 AGREES THAT THIS HAPPENED
02:23 - 30.201 DURING A RECESS.
02:23 - 31.869 AND IF IT HAPPENED DURING THE
02:23 - 32.537 RECESS, MAYBE THE JUDGE WAS
02:23 - 35.473 PHYSICALLY STILL THERE BECAUSE
02:23 - 36.140 THE JUDGE DIDN'T GET OFF THE
02:23 - 37.175 BENCH OR WHATEVER. BUT THE
02:23 - 41.145 COURT WASN'T THERE. THE COURT
02:23 - 42.246 WAS IN RECESS. THE COURT WAS IN
02:23 - 44.048 RECESS AND THAT'S PARTICULARLY
02:23 - 44.749 IMPORTANT, YOUR HONOR, BECAUSE
02:23 - 47.051 THE PROCEEDING ITSELF, THE
02:23 - 48.119 THING THAT WAS
02:23 - 49.087 >>THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT WAS
02:23 - 51.055 THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH IS
02:23 - 52.991 WHAT OUR COURT HAS SAID.
02:23 - 53.825 YOU FOLK AROUND IS A PROCEED
02:23 - 54.525 AND HAS TO BE INTERRUPTED EVEN
02:23 - 56.661 THOUGH THE STATUTE DOESN'T SAY
02:23 - 59.631 THAT SUCH SAYS ADMINISTRATION
02:23 - 01.699 OF JUSTICE. BUT WE HAVE SAID
02:24 - 02.467 PROCEEDING THERE WAS NO
02:24 - 03.134 PROCEEDING GOING ON. THAT IS
02:24 - 05.536 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. THE
02:24 - 06.170 PROCEEDING HEAD WAS WAS IN
02:24 - 08.840 INTERMISSION. IT WAS A RECESS
02:24 - 13.645 WHEN THIS OCCURRED.
02:24 - 14.345 >>SAY THAT. BUT IT'S NOT CLEAR
02:24 - 15.079 FROM I PEOPLE WERE STILL IN THE
02:24 - 16.180 COURT. PEOPLE WERE STILL IN
02:24 - 19.784 THE COURTROOM. HERE'S HERE'S A
02:24 - 20.718 GOOD TOO. PART OF THE RECORD TO
02:24 - 23.821 LOOK AT TO HELP MAKE THAT POINT
02:24 - 26.658 CLEAR
02:24 - 27.291 I BELIEVE IT'S ON PAGE. 43
02:24 - 27.959 WHERE THE AMICUS POINTS OUT
02:24 - 31.562 OF THE MCLEAN TRANSCRIPTS FROM
02:24 - 33.431 JUNE 16TH IN WHICH THE COURT
02:24 - 34.766 POINTS OUT AND THE MUCUS
02:24 - 35.400 SUGGEST THERE WAS A BRIEF
02:24 - 38.870 INTERRUPTION IN THE PROCESS OR
02:24 - 39.570 IN THE PROCEEDING WHERE THERE
02:24 - 40.271 IS AN APPARENT THAT A CULL BY
02:24 - 42.974 THE COURT REPORTER, IT SAYS
02:24 - 44.275 INTERRUPTION IN COURT.
02:24 - 45.309 AND THE COURT PRIOR SIMPLY
02:24 - 48.212 SAYS, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT TALKING
02:24 - 50.148 AND PROCEEDINGS CONTINUE.
02:24 - 52.183 WE KNOW THAT THE STENOGRAPHER
02:24 - 53.284 WAS VERY MUCH NOT ONLY CAPABLE
02:24 - 53.885 BUT WILLING TO INDICATE
02:24 - 55.586 INTERRUPTIONS IN THE
02:24 - 58.356 PROCEEDINGS AND DID NOT FOR
02:24 - 59.957 ANY INDICATION OF THAT. WHEN
02:24 - 02.393 MR OUT. LOT MADE HIS COMMENT.
02:25 - 05.463 IN ADDITION, WE KNOW THAT THAT
02:25 - 06.831 RECESS.
02:25 - 08.299 DESPITE THE COURT'S OPINION
02:25 - 13.671 SUGGESTING THAT THE MR MCLEAN'S
02:25 - 15.373 RECUSAL REQUEST WAS FOR
02:25 - 17.341 BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL BIAS
02:25 - 18.076 CONCERNS. THE RECUSAL WAS ABOUT
02:25 - 19.944 JURY VERSUS A WAIVER IN TALKING
02:25 - 20.611 TO KLEIN AFTER A MOTION AND
02:25 - 22.580 WHETHER IF IT WAS A WAIVER
02:25 - 24.482 BECAUSE THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS,
02:25 - 26.484 HE NEEDED TO SPEAK TO HIS
02:25 - 28.486 CLIENT. WHAT HAPPENS, THOUGH,
02:25 - 30.521 IS WE REMARKABLY HAVE TIME
02:25 - 31.656 STAMPS FOR HOW LONG THAT RECESS
02:25 - 32.356 ACTUALLY LASTED SIMPLY BECAUSE
02:25 - 34.659 COUNCIL DECIDED TO TELL THE
02:25 - 35.693 COURT WHAT TIME IT WAS. IT WAS
02:25 - 39.697 4.35 PRIOR TO TAKING A RECESS.
02:25 - 42.233 THEN THEY COME BACK AFTER
02:25 - 42.834 RECESS WHEN ALL OF THIS
02:25 - 43.534 SUPPOSEDLY HAPPENED STRAIGHT.
02:25 - 44.202 WHEN WE KNOW MISTER OUTLAW'S
02:25 - 46.504 STANDS UP MAKES A STATEMENT
02:25 - 47.238 AND LEAVES AND THEN VOLUNTARILY
02:25 - 51.175 RETURNS DURING THAT PERIOD.
02:25 - 53.344 LATER AND HE APOLOGIZED TO THE
02:25 - 53.945 COURT AND THEN THE COURT
02:25 - 55.446 IMMEDIATELY RE COMMENCE IS ITS
02:25 - 57.482 BUSINESS. ITS PROCEEDINGS.
02:25 - 58.816 THE CASES ROLLED TO THE NEXT
02:25 - 02.386 DAY AND THERE IS NO REFERENCE
02:26 - 02.954 OF ANY DISRUPTION, ANY
02:26 - 05.790 IMPAIRMENT OF ITS BUSINESS.
02:26 - 08.860 NOTHING OCCUR DURING THAT
02:26 - 10.394 RECENT RIGHT.
02:26 - 12.230 IT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT.
02:26 - 12.930 I'M NOT SUGGESTING IT WAS OK.
02:26 - 14.298 AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE
02:26 - 14.999 OUT IS IT SEEMS TO BE THAT WE
02:26 - 16.100 COULD SAY THAT THE GENERAL
02:26 - 22.340 ASSEMBLY MET TO ENCOMPASS.
02:26 - 22.907 >>ANNIE. ANY OF THAT?
02:26 - 23.441 >>THAT OBSTRUCTS THE
02:26 - 24.075 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
02:26 - 26.911 AND I COULD SAY THAT EVEN UNDER
02:26 - 28.012 THE STATUTE THAT
02:26 - 29.847 MIGHT INCLUDE AN OUTBURST IN A
02:26 - 30.782 COURTROOM WHERE EVEN A COURT IS
02:26 - 31.616 IN RECESS. IF THE JUDGE IS
02:26 - 32.316 STILL THERE BECAUSE ONE COULD
02:26 - 34.986 ARGUE AN INSULT TO THE AND THEN
02:26 - 37.922 SOUGHT TO A JUDGE IN THE MIDDLE
02:26 - 38.723 OF THE PUBLIC IS THAT
02:26 - 39.223 OBSTRUCTION OF THE
02:26 - 40.324 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN
02:26 - 42.426 THE MOST GENERAL SENSE. BUT
02:26 - 42.994 UNDER OUR PRESTON, OUR
02:26 - 46.297 PRESIDENT TIES IT TO PROCEED.
02:26 - 48.299 AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF JUSTICE
02:26 - 52.303 MCCAFFREY WAS GIVING A CLE IN
02:26 - 53.471 A COURTROOM AND STANDING UP IN
02:26 - 54.172 FRONT OF EVERYBODY AND SOMEONE
02:26 - 56.641 WALKED IN AND NOT THAT THIS
02:26 - 58.176 WOULD HAPPEN.
02:26 - 01.979 LOUD YELLED A PROFANITY.
02:27 - 03.181 NO ONE WOULD SUGGEST THAT
02:27 - 04.849 JUSTICE MCCAFFREY COULD HOLD
02:27 - 05.516 THAT PERSON AND TAPPED UNDER
02:27 - 08.152 THE STATUTE. I MIGHT NOT COME
02:27 - 09.887 OUT FOR A NIGHT OUT RIGHT?
02:27 - 10.788 >>I AGREE WITH THAT. YOUR
02:27 - 11.489 HONOR, THE PROCEEDING. I ALSO
02:27 - 14.025 WANT TO NOTE THAT I HAVE GIVEN
02:27 - 16.594 CL EASON.
02:27 - 17.328 AND I'M NOT TRYING TO ENCOURAGE
02:27 - 18.896 ANYONE TO BELITTLE YOUR HONOR.
02:27 - 19.297 SEE ALLEYS.
02:27 - 31.275 >>I'M SURE THEY'RE WONDERFUL.
02:27 - 32.043 >>PARTICULAR CASE, WHAT ARE OUR
02:27 - 34.178 BILL THAT YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL
02:27 - 34.879 CASES? YOU KNOW, THIS WAS THE
02:27 - 37.148 END OF THE DAY. THIS WAS THE
02:27 - 37.815 LAST CASE ON THE LIST. THERE
02:27 - 40.918 WAS NO FURTHER BUSINESS OTHER
02:27 - 41.519 THAN TO ADDRESS MISTER.
02:27 - 42.153 >>MCLEAN'S DECISION ABOUT
02:27 - 43.621 WHETHER HE WANTED TO WAIVE OR
02:27 - 47.325 A JURY. THAT WAS IT. THAT WAS
02:27 - 49.894 THE ONLY QUESTION
02:27 - 50.595 NOBODY DISCUSSED THIS MATTER.
02:27 - 53.965 THAT OCCURRED DURING THE RECESS
02:27 - 55.766 IN THAT CONVERSATION BEYOND THE
02:27 - 56.701 COURT SIMPLY ASKING MR.
02:27 - 57.435 MCLEAN'S COUNCIL PAY SERVE WITH
02:27 - 58.135 YOU. MY MAY BE STICKING AROUND
02:27 - 00.371 BECAUSE I'VE GOT SOME BUSINESS.
02:28 - 01.372 I'D LIKE YOU TO ADDRESS WHICH
02:28 - 04.375 BY IMPLICATION SUGGESTS HE
02:28 - 05.376 WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS CASE
02:28 - 06.344 MARKS. I MEAN, IN A ROUGH, BUT
02:28 - 07.411 I WANT TO KIND OF CIRCLE BACK A
02:28 - 08.045 LITTLE BIT TO WHAT JUSTICE
02:28 - 09.947 PROPS AND WAS SURE I WANT TO
02:28 - 10.381 MAKE SURE YOU.
02:28 - 12.383 >>I UNDERSTAND YOUR ARGUMENT IS
02:28 - 13.317 WE HAVE TO WRITE AN OPINION.
02:28 - 15.186 YES. SO WHAT'S YOUR OPINION
02:28 - 16.754 THAT IF THE COURT IS IN RECESS
02:28 - 17.421 AND MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS
02:28 - 19.757 PARTICULAR EVENT WAS THAT WAS
02:28 - 20.892 THE MOST THIS PRESS. A JUDGE
02:28 - 21.759 DENIED A PUTTER FACTS AND
02:28 - 22.393 CONCLUSIONS OF LAW ON THE
02:28 - 24.595 RECORD SAYING THIS QUARTER TO
02:28 - 25.229 TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE RECESS.
02:28 - 28.099 AT THAT POINT, YOUR CLIENT
02:28 - 28.733 STOOD UP, SAID SOMETHING.
02:28 - 29.433 IS IT YOUR CONTENTION THAT IF
02:28 - 31.702 THE COURT IS IN RECESS, THERE
02:28 - 32.803 CAN
02:28 - 33.871 BE NO CONDUCT THAT
02:28 - 35.039 SIGNIFICANTLY DISRUPT SLEEP
02:28 - 35.740 OR OBSTRUCT JUSTICE. NOT AS A
02:28 - 39.076 CATEGORICAL RULE. THAT'S NOT
02:28 - 40.044 THAT'S NOT MY POSITION TO SOME
02:28 - 42.113 OF YOUR HONOR. SOME OF THIS
02:28 - 43.080 COURT'S CASES OF SUGGESTED THAT
02:28 - 44.949 WHEN THE COURT IS IN BREAK, BUT
02:28 - 47.218 IN THE MIDST OF A PROCEEDING
02:28 - 47.885 FOR IT'S A FIGHT BREAKS OUT.
02:28 - 48.586 WHILE THE COURT IS NOT WHAT I
02:28 - 50.855 WAS THINKING, FIGHT BREAKS OUT
02:28 - 51.956 IN THE HALLWAY. WE SEEN THAT
02:28 - 52.290 HAPPEN.
02:28 - 53.591 >>ONE OR 2 TIMES. SO I MAY COME
02:28 - 54.258 WITH THE MOODY IS SORT OF A
02:28 - 54.926 PERFECT EXAMPLE. AND THAT'S
02:28 - 58.229 PROBABLY A MORE RECENT CASE
02:28 - 00.164 THAT IS FAMILIAR. IT WAS PRIOR
02:29 - 00.798 TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE
02:29 - 01.499 ACTUAL HEARING, THE WITNESSES
02:29 - 03.301 AND NOT YET BEEN CALLED, BUT IT
02:29 - 04.001 ENTERED THE ROOM GREY. AT THAT
02:29 - 07.672 POINT, YOU HAVE A FIGHT THAT
02:29 - 08.372 BREAKS OUT AFTER SOME ARGUMENT
02:29 - 12.743 BACK AND FORTH. BUT IT WAS A
02:29 - 14.745 3 HOUR DELAY IN THE HEARINGS.
02:29 - 15.846 COMMENCING THAT WAS A
02:29 - 16.881 DISRUPTION BECAUSE IT PREVENTED
02:29 - 20.184 THE COURT FROM CONDUCTING ITS
02:29 - 20.918 BUSINESS IN AN ORDERLY FASHION.
02:29 - 25.423 HARTMAN POINT WOULD BE CAUSE ME
02:29 - 26.624 >>ARE ARE.
02:29 - 27.525 >>UNDER THAT RULE, WE JUST
02:29 - 30.328 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE THAT THE
02:29 - 32.596 RULE IS JUST WAY TO THE HAMMER
02:29 - 33.464 GOES DOWN AND THEY SAY IN
02:29 - 34.165 RECESS AND WHILE THE COURTROOM
02:29 - 35.833 AS OFF PHIL, WE'RE STILL
02:29 - 39.003 SITTING ON THE BENCH. YOU HAVE
02:29 - 44.041 CARTE BLANCHE TO.
02:29 - 45.209 THROW ANY TYPE OF APP. THAT'S
02:29 - 45.876 TO US. YOU KNOW, IT'S INCUR
02:29 - 48.379 LONGER. IT IS NOT AN
02:29 - 49.213 ENCOURAGEMENT
02:29 - 50.281 TO THAT.
02:29 - 50.915 >>THE THERE ARE SANCTIONS
02:29 - 53.851 SCHOOLS. CERTAINLY THERE ARE
02:29 - 55.052 SANCTIONS LESS THAN CONTEMPT.
02:29 - 57.989 A DEFENDANT WHO SAYS THAT AT
02:29 - 59.924 THE DURING RECESS WHO WAS A
02:29 - 00.658 SPECTATOR, FOR INSTANCE, VERSUS
02:30 - 01.392 THE DEFENDANT THEMSELVES WERE A
02:30 - 03.961 PARTY TO THE CASE, LET ALONE
02:30 - 05.563 AN ATTORNEY. BUT A SPECTATOR.
02:30 - 07.965 THEY'RE THERE BECAUSE THEY WANT
02:30 - 10.101 TO ACT TO SUPPORT AND SEE AND
02:30 - 11.135 THEY WANT TO SUPPORT THEIR
02:30 - 14.105 FRIEND OR AN ACQUAINTANCE OR A
02:30 - 15.206 PARTY OR SIMPLY OBSERVE THE
02:30 - 16.007 COURT SANCTION INITIAL
02:30 - 18.075 SANCTIONS REMOVAL FROM THE ROOM
02:30 - 18.809 AND CHASTISE EVERYONE ELSE
02:30 - 21.946 FURTHER OUT. FIRST FURTHER
02:30 - 23.247 STATEMENT, GREAT.
02:30 - 24.949 IS PRESENTED TO THIS COURT.
02:30 - 25.649 SO YOU HAVE THAT WARNING END.
02:30 - 28.686 IT WOULD CAUSE FURTHER
02:30 - 35.226 DISRUPTION.
02:30 - 36.027 >>ALONG WITH YOUR LIFE.
02:30 - 40.164 >>WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE TRACTOR.
02:30 - 43.067 INDICATE THAT THE COURTROOM
02:30 - 43.768 BETTER BE RELAXED AND STOP IT.
02:30 - 50.408 >>SO WE'RE OFF TO A HOME IN A
02:30 - 56.013 SO AGAIN.
02:30 - 02.787 >>AS
02:31 - 04.688 WE ALWAYS SAY THAT TRY
02:31 - 05.289 >>ONE MIGHT SUGGEST THAT
02:31 - 05.990 THEY'RE NOT THE FACTS WITH THE
02:31 - 08.559 TRIAL COURT SAYS REGARDING THE
02:31 - 09.894 OTHER.
02:31 - 11.862 ACTIONS BY INDIVIDUALS SUCH
02:31 - 12.496 AS DETAINING SOMEBODY AND
02:31 - 14.632 TAKING A PHONE. THOSE ARE NOT
02:31 - 15.833 THE FACTS OF THE RECORD.
02:31 - 16.500 THAT'S WHAT THE TRIAL COURT
02:31 - 18.903 SAYS. IN HER OPINION. THEY DO
02:31 - 19.503 NOT APPEAR IN THE MCLEAN
02:31 - 20.838 TRANSCRIPT. THEY DO NOT APPEAR
02:31 - 21.505 ON JUNE 16TH AT THE CONTEMPT
02:31 - 24.308 HEARING COMING OFF THE AFRICA
02:31 - 25.443 IS IS.
02:31 - 28.712 I THINK PERFECTLY ANALOGOUS IN
02:31 - 31.348 THIS SITUATION IN AFRICA, THIS
02:31 - 35.386 COURT REVERSED CONTEMPT DESPITE
02:31 - 36.387 NOBODY DISPUTING RATE THAT IT
02:31 - 38.456 WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THE
02:31 - 39.056 DEFENDANTS IN AFRICA HAD
02:31 - 39.824 REPEATEDLY COMMITTED
02:31 - 40.491 DISPARAGING REMARKS ALL WITH
02:31 - 42.960 THE DESIGN TO IMPAIR THE
02:31 - 45.529 FAIRNESS IN THAT PROCEEDING
02:31 - 46.130 DURING THE TRIAL ITSELF.
02:31 - 46.831 BUT THE JUDGE AND WAITED TILL
02:31 - 49.967 AFTER THE END OF THE PROCEEDING
02:31 - 50.601 THAT DAY. HOW THE CONTEMPT
02:31 - 52.837 HEARING AND SIMPLY STATED
02:31 - 54.572 NOTHING ON THE RECORD AND THE
02:31 - 55.172 REMARKS THAT WERE LATER
02:31 - 56.774 INDICATED IN THE OPINION THAT
02:31 - 59.410 WERE THE BASIS, THE CONTENTS
02:31 - 01.412 DID NOT APPEAR IN THE
02:32 - 04.515 UNDERLYING RECORD FROM THE
02:32 - 05.382 ACTUAL HEARING. AND THIS COURT
02:32 - 08.419 REVERSED THE CONTENTS BECAUSE
02:32 - 09.320 DUE PROCESS REQUIRES THAT THIS
02:32 - 12.356 IS A CRIMINAL CONVICTION.
02:32 - 13.290 IT IS THE TRIAL BE HEARING THE
02:32 - 16.360 STATEMENT OF RECORD BY THE
02:32 - 17.094 JUDGE AT THE TIME OF THE
02:32 - 17.761 CONVICTION. THAT RESULTS IN
02:32 - 19.697 WHAT EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT OR
02:32 - 21.098 INSUFFICIENT FOR THE CRIMINAL
02:32 - 22.099 CONTEMPT WHO WAS IN THIS CASE.
02:32 - 26.337 YOU DO HAVE A SITUATION WHERE
02:32 - 28.439 THE JUDGE SAYS 2, 3, SAYS TO
02:32 - 29.540 PEOPLE, QUOTE, LADIES IN THE
02:32 - 31.175 BACK PAGE. 49, I BELIEVE
02:32 - 31.742 JUSTICE DAUGHERTY THE
02:32 - 35.112 TRANSCRIPT, RIGHT? LADIES IN
02:32 - 36.313 THE BACK
02:32 - 39.416 YOU KNOW, WE DO NOT DO NOT
02:32 - 41.318 CONTINUE HAVE QUIET, RIGHT.
02:32 - 42.319 BUT THERE'S NO WARNING ABOUT
02:32 - 43.420 WHAT WILL HAPPEN. AND THE JUDGE
02:32 - 44.321 NEVER SPECIFIES THAT MR.
02:32 - 45.189 OUTLAW WAS PRESENT IN THE ROOM
02:32 - 45.923 AND THAT HAPPENED OR THAT HE
02:32 - 48.058 WAS CONNECTED TO THOSE
02:32 - 49.059 INDIVIDUALS IN THE TRANSCRIPT.
02:32 - 51.762 THERE'S NO SIMPLE EVIDENCE TO
02:32 - 52.429 SUGGEST THAT CONTEMPT WOULD
02:32 - 56.167 OCCUR. AND ALSO THIS WAS ALSO
02:32 - 56.867 DURING THE RECESS, MR. OUTLOOK
02:32 - 59.537 FURTHER CAME BACK TO APOLOGIZE.
02:32 - 02.072 SIMILARLY, LIKE?
02:33 - 02.740 WILLIAMS, THE WILLIAMS, YOU
02:33 - 05.142 HAVE A STATEMENT UNDER A
02:33 - 08.245 BREATH. THE ATTORNEY, YOU KNOW,
02:33 - 11.115 DID NOT
02:33 - 11.715 DEMONSTRATE A REFUSAL TO
02:33 - 12.416 ACKNOWLEDGE ARE DOUBLING DOWN
02:33 - 13.884 ON THAT COMMENT UNDER HIS
02:33 - 16.954 BREATH IN THIS COURT SAID,
02:33 - 17.655 LOOK, PROFANITY HAS NO PLACE.
02:33 - 18.389 STAR OTHER SANCTIONS. MAYBE THE
02:33 - 20.658 COURT SHOULD HAVE REFERRED INTO
02:33 - 37.808 THE DISCIPLINARY BOARD.
02:33 - 40.144 >>PART
02:33 - 43.247 OF
02:33 - 59.463 >>AND NOT HER.
02:33 - 00.831 NO, YOUR HONOR. IT'S NOT
02:34 - 01.465 BECAUSE THE COURT REPORTER
02:34 - 03.968 DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN OR
02:34 - 06.437 TRANSCRIBE IT.
02:34 - 07.938 >>THE CONTEMPT HEARING WHEN THE
02:34 - 08.606 JUDGE DETERMINED THAT MISTER
02:34 - 11.442 OUT LOT, WHICH SHE CLAIMS TO
02:34 - 12.610 DETERMINE STROUT I WAS
02:34 - 13.877 IN CONTEMPT. SHE PLACED FACTS
02:34 - 14.678 ON THE RECORD BECAUSE THIS
02:34 - 15.879 OCCURS IN FRONT OF THE COURT
02:34 - 19.750 WHEN IT'S OFTEN DIRECTIONAL
02:34 - 20.884 CONTEMPT IS DESIGNED TO BE
02:34 - 22.853 SOMETHING THAT JUDGES CAN TAKE
02:34 - 23.554 IMMEDIATE ACTION TO QUELL THE
02:34 - 24.922 DISTURBANCE TO ENSURE STABILITY
02:34 - 27.691 MOVING FORWARD AND SURE THE
02:34 - 29.593 BUSINESS GOES ON WHEN THAT
02:34 - 31.428 IMMEDIATE CONTEMPT HAPPENS,
02:34 - 32.463 THE COURT AT THE VERY LEAST FOR
02:34 - 37.067 DUE PROCESS HAS TO PLACE ON
02:34 - 37.468 THE RECORD.
02:34 - 38.369 >>WHAT OCCUR?
02:34 - 40.204 >>SUCH THAT IT IS SUFFICIENT
02:34 - 43.140 TO JUSTIFY MEETING THE ELEMENTS
02:34 - 43.874 OF CRIMINAL CONTEMPT. SEE IT.
02:34 - 46.944 SHE PUSHED AND THE SHERIFF
02:34 - 47.811 TESTIFIED AS WELL.
02:34 - 48.779 >>BUT THOUGH WHAT THE TESTIMONY
02:34 - 51.982 WAS TO IS NOT SUFFICIENT FOR
02:34 - 52.549 CRIMINAL CONTEMPT. THE
02:34 - 56.053 TESTIMONY HERE IS FOLLOWING
02:34 - 57.054 THE END OF THE CASE. HE, QUOTE,
02:34 - 58.355 HAD HIS OUTBURST IN THE ROOM AS
02:34 - 01.258 A RESULT, HE MADE THE STATEMENT
02:35 - 03.227 THAT WAS DIRECTED TOWARDS ME.
02:35 - 05.329 HE LEFT THE ROOM THAT UNDER HER
02:35 - 05.929 TO GO ON AND SAY AND IT
02:35 - 08.499 DISRUPTED PROCEEDINGS AND THAT
02:35 - 09.500 SATISFIED THE CRITERIA FOR
02:35 - 09.867 CRIMINAL.
02:35 - 10.634 >>THAT'S THE CONCLUSION THAT
02:35 - 11.335 IT DISRUPTED PROCEEDINGS ISN'T
02:35 - 16.907 THE FACT THAT'S WHAT THE JUDGE.
02:35 - 17.841 >>DECIDED IT DID. ALTHOUGH
02:35 - 18.809 THERE'S NO EVIDENCE THAT IT
02:35 - 21.512 ACTUALLY DISRUPTED ANYTHING
02:35 - 22.346 WHEN THERE IS A NOT ONLY A
02:35 - 23.580 RECESS OCCURRING, BUT YOU HAVE
02:35 - 27.318 A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
02:35 - 29.386 WITH NO STATEMENTS ABOUT THAT
02:35 - 32.222 MR. MCLEAN'S CASE BEING UNABLE
02:35 - 33.390 TO MOVE FORWARD. THERE WAS NO
02:35 - 35.492 PREJUDICE OR IMPAIRMENT TO
02:35 - 36.193 FAIRNESS OF THE MOVING FORWARD
02:35 - 36.827 THAT PROCEEDING. I HAVE TO
02:35 - 37.928 AGREE WITH YOU. BUT WHEN YOU
02:35 - 41.965 LOOK AT HER,
02:35 - 42.800 >>STATEMENTS IN THE SECOND
02:35 - 43.400 CONTEMPT HEARING OR THE
02:35 - 44.068 CONTEMPT SENTENCING HEARING.
02:35 - 45.803 I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE
02:35 - 46.937 CALLING IT.
02:35 - 51.041 >>THE JUDGE TALKED ABOUT HOW
02:35 - 51.775 >>THE.
02:35 - 53.711 >>IT'S TOUGH ENDED STATEMENT
02:35 - 55.946 WAS NOT JUST OFFENSIVE TO HER
02:35 - 00.417 BUT OFFENSIVE TO WOMEN
02:36 - 01.685 OFFENSIVE TO HIM.
02:36 - 02.286 >>THE THE
02:36 - 02.853 >>DIGNITY OF OF COURT
02:36 - 04.421 PROCEEDINGS. SHE SHE GAVE A
02:36 - 07.825 PRETTY DETAILED EXPLANATION
02:36 - 10.594 OF HOW.
02:36 - 12.730 HER VIEW THAT STATEMENT WAS
02:36 - 15.099 CONTEMPTUOUS. NOW, I THINK YOUR
02:36 - 15.733 BEST ARGUMENT IS WHERE THE
02:36 - 18.435 PROCEEDINGS TO BE DISTRACTED,
02:36 - 21.805 PERHAPS NOT.
02:36 - 24.975 >>I AM NOT SUGGESTING THAT THE
02:36 - 26.043 COMMENTS
02:36 - 28.479 WAS INCREDIBLY OFFENSE AND HAD
02:36 - 29.079 AND A DEFENSIVENESS THAT
02:36 - 34.151 >>MIGHT HAVE PERMEATED BEYOND
02:36 - 36.220 THE JUDGE HERSELF. NONETHELESS,
02:36 - 37.121 IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT IN A
02:36 - 37.855 CENTURY OR MORE OF THIS COURT'S
02:36 - 40.090 OPINIONS AND EVEN THE UNITED
02:36 - 40.657 STATES SUPREME COURT'S
02:36 - 41.024 OPINIONS.
02:36 - 43.694 >>OFFENSE ALONE IS NOT THE
02:36 - 44.828 MEASURE
02:36 - 45.362 OF OBSTRUCTION, THE
02:36 - 47.498 DESTRUCTION. IT'S NOT SIMPLY
02:36 - 48.232 HOW MUCH OFFENSE WHEN TAKES BUT
02:36 - 50.634 GETS WHETHER THE PROCEEDINGS OR
02:36 - 52.870 THE BUSINESS WILL BE RENDERED
02:36 - 54.972 UNFAIR, SUCH THAT THE JURY WILL
02:36 - 57.007 BE UNABLE TO CONTINUE WITH
02:36 - 58.909 IMPARTIALLY, RIGHT? IF THEY
02:36 - 59.510 HAVE BEEN INTIMIDATED OR
02:36 - 00.177 SOMEHOW BIAS OR IF THE JUDGE
02:37 - 01.845 HAS BEEN INTIMIDATED OR SOMEHOW
02:37 - 02.579 BIASED IN THE PROCEEDINGS, NONE
02:37 - 08.819 OF THAT WAS PRESERVED FOR IT.
02:37 - 09.453 >>OR IF THE OBSTRUCTION IS
02:37 - 10.087 PREVENTING THE COURT FROM
02:37 - 11.555 COMING BACK INTO CIGARETTE HAVE
02:37 - 14.758 BEEN RECENT. ABSOLUTELY.
02:37 - 16.727 AND ALL OF THAT IS WHAT THE LAW
02:37 - 18.929 REQUIRES. AND IT DID NOT OCCUR
02:37 - 19.563 HERE. NO ONE IS TRYING TO
02:37 - 20.264 SUGGEST THAT THE COMMENTS HAVE
02:37 - 23.066 A PLACE IN THE COURT. THEY DO
02:37 - 43.086 NOT.
02:37 - 43.787 >>FINDINGS OF FACT, THE COURT
02:37 - 44.521 DOES NOT INDICATE ON JUNE 16TH,
02:37 - 46.156 BUT SHE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF
02:37 - 49.193 MAKING THE FINDINGS OF FACT
02:37 - 49.893 THE RECESS HAD TAKE THE COURT
02:37 - 52.062 AT RECESS AT THAT POINT AND
02:37 - 54.298 MR. MCLEAN'S TRANSCRIPTS ALSO
02:37 - 55.432 INDICATE THE FINDINGS OF FACTS
02:37 - 57.401 HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THERE IS
02:37 - 59.069 NO INTERRUPTION TO SECURE.
02:37 - 00.237 THE SUPERIOR COURT SAID THE
02:38 - 02.406 SPIRIT COURT'S OPINION SAYS IN
02:38 - 03.407 THE MIDDLE OF THE FINDINGS.
02:38 - 04.107 I AGREE. I THINK THAT IN THIS
02:38 - 07.611 DIRECT ARE JUST ON POPP'S
02:38 - 08.245 CAUGHT OFFSIDE ON HOLD ON.
02:38 - 08.979 >>JUSTICE PROPS. AND MY MY ONLY
02:38 - 10.414 MY ONLY POINT IS THIS. IT'S THE
02:38 - 11.348 SUPERIOR COURT'S OPINION THAT
02:38 - 12.149 SAYS THE TRIAL COURT WAS IN
02:38 - 12.950 THE MIDDLE OF THE FINDINGS OF
02:38 - 58.996 FACT. OKAY. JUST A STOCKING.
02:38 - 21.985 >>AND THAT SEEMED TO BE THAT
02:39 - 23.954 >>IN THAT.
02:39 - 25.923 >>YEAH. I KNOW WHAT YOU CALL
02:39 - 26.557 YOU OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY
02:39 - 27.224 GENERAL IS REPRESENTING THE
02:39 - 27.925 TESTIMONY OR BECAUSE THAT'S A
02:39 - 29.493 COMPLETE CONTRADICTION TO YOUR
02:39 - 32.663 POSITION THAT THE CAN THE
02:39 - 34.831 PROCEEDING CONCLUDED. SO.
02:39 - 35.499 >>THE RECORD INDICATES FROM
02:39 - 37.768 JUNE 16TH, BUT I'M NOT SURE
02:39 - 41.171 WHICH NOTES THE MCLEAN. PAGE
02:39 - 45.676 4 TO 6.
02:39 - 47.077 JUNE 16 HEARING.
02:39 - 49.179 MR. FIRST, I WOULD SUGGEST MR.
02:39 - 51.148 MCLEAN'S HEARING INDICATES THAT
02:39 - 53.183 THE STATEMENT ITSELF VERY
02:39 - 53.850 CLEARLY THE FINDINGS OF FACT
02:39 - 55.986 CONTINUE BEFORE THE RECESS.
02:39 - 56.653 WORST WAS TAKEN. THERE IS NO
02:39 - 59.489 INTERRUPTION IN THE PROCEEDING
02:39 - 04.461 INDICATED THERE.
02:40 - 09.700 JUNE 16TH PAGE 4 TO 6.
02:40 - 13.303 I DO NOT BELIEVE.
02:40 - 14.805 SAYS THE DEPUTY SAYS THEY ARE.
02:40 - 16.573 YOU READING, SIR? I'M JUST I'M
02:40 - 19.810 LOOKING FOR WHERE SPECIFICALLY
02:40 - 22.846 IT WOULD INDICATE ON PAGE.
02:40 - 27.417 46, I AM.
02:40 - 37.127 NOT SEEING.
02:40 - 37.794 THE JUDGE SAYS ON PAGE 6 AND
02:40 - 38.462 WAS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU
02:40 - 41.531 HEARD THIS GENTLEMAN SAY AFTER
02:40 - 43.066 I MADE MY DECISION?
02:40 - 44.234 THE DEPUTY? WELL, FIRST
02:40 - 44.901 GENTLEMAN GOT UP, MADE SOME
02:40 - 45.569 REMARKS WALKED OUT AND THIS
02:40 - 48.438 GENTLEMAN GOT UP AND SAID THE
02:40 - 48.805 COMMENT.
02:40 - 50.907 AND THE COURT THE JUDGE.
02:40 - 54.211 WHY GUESS THAT WOULD BE ME.
02:40 - 55.178 AND THAT IS THE EXTENT OF THE
02:40 - 58.382 CONVERSATION ON PAGE. 46 POINT
02:40 - 06.790 WAS RIGGED.
02:41 - 10.994 THE RECESS IS TAKING ON PAGE
02:41 - 12.329 ONE OF THE 3. WELL, AFTER THE
02:41 - 14.197 JUDGE RENDERS EVERY FACT AND
02:41 - 15.532 DECISION IN THE SUPPRESSION
02:41 - 19.503 MOTION, THE SUPPRESSION MOTION
02:41 - 20.404 CONCLUDES ON PAGE 102, MR.
02:41 - 21.104 MCLAUGHLIN IS ASKED BY THE
02:41 - 24.074 COURT, HIS COUNSEL FOR MISTER
02:41 - 25.042 MCCLAIN. WHAT IS GOING TO WHAT
02:41 - 25.609 THE COURT SAYS TO MISS
02:41 - 28.845 MCLAUGHLIN? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE
02:41 - 29.546 TO DO? SHE FINISHED HER CITING
02:41 - 33.050 THE FACT SHE RULES DENYING THE
02:41 - 35.185 SUPPRESSION MOTION ASKED, MR.
02:41 - 35.886 MCLACHLAN. HE SAYS I KNOW IT'S
02:41 - 37.587 4.30, AND I'M READING FROM PAGE
02:41 - 40.157 102, ON THE MCLEAN TRANSCRIPTS
02:41 - 42.059 AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE.
02:41 - 43.260 WHAT I WOULD LIKE AND I KNOW
02:41 - 43.994 IT'S FOR 35 YEAR HONORS.
02:41 - 45.295 SO I WOULD NEED TO SPEAK WITH
02:41 - 47.064 MY CLIENT AND GIVE US OPTIONS
02:41 - 50.067 IN TERMS OF A JURY, A WAIVER OR
02:41 - 51.134 A POTENTIAL FOR RECUSAL.
02:41 - 51.902 THE COURT REQUEST FOR ACCUSER
02:41 - 53.870 WOULD BE A JURY DEMAND, MR.
02:41 - 55.338 MCLACHLAN UNDERSTOOD. OKAY.
02:41 - 57.507 THE COURT WILL GIVE YOU 5
02:41 - 59.009 MINUTES. THIS IS AND THEN
02:41 - 02.579 PARENT THAT A CULL BRIEF RECESS
02:42 - 03.280 TAKEN. THERE IS NO INDICATION
02:42 - 05.916 THAT THIS OCCURRED EITHER ON
02:42 - 09.386 THE JUNE 16TH.
02:42 - 11.688 HEARING TRANSCRIPT
02:42 - 13.824 IN MISTER OUTLAWS CONTEMPT
02:42 - 14.658 HEARING NOR IN MR. MCLEAN'S
02:42 - 18.762 TRANSCRIPT THAT THERE WAS AN
02:42 - 19.529 INTERRUPTION TO THE COURT'S
02:42 - 20.530 RENDITION RECITING OF THE
02:42 - 23.667 FACTS. AND IN FACT, YOU HAVE
02:42 - 24.301 SOMEBODY ELSE STANDING UP
02:42 - 25.001 FIRST, A WALKOUT, WHICH WOULD
02:42 - 27.537 BE SUGGESTED THAT THE COURT WAS
02:42 - 31.441 IN FACT IN RECESS. NONETHELESS,
02:42 - 32.075 GREAT. EVEN IF IT HAPPENED
02:42 - 34.578 DURING THE COURT'S RENDITION OF
02:42 - 36.580 THE FACTS. IF THE COURT AS THE
02:42 - 37.247 RECORD IN MR. MCLEAN'S AND I
02:42 - 37.948 DON'T THINK IT DID. THAT'S THE
02:42 - 41.118 RECORD REFLECTS. BUT EVEN
02:42 - 42.152 ASSUMING IT HAD.
02:42 - 42.853 MR, OUTLAWED STOOD UP DURING
02:42 - 46.356 THE COURT'S RECITATION OF FACTS
02:42 - 47.023 AND WALKED OUT IF THE COURT,
02:42 - 48.391 ACCORDING TO THE TRANSCRIPT
02:42 - 50.660 AND DOESN'T SAY SO, DIDN'T EVEN
02:42 - 53.263 SKIP A BEAT TO INDICATE WHAT
02:42 - 55.332 HAPPENED IN THE PROCEEDINGS
02:42 - 57.300 CONTINUE GREAT. JUST BECAUSE
02:42 - 57.968 THE COURT HAD SHERIFF GO AND
02:42 - 00.303 ADDRESS HIM OR ADDRESSED HIM
02:43 - 01.705 AFTER THE FACT DOES NOT RESULT
02:43 - 04.374 IN THE CURRENTS AND SIGNIFICANT
02:43 - 07.244 OBSTRUCTION OF THE PROCEEDINGS
02:43 - 09.179 JUST BECAUSE IT'S STATE DOESN'T
02:43 - 10.147 MEAN THE PROCEEDINGS OR
02:43 - 10.881 OBSTRUCTED AND THAT CONTEMPT IS
02:43 - 11.548 A CRIMINAL CONVICTION, WHICH
02:43 - 15.318 FOR WHICH MY CLIENT SERVED 30
02:43 - 15.952 DAYS IN JAIL FOR WHICH HE
02:43 - 16.853 CANNOT GET BACK. DESPITE THE
02:43 - 17.587 JUDGE SAYING SHE PERLMAN 15,
02:43 - 24.494 THAT CONVICTION CANNOT STAND.
02:43 - 27.397 >>A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UP
02:43 - 28.398 FOR GRABS.
02:43 - 31.601 >>I I AGREE WITH THAT. THAT IS
02:43 - 33.436 NOT APPEALED. ICE ENGLISH.
02:43 - 34.504 THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY BENEFIT
02:43 - 37.507 BY THE POINT. IT GOT HERE TO TO
02:43 - 38.241 ADDRESS A SENTENCE. BUT I WOULD
02:43 - 39.376 LIKE TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE AND
02:43 - 46.249 HAVE THE SAND. REMEMBER THAT?
02:43 - 47.150 PART OF THE REASON WHY THE
02:43 - 49.119 ACTUAL OBSTRUCTION ELEMENT IS
02:43 - 51.621 PART OF THIS. AND THAT NOT ONLY
02:43 - 52.222 200 YEARS OF TEXT OF THE
02:43 - 53.590 STATUTE, BUT THIS COURT IN THE
02:43 - 57.294 U.S. SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT
02:43 - 00.363 IS BECAUSE SUMMARY CONTEMPT
02:44 - 01.998 IS THE VERY RARE EXCEPTION TO
02:44 - 03.934 DUE PROCESS IN WHICH THOSE
02:44 - 06.970 IMMEDIATE SANCTIONS ARE IMPOSED
02:44 - 07.971 BY A COURT WITHOUT NOTICE
02:44 - 09.539 WITHOUT TRIAL. IN FACT, IN
02:44 - 10.240 MOODY, WE'VE SAID EVEN WITHOUT
02:44 - 11.074 COUNSEL FOR THE INITIAL
02:44 - 16.046 CONTEMPT DETERMINATION. BECAUSE
02:44 - 18.114 OF THAT. ACTION OF THAT
02:44 - 19.182 IMMEDIATE SANCTION AND THE
02:44 - 20.884 EVIDENCE NEEDS TO BE CLEAR AND
02:44 - 21.518 IT NEEDS TO BE RESTRAINT.
02:44 - 22.619 HAS TIPS STRUCK THE BUSINESS
02:44 - 24.688 AND PREVENT THE COURT THAT DID
02:44 - 27.490 NOT OCCUR HERE. THE CONTEMPT
02:44 - 29.459 CONVICTION IN THIS CASE SHOULD
02:44 - 31.328 IS NOT SUPPORTED BY OUR LAW.
02:44 - 32.028 THIS COURT'S OPINIONS, U.S.
02:44 - 32.696 SUPREME COURT OPINION. AND I
02:44 - 37.634 WOULD ASK THAT IT BE REVERSED.
02:44 - 44.007 MUCH. THANK YOU.
02:44 - 45.342 >>WE'LL HEAR FROM MISTER GREER.
02:44 - 46.109 >>GOOD MORNING. YOUR HONORS.
02:44 - 47.577 AND IT STILL IS MOURNING FOR
02:44 - 50.213 MY PART. I SHOULD BE
02:44 - 50.814 EXCEPTIONALLY BRIEF THAT
02:44 - 52.849 ALTHOUGH DEFENDANTS PATENTLY
02:44 - 54.117 OBSCENE AND OFFENSIVE REMARK
02:44 - 57.220 WITH CERTAINLY INTOLERABLE AND
02:44 - 58.855 MET ALL OTHER ELEMENTS IN LIGHT
02:44 - 59.589 OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT AND
02:44 - 03.460 VERY SPECIFICALLY THE WILLIAMS
02:45 - 04.027 BE WILLIAMS CASE. THE
02:45 - 04.728 COMMONWEALTH FELT CONSTRAINED
02:45 - 06.563 TO CONCLUDE THAT THE EVIDENCE
02:45 - 07.264 WAS INSUFFICIENT ON THE
02:45 - 07.964 OBSTRUCTION ELEMENT. I'M HAPPY
02:45 - 11.401 TO ANSWER OTHER YOUR HONOR'S
02:45 - 12.435 QUESTIONS. BUT OTHERWISE, I
02:45 - 14.137 WILL JUST REST ON MY BRAKES FOR
02:45 - 16.339 THE COMMONWEALTH'S POSITION.
02:45 - 18.241 WELL, LET ME JUST ASK WHAT'S
02:45 - 20.043 YOUR MAIN CONCERN THAT THERE
02:45 - 20.744 WERE NOT PROCEEDINGS IN PLACE
02:45 - 23.647 GOING ON AT THE TIME? IT WAS
02:45 - 26.750 NOT OBSTRUCTION.
02:45 - 28.518 >>NO, I DON'T TAKE AS MUCH
02:45 - 29.152 ISSUE BETWEEN WHAT HOW THE
02:45 - 32.656 TRIAL COURT CHARACTERIZED THE
02:45 - 35.058 ORDER OF EVENTS AS DEFENSE
02:45 - 35.725 COUNSEL DOES FOR PURPOSES OF
02:45 - 38.495 OUR POSITION ARE TAKING IT AS
02:45 - 39.129 IT OCCURRED. HOW THE TRIAL
02:45 - 41.464 COURT SAID FOLLOWING THE
02:45 - 42.065 RENDERING OF MY DECISION
02:45 - 45.769 CHARACTERIZED IT THAT WAY AT
02:45 - 46.503 THE 6.16, HEARING 6.21. HEARING
02:45 - 48.204 AND USE THE PHRASE AS THE JUDGE
02:45 - 51.408 DELIVERED HER DETERMINATION AND
02:45 - 54.177 HER IN AN OPINION.
02:45 - 56.112 BUT AGAIN, THERE'S ONLY A
02:45 - 56.780 COUPLE LINES OF TAX BETWEEN
02:45 - 59.382 MOTION IS DENIED AND THAT BRIEF
02:45 - 01.618 RECESS BEING TAKEN BECAUSE
02:46 - 05.989 WILLIAMS IS A CASE WHERE, YOU
02:46 - 06.823 KNOW, IT'S UNDISPUTED SIMILARLY
02:46 - 08.692 OFFENSIVE REMARK DIRECTED AT
02:46 - 11.795 A JUDGE OCCURRED RIGHT IN THE
02:46 - 13.730 MIDDLE
02:46 - 14.597 OF LITIGATION.
02:46 - 16.733 >>YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE LOVED
02:46 - 18.335 TO HAVE A DISTINCTION TO DRAW,
02:46 - 20.303 BUT BUT WILLIAMS WAS EVEN MORE
02:46 - 21.571 CLEARLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
02:46 - 21.972 PROCEEDING.
02:46 - 25.642 >>SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, I'M NOT
02:46 - 26.476 HERE SAYING I DISAGREE WITH
02:46 - 29.179 THAT IN MUST HAVE OCCURRED
02:46 - 30.947 DURING THAT BRIEF RECESS.
02:46 - 33.450 TICKLE. BUT EITHER WAY, I DON'T
02:46 - 35.685 FIND A WAY OF GETTING AROUND
02:46 - 36.353 WILLIAMS, EVEN IF IT DIDN'T
02:46 - 39.189 HAPPEN DURING THE BRIEF RECESS,
02:46 - 41.758 HYPOTHETICAL AT THE EARLIEST
02:46 - 42.492 HAPPENED A COUPLE LINES OF TEXT
02:46 - 45.395 EARLIER. YOU KNOW, UNDER A
02:46 - 46.029 MINUTE, I'M INFERRING. THE
02:46 - 49.799 COUNCIL. WHAT ARE YOUR DISSENT?
02:46 - 50.500 WHAT WE DON'T WE DON'T HANDLE.
02:46 - 53.837 SUFFICIENCY CASES WERE NOT AND
02:46 - 54.404 ARE CORRECT IN COURT.
02:46 - 55.872 >>WHAT DOES THE PHILADELPHIA
02:46 - 57.907 DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
02:46 - 58.541 BELIEVE CONSTITUTES DIRECT
02:46 - 00.076 IMMINENT? AND WE HAVE TO TURN
02:47 - 03.279 YOUR MIKE ON CAM. YOU CAN HEAR
02:47 - 03.847 YOU AND THE CO E T.
02:47 - 05.482 SET BETTER IF IT'S RED. YEAH,
02:47 - 08.585 THAT'S RIGHT. ON ITS LIKE MY
02:47 - 09.486 FACE, A THREAT.
02:47 - 10.587 WHAT WHAT DOES THE PHILADELPHIA
02:47 - 11.221 DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
02:47 - 13.656 BELIEVE CONSTITUTES DIRECT
02:47 - 18.661 CRIMINAL CONTEMPT?
02:47 - 19.396 WHICH A JUDGE DO WELL. SO THERE
02:47 - 21.064 IS THE DISTINCTION THAT I DON'T
02:47 - 24.200 BELIEVE IT IS BETWEEN.
02:47 - 26.369 >>IT'S EITHER ACCEPTABLE OR
02:47 - 27.270 CONTENTS. I CAN ONLY REITERATE
02:47 - 29.372 THE DEFINITIONS THAT SCORE IS
02:47 - 30.306 GIVEN FOR THE ELEMENT OF WHAT
02:47 - 31.474 IS CONTENT, WHICH IS
02:47 - 32.175 SIGNIFICANT DISRUPTION, WHICH
02:47 - 34.577 THE NAME CALLING IN THE MIDDLE
02:47 - 35.645 OF THE PROCEEDING WHERE, AGAIN,
02:47 - 36.312 I'M GOING BACK TO WILLIAMS.
02:47 - 39.549 THIS COURT CHARACTERIZED AS A
02:47 - 40.583 MOMENTARY BREAK AND
02:47 - 41.284 RESUME QUICKLY. IT ENCOMPASSED
02:47 - 43.019 JUST 3 AND A HALF PAGES OF
02:47 - 46.222 HEARING TRANSCRIPT WAS A
02:47 - 49.359 TRANSIENT DELAY. MORE THE
02:47 - 52.362 OTHER TRACING BACK TO JOHNSON.
02:47 - 53.296 THE 1976 CASE WAS THIS COURT
02:47 - 54.030 SAID INTERFERE COUNCIL. I MEAN,
02:47 - 56.433 INTERRUPT. YES, WE ALL READ
02:47 - 57.067 THOSE CASES.
02:47 - 57.700 >>I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE
02:47 - 58.535 SOMETHING TO ADD IN TERMS OF
02:47 - 59.636 WHAT WE SHOULD WRITE AN
02:47 - 02.739 OPINION.
02:48 - 07.343 >>THAT THE
02:48 - 10.447 >>OPTIONS ARE NOT ENDORSING
02:48 - 11.614 BEHAVIOR AND SOME REDIRECT
02:48 - 14.417 CRIMINAL CONTEMPT IN JOHNSON
02:48 - 15.618 SIGNIFICANTLY, THERE WAS A
02:48 - 16.386 FOOTNOTE EXPLAINING WHAT LIES
02:48 - 18.121 IN THE MIDDLE THAT, QUOTE,
02:48 - 18.855 CONDUCT WHICH IS NOT THREATEN
02:48 - 20.790 THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,
02:48 - 22.125 HOWEVER, MAY NOT BE TOLERATED.
02:48 - 23.960 THE OFFENDING PARTY MAY BE
02:48 - 25.929 DIRECTED TO SEE SAYS ACTIVITIES
02:48 - 31.634 AND THEN NOTABLY THE THIS IS
02:48 - 33.570 I THINK THE REAL GOOD POINT IS
02:48 - 34.270 THAT A REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH
02:48 - 34.971 THE DIRECT ORDER OF THE COURT
02:48 - 38.541 WOULD THEN BE PUNISHABLE UNDER
02:48 - 40.276 SUBSECTION 2 OF THE CONTENT
02:48 - 40.977 STATUTE. SO THAT'S WHERE THAT
02:48 - 44.681 DIRECT WARNING TO A SPECIFIC
02:48 - 45.615 PERSON IS REQUIRED AND THEN IT
02:48 - 46.249 GOES, IT WOULD APPLY HERE.
02:48 - 48.418 BUT MOREOVER, IF THE OFFENDING
02:48 - 51.254 PARTIES, AN ATTORNEY, YOU MAY
02:48 - 51.888 BE SUBJECT TO PROFESSIONAL
02:48 - 52.555 DISCIPLINE THAT YOU GO BACK,
02:48 - 53.223 THAT THESE ARE OPTIONS THAT
02:48 - 56.493 COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN. BUT YOU?
02:48 - 58.027 >>I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY
02:48 - 58.661 THE PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT
02:48 - 01.931 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS TAKING
02:49 - 04.000 THE POSITION THAT THESE FACTS
02:49 - 08.004 DID NOT GIVE RISE TO CONTEMPT
02:49 - 09.606 OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
02:49 - 10.306 >>YES, IF I MOST ESSENTIALLY,
02:49 - 13.610 IF ALL OF THE CASE LAW THAT
02:49 - 14.611 CURRENTLY EXISTS WERE IN PLACE
02:49 - 16.312 EXCEPT FOR WILLIAMS, I THINK I
02:49 - 16.980 WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE SAYING
02:49 - 22.385 THIS IS CONTEMPTUOUS. I WOULD
02:49 - 23.286 HAVE HAD SOMETHING TOO
02:49 - 25.155 CONNECTED TO. BUT WILLIAMS IS
02:49 - 25.755 SO CLOSELY RELATED WHERE
02:49 - 28.958 SOMEBODY WHO WAS IT WAS A PRO
02:49 - 30.160 SE LITIGANT. BUT IT WAS A
02:49 - 33.229 LICENSED ATTORNEY AFTER AN
02:49 - 35.865 OBJECTION WAS.
02:49 - 37.634 SORRY AFTER ITS OBJECTION FROM
02:49 - 38.268 THE OPPOSING PARTY WAS
02:49 - 42.238 SUSTAINED CALLED THE JUDGE THE
02:49 - 42.906 DISPARAGING NAME AND THEN I
02:49 - 43.506 MEAN, ESSENTIALLY EVERY
02:49 - 44.641 ARGUMENT I THOUGHT OF WHEN I
02:49 - 46.809 WAS FIRST ASSIGNED THIS CASE OF
02:49 - 48.378 LIKE, SURELY THIS IS CRIMINAL
02:49 - 49.012 CONTEMPT HAS ALREADY BEEN
02:49 - 51.881 DISPOSED OF IN THAT WILLIAMS
02:49 - 53.283 CASE. AGAIN,
02:49 - 53.950 FOCUSING ON IT REGARDLESS OF
02:49 - 57.320 HOW PATENTLY OFFENSIVE TO THE
02:49 - 58.188 REMARK WAS THAT THE DELAY IN
02:49 - 58.821 THE PROCEEDINGS WHERE THE
02:49 - 01.824 DISRUPTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS
02:50 - 03.293 WAS SO MINIMAL.
02:50 - 06.796 IF THAT CASE DID NOT EXIST AND
02:50 - 07.463 OCCUR AFTER ALL THESE OTHER
02:50 - 10.533 CASES THAT I'M SURE I WOULD
02:50 - 11.568 BE HERE SAYING THAT THIS IS AND
02:50 - 12.468 MUST BE DIRECT CRIMINAL
02:50 - 15.638 CONTEMPT. BUT THAT'S JUST NOT
02:50 - 16.306 WHAT THIS COURT HAS SAID IN
02:50 - 17.006 THE PAST. OUGHT TO SHOW US HOW
02:50 - 28.184 STRUCK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION
02:50 - 30.453 >>AGAIN, THIS COURT HAD NOT I.
02:50 - 31.254 SO THAT'S WHERE IT IS. WELL
02:50 - 33.223 TAKEN. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
02:50 - 33.890 POINT ABOUT THE PURPOSE AND
02:50 - 37.427 GOALS UNDERLYING CRIMINAL
02:50 - 38.561 CONTENT BEING THAT
02:50 - 40.129 THREAT TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF
02:50 - 40.763 JUSTICE. REGARDLESS OF THE
02:50 - 43.266 ACTUAL DISRUPTION. BUT AGAIN,
02:50 - 45.368 WILLIAMS.
02:50 - 45.969 PUT WHAT WOULD THAT ARE
02:50 - 48.471 HYPOTHETICAL ARGUMENT? I WOULD
02:50 - 49.572 HAVE RAISED TO REST.
02:50 - 52.642 >>ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK
02:50 - 53.543 YOU. YOUR HONORS. MISTER I
02:50 - 54.677 MISPRONOUNCED YOUR NAME IT OR
02:50 - 55.378 PERHAPS YOU COULD CORRECT ME.
02:50 - 58.147 WOULD YOU LIKE TO ARGUE FOR THE
02:50 - 05.888 COMMON LAW?
02:51 - 07.523 >>I BY THE WAY, MADAM CHIEF,
02:51 - 10.893 I DID DISCLOSE THE COUNCIL.
02:51 - 11.594 I BELIEVE THAT MR. BILL, A
02:51 - 12.695 FORMERLY WORKED AS A AND IN
02:51 - 13.396 TURN A LAW CLERK TO ME DOESN'T
02:51 - 14.731 MEAN I GO EASY ON HIM. NO, NO,
02:51 - 15.431 BUT IT DOES MEAN YOU KNOW HOW
02:51 - 18.001 TO PRONOUNCE ITS NAME TO IT.
02:51 - 19.736 >>WE'LL OFFER BEAVER COUNTY.
02:51 - 22.872 THAT'S CORRECT. OTHER SIDE OF
02:51 - 24.774 THE STATE.
02:51 - 26.075 GOOD AFTERNOON YARDS MAY PLEASE
02:51 - 26.776 THE COURT TO KEEP THE LAW FOR
02:51 - 29.379 THE COMMONWEALTH. ARE ATTORNEY
02:51 - 29.879 GENERAL'S OFFICE.
02:51 - 33.016 SO I WOULD LIKE THIS COURT TO
02:51 - 35.718 IMAGINE FOR A SECOND IF.
02:51 - 36.753 IN THAT BRIEF PERIOD AFTER
02:51 - 37.420 MISTER MAYOR CALLS CASE WHEN
02:51 - 38.588 EVERYBODY'S COMING UP HERE IN
02:51 - 39.289 GETTING READY. AND, YOU KNOW,
02:51 - 41.858 PEOPLE ACQUIRE FOR THE MOST
02:51 - 42.792 PART.
02:51 - 43.493 DOWNLOAD CAME INTO THIS COURT
02:51 - 47.297 AND DID WHAT HE DIDN'T JUDGE
02:51 - 48.031 COMING TO SCORE. I WAS ARGUMENT
02:51 - 50.433 WITH THE THIS COURT POWERLESS
02:51 - 51.267 TO DO ANYTHING
02:51 - 51.668 ABOUT THAT.
02:51 - 53.703 >>POWER WAS MR. BE A LOT.
02:51 - 55.638 SUPPOSE HE DID THAT. WE COULD
02:51 - 56.773 IMMEDIATELY BAR HIM FROM THE
02:51 - 57.440 COURTROOM. WE COULD ENTER AN
02:51 - 59.942 ORDER IS NOT PERMITTED TO COME
02:51 - 03.513 TO THIS COURT.
02:52 - 05.381 SO IT'S
02:52 - 07.517 IT'S NOT A DISTINCTION BETWEEN
02:52 - 08.351 CONVICTING SOMEBODY OF A CRIME
02:52 - 09.352 AND INCARCERATING THEM ON THE
02:52 - 11.487 ONE HAND AND ON THE OTHER AND
02:52 - 12.121 DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
02:52 - 13.289 I AGREE THAT THAT'S CORRECT.
02:52 - 14.390 I THINK THERE ARE LESSER
02:52 - 15.758 OPTIONS HERE. ONE OF THEM WOULD
02:52 - 18.928 BE A FINE. AND I THINK THAT
02:52 - 19.595 THE SENSE HERE WAS
02:52 - 20.129 UNNECESSARILY LONG.
02:52 - 20.730 >>AND IF I WAS JUDGE, I
02:52 - 23.166 DEFINITELY WOULDN'T OPPOSE
02:52 - 24.200 ANYTHING CLOSE TO THAT. BUT I
02:52 - 24.867 THINK THAT THE CONDEMNED ARE
02:52 - 28.371 INCLUDES MUCH LESSER THINGS
02:52 - 28.705 AS WELL.
02:52 - 31.474 >>THIS THIS THIS HYPOTHETICAL,
02:52 - 33.276 THOSE HYPOTHETICALS ARE KIND OF
02:52 - 34.077 IMPORTANT AND HAS LET. SO I'LL
02:52 - 35.978 TAKE YOURS AND MR. ALLEN HAD
02:52 - 38.047 COME IN HERE AFTER MR MATTER
02:52 - 38.948 HAD IT IS WONDERFUL.
02:52 - 40.750 PROFESSIONAL CALMING TONE HAD
02:52 - 41.451 GOTTEN EVERYBODY TO RELAX AND
02:52 - 44.487 WE WERE ABOUT READY TO COME IN
02:52 - 46.656 BEFORE THE BELL IS RUNG.
02:52 - 47.690 MR. OUTLAW COMES IN AND STARTS
02:52 - 50.259 SCREAMING. SO WE'RE TECHNICALLY
02:52 - 51.961 NOT IN SESSION, BUT HE'S HE'S
02:52 - 55.064 SCREAMING PREVENTING US FROM
02:52 - 56.799 COMING INTO THE COURTROOM.
02:52 - 57.934 THAT WOULD BE AN OBSTRUCTION OF
02:52 - 59.936 JUSTICE TO BE THAT THE
02:52 - 00.603 INSTRUCTION, AT LEAST UNDER
02:53 - 01.170 WILLIAMS, SIGNIFICANT
02:53 - 01.871 INTERRUPTION OF THE PROCEEDING
02:53 - 04.407 BECAUSE WE CAN'T COMMENT
02:53 - 07.243 CORRECT.
02:53 - 08.711 >>I PAY FITS UNDER.
02:53 - 09.679 I WAS THERE IN THE CASE.
02:53 - 11.647 I THINK THAT THAT WOULD JUST BE
02:53 - 13.616 A MOMENTARY BREAK. IT WOULD BE
02:53 - 15.618 LIKE IT COULD BE A PROLONGED
02:53 - 16.619 BREAK. IT COULD PREVENT US FROM
02:53 - 17.220 ACTUALLY COMING IN. THEY
02:53 - 18.121 COULDN'T GET IN BECAUSE HE'S
02:53 - 20.223 NOT LEAVING. THEY'RE HAVING A
02:53 - 22.125 HARD TIME GETTING HIM OUT.
02:53 - 23.926 HE'S REFUSING. THAT WOULD BE
02:53 - 24.660 AN OBSTRUCTION OF THE MINISTRY
02:53 - 25.328 OF JUSTICE. AND I THINK THAT
02:53 - 28.498 EVEN UNDER LESS EFFECTS LIKE
02:53 - 29.165 UM, UM, WHEN I WAS GIVEN MY
02:53 - 29.766 PRIDE WAS ASSUMING THAT
02:53 - 31.567 MOMENTARY BREAK BETWEEN 2
02:53 - 32.268 CASES. SO BEFORE THIS CASE,
02:53 - 33.503 WHEN MR, MILLER CALLED THIS
02:53 - 37.173 CASE ABOUT A LAW WAS ON HIS
02:53 - 37.874 WAY OUT AND PROCEED TO SCREAM
02:53 - 41.043 WHAT HE SCREAMED TO JUDGE COME
02:53 - 41.978 AND ESCORT HIM UNDER AL WAS
02:53 - 43.212 APPROACH. THERE WOULD BE
02:53 - 44.113 NOTHING SCORE CAN DO BECAUSE
02:53 - 45.114 HE'S ALREADY ON HIS WAY OUT.
02:53 - 45.748 SO FOR HIM TO LEAVE ISN'T
02:53 - 49.185 REALLY MEANINGFULLY ENFORCING
02:53 - 50.420 THAT ANYWAY. HE JUST GETS ONE
02:53 - 53.423 FREE BITE TO DO THAT AND I
02:53 - 54.257 GUESS GETS TO GO AWAY AND
02:53 - 54.957 EVERYONE ELSE SEEM WOULD SEEM
02:53 - 56.192 TO HAVE THE ABILITY YOU THE
02:53 - 58.961 SAME THING. THEY WOULD BE ABLE
02:53 - 00.196 TO SCREAM WHATEVER THEY WANT
02:54 - 00.897 AND LEAVE A BETTER PICTURE OF
02:54 - 04.634 WHAT YOUR BEST ARGUMENT HERE.
02:54 - 05.301 YOU'RE READY. INSTRUCTION TO
02:54 - 06.702 JUSTICE WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT
02:54 - 08.905 GOES BEYOND DELAYS IN A
02:54 - 10.740 PROCEEDING. IT WOULD INCLUDE
02:54 - 11.374 THINGS THAT DIMINISHED THE
02:54 - 12.041 COURT'S AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE
02:54 - 14.310 RULES OF DECORUM. I THINK THAT
02:54 - 15.978 THOSE THINGS MATTER.
02:54 - 17.413 >>YOU SEE DIMINISHED THE
02:54 - 17.914 COURT'S AUTHORITY.
02:54 - 18.514 >>UNDERMINE THE COURT'S
02:54 - 22.351 AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE RULES OF
02:54 - 23.286 DECORUM. SO I THINK THAT
02:54 - 23.953 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT WHAT I
02:54 - 25.054 WANT TO DO, SOMETHING YOU
02:54 - 25.788 SHOULD NOT DO IN COURT. I THINK
02:54 - 27.323 IT'S EXTREMELY CLEAR THAT
02:54 - 28.157 THAT'S SOMETHING SOMEBODY
02:54 - 28.958 SHOULDN'T DO. I DON'T THINK IT
02:54 - 32.395 WOULD REQUIRE WARNING TO KNOW
02:54 - 34.497 THAT. AND I THINK THAT.
02:54 - 38.601 TO GIVE EVERYBODY ONE FREE PASS
02:54 - 39.602 TO DO THAT WOULD OBSTRUCT THE
02:54 - 40.236 COURT'S ABILITY TO REALLY
02:54 - 40.837 UNDERMINE HER AUTHORITY.
02:54 - 41.471 AND AT WHAT POINT COULD BE
02:54 - 46.476 QUESTIONS, HE WAS THE BOSS.
02:54 - 47.210 >>SO THERE WAS THIS BRIEF LAPSE
02:54 - 47.844 AND SEE WHAT I BELIEVE IT
02:54 - 48.511 OCCURS WHEN IT DOES NO BRIEF
02:54 - 49.212 RECESS TAKEN. I DON'T THINK IT
02:54 - 52.782 WAS AT THE COMPLETE CONCLUSION
02:54 - 53.483 OF THE HEARING. THAT SEEMS TO
02:54 - 56.953 BE THE MOST CONSISTENT WITH
02:54 - 57.787 THE JUDGE'S FINDINGS. SO I
02:54 - 58.488 THINK THAT THE JUDGE WAS STILL
02:54 - 01.257 ACTING AG IS CRASS AND SHE WAS
02:55 - 01.824 JUST SAYING,
02:55 - 02.492 OKAY, COUNCIL CAN FOR THEIR
02:55 - 03.125 CLIENT QUICKLY AND DECIDE
02:55 - 04.927 WHETHER YOU WANT A JURY TRIAL.
02:55 - 08.431 WE'RE TRIAL. THE JUDGE IS STILL
02:55 - 09.131 ACTING AS A JUDGE. THIS WASN'T
02:55 - 10.733 A JUDGE LIKE OUTSIDE THE
02:55 - 14.670 COURTHOUSE. WALK AWAY. SHE WAS
02:55 - 16.772 THAT THE MAN IN THE SAME LEVEL
02:55 - 17.740 OF RESPECT THAT WHAT HAPPENED
02:55 - 20.543 IN THAT BRIEF BREAK BETWEEN
02:55 - 23.279 CASES IN THIS COURT, THAT POINT
02:55 - 24.013 IN IN THE TRANSCRIPT FROM JUNE,
02:55 - 24.747 21ST, A CONTEMPT HEARING OF THE
02:55 - 30.052 CONTEMPT SENTENCING HEARING.
02:55 - 31.153 >>THE JUDGE STATE MR. OUTLAW
02:55 - 34.957 YOUR ACTIONS BEFORE THE COURT
02:55 - 35.858 WERE SIMPLY EGREGIOUS. IT
02:55 - 37.927 BRAZENLY DEMONSTRATED YOUR
02:55 - 38.561 REPUDIATION OF THE COURT'S
02:55 - 41.697 FINDINGS PERTAINING TO YOUR
02:55 - 43.666 FRIENDS SENTENCE. AND IN
02:55 - 44.367 ESSENCE, IT WAS A FLAGRANT
02:55 - 47.904 SCORNING. THE COURT'S AUTHORITY
02:55 - 49.038 IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE
02:55 - 51.007 MY AUTHORITY AS WELL OF AS WELL
02:55 - 52.842 OF THE GOALS OF THE COURT AND
02:55 - 53.709 PUT I WAS SEEKING TO ACHIEVE
02:55 - 56.846 THROUGH MY DETERMINATION OR
02:55 - 58.948 FINDINGS ON THAT MOTION.
02:55 - 00.516 ROUTE. FIRST WAS DISRESPECTFUL.
02:56 - 01.217 NOT JUST TO ME AS A WOMAN, BUT
02:56 - 03.185 TO EVERY WOMAN WHO WAS PRESENT
02:56 - 06.155 IN THE COURTROOM ON THAT DAY.
02:56 - 07.323 BUT TO THE QUARTERS, A WHOLE
02:56 - 09.292 NOT JUST ME AS A JUDGE, BUT TO
02:56 - 10.693 THE COURT ITSELF. THIS ROOM
02:56 - 13.796 AND TO THE BENCH IN ITS
02:56 - 16.599 ENTIRETY
02:56 - 17.633 DOES THAT JOB TO PERSUADE YOU
02:56 - 18.601 ONE WAY OR THE OTHER AS TO
02:56 - 19.502 WHETHER THIS WAS AN
02:56 - 20.202 OBSTRUCTION? AND YES, I THINK
02:56 - 22.572 THAT THAT CAPTURES EXACTLY ONE
02:56 - 23.205 OBSTRUCTION IS I THINK THE
02:56 - 23.906 PHRASE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
02:56 - 26.309 HAS ALWAYS MEANT EXACTLY WHAT
02:56 - 28.311 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
02:56 - 29.979 >>THIS STATUE WAS A DOG IN 18.
02:56 - 30.680 0, 9, THE WAY THAT PEOPLE USE
02:56 - 32.548 WORDS BACK THEN WERE VERY
02:56 - 34.250 DIFFERENT THAN HOW WE USE THEM
02:56 - 35.017 TODAY AND OBSTRUCTION TO THE
02:56 - 37.119 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
02:56 - 39.188 BACK THEN ALWAYS REFERRED TO
02:56 - 41.624 THINGS ARE DIMINISHING. THE
02:56 - 42.224 COURT'S AUTHORITY WASN'T
02:56 - 42.892 LIMITED YOUR NIGHT AND I SAW
02:56 - 45.094 THAT IN YOUR FREE. AND I
02:56 - 46.195 THOUGHT THAT WAS AN
02:56 - 47.229 INTERESTING ARGUMENT.
02:56 - 48.164 >>WITH 41 32 OR WHATEVER, THE
02:56 - 51.033 STATUTORY SECTION LIMITED, THE
02:56 - 51.500 OLD COMMON LAW.
02:56 - 54.303 >>AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING.
02:56 - 54.737 WILLIAMS, WHAT
02:56 - 57.406 WE SAID. I JUST COULDN'T TO
02:56 - 59.241 CONFUSE OFFENSES TO THEIR
02:56 - 00.343 SENSIBILITIES WITH OBSTRUCTION
02:57 - 01.077 TO THE ADMINISTRATION. GOT 3 OF
02:57 - 04.981 US WERE COMMON PLEAS, JUDGE WHO
02:57 - 05.615 SAW A LOT OF BAD BEHAVIOR.
02:57 - 08.017 BUT A JUDGE, A JUDGE CAN, YOU
02:57 - 10.886 KNOW, STAND ON DIGNITY AND
02:57 - 12.355 RESPECT. AND IT HAS TO ALSO
02:57 - 13.022 BE AT THIS SIGNIFICANT
02:57 - 16.092 DISRUPTION OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
02:57 - 17.026 IT'S NOT JUST THE JUDGE GETS
02:57 - 17.693 OFFENDED AND AS A SHIP, IT'S
02:57 - 20.696 IMPORTANT FOR THE JUDGE TO
02:57 - 23.833 VINDICATE HIS OR 40.
02:57 - 24.734 THERE'S ANOTHER STEP REQUIRED
02:57 - 26.469 TO CONVICT SOMEBODY OF A CRIME.
02:57 - 28.638 AND THAT'S THAT'S WHERE THE
02:57 - 30.339 SIGNIFICANT DISRUPTION COMES
02:57 - 31.007 >>I AGREE WITH THAT. I'M NOT
02:57 - 33.476 NO, I DON'T AGREE WITH PARTS,
02:57 - 36.512 BUT GOING BACK TO THE STATUTE
02:57 - 37.546 FIRST, I THINK THAT THE ONLY
02:57 - 38.314 THING THAT REALLY CHANGE FROM
02:57 - 40.349 THE COMMON LAW WAS IN THE
02:57 - 41.217 PRESENCE OF THE COURT PRIOR
02:57 - 45.755 TO THE ADOPTION OF THE STATUTE.
02:57 - 48.758 THE FIRST JUST CHIEF JUSTICE OF
02:57 - 50.393 THE PEACE CREEK. WIDELY FEW WAS
02:57 - 51.060 HELD AN INDIVIDUAL CONTEMPT
02:57 - 53.596 LABOR. SO PUBLISHING SOMETHING
02:57 - 55.498 IN THE PAPER. AND THERE WAS
02:57 - 56.499 ANOTHER WANT TO PASS MORE CASE
02:57 - 57.199 WHERE THAT SAME THING HAPPENED
02:57 - 58.901 IN THIS STATUE CAME IN THE WAKE
02:57 - 01.971 OF THOSE THINGS. SO THE COURT
02:58 - 04.874 WAS REALLY TRYING TO CONSTRAIN
02:58 - 06.108 THESE INSULTS ON THE COURT THAT
02:58 - 06.642 OCCUR OUTSIDE OF THE
02:58 - 07.910 COURTHOUSE. WHEN THESE THINGS
02:58 - 10.112 HAPPEN IN COURT, PEOPLE ARE ARE
02:58 - 11.047 VERY CLEARLY SEEING THAT THE
02:58 - 11.747 JUDGE IS NOT BEING RESPECTED.
02:58 - 12.348 SO THAT WAS ONLY FREEZE.
02:58 - 14.617 THAT WAS ADDED WORK IS NOT
02:58 - 17.253 BEING RESPECTED. THE AUTHORITY
02:58 - 20.356 OF THE BENCH, THE
02:58 - 21.223 >>THE
02:58 - 21.724 COURTROOM, THE
02:58 - 22.625 >>AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
02:58 - 25.661 AS A WHOLE. IT'S NOT JUST THIS
02:58 - 26.362 ONE.
02:58 - 28.831 INDIVIDUAL. IT'S NOT JUST THIS
02:58 - 31.834 JUDGE IMPACT, MR. OUTLAW
02:58 - 33.803 TESTIFIES. HE SAYS I DON'T EVEN
02:58 - 36.105 KNOW YOU THAT WELL. WELL, YOU
02:58 - 36.806 KNOW, IT WASN'T THAT IT WAS SO
02:58 - 38.774 PERSONAL. IT WAS THAT SHE IS
02:58 - 39.208 THE JUDGESHIP.
02:58 - 39.909 >>IN ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK
02:58 - 42.912 THAT SEPARATES THIS COURTROOM
02:58 - 44.613 FROM THAT THE ROOMS ON TV SHOWS
02:58 - 45.347 IS THAT THOSE RULES REALLY
02:58 - 48.017 MATTER HERE ON TV SHOWS.
02:58 - 48.918 THOSE THINGS ARE KIND OF, YOU
02:58 - 50.853 KNOW, SKIRTED AWAY BECAUSE THAT
02:58 - 51.487 MAKES FOR ENTERTAINING TV.
02:58 - 53.456 BUT SO I THINK IF IT'S ALLOWED
02:58 - 55.691 TO BE WEEKEND THAT, YOU KNOW,
02:58 - 59.862 SCORING COULD BECOME PLACES
02:58 - 00.763 LIKE THAT. IF IF IF THESE RULES
02:59 - 01.430 ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED, MAYBE
02:59 - 02.732 NOT TO THE SAME DEGREE THAT THE
02:59 - 03.499 JUDGE, OF COURSE, HERE IT WAS
02:59 - 06.335 SOME KIND OF REAL PUNISHMENT
02:59 - 06.769 AND I THINK
02:59 - 09.872 >>THE OVERALL SUGGESTION THAT
02:59 - 17.613 A REPRIMAND.
02:59 - 20.983 THE SUGGESTION THAT A REPRIMAND
02:59 - 21.717 WOULD SUFFICE. THAT REALLY DOES
02:59 - 24.887 JUST GIVE EVERYONE ONE FREE
02:59 - 25.654 ATTEMPT TO DO THIS.
02:59 - 28.491 >>AND THEN I SUPPOSE I THAT
02:59 - 29.492 UGLY.
02:59 - 30.726 >>A LOT.
02:59 - 33.763 >>IF THIS DISRESPECTFUL,
02:59 - 36.499 DISTURBING, INSULTING THING.
02:59 - 37.166 >>IT AND WAS REPRIMANDED OR
02:59 - 40.002 ESCAPE. WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH
02:59 - 42.037 HIM HAPPEN AND THEN ENCOURAGED
02:59 - 42.671 BY THAT PERHAPS A BUNCH OF
02:59 - 45.274 OTHER FOLKS DID THEIR ONE-TIME
02:59 - 46.475 THING.
02:59 - 47.376 YOU CAN DEFINITELY ENVISION
02:59 - 49.345 THAT THAT WOULD HAVE STRUCK
02:59 - 50.479 THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
02:59 - 53.582 THE CEREAL ATTEMPTS. YES, AND
02:59 - 54.383 IN EACH OF THEM MIGHT BE HELD
02:59 - 56.352 IN CRIMINAL CONTEMPT BECAUSE
02:59 - 57.353 THEY DIDN'T PERHAPS OBSTRUCTING
02:59 - 00.122 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
03:00 - 01.390 EVEN THOUGH PERHAPS OUTLAW.
03:00 - 03.292 >>I DID NOT. AND IN THAT WAS
03:00 - 05.127 THIS CASE. ALSO, THERE WERE
03:00 - 05.828 2 OUT PERCENT OCCUR. PRIVACY.
03:00 - 06.996 IT WAS AN OFFICER. I WAS OUT
03:00 - 07.963 FIRST, BUT THERE WERE 2
03:00 - 08.464 OUTBURST.
03:00 - 09.165 >>IN THE JUDGE SAID, YOU KNOW,
03:00 - 12.401 PLEASE MAINTAIN ORDER. THERE
03:00 - 13.068 ARE 2 PRIOR ATTEMPTS IN OUR
03:00 - 14.436 LAWS. OUTBURST CAME AT THE END
03:00 - 16.672 OF THOSE THINGS. SO IS SAYING,
03:00 - 17.573 LIKE, HEY, YOU'RE YOU'RE TO
03:00 - 18.407 PRIOR ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN
03:00 - 19.475 ORDER HERE, REALLY DON'T MATTER
03:00 - 20.442 TO ME. I'M GOING TO DO THIS
03:00 - 22.311 ANYWAY. IF YOU'RE DOING JUST
03:00 - 23.245 BECAUSE HAPPENED DURING THE
03:00 - 23.913 TESTIMONY I GET I'M GOING TO
03:00 - 26.215 WAIT A COUPLE SECONDS AND THEN
03:00 - 26.916 WOULD HAVE MY HELPERS. SO IT'S
03:00 - 28.884 REALLY A SCORING OF THE COURT'S
03:00 - 30.786 AUTHORITY TO TRYING TO MAINTAIN
03:00 - 32.822 ORDER AND HAS 2 PRIOR TIMES.
03:00 - 34.623 IT WAS REALLY AN ATTEMPT TO
03:00 - 35.958 SHOW THAT THE COURTS STANDARDS
03:00 - 36.625 ITS RULES, EVERYTHING DON'T
03:00 - 38.294 MATTER AT ALL TO OUTLAW THAT.
03:00 - 40.563 THAT'S WHAT HE IS
03:00 - 41.263 COMMUNICATING. AND THAT'S WHAT
03:00 - 41.864 THE PEOPLE AT THE PRIOR
03:00 - 43.966 OUTBURST WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT
03:00 - 44.633 OF COURT, WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
03:00 - 45.334 THAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE THE
03:00 - 48.904 SAME THING. THEY DID DO THE
03:00 - 52.141 SAME THING AND THEY GOT A
03:00 - 53.542 REPRIMAND. AND NOW THEY KNOW I
03:00 - 54.243 COULD HAVE ACTUALLY ESCALATED
03:00 - 57.179 BY WHAT I SAID. AND THAT IS
03:00 - 58.147 THERE ANY REASON WHY
03:00 - 58.881 >>THIS JUDGE OR ANY OTHER JUDGE
03:00 - 59.481 IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCE
03:00 - 01.884 COULDN'T ORDER THE QUARRY
03:01 - 03.085 CLEAR.
03:01 - 05.855 >>THE COURT COULD ORDER THE
03:01 - 06.889 COURT UNCLEAR, BUT I DON'T
03:01 - 07.189 KNOW.
03:01 - 09.825 >>IF THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE IN
03:01 - 13.829 THE ROOM WHERE THE COURT IS,
03:01 - 14.563 THAT IS THAT I THINK DOING THAT
03:01 - 15.264 WOULD PROBABLY CAUSE A LITERAL
03:01 - 15.931 OBSTRUCTION THAT WOULD DELAY
03:01 - 16.632 WHATEVER PROCEEDING WAS GOING
03:01 - 17.299 ON. IF YOU WERE TO CLEAR THE
03:01 - 20.336 COURTROOM, YOU NOW TAKING UP A
03:01 - 21.270 SUBSTANTIAL MY TIME.
03:01 - 22.471 >>SO WITH THE JUDGE HERE DID
03:01 - 23.172 HERE WAS ACTUALLY CONTINUE THE
03:01 - 25.474 PROCEEDING IN AN ATTEMPT TO
03:01 - 26.909 NOT HAVE.
03:01 - 28.844 A BIGGER DISRUPTIONS OCCUR.
03:01 - 29.511 AND I DON'T THINK COURT YOU
03:01 - 30.246 HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL A PROCEEDING
03:01 - 34.683 IS TOTALLY KNOCKED OUT IN ORDER
03:01 - 35.918 TO IMPOSE PUNISHMENT LIKE
03:01 - 37.686 CONTENT SHOULD BE COURT SHOULD
03:01 - 38.888 SAY THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF
03:01 - 39.521 HAND HERE MY RULES AND ARE
03:01 - 41.457 BEING RESPECTED. I'M GOING TO
03:01 - 42.191 HOLD YOU IN CONTEMPT TO PREVENT
03:01 - 44.360 THAT FROM HAPPENING TO PREVENT
03:01 - 47.463 THINGS FROM GETTING ANY WORSE.
03:01 - 48.430 >>I DON'T REALLY
03:01 - 51.333 COUNT SO COUNSEL. DO YOU AGREE
03:01 - 52.001 WITH THE OR I THINK YOU MUST
03:01 - 55.037 AGREE OR NOT WITH THE SUPERIOR
03:01 - 55.738 COURT'S I TRUNCATED HOLDING IN
03:01 - 00.042 THIS CASE AT THIS DEFENDANT,
03:02 - 00.709 THE STORM DEMONSTRATED HIS
03:02 - 02.177 DISRESPECT FOR THE COURT IN
03:02 - 05.781 ITS COMMAND OF THE COURTROOM,
03:02 - 08.851 FINDING
03:02 - 09.852 THAT SUFFICIENT I TO CONSTITUTE
03:02 - 10.686 I.
03:02 - 12.922 >>A STRUCTURE. YEAH, THAT'S
03:02 - 14.790 THE STANDARD. I BELIEVE.
03:02 - 16.992 OKAY. SO IF WE DO THAT, WE YOU
03:02 - 17.693 WOULD AGREE WE WOULD BE
03:02 - 18.627 CHANGING THE LAW AS IT
03:02 - 19.762 CURRENTLY EXISTS. I DON'T
03:02 - 22.798 BELIEVE SO. IN THE FLORIDA
03:02 - 24.099 CASE, THAT WAS THE CASE WHERE A
03:02 - 24.800 DEFENDANT MADE A THREAT TO THE
03:02 - 27.269 WITNESS WHO JUST TESTIFIED.
03:02 - 28.237 IT WAS THE END OF
03:02 - 28.671 A PROCEEDING.
03:02 - 31.407 >>AND THE DEFENSE SAID, YEAH,
03:02 - 32.441 I'LL BE OUT OF PRISON ONE DAY
03:02 - 33.809 IN THAT THREAT. YOU KNOW,
03:02 - 34.510 OBVIOUSLY THIS WITNESS WASN'T
03:02 - 35.844 DETERRED FROM TESTIFYING.
03:02 - 36.845 WITNESS ALREADY DID TESTIFY
03:02 - 39.081 IN THE COURT'S REASONING IN
03:02 - 42.785 THAT CASE WAS WELL, IF WE ALLOW
03:02 - 43.819 THIS TO HAPPEN, WITNESSES AND
03:02 - 45.054 FUTURE PROCEEDINGS WON'T COME
03:02 - 45.921 FORWARD BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT
03:02 - 47.589 THEM TO BELIEVE THAT THE COURT
03:02 - 48.257 IS POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING
03:02 - 49.892 ABOUT THREATS FROM FROM THEM
03:02 - 54.163 TO TESTIFY. SO I THINK THAT
03:02 - 55.464 THAT KIND OF
03:02 - 55.831 >>BROADER.
03:02 - 56.432 >>CONCERNED WITH FUTURE
03:02 - 59.401 PROCEEDINGS IS CONTEMPT HAS
03:02 - 00.736 ALWAYS BEEN WITHIN THE CASES
03:03 - 01.437 THAT HAVE LIMITED AND THEY ALL
03:03 - 02.571 REALLY DEALT WITH ATTORNEY
03:03 - 05.474 MISCONDUCT. THEY DEALT WITH
03:03 - 06.175 KIND OF MINOR OVERSTEPS WHERE
03:03 - 08.510 AN ATTORNEY SAID SOMETHING LIKE
03:03 - 10.412 THE JUDGE IS BIASED. SO IN
03:03 - 11.280 THOSE CASES, THE COURT WAS
03:03 - 12.948 WAITING. THIS IDEA THAT
03:03 - 16.285 ATTORNEYS NEED TO DO THIS
03:03 - 16.952 ADVOCATES ELLIS LEE, AGAINST
03:03 - 19.388 THEY NEED TO HAVE ME MAKE IN
03:03 - 20.055 ORDER TO PROCEEDING IN THIS
03:03 - 23.826 CASE. THAT KIND OF BALANCING
03:03 - 24.860 DOES EXIST. THERE'S A SPECTATOR
03:03 - 25.461 HAS TO BE QUIET DURING A
03:03 - 29.431 PROCEEDING THERE. OTHER
03:03 - 30.232 SPECTATOR CASES. ARE THERE.
03:03 - 31.266 OTHER SPECTATOR CAME. I DIDN'T
03:03 - 32.368 FROM THIS COURT KNEW THEY WERE
03:03 - 33.002 LIKE THE FIGHTING WAS LIKE
03:03 - 39.942 MOODY, AFRICA, WHERE THERE WAS.
03:03 - 41.910 UPSET AND IN MANATEE, IT'S A
03:03 - 43.912 CASE I DID WANT TALK ABOUT
03:03 - 44.713 BRIEFLY JUST BECAUSE I THINK
03:03 - 48.450 IN REGARDS TO FINDINGS, IT'S
03:03 - 49.218 VERY RELEVANT. IT SHOWS THAT
03:03 - 53.055 AND I DIDN'T ADDRESS IN MY
03:03 - 54.189 GRIEF, BUT WHERE HE SHOWS THAT
03:03 - 56.058 A COURT DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE
03:03 - 56.725 EVIDENCE OF THE CONTEMPT IN
03:03 - 59.728 ORDER TO FIND SOMEONE TO TEMPER
03:03 - 00.462 MAKE FINDINGS AND THAT CONTEMPT
03:04 - 03.432 IS VERY OFTEN SOMETHING THAT
03:04 - 04.366 CAN BE TRANSCRIBED OPTION DEALS
03:04 - 05.667 WITH INDIVIDUALS FIGHTING OR
03:04 - 06.368 SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE THE
03:04 - 08.804 COURT REPORTER'S GOING TYPING
03:04 - 09.605 DOWN EVERYTHING
03:04 - 12.541 THAT HAPPENED IN THE IN THE
03:04 - 13.442 RELY ON TRIAL COURTS TO MAKE
03:04 - 14.243 FINDINGS. AND IN THIS CASE, THE
03:04 - 16.945 INITIAL FINDINGS THAT HAPPENED
03:04 - 18.781 ON JUNE 16TH WERE TRUNCATED
03:04 - 21.183 AND THEY WERE TRUNCATED ONLY
03:04 - 22.718 BECAUSE I WANT THAT POINT WAS
03:04 - 23.352 CONCEDING 10. SO THE JUDGE
03:04 - 25.187 DIDN'T BELIEVE SHE NEED TO MAKE
03:04 - 28.057 FURTHER FINDINGS AT THAT POINT.
03:04 - 29.124 THEN THERE WAS A BS MOTION IN
03:04 - 29.792 THE JUDGE LIKE, OH, THEY'RE
03:04 - 30.893 ACTUALLY CHALLENGING THE
03:04 - 31.727 SUFFICIENCY OF THE CONTENT.
03:04 - 34.063 I NEED TO ADD ADDITIONAL
03:04 - 34.696 FINDINGS OF THIS RECORD IN
03:04 - 37.199 ORDER TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS
03:04 - 39.535 CONTEMPT.
03:04 - 40.202 AND JUST WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
03:04 - 43.072 YOUR POINT IS TRUE THAT JUDGES
03:04 - 44.006 NEED TO HAVE THICK SKIN.
03:04 - 44.907 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT JUDGES
03:04 - 47.576 SHOULD BECOME THE PUBLIC'S
03:04 - 48.710 WHIPPING POST. AND I DON'T
03:04 - 49.845 THINK THAT COREY SHOULD BECOME
03:04 - 52.948 PLACES WHERE THE PUBLIC U.S.
03:04 - 53.682 AIR THEIR GRIEVANCES. WE ASKED,
03:04 - 56.185 DO YOU DISTINGUISH WILL USE A
03:04 - 57.152 GUEST WHO YOU'RE NOT?
03:04 - 58.287 >>WE'RE NOT ASKING US TO
03:04 - 00.689 OVERRULE WILLIAMS ARE NO, NO,
03:05 - 03.992 I'M NOT. AND I THINK THERE'S A
03:05 - 20.943 >>OF ALL.
03:05 - 25.514 >>THROUGH NUMBER.
03:05 - 36.492 >>A
03:05 - 37.059 >>SUNNI I THINK IT'S.
03:05 - 38.393 >>WE'RE REALLY MATTERS. AFFECT
03:05 - 42.397 OTHER PEOPLE HURT THAT IN THAT
03:05 - 43.398 CASE, IT WAS OPPOSING COUNTY
03:05 - 46.502 WHERE DID AND IT WAS THE COURT
03:05 - 47.236 REPORTER DAN WILLIAMS. AND THEY
03:05 - 50.572 HAD TO CONVEY THAT TO THE JUDGE
03:05 - 51.440 IN THIS CASE, THIS WAS SAID
03:05 - 52.074 LOUD ENOUGH THAT THE JUDGE
03:05 - 53.709 HEARD SO CLEARLY OTHER PEOPLE
03:05 - 56.778 IN THE COURTROOM HEARD AS WELL.
03:05 - 57.913 AND IT'S
03:05 - 59.214 FAIR FOR YEAH, THE SHERIFF AS
03:05 - 59.948 WELL. YES. SO WILLIAMS THIS THE
03:05 - 02.384 MODEL FOR HER TO BE POSING
03:06 - 04.553 COUNCIL.
03:06 - 05.521 >>IN NEITHER CASE THERE WAS
03:06 - 06.121 THERE A DISPUTE WITH THE
03:06 - 11.793 DISGUSTING REMARK WAS MADE.
03:06 - 18.400 YOU SEEM TO BE DANCING ON THE
03:06 - 21.904 HEAD OF A PIN HERE TO ST. LOUIS
03:06 - 30.345 >>WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT IF.
03:06 - 38.954 >>YEAH, FOR ME.
03:06 - 39.888 >>U.S. AND MAKING A SPECTACLE
03:06 - 44.059 OF YOURSELF WHEN YOU SAY THIS
03:06 - 44.426 THING AND
03:06 - 45.127 >>WHAT HAPPENED FOR THIS WHERE
03:06 - 45.861 THE JUDGE WAS TRYING TO CONTROL
03:06 - 46.929 THE COURT. AND I THINK WHEN YOU
03:06 - 47.863 TAKE THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, IT
03:06 - 52.100 SHOWS THAT THIS WAS A FLAGRANT
03:06 - 52.834 FINDS THAT WAS CLEARLY ATTORNEY
03:06 - 54.870 WHO IS FRUSTRATED AND SAID
03:06 - 55.504 SOMETHING UNDER HIS BREATH
03:06 - 56.138 THERE WITH WORDS THAT SOME
03:06 - 57.873 ATTORNEY I MEAN, LOOK, I OF
03:06 - 58.607 COURSE, TURN OR COULD HAVE BEEN
03:06 - 59.441 A PARTY. WHOEVER SAID, I THINK
03:06 - 01.310 IT'S THE FACT THAT WAS AS
03:07 - 04.413 FRUSTRATED GRUMBLING. IT WASN'T
03:07 - 05.147 LIKE A CLEAR SIGN TO THE COURT
03:07 - 06.315 THAT I DON'T RESPECT YOU.
03:07 - 08.383 IT WAS AN ATTORNEY WHO'S UPSET
03:07 - 10.285 WITH THE WAY THAT THE CASE WAS
03:07 - 11.186 GOING. I THINK PROBABLY IN THAT
03:07 - 12.221 CASE, THE REAL FAULT WASN'T
03:07 - 12.821 NECESSARILY OBSTRUCTION.
03:07 - 13.956 I THINK IT WAS PROBABLY THE
03:07 - 15.591 INTENT ELEMENT. I THINK IT WAS
03:07 - 16.291 VERY WEEK THERE THAT THERE WAS
03:07 - 17.459 SOMEBODY SAYS SOMETHING UNDER
03:07 - 20.629 HER BREATH PROBABLY HAS NO
03:07 - 21.730 INTENT TO INSTRUCT SOMEBODY
03:07 - 23.665 STANDS UP IN COURT AND DIRECTED
03:07 - 25.601 DIRECTLY AT THE COURT DOES HAVE
03:07 - 27.669 AN INTENT TO OBSTRUCT AND THEN
03:07 - 28.670 ACTUALLY DOES STRUCKED. AND
03:07 - 29.605 THERE ARE OTHER CORRECTIVE
03:07 - 31.840 MEASURES THAT CAN BE TAKEN WITH
03:07 - 32.574 AN ATTORNEY FOR THAT CONDUCT.
03:07 - 33.742 THAT'S CORRECT. COULD NEVER GET
03:07 - 34.509 SIGNIFICANT ONES. YES, AND I
03:07 - 37.412 THINK MOST OF THE CASES DEAL
03:07 - 38.213 WITH ATTORNEYS BECAUSE THEY DO.
03:07 - 38.880 >>THAT'S BECAUSE SIGNIFICANT
03:07 - 42.317 MEASURES WERE PROBABLY TAKEN.
03:07 - 44.319 AND THE ATTORNEYS WANT TO DO
03:07 - 45.587 SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WHEREAS
03:07 - 46.655 NORMALLY PRIDE, THIS WOULD HAVE
03:07 - 47.322 BEEN LIKE A ONE-DAY SENTENCE
03:07 - 49.791 OR, YOU KNOW, $200 FINE OR
03:07 - 50.459 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IF THAT
03:07 - 51.093 WERE THE CASE, WE PROBABLY
03:07 - 51.693 WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY.
03:07 - 55.063 I THINK THAT EVERYBODY WOULD
03:07 - 55.764 UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETHING LIKE
03:07 - 56.999 WHAT OUT, WHAT IT WOULD BE
03:07 - 58.500 PARTIAL BY THOSE MORE MODERATE
03:07 - 59.134 MEASURES. I THINK THE REAL
03:07 - 01.703 ISSUE HERE IS THE ASPECTS OF
03:08 - 03.972 SENTENCE.
03:08 - 04.906 DISCRETIONARY ASPECTS OF THE
03:08 - 05.607 SENTENCE. I THINK THAT'S NOT
03:08 - 06.341 BEFORE US. IT'S NOT BEFORE THIS
03:08 - 08.510 COURT. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER
03:08 - 10.145 QUESTIONS FOR MISTER BEULAH?
03:08 - 10.846 >>MISTER BILL, I WOULD COMMENT
03:08 - 14.716 THAT HAVING INTERN FOR JUSTICE
03:08 - 16.652 WECHT, YOU IN CLARK, YOU AT
03:08 - 18.754 LEAST LEARNED ONE THING AND
03:08 - 19.454 THAT WAS HOW TO RESPECTFULLY
03:08 - 22.557 DISAGREE WITH THE GOOD
03:08 - 23.425 JUSTICES,
03:08 - 26.595 CORRECT? IT. THANK YOU ALL.
03:08 - 28.263 THANK YOU ALL.
03:08 - 28.864 >>COURT WILL BE HEARING
03:08 - 30.799 ARGUMENTS IN THE CASE OF THE
03:08 - 31.433 COMMONWEALTH VERSUS ALICIA
03:08 - 34.102 SHEPARD SMITH CASE EMANATING
03:08 - 36.872 FROM PHILADELPHIA.
03:08 - 38.273 THIS IS A GARDEN VARIETY
03:08 - 38.907 DISPUTE IN IN IN UNTIL IT
03:08 - 40.242 ISN'T, WHICH IS TO SAY IT
03:08 - 41.743 STARTS WITH A GARDENING
03:08 - 42.444 ARGUMENT. THERE WAS A FIGHT IN
03:08 - 45.380 A BACKYARD IN PHILADELPHIA.
03:08 - 46.415 THERE WAS ARGUMENT WHAT WERE
03:08 - 51.086 SOME SHRUBBERY ALL? WELL, THE
03:08 - 51.753 WORDS WERE EXCHANGED AND AS
03:08 - 52.487 PART OF THE DISPUTE, ONE OF THE
03:08 - 57.559 PEOPLE INVOLVED AS SHEPARD
03:08 - 58.260 SMITH. BRANDISHES A GUN AND
03:08 - 03.365 WAVES IT AT A AT HER NEIGHBORS.
03:09 - 04.066 SHE IS CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY
03:09 - 04.800 CONDUCT. THIS PART OF THAT, THE
03:09 - 07.602 THE GUN IN THE AMMUNITION ARE
03:09 - 09.371 SEIZED FROM HER.
03:09 - 10.005 AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE
03:09 - 10.706 WITNESSES DON'T SHOP ON TRIAL
03:09 - 12.307 AND THE CRIMINAL CHARGES
03:09 - 14.643 AGAINST HER DISMISSED. SHE
03:09 - 15.243 WOULD LIKE HER GUN BACK.
03:09 - 18.747 AND THAT'S WHERE THE DISPUTE
03:09 - 19.848 IS NOW. MISS SHEPHERD SMITH IS
03:09 - 23.685 ARGUING THAT UNDER THE LAW,
03:09 - 24.386 THE COMMONWEALTH NO LONGER HAS
03:09 - 27.255 ANY RIGHT TO RETAIN HER
03:09 - 27.956 PROPERTY THAT THE CASES.
03:09 - 28.657 BUT THE CASE IS OVER AND THERE
03:09 - 31.727 IS NO STATUTE JUSTIFYING THE
03:09 - 32.394 RETENTION OF HER GUN.
03:09 - 32.961 THE COMMONWEALTH HERE
03:09 - 35.931 REPRESENTED BY THE FIELD OF THE
03:09 - 36.932 DISTRICT
03:09 - 37.666 ATTORNEYS OFFICE IS INTRODUCING
03:09 - 39.334 AN ARGUMENT THAT THE SHEPHERD
03:09 - 41.236 SMITH SAYS HIS NEW AT THIS
03:09 - 42.871 STAGE. WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS
03:09 - 43.538 THAT BECAUSE THE STATUTE OF
03:09 - 45.507 LIMITATIONS ON THAT UNDERLYING
03:09 - 48.810 DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGE
03:09 - 49.511 HASN'T EXPIRED YET. THEY STILL
03:09 - 51.313 HAVE A RIGHT TO RETAIN THE GUN
03:09 - 52.147 AS EVIDENCE OF A POTENTIAL
03:09 - 54.216 CRIME UNTIL THEY CAN NO LONGER
03:09 - 55.083 CHARGE HER WITH THAT CRIME.
03:09 - 58.453 THEY OTHERWISE DISPUTE WITH
03:09 - 59.187 HER AS TO WHETHER THE STANDARDS
03:09 - 01.590 FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY HAVE
03:10 - 02.557 BEEN MET.
03:10 - 03.258 A LOT OF THIS DISPUTE DEPENDS
03:10 - 05.961 ON WHETHER THIS CASE IS VIEWED
03:10 - 07.062 AS A CRIMINAL FORFEITURE CASE.
03:10 - 08.897 WERE THE CASE INVOLVING A
03:10 - 10.198 MOTION FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY.
03:10 - 11.333 AND IT'S GOING TO BE HOTLY OUR
03:10 - 14.636 HEAT BETWEEN THE PARTIES TODAY.
03:10 - 16.972 >>AFTERNOON.
03:10 - 19.141 THANK YOU. CHIEF JUSTICE.
03:10 - 21.710 WHAT PROJECTS MY NAME IS JOHN
03:10 - 22.344 JILIN AND THE ATTORNEY FOR
03:10 - 23.011 PALIN. ALICIA SHEPARD SMITH.
03:10 - 23.678 I'M HERE WITH MY CO-COUNSEL,
03:10 - 25.380 MISTER CHAIR AROUND BROWN.
03:10 - 28.450 WELCOME. IF I MAY PLEASE, THE
03:10 - 31.520 COURT.
03:10 - 32.220 THIS CASE, IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY
03:10 - 35.056 ABOUT PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DUE
03:10 - 35.490 PROCESS.
03:10 - 38.226 THE COMMONWEALTH HAS FOUND A
03:10 - 39.861 WAY TO CIRCUMVENT THE
03:10 - 42.164 PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS OF THE
03:10 - 44.166 STATE'S STATUTORY FORFEIT YOUR
03:10 - 44.833 SCHEME TO DEPRIVE MIKE LINE,
03:10 - 45.567 ALICIA SHEPARD SMITH OF HER
03:10 - 50.505 PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HER HANDGUN
03:10 - 52.874 AND MAGAZINE. CENTRAL. IN THIS
03:10 - 53.608 CASE IS A 2018 DECISION BY THIS
03:10 - 56.511 COURT. COMMONWEALTH VIRULENT.
03:10 - 59.614 COMEDY ERLAND. THIS COURT
03:10 - 59.981 FOUND.
03:10 - 03.084 ABSENT A STATURE, A STATUTE
03:11 - 04.119 AUTHORIZING IT.
03:11 - 06.755 CIVIL FORFEITURE OF DERIVATIVE
03:11 - 09.858 CONTRABAND. WAS IMPROPER AND
03:11 - 14.095 UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
03:11 - 14.796 BECAUSE IN PART OF THAT RULING
03:11 - 16.965 IS BECAUSE ROLE 5.88, WHICH HAS
03:11 - 19.134 RELIED ON THIS CASE. IT'S A
03:11 - 21.970 PROCEDURAL MECHANISM FOR THE
03:11 - 24.673 DISPOSITION OF SEIZE PROPERTY,
03:11 - 25.874 BUT IT CAN NOT DELINEATE
03:11 - 26.508 SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS THAT A
03:11 - 29.311 PERSON MAY POSSESS WITH RESPECT
03:11 - 30.612 TO THAT PROPERTY.
03:11 - 32.113 THE COMMONWEALTH, THOUGH,
03:11 - 32.781 RELIED ON THIS PROCEDURE TO
03:11 - 33.482 TODD TO DENY THE RETURN OF THE
03:11 - 36.585 HANDGUNS IN MAGAZINES AFTER
03:11 - 39.721 THE MOTION.
03:11 - 40.922 ISSUES WANTED TO IN THIS MATTER
03:11 - 44.159 REGARDING FORFEITURE EXTREMELY
03:11 - 44.926 CLOSELY. RE 8 RELATED. THE
03:11 - 47.863 FIRST ISSUE IS WHETHER OR NOT
03:11 - 50.932 THIS WAS A FORFEITURE. ERLANDS
03:11 - 52.133 BAR THERE FOR.
03:11 - 54.536 IT'S EARLY AND THEREFORE BAR
03:11 - 55.237 THE 4TH INNING OF THE HANDGUN
03:11 - 58.173 IN THE MAGAZINE. THIS CASE.
03:11 - 00.475 THIS WAS DENIED BY THIS YEAR
03:12 - 02.577 SUPERIOR COURT BECAUSE THEY
03:12 - 04.012 RULED THAT THIS WAS NOT A
03:12 - 04.579 FORFEITURE BECAUSE THE
03:12 - 07.315 COMMONWEALTH TO NOT FILE AND
03:12 - 08.049 FORFEITURE PETITION IN RESPONSE
03:12 - 10.986 TO THE 5.88 MOTION FOR RETURN
03:12 - 15.857 OF PROPERTY.
03:12 - 18.927 THEY ORDERED THAT THE PROPERTY
03:12 - 27.402 WAS SUBJECT TO FORFEITURE.
03:12 - 28.103 SO COUNCIL ERLAND WAS A
03:12 - 28.837 PETITION FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY
03:12 - 32.941 REGARDING 2 MAGAZINES. RIGHT?
03:12 - 42.751 >>HAND, I BELIEVE. ABOUT THAT.
03:12 - 43.752 YES. I'M CURIOUS
03:12 - 44.619 AS TO MORE THAN DUE PROCESS
03:12 - 45.220 CONCERNS THEN REALLY THE
03:12 - 47.956 SUBSTANTIVE BASIS FOR THE
03:12 - 50.458 ARGUMENT.
03:12 - 51.159 THE COMMONWEALTH HAS A CERTAIN
03:12 - 53.895 BIRD ON A PETITION FOR
03:12 - 54.563 FORFEITURES OPPOSED TO THE
03:12 - 55.230 DEFENDANT ON A PETITION FOR
03:12 - 56.932 RETURN OF PROPERTY RIGHT WITH
03:12 - 58.767 ITS SHIFTING BURDEN. YES.
03:12 - 59.401 SO IF I'M A DEFENDANT AND
03:12 - 02.704 CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUR CLIENT
03:13 - 03.538 CASE. YOUR CLIENT WAS FOUND
03:13 - 06.675 ACTUALLY NOT FOUND ANYTHING TO
03:13 - 07.642 THE CASE WAS NO PROST.
03:13 - 09.644 AND SHE WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED
03:13 - 10.345 WITH A GUEST WHO FOR VIOLATION
03:13 - 11.012 OF THE UNIFORM FIREARMS ACT
03:13 - 11.813 FOR CARRYING A GUN AND SIMPLE
03:13 - 13.949 ASSAULT FOR ALLEGEDLY POINTING
03:13 - 15.784 IT AT HER NEIGHBOR, A
03:13 - 16.484 TERRORISTIC THREATS. WHATEVER
03:13 - 17.152 REASON, COMMONWEALTH, WHICH
03:13 - 18.486 TRUE THAT CASE, SHE FILES A
03:13 - 20.555 PETITION FOR RETURN OF
03:13 - 21.289 PROPERTY. SHE HAS THE BURDEN TO
03:13 - 21.990 SHOW THAT SHE'S WHERE SHE WILL
03:13 - 24.759 LAWFULLY OWNS THE GUN RIGHT?
03:13 - 27.929 IT SHOULD PROVE THAT.
03:13 - 28.563 >>HOW DOES SHE PROVE THAT?
03:13 - 29.197 WELL, IN THIS CASE, IT WAS
03:13 - 30.799 CONCEDED BY THE COMMONWEALTH.
03:13 - 33.735 I MEAN, TYPICALLY THEY COULD.
03:13 - 36.838 PROVE THAT WITH THE RECEIPT
03:13 - 38.840 OR A.
03:13 - 39.474 BUT THE COMMONWEALTH, THE
03:13 - 40.208 DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND THAT'S MY
03:13 - 40.976 MY MY POINT IS SOMEBODY IS
03:13 - 41.610 GOING TO HAVE TO TESTIFY.
03:13 - 43.478 SHE'S GOING TO HAVE TO TESTIFY.
03:13 - 43.979 THAT WAS HER GONE.
03:13 - 44.613 >>WAS TAKEN FROM OR ON THE
03:13 - 46.781 PROPERTY RECEIPT. SHE WANTS
03:13 - 48.650 IT BACK. OTHER WORDS. YES,
03:13 - 50.585 SHE'S GOT APPROVAL FROM TONE.
03:13 - 51.286 HOW DOES SHE DO THAT WITH THE
03:13 - 53.622 5TH AMENDMENT CHARGE
03:13 - 54.322 POTENTIALLY HANGOVER CURE HER
03:13 - 54.990 HEAD? IN OTHER WORDS, IF SHE
03:13 - 55.690 GETS UP AND TESTIFIES AND SHE
03:13 - 59.694 SAID I HAD THE GUN, I THINK ON
03:13 - 00.428 THE STREET, ISN'T SHE ADMITTING
03:14 - 01.129 TO A VIOLATION OF THE UNIFORM
03:14 - 01.830 FIREARMS ACT IN WHICH CASE THE
03:14 - 02.897 COMMONWEALTH CAN RE BRING THE
03:14 - 05.934 CHARGES?
03:14 - 07.002 >>YES,
03:14 - 09.604 THE ONLY THE ONLY BURDEN THAT
03:14 - 10.238 THE MOVEMENT HAS IS LAWFUL
03:14 - 10.905 POSSESSION. I MEAN, THERE'S
03:14 - 13.375 MANY WAYS THAT THEY COULD SHOW
03:14 - 16.811 THAT OUT. LIKE I SAID, IT
03:14 - 17.479 RECEIVED IN A VAULT WELL PER
03:14 - 19.047 PURCHASE OF ILLEGAL PURCHASE
03:14 - 20.148 OF THE GUN OR I'M NOT SAYING
03:14 - 21.816 SHE DIDN'T LEGALLY PURCHASE
03:14 - 22.484 OF HOW TO VERIFY THAT. SHE'S
03:14 - 25.153 THE PERSON ON THAT WITHOUT
03:14 - 28.857 TESTIMONY.
03:14 - 31.926 >>IN I MEAN, IS THE AUTHENTIC
03:14 - 34.462 8? THE RECEIPT?
03:14 - 34.829 >>IF SHE.
03:14 - 36.798 >>NOW THAT THE IN THIS IN THIS
03:14 - 37.399 MAP, DOESN'T SHE HAVE TO
03:14 - 39.868 SOMEBODY HAS TO OFFER INDICATE
03:14 - 43.038 THE DOCUMENT.
03:14 - 46.675 >>I WOULD AGREE THAT.
03:14 - 48.510 THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE, DON.
03:14 - 51.413 >>BUT IN THIS MATTER BEFORE US.
03:14 - 52.013 >>AND THE COMMONWEALTH.
03:14 - 54.015 >>CONCEDED THAT IMMEDIATELY.
03:14 - 57.018 AND THERE OPENING THAT IT WAS A
03:14 - 57.719 LAWFULLY POSSESSED. IT WAS HER
03:14 - 00.155 WEAPON. AND SHE AT WAS THERE
03:15 - 02.357 A STIPULATION?
03:15 - 03.958 WITH THEIR STIPULATION. THERE
03:15 - 04.659 WAS NOT A STIPULATION. YOU SAY
03:15 - 05.360 THE COMMONWEALTH CONCEDED THAT
03:15 - 07.228 MEAN THAT'S JUST ARGUMENT.
03:15 - 08.730 THAT'S NOT PROOF.
03:15 - 11.800 YES, I MEAN, PROOF IS ONE OF
03:15 - 13.101 MY.
03:15 - 14.903 ISSUES HERE IS THAT DUE PROCESS
03:15 - 15.603 ARGUMENT. HOW DO YOU PROVE IT?
03:15 - 17.572 IT'S FROM THAT ONE TRYING TO
03:15 - 18.239 GET IT TO USE JUST AS PROPS.
03:15 - 20.208 THIS TERMINOLOGY THAT'S BEEN
03:15 - 23.211 UP. WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE
03:15 - 23.878 OUT HERE. YOUR CLIENT HAS A
03:15 - 26.614 BURDEN ON A PETITION FOR RETURN
03:15 - 27.348 OF PROPERTY. IT SHOWS THAT IT'S
03:15 - 28.049 HER GUN-SHY LAWFULLY ENTITLED
03:15 - 31.920 TO POSSESSION THE RETURN OF IT.
03:15 - 34.122 HOW DOES SHE PROVE IT?
03:15 - 35.156 >>WE THINK THAT THE AMOUNT THE
03:15 - 35.857 TRIAL COURT FOUND THAT SHE WAS
03:15 - 38.159 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION. THEY SAID
03:15 - 39.094 THEY SAID, THOUGH, HE SAID,
03:15 - 39.761 THOUGH, THAT SHE WOULD THEY
03:15 - 40.628 WERE TRIAL COURT WAS NOT GOING
03:15 - 41.296 TO TURN IT BECAUSE THE TRIAL
03:15 - 44.866 COURT SAID IT WAS DERIVATIVE
03:15 - 47.569 CONTRA, CORRECT? RIGHT? SO
03:15 - 48.703 THERE'S NO CONCEDED SO THAT
03:15 - 50.238 THE NATIONAL LIVING IN THAT AND
03:15 - 50.905 THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT FOR THE
03:15 - 51.639 COMMONWEALTH CONCEDED. SO ISN'T
03:15 - 01.883 THAT IN ESSENCE, A STIPULATION?
03:16 - 03.051 >>I DON'T THINK IT IS. IT HAS
03:16 - 03.785 THE SAME EFFECT AS STIPULATION,
03:16 - 06.287 BUT IT HAS THE OF FACT, I WOULD
03:16 - 07.989 SAY.
03:16 - 11.025 >>OF CONCEIVING AND ALSO MOST
03:16 - 11.926 NOT ARGUING HERE THAT YOU
03:16 - 12.627 DIDN'T PROVE THAT SHE LAWFULLY
03:16 - 13.361 POSSESSED BY HER EDITOR'S NOTE,
03:16 - 14.295 THERE'S NO NOBODY IS CONTENDING
03:16 - 14.929 THAT AT ALL. EVEN NOT EVEN
03:16 - 17.632 SUPERIOR COURT QUESTION YOUR
03:16 - 19.400 CLIENTS.
03:16 - 21.102 SATISFACTION OF THE RULE.
03:16 - 22.637 THAT FIRST PART OF IT. THE
03:16 - 23.304 QUESTION IS, NOTWITHSTANDING
03:16 - 25.774 YOUR SATISFACTION OF THE FIRST
03:16 - 27.876 PART OF THE RULE.
03:16 - 28.676 CAN THE COMMONWEALTH AND
03:16 - 29.244 DEFINITELY HOLD ON TO
03:16 - 29.844 SOMETHING. WHEN YOU HAVE
03:16 - 32.747 SATISFIED THE FIRST PART OF
03:16 - 33.114 THE RULE.
03:16 - 33.748 >>YES, THAT I THINK IS THE
03:16 - 36.618 CENTRAL ISSUE THAT'S THAN UP.
03:16 - 38.486 YES.
03:16 - 39.187 AND NOW, YES, I WOULD SAY THAT
03:16 - 43.458 IS ACTUALLY THE NOW THAT THIS
03:16 - 44.159 CASE IS AND CENTRAL TO IRELAND
03:16 - 44.692 IS WHEN AND HOW THE
03:16 - 46.327 COMMONWEALTH CAN DEPRIVE YOU.
03:16 - 49.397 IN THIS CASE FROM MY READING
03:16 - 51.399 OF.
03:16 - 52.066 WHERE THERE'S ONLY A 30 DAY
03:16 - 56.204 AFTER 30 DAYS, THE PROPERTY
03:16 - 59.240 TITLE GOES THE STATE. THIS IS
03:16 - 59.941 YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHANCE GIVEN
03:16 - 00.575 THE CURRENT EVENTS WITHOUT
03:17 - 02.210 SAID, I THINK OUT, ALTHOUGH I'M
03:17 - 03.211 NOT I'M NOT NECESSARILY A FAN
03:17 - 05.446 OF IT. I THINK WHAT ALLEN SAID
03:17 - 06.181 IS YOU, IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE
03:17 - 06.781 YOUR ABILITY TO FILE THE
03:17 - 09.350 MOTION, YOU HAVE TO FILE WITHIN
03:17 - 09.684 30 DAYS.
03:17 - 12.287 >>MEANING IF YOU WAIT PAST 30
03:17 - 12.987 DAYS AND FILE IT, ALLEN SEEMS
03:17 - 16.090 TO SUGGEST THAT YOU FORFEIT
03:17 - 16.724 YOUR PROPERTY, BUT IF YOU
03:17 - 18.827 FOLLOW WITHIN 30 DAYS AND IT'S
03:17 - 19.494 THE NIGHT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN
03:17 - 22.030 YOU CAN'T FILE IT LATER.
03:17 - 23.398 SO, FOR EXAMPLE.
03:17 - 24.299 YOU KNOW, UNDER ALAN, YOU
03:17 - 26.768 FOLLOW WITHIN 30 DAYS IN THE
03:17 - 27.402 COMMONWEALTH COMES TO THE
03:17 - 28.102 HEARING, CAN SEIZE YOUR OR YOU
03:17 - 30.538 PROVE OR CONCEDES THAT YOUR
03:17 - 31.105 LAWFUL OWNERSHIP. THE
03:17 - 34.042 COMMONWEALTH MAY SAY, WELL,
03:17 - 36.845 YOUR HONOR, WE ARE WE ARE POOR
03:17 - 38.947 PLANNING TO RECHARGE THE
03:17 - 39.814 DEFENDANT IN JUST A BRIEF FILED
03:17 - 41.015 THESE CHARGES. AND WE WOULD ASK
03:17 - 42.050 THAT YOU DENY THE MOTION TO
03:17 - 44.953 GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO
03:17 - 45.687 REFILE THE CHARGES. ALLEN WOULD
03:17 - 48.423 SAY YOU FILED WITHIN 30 DAYS.
03:17 - 50.792 YOU'RE GOOD.
03:17 - 51.459 WE'RE BUT WE'RE GOING TO THE
03:17 - 54.462 NIGHT ANYWAY BECAUSE THE
03:17 - 55.029 COMMONWEALTH WANTS TO
03:17 - 55.697 REFILE CHARGES.
03:17 - 57.265 >>I AGREE IN THAT SCENARIO.
03:17 - 57.899 THAT IS A POSSIBILITY THAT
03:17 - 01.102 THAT'S NOT THE FACTS OF THIS
03:18 - 01.769 CASE. THE FACTS OF THIS CASE
03:18 - 05.573 ARE IF THE COMMONWEALTH MOVE TO
03:18 - 06.241 KEEP THIS UNDER A THEORY OF
03:18 - 06.941 DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND AND THAT
03:18 - 07.609 SHE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO THE
03:18 - 11.913 PROMPT RETURN OF THE PROPERTY.
03:18 - 12.580 THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT
03:18 - 16.751 THEY EVER INTENDED TO RETURN
03:18 - 17.418 THE PROPERTY IN THE MEAN THE
03:18 - 18.519 STATUE OF LIMITATIONS IS JUST
03:18 - 19.220 PART OF THE COMMENTS ARGUMENT
03:18 - 21.055 HAS LONG SINCE PAST. SHE HAS
03:18 - 25.960 IT. RECEIVED HER PROPERTY.
03:18 - 26.628 SHE HAS NO I MEAN, MAYBE I'M
03:18 - 27.896 READING ALLEN WRONG. BUT THIS
03:18 - 32.166 TIME SINCE IT'S BEEN DENIED
03:18 - 32.834 LIKE I DON'T, I BELIEVE THE
03:18 - 33.401 TRIAL COURT WOULD HAVE
03:18 - 35.970 ENTERTAINED A MOTION FOR RETURN
03:18 - 50.151 OF PROPERTY AGAIN.
03:18 - 51.486 REALLY WELL.
03:18 - 53.821 IT'S LONG UNLESS IT IS A RATED.
03:18 - 55.757 ONE OF THE FORFEITURE OFFENSES
03:18 - 56.391 IN A DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND
03:18 - 59.394 FERRY. I WOULD SAY YES, THE
03:18 - 07.502 PROPERTY MUST BE RETURNED.
03:19 - 10.371 WELL, AGAIN, NOT IN IN THE
03:19 - 11.072 INSTANT CASE. THERE. IT ISN'T.
03:19 - 12.140 NOW THERE COULD HAVE BEEN AT
03:19 - 13.675 THE TIME, BUT THEY DIDN'T MOVE
03:19 - 16.778 UNDER THAT. I BELIEVE THAT
03:19 - 20.648 THERE IS IT.
03:19 - 22.216 SO YEAH, THEY THEIR THEIR THEIR
03:19 - 22.850 REASONING FOR OPPOSING THE
03:19 - 23.518 MOTION WAS IT WAS DERIVATIVE
03:19 - 25.920 CONTRABAND. THEY NEVER
03:19 - 26.621 PRESENTED.
03:19 - 29.324 EVEN IN A GOOD FAITH MANNER
03:19 - 32.393 THAT THEY MIGHT. LET ALONE
03:19 - 46.774 WOULD REFILE CHARGES.
03:19 - 47.275 >>IT'S LIKELY IF.
03:19 - 50.945 >>YOU KNOW, SOME SHOWING THAT
03:19 - 52.747 THEY INTENDED TO ACTUALLY
03:19 - 56.217 REFILE THE CHARGES. THIS COURT
03:19 - 57.652 COULD MAKE A RULE THAT THAT'S
03:19 - 00.855 THAT'S ACCEPTABLE. I MEAN,
03:20 - 02.991 WHETHER WE'RE FULL 600.
03:20 - 06.027 >>IF THE PROSECUTOR DOES WHAT
03:20 - 07.061 THEY DID HERE AND IN RESPONSE,
03:20 - 10.999 THE RETURN OF PROPERTY CAME IN.
03:20 - 13.134 AND SIR, WE'RE GOING TO REFILE
03:20 - 14.335 THE CHARGES. WILL 600 I THINK
03:20 - 16.804 GIVES THEM WHAT, 360 SOME DAYS
03:20 - 17.472 TO REFILE. YES, NOT NOT THE
03:20 - 20.074 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. I THINK
03:20 - 22.076 THAT'S WRONG. BUT BUT BUT THEN
03:20 - 23.244 THE TRIAL COURT JUDGE MADE
03:20 - 23.911 BASED ON THE REPRESENTATIVE
03:20 - 26.314 REPRESENTATION OF THE DISTRICT
03:20 - 27.448 ATTORNEY'S
03:20 - 28.383 OFFICE SAY, OKAY, THERE'S STILL
03:20 - 30.451 A QUESTION HERE AS TO WHETHER
03:20 - 31.519 THIS MIGHT BE DERIVATIVE
03:20 - 32.253 CONTRABAND. THEY PLAN TO REFILE
03:20 - 35.456 CHARGES. I'M GOING TO DENY YOUR
03:20 - 37.091 MOTION FOR THE TIME BEING AND
03:20 - 37.825 SEE IF THEY REFILE. THE CHARGES
03:20 - 38.526 SAID THERE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE
03:20 - 45.733 AN ACTIVE CRIMINAL FITNESS.
03:20 - 48.870 IF IT SITUATION RIGHT. I MEAN
03:20 - 52.106 CORRECTED. I MEAN, I
03:20 - 53.841 >>YES, TIME THERE DOESN'T
03:20 - 55.410 HAPPENING AT THE CRIMINAL CASE,
03:20 - 58.012 NON CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS.
03:20 - 59.180 IF YOU KNOW MY SOMEONE I LIVE
03:20 - 01.049 WITH WAS CHARGED WITH A CRIME
03:21 - 02.917 IN THEIR PROPERTY WAS TAKEN.
03:21 - 04.252 MY PROPERTY WAS TAKEN AS PART
03:21 - 06.988 OF THAT RADAR SEIZURE AND I
03:21 - 08.523 COULD FILE INDEPENDENTLY.
03:21 - 09.123 SO THERE DOES NOT HAVE A
03:21 - 11.959 CRIMINAL CASE. BUT IN THIS
03:21 - 12.894 CASE, THERE WAS.
03:21 - 15.963 WAS DISPOSED OF IN THE CALM
03:21 - 17.398 WILES.
03:21 - 21.169 YOU KNOW, ERIE AT THE HEARING
03:21 - 21.803 AND UNTIL THIS UNTIL THIS
03:21 - 24.672 APPEAL WAS THAT IT WAS TO RID
03:21 - 26.874 OF CONTRABAND AND THAT MY
03:21 - 27.575 CLIENT IS NOT ENTITLED TO THE
03:21 - 32.313 RETURN OF THAT PROPERTY EVER.
03:21 - 36.350 I MEAN, I I DON'T SEE IT ANY
03:21 - 39.353 OTHER WAY
03:21 - 39.954 YEAH, EVER. I MEAN, THEY
03:21 - 40.688 THEY'VE BEEN SEEN THEY'VE GIVEN
03:21 - 42.657 NO INCLINATION. THEY COULD
03:21 - 43.891 HAVE.
03:21 - 45.059 I MEAN, THEY COULD HAVE A NEW
03:21 - 46.360 DID THIS CASE BY RETURNING THE
03:21 - 47.061 GUN 2 YEARS AGO. AT THE SEVERE
03:21 - 49.597 END, A SUPERIOR COURT APPEAL
03:21 - 58.906 IS FILED.
03:21 - 01.075 >>THE RELEVANT TIME PERIOD.
03:22 - 03.077 IF YOU WANTED TO. IF THE THEORY
03:22 - 06.481 WAS A PENDING CRIMINAL CASE
03:22 - 07.115 WOULD BE A ROLE. 600 TIME
03:22 - 09.684 FRAME. WHICH POINT LET ME ASK
03:22 - 10.751 YOU THIS. YES.
03:22 - 12.820 >>WHAT'S YOUR POSITION? ARE YOU
03:22 - 14.822 IN AGREEMENT THAT THE
03:22 - 17.158 COMMONWEALTH PERMITTED TO
03:22 - 17.892 RETAIN THE ALL WELL AND CHARGES
03:22 - 19.994 ARE PENDING. WERE THE CASE OF
03:22 - 20.695 CRIMINAL CHARGES WERE
03:22 - 23.831 DISMISSED, BUT THAT SAY THEY AT
03:22 - 26.100 I NEED TO RECONSIDER.
03:22 - 28.402 >>WELL, I THINK THEY COULD WITH
03:22 - 31.239 A CERTAIN. FACTUAL SHOWING.
03:22 - 33.975 THE MOTION FOR RETURN OF
03:22 - 38.379 PROPERTY THAT THAT SOMETHING
03:22 - 38.880 ALONG THE LINES UP
03:22 - 40.715 THE PROPERTY.
03:22 - 41.415 >>IS ACTUALLY EVIDENCE IN THE
03:22 - 43.417 CASE AND THAT IT'S SOMETHING
03:22 - 49.323 THAT THEY NEED OR WOULD
03:22 - 50.358 UTILIZE. AND THAT. LIKE I SAID,
03:22 - 52.960 SOME SOME GOOD FAITH THAT THEY
03:22 - 56.097 MAY RE REFILE THE CASE.
03:22 - 59.367 >>ENOUGH OF THIS CASE.
03:22 - 00.701 GROWTH. 55 88 SLACK, ALL THE
03:23 - 03.905 TIME, PERIOD OR OR OR BECAUSE
03:23 - 05.139 FROM TRYING TO SAVE.
03:23 - 05.840 HERE, WE HAVE A CASE IN WHICH
03:23 - 08.643 AN INDIVIDUAL WAS ARRESTED.
03:23 - 10.478 CHARGES WERE DISMISSED.
03:23 - 11.345 COMMONWEALTH IS IN POSSESSION
03:23 - 14.382 OF THE LOCAL PROPERTY OF YOUR
03:23 - 17.885 CLIENT.
03:23 - 20.621 SHE WOULD BE REQUIRED UNDER
03:23 - 21.255 5.80, TO FILE A MOTION FOR
03:23 - 21.956 RETURN OF PROPERTY WHICH WOULD
03:23 - 25.560 REQUIRE HER TO OFFER EVIDENCE
03:23 - 26.227 OF A PREPONDERANCE STANDARD
03:23 - 28.863 THAT THAT SHE IS UNLAWFUL
03:23 - 31.933 POSSESSION OR SHOULD BE.
03:23 - 32.833 DESPITE THE FACT THIS DOES A
03:23 - 33.434 CAPRI SAID YOU COULD BE
03:23 - 34.135 INVOKING 5TH AMENDMENT ISSUES
03:23 - 34.835 CAUSED COMMONWEALTH STILL HAS
03:23 - 39.307 THAT RIGHT TO PROSECUTE YOU?
03:23 - 44.078 SO IT APPEARS THAT. THIS COURT.
03:23 - 46.080 ARE YOU ASKING THIS COURT TO
03:23 - 46.747 I REFER THIS TO OUR RULES
03:23 - 47.415 COMMITTEE TO INDICATE THAT A
03:23 - 50.318 RETURN OF PROPERTY SHOULD ONLY
03:23 - 53.154 BE FILED AFTER A 30 DAYS AFTER
03:23 - 53.821 THE DISCHARGE OF A CASE BUS
03:23 - 56.424 CAUSING THE COMMONWEALTH TO.
03:23 - 58.559 MAKE A DECISION WITHIN 30 DAYS
03:23 - 01.696 AFTER WITHDRAWAL. I DON'T KNOW.
03:24 - 02.230 I'M TRYING TO FIND.
03:24 - 03.297 IT SEEMS WE'RE IN A BIND RATE
03:24 - 07.301 FOR YOUR FOR YOU, FOR YOUR
03:24 - 09.870 CLIENT. WELL, FOR FOR MY
03:24 - 11.872 >>CLIENT. AGAIN, I THINK.
03:24 - 12.573 I THINK IN A CASE AGAIN, WHERE
03:24 - 13.341 THEY'RE SAYING THEY NEED TO
03:24 - 17.178 RETAIN THIS RAPID INC COULD.
03:24 - 19.313 COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
03:24 - 21.916 BUT IN MY CASE, THERE'S NOT
03:24 - 22.583 THAT'S NOT WHAT DATE A CLAIM
03:24 - 26.053 AND THEY DIDN'T REFILE THE
03:24 - 26.921 CASE. I SHOULD ADD
03:24 - 28.589 >>BUT I DON'T THINK THE ISSUE
03:24 - 33.027 PER SE IS THE LACK. OF TIME.
03:24 - 33.728 I THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS COURT
03:24 - 36.430 COULD MAKE A RULE THAT AFTER
03:24 - 39.533 THE 30 DAYS, YOU KNOW, THEY
03:24 - 40.468 COULD BE STAYED UNTIL THE
03:24 - 42.637 PENDENCY OF REFILING OR A RULE.
03:24 - 45.773 600 MOTION. IT COULD BE
03:24 - 47.608 SOMETHING ALONG THAT. BUT THE
03:24 - 48.276 LIKE I SAID, THE WAY I READ
03:24 - 49.910 ISLAND AND MAYBE THE COURT
03:24 - 52.213 READS IT DIFFERENT. IS THAT
03:24 - 55.583 AFTER 30 DAYS THERE IS. IT'S
03:24 - 56.083 YET TO DECIDE IT.
03:24 - 56.751 >>THE RULE DOES THIS SAY 30
03:24 - 59.720 DAYS, ALLEN SAID 30 CORRECT.
03:24 - 00.588 AND
03:25 - 03.691 YOU KNOW, YOU GET EXACTLY WHAT
03:25 - 06.761 YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO.
03:25 - 08.863 >>WOLF, THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO
03:25 - 09.697 THE RULE CREATES THIS FOR
03:25 - 10.431 DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND, WHICH TO
03:25 - 13.301 ME SUGGESTS THE RULE WAS
03:25 - 14.368 WRITTEN IN A YORK TO SHOW
03:25 - 14.735 THAT YOU.
03:25 - 16.137 >>WAFFLE, WE POSSESS NOT LAWFUL
03:25 - 16.971 USE THAT YOU AWFULLY POSSESS.
03:25 - 18.806 MANY WEREN'T A PERSON
03:25 - 20.908 PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING A
03:25 - 21.609 YES LAWFULLY POSSESS. YOU HAVE
03:25 - 22.310 WHATEVER LICENSES YOU NEED TO
03:25 - 25.012 POSSESS A WEAPON AND THE
03:25 - 27.982 WEALTHY OR WHEREVER.
03:25 - 28.849 >>AND THEN ONCE YOU PROVE THAT
03:25 - 29.550 THE RULE SAYS THE ORDER HAS TO
03:25 - 34.221 BE GRANTED. THE MOTION SHOULD
03:25 - 36.057 BE GRANTED. I'M LESS.
03:25 - 37.091 THE COMMONWEALTH ESTABLISHES
03:25 - 38.025 THAT ITS DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND
03:25 - 38.759 IN THE WAY THEY HAVE TO DO THAT
03:25 - 41.429 IS THROUGH A CIVIL FORFEITURE
03:25 - 42.596 STATUTE.
03:25 - 43.731 >>WE'RE THRUST PROVIDING
03:25 - 44.632 TESTIMONY TO UNDERLYING
03:25 - 46.334 HEARING. THAT'S THAT'S WHERE I
03:25 - 47.001 WAS GETTING AT. WELL, ANYWAY
03:25 - 48.302 CAN PROVE PROVE DERIVATIVE
03:25 - 50.338 CONTRABAND IN THIS
03:25 - 51.372 CIRCUMSTANCE. IF THEY HAD THE
03:25 - 52.773 NEIGHBOR COME IN AND TESTIFY,
03:25 - 53.441 SHE POINTED TO HER LAWFULLY
03:25 - 55.710 OWNED AND POSSESSED FIREARM AT
03:25 - 57.745 ME THREATENED ME. THAT'S THE
03:25 - 58.446 BASIS FOR AN UNDERLYING SIMPLE
03:25 - 58.979 ASSAULT OR RECKLESS
03:25 - 00.514 ENDANGERMENT OR TERRORISTIC
03:26 - 01.182 THREATS, CONVICTION IN THIS
03:26 - 01.716 CIRCUMSTANCE FOR THE
03:26 - 03.384 COMMONWEALTH WHICH ROLLS IT.
03:26 - 06.420 HERE'S MY HERE'S MY ISSUE WITH
03:26 - 09.056 THEM.
03:26 - 09.724 UNDER THE HOUSE AND THE DA'S
03:26 - 12.126 OFFICE HAVE SOME PRIVATE
03:26 - 12.727 PRACTICE. I SET A TRIAL.
03:26 - 13.427 TRADITIONALLY THE COMMONWEALTH
03:26 - 14.795 NEVER FILED A PETITION FOR
03:26 - 15.496 RETURN OF PROPERTY UNLESS THEY
03:26 - 17.231 CAN PROVE IT IS, QUOTE, THE
03:26 - 18.466 RIBBON OF CONTRABAND. THIS
03:26 - 19.033 CASE, IT'S KIND OF THE
03:26 - 20.835 EXCEPTION TO THE RULE SHOULD
03:26 - 22.636 LAWFULLY POSSESSED A GOT THE
03:26 - 23.437 ONLY WAY THEY CAN PROVE THAT
03:26 - 25.406 IT WAS DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND
03:26 - 27.441 IS IF A LAWFULLY POSSESSED GONE
03:26 - 28.142 WAS USED IN THE COMMISSION OF
03:26 - 28.843 SOME TYPE OF OFFENSE OR CRIME.
03:26 - 30.678 WOULD YOU AGREE WITH THAT
03:26 - 31.946 STATEMENT?
03:26 - 33.881 >>THAT WOULD PROVE YES, THAT
03:26 - 34.482 WOULD PROVE THAT IT WAS
03:26 - 35.149 DERIVATIVE CONTRACT. NOW I'M
03:26 - 37.918 SURE YOU'VE DONE THESE CASES.
03:26 - 39.120 THE ONLY WAY THAT HAPPENS IS IT
03:26 - 40.988 THE COMMONWEALTH CAN CALL THAT
03:26 - 41.856 WITNESS IN EITHER AT THE TRIAL.
03:26 - 42.923 >>WE'RE AT THE PETITION FOR
03:26 - 46.026 RETURN OF PROPERTY HEARING TO
03:26 - 47.428 TESTIFY.
03:26 - 48.162 IT'S MY ISSUE IS WHAT I SAY DUE
03:26 - 49.663 PROCESS. MY ISSUES WITH THE
03:26 - 51.699 SOLUTION TO SEE THE
03:26 - 52.800 COMMONWEALTH INTRODUCED TO 49.
03:26 - 53.367 WELL, THAT'S A HEARSAY
03:26 - 55.136 STATEMENT. OBJECTION DOESN'T
03:26 - 57.972 COME IN.
03:26 - 59.039 >>YES, ALL RIGHT. I ABSOLUTELY
03:26 - 00.174 >>SO IF THE COMMONWEALTH
03:27 - 01.609 DOESN'T PROVE PROVIDE EVIDENCE
03:27 - 02.176 THAT AT THE RIBBON OF
03:27 - 03.677 CONTRABAND AND OPPOSITION TO
03:27 - 04.645 YOUR PETITION FOR RETURN OF
03:27 - 07.848 PROPERTY. THE RESPONSE SHOULD
03:27 - 10.017 BE MOTION GRANTED.
03:27 - 11.018 >>I AGREE. 100%. THAT'S MY
03:27 - 14.121 ISSUE. NUMBER 3, THAT THERE
03:27 - 16.157 WASN'T.
03:27 - 17.191 >>EVIDENCE HEARD AT THIS CASE
03:27 - 21.562 THERE WAS A MATERIALS CENT.
03:27 - 23.164 I I BELIEVE AS FAR AS I CAN
03:27 - 23.831 TELL EX PARTE. HEY, TO THAT,
03:27 - 26.367 YOU THAT'S THE POINT THAT THAT
03:27 - 28.402 AGAIN.
03:27 - 29.103 >>BECAUSE ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT
03:27 - 30.104 WAY. BECAUSE THE CALMEST GOING
03:27 - 33.841 TO STAND UP WITH A 49 FOR THE
03:27 - 34.575 48 AND SAY SHE POINTED A GUN AT
03:27 - 36.143 SOMEBODY ELSE THERE FOR THE
03:27 - 38.012 GUNS FROM DRIVEN CONTRABAND.
03:27 - 38.913 OBJECTION. THAT'S HEARSAY.
03:27 - 39.580 YOUR HONOR. MOTION TO STRIKE
03:27 - 40.281 MOTION STRIKE GRANTED ANYTHING
03:27 - 40.948 ELSE FROM THE COMMONWEALTH?
03:27 - 42.817 ANY LIVE TESTIMONY? NO, YOUR
03:27 - 45.186 MOTION IS GRANTED. YES. ONCE
03:27 - 46.654 YOU PROVE IT'S LAWFUL. ALL
03:27 - 47.254 RIGHT. YES, THESE THINGS
03:27 - 50.157 USUALLY HAPPEN IN THE IN THE
03:27 - 53.260 CAR IN THE CONTEXT OF POLICE
03:27 - 53.828 OFFICER SEES A BAG OF
03:27 - 54.962 CRACK COCAINE AND $4200.
03:27 - 55.796 NO ONE'S GOING TO COME IN AND
03:27 - 58.899 SAY THE CRACK IN THE $4200.
03:27 - 00.468 REMIND RIGHT.
03:28 - 01.101 EDITION FOR TURNER PROPER
03:28 - 02.269 PETITION FOR FORFEITURE GRANTED
03:28 - 05.372 THAT $4200 GOES IN. THAT
03:28 - 07.975 FORFEITURE FUND.
03:28 - 10.878 >>I MEAN, I COMPLETELY AGREE,
03:28 - 13.247 BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT
03:28 - 13.914 PERSONALLY, THAT THE FIRST 2
03:28 - 14.715 ISSUES ABOUT FORFEIT CHAIR OR
03:28 - 18.519 ACTUALLY DISPOSITIVE IN THIS
03:28 - 19.119 CASE, ITS I BET I AGREE.
03:28 - 20.721 THE BURDEN WAS THE EVIDENT RE
03:28 - 24.558 BURDEN WAS ALSO NOT MET AND
03:28 - 25.292 THAT THE PROPER WAY TO DO THESE
03:28 - 26.794 HEARINGS IS CALLING WITNESSES
03:28 - 30.698 AND PRODUCING AUTHENTICATED.
03:28 - 31.365 ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE IN SOME
03:28 - 34.101 MANNER, WHICH IN THIS CASE,
03:28 - 36.537 WHAT?
03:28 - 37.638 THE CALLING THE COMPLAINING
03:28 - 38.439 WITNESSES, WHICH WAS NOT TO
03:28 - 41.208 THINK WHAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO
03:28 - 41.909 SAFETY WITH ANSWER JUSTICE WEX
03:28 - 42.309 QUESTION.
03:28 - 43.410 >>IF YOU WANT US TO SAY THAT
03:28 - 45.012 WITHOUT AN UNDERLYING
03:28 - 45.613 CONVICTION OR PROOF OF A
03:28 - 46.280 DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND OR OR
03:28 - 49.049 OR THE FACT THAT AS CONTRABAND
03:28 - 49.717 OF A DEGREE THAT NATURE THE
03:28 - 50.417 COMMONWEALTH HAS TO GIVE BACK
03:28 - 51.085 THE PROPERTY BECAUSE THERE'S
03:28 - 52.786 NO STATUTORY BASIS TO RETAIN
03:28 - 54.188 IT.
03:28 - 57.424 IS PART OF WHAT I WOULD LIKE
03:28 - 59.026 YOU TO SAY.
03:28 - 02.196 >>YES, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO
03:29 - 06.100 ACTUALLY SAY THAT.
03:29 - 10.170 THE RIVETER OF CONTRABAND.
03:29 - 11.872 PROCESS 5.88 MOTION.
03:29 - 15.342 IS EITHER WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING,
03:29 - 15.943 A DEFACTO FOR FED CHAIR.
03:29 - 17.645 >>OR
03:29 - 18.279 >>IT WHEN THE COMMONWEALTH
03:29 - 20.047 DECIDES THAT'S THE PROCEDURE.
03:29 - 21.815 THAT'S THE LOGIC THAT THEY WANT
03:29 - 26.387 TO MOVE ON. DIR AND THE 5.88
03:29 - 28.556 MOTION. IT SHOULD.
03:29 - 29.223 >>CONVERT. THEY SHOULD FILE.
03:29 - 31.392 >>A FORFEIT YOUR PETITION AND
03:29 - 34.595 THAT MATTER. AND NOT DOING SO
03:29 - 37.231 WAS IMPROPER.
03:29 - 39.300 OR WE COULD KEEP THE PROCEDURE
03:29 - 42.603 SIMILAR TO THE SAME AND EXTEND
03:29 - 45.139 THE LOGIC OF ERLAND TO THIS
03:29 - 45.806 CASE, WHICH IS ABOUT. AND I
03:29 - 48.943 BELIEVE WITH THIS COURT WAS
03:29 - 49.610 CONCERNED ABOUT WAS PROPERTY
03:29 - 52.112 RIGHTS AND THE PERMANENT
03:29 - 04.992 DEPRIVATION OF THEM.
03:30 - 16.704 YES, THAT IS MY POSITION.
03:30 - 17.338 I SAW THE RULEMAKING GOES.
03:30 - 22.643 THAT'S THE EASIEST OUTCOME
03:30 - 23.544 CORRECT OUTCOME. SIR.
03:30 - 24.678 >>IT'S A HEARING ON JULY.
03:30 - 26.981 THE 19TH YOUR CLIENT TESTIFIED.
03:30 - 29.316 YES, CORRECT. WOULD IT HAVE
03:30 - 32.419 BEEN SUFFICIENT? SUMI, THE
03:30 - 33.621 COMMONWEALTH BURN UP.
03:30 - 36.690 FOR THE COURT TO CONSIDER HER
03:30 - 38.459 TESTIMONY.
03:30 - 39.126 >>TO CONSIDER THE TESTIMONY
03:30 - 44.465 AS PROOF FOR THE COMMONWEALTH.
03:30 - 45.299 I BELIEVE WITHOUT SOME.
03:30 - 45.966 COUNTERVAILING EVIDENCE, IT
03:30 - 50.704 WAS AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO
03:30 - 51.372 SAY THAT THE SELF-DEFENSE, A
03:30 - 54.274 PORTION OF HER TESTIMONY WAS
03:30 - 57.911 NOT CREDIBLE.
03:30 - 58.612 NOTHING. YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T I
03:30 - 00.681 WASN'T THERE. I DIDN'T HEAR
03:31 - 02.716 HER TONE. BUT THERE'S NOTHING
03:31 - 06.887 IN THE RECORD THAT. ASKED WHAT
03:31 - 07.788 SHE SAYS. I MEAN, IT'S ON.
03:31 - 10.991 IT'S UNCONTESTED TESTIMONY.
03:31 - 12.359 >>A FULL LOAD.
03:31 - 15.462 WITH THE WAR WILL ACTUALLY SAYS
03:31 - 16.530 THAT THE PROPERTIES FOR.
03:31 - 17.197 LIKE OUR OUR RULE SAYS THAT
03:31 - 19.500 UNLESS THE TRIAL COURT FINDS
03:31 - 21.402 THAT IT'S CONTRABAND, IN WHICH
03:31 - 24.938 CASE IT WILL BE FOR FUN, RIGHT?
03:31 - 25.372 >>I BELIEVE IT
03:31 - 27.441 SAYS MAY OKAY, THEY WERE LESS
03:31 - 28.142 IN MY POINT IS THEY THEY?
03:31 - 28.842 THAT WAS MY POINT OF SAYING IN
03:31 - 34.748 THE ABSENCE OF THE CONVICTION.
03:31 - 35.783 OR A CIVIL FORFEITURE STATUTE,
03:31 - 36.483 WE CAN'T PASS A RULE THAT SAYS
03:31 - 39.920 ALL CONTRABAND IS WORTH IT.
03:31 - 40.921 >>100% AGREE THAT THAT NEEDS TO
03:31 - 44.024 BE DONE BY THE STATUTE.
03:31 - 44.425 >>THE COURT.
03:31 - 48.929 IT PRODUCES PROCEDURAL RULES
03:31 - 49.563 THAT UNDER IT HANDLED THE
03:31 - 50.230 ADMINISTRATIVE STATE JUSTICE
03:31 - 50.898 BUT ARE STOPPED IT RIGHT TO
03:31 - 51.999 DIVIDE BY THE LEGISLATIVE.
03:31 - 54.068 AND IF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
03:31 - 55.803 HAVE PRESENTED SOME EVIDENCE
03:31 - 57.371 NOT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
03:31 - 58.472 >>BUT SOME PROPONENTS OF THE
03:31 - 59.106 EVIDENCE AS IT WAS A CIVIL
03:31 - 01.709 STANDARD THAT
03:32 - 02.943 >>SHE.
03:32 - 03.844 >>BRANDISHED A WEAPON IN A
03:32 - 04.945 THREATENING MANNER THAT COULD
03:32 - 08.082 LEAD TO NEW CHARGES THAT MIGHT
03:32 - 10.317 RESULT IN HER CONVICTION.
03:32 - 11.485 THERE'S STILL NO WAY TO GET A
03:32 - 12.219 FORFEITURE EITHER IN OUR COMMON
03:32 - 16.523 LAW OR INCEST OR LAW. CORRECT?
03:32 - 19.059 >>YES, I CAN.
03:32 - 19.693 THEY WOULD HAVE TO THE THE
03:32 - 20.394 MOTION FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY
03:32 - 22.062 IF THEY WANTED TO KEEP IT FOR
03:32 - 24.198 THE TIME BEING LIKE TOWARDS
03:32 - 24.998 THE END OF THE PROSECUTION,
03:32 - 25.666 THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SOME
03:32 - 26.967 OTHER SHOWING THAT LIKE I SAID,
03:32 - 28.168 HE SHOWING THAT THEY INTEND TO
03:32 - 29.670 REFILE CHARGES. QUICKLY.
03:32 - 34.208 >>OR
03:32 - 35.008 >>YOU KNOW, IT'S. YOU KNOW,
03:32 - 35.676 CRUCIAL AND NOT DOESN'T THE
03:32 - 37.878 CRUCIAL THAT IT IS ACTUALLY
03:32 - 38.512 ADDED, THERE ISN'T EVEN IT
03:32 - 41.381 REALLY, AGAIN, THERE'S NOT EVEN
03:32 - 42.049 EVIDENCE THAT IT IS EVIDENCE
03:32 - 42.750 THAT THE GUNS WOULD BE USED OR
03:32 - 58.699 NEEDED FOR THE PROSECUTION.
03:32 - 59.299 SO YEAH, SAYS THE COURT.
03:32 - 01.201 YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH A LOT
03:33 - 03.604 OF IT. THE COURT HAS SAID, AND
03:33 - 05.506 I BELIEVE THAT.
03:33 - 08.408 >>THIS IS EITHER LIKE I SAID,
03:33 - 08.842 A FORFEITURE.
03:33 - 11.044 >>IN THE 4TH WHEN THE
03:33 - 11.678 COMMONWEALTH NEWS IN THIS
03:33 - 13.714 MANNER, IT SHOULD BE DEEMED
03:33 - 17.885 A FORFEITURE PROCEEDING.
03:33 - 19.653 IT SHOULD BE DE FACTO
03:33 - 20.354 FORFEITURE AND THAT LOGIC AND
03:33 - 20.687 ERLAND.
03:33 - 24.992 >>SHOULD APPLY TO THIS CASE.
03:33 - 25.592 AND IF FOR SOME REASON I
03:33 - 28.295 HAVEN'T MET MY BURDEN OF
03:33 - 30.998 SHOWING THAT TO YOU. I ALSO
03:33 - 32.266 AGREE WHICH JUST MCCAFFREY,
03:33 - 32.966 THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE PROPER
03:33 - 33.867 EVIDENCE THAT THESE HEARINGS
03:33 - 37.037 THERE NEEDS TO BE WITNESSES.
03:33 - 39.406 THERE NEEDS TO BE.
03:33 - 41.175 QUESTION ASKING TESTIMONY AND
03:33 - 42.176 NEEDS TO BE SUBMITTED TO
03:33 - 42.876 CROSS-EXAMINATION. AND I WOULD
03:33 - 45.612 ADD THAT THAT IS ESPECIALLY
03:33 - 48.415 IMPORTANT BECAUSE I MEAN, I'VE
03:33 - 49.116 BEEN IN THAT COURTROOM, MAYBE
03:33 - 53.153 IF THEY'RE 60 CASES ON THE LIST
03:33 - 54.721 THAT DAY, 3 PEOPLE HAVE AN
03:33 - 57.191 ATTORNEY. THESE ARE LARGELY
03:33 - 57.791 PRO SE LITIGANTS FROM MY
03:33 - 59.726 EXPERIENCE. AND I'M NOT SAYING
03:33 - 03.030 THAT THAT'S THE TRUTH. BUT WHEN
03:34 - 04.331 THERE IS NO.
03:34 - 05.732 YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE'S NO
03:34 - 06.466 ATTORNEY INVOLVED ABOUT SUBSET,
03:34 - 08.836 RIGHT, LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT, THE
03:34 - 12.539 PROPERTY.
03:34 - 14.975 IT REALLY IS RIPE FOR ABUSE AND
03:34 - 15.676 WE'VE SEEN THE FORFEITURE
03:34 - 18.345 STATUTES ABUSED THAT WAY, BOTH
03:34 - 20.147 IN THIS CITY IN THIS STATE AND
03:34 - 23.283 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AND I
03:34 - 25.752 THINK THAT.
03:34 - 29.389 WAS PROBABLY LARGELY CONCERNED
03:34 - 32.392 ABOUT THAT. AND I THINK YOU
03:34 - 33.627 SHOULD LIKE I SAID, EITHER
03:34 - 35.495 EXTEND OR LAND OR SAY THAT THAT
03:34 - 37.130 THIS SHOULD BE IN THE FUTURE.
03:34 - 40.234 A FORFEITURE PROCEEDING.
03:34 - 41.301 AND THAT THE PROPERTY.
03:34 - 42.002 EITHER WAY THE PROPERTY SHOULD
03:34 - 44.371 BE RETURNED TO MY CLIENT IN
03:34 - 47.507 THIS MANNER BECAUSE SHE WAS
03:34 - 50.477 A LAWFUL POSSESSOR OF IT.
03:34 - 53.580 WHETHER IT WAS. THE RIBBON OF
03:34 - 56.416 CONTRABAND OR NOT.
03:34 - 57.117 THE COMMONWEALTH DOES NOT HAVE
03:34 - 59.653 A RIGHT TO RETAIN THAT PROPERTY
03:34 - 01.088 INDEFINITELY.
03:35 - 01.655 THE COURT HAS NO MORE
03:35 - 03.924 QUESTIONS. I WOULD CONCEDE MY
03:35 - 06.960 TIME.
03:35 - 08.595 >>YOU HAVE NO TIME LEFT
03:35 - 11.765 TO CONCEDE THE HALF NOTE ON
03:35 - 12.432 THANK YOU, MR. DYLAN, THANK
03:35 - 15.235 YOU. LET'S HEAR FROM ATTORNEY
03:35 - 28.749 AMATO.
03:35 - 29.449 >>GOOD AFTERNOON. YOUR HONOR'S
03:35 - 30.050 MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT.
03:35 - 30.751 MY NAME IS ALEXANDRA MOTTO AND
03:35 - 32.486 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE
03:35 - 33.954 COMMONWEALTH.
03:35 - 35.689 UNLESS I'M MISUNDERSTANDING
03:35 - 36.823 WHAT I JUST HEARD, IT SEEMS
03:35 - 38.458 THAT THE BEST PLACE TO START IS
03:35 - 41.395 TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE
03:35 - 45.399 BETWEEN THE DIAL THE RULE, 5.88
03:35 - 47.301 AND FORFEITURE. ONE FORFEITURES
03:35 - 47.935 ISSUED. THERE ARE NO MORE
03:35 - 51.238 PROPERTY RIGHTS. IT FORFEITED.
03:35 - 51.972 BUT WHEN 5 A V 8 IS TONIGHT AT
03:35 - 53.907 THE COMMONWEALTH IS MERELY THE
03:35 - 56.576 CUSTODIAN. THERE ARE OTHER
03:35 - 57.244 AVENUES THAT I DO BELIEVE
03:35 - 01.148 PEOPLE TAKE TO RETURN TO GET
03:36 - 01.882 THEIR PROPERTY BACK YARD.
03:36 - 03.383 SO WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD, I
03:36 - 05.485 HAVE NOT DONE ANY OF THEM, BUT
03:36 - 08.488 FROM TALKING TO OTHER
03:36 - 10.324 COLLEAGUES, IT SEEMS THAT THE
03:36 - 11.024 2 COMMON PRACTICES THERE ARE 2
03:36 - 15.128 MOST COMMON PRACTICES. ONE IS
03:36 - 16.096 TO WRITE TO, I GUESS THE
03:36 - 16.763 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OR THE
03:36 - 19.566 POLICE COMMISSIONER AND REQUEST
03:36 - 21.902 PROPERTY BACK. THAT DOESN'T
03:36 - 26.073 SEEM TO HAVE LIKE A VERY IN
03:36 - 26.740 DEATH PROCESS. BUT THAT GETS
03:36 - 27.441 SENT DOWN THROUGH THE CHANNELS
03:36 - 28.575 AND SOME PEOPLE TO GET THE
03:36 - 34.081 PROPERTY BACK THAT WAY. GOT.
03:36 - 34.748 THAT THE SOUTH AMERICANS BT
03:36 - 37.951 HONOR, I'M SORRY. EXCUSE ME.
03:36 - 40.988 THAT'S LIKE THIS. FLESH THIS
03:36 - 41.955 OUT. THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
03:36 - 42.222 YES.
03:36 - 43.957 >>AND IT WAS ARRESTED AND
03:36 - 44.691 CHARGED WITH THE CRIME PROPERTY
03:36 - 47.127 CONFISCATED. CHARGES DISMISSED.
03:36 - 48.595 YES.
03:36 - 49.162 THE PROPERTY IS IN THE
03:36 - 52.532 POSSESSION OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
03:36 - 55.602 AS A CUSTODIAN AS THE
03:36 - 58.638 CUSTODIAN.
03:36 - 01.708 IF I WERE TO AS A SITTING
03:37 - 03.043 JUDGE, IF I WERE TO ISSUE.
03:37 - 03.710 AND ORDER FOR THE RETURN OF
03:37 - 06.313 THAT PROPERTY, SO RESPOND TO.
03:37 - 07.681 BECAUSE THE JUDGE FOR THE
03:37 - 10.851 LAWYER WROTE MATE. HOW WAS
03:37 - 13.720 THAT? ANY DIFFERENT THAN
03:37 - 14.421 WRITING A THE SHERIFF. I MEAN,
03:37 - 18.158 WHERE DOES THE SHERIFF HAD THAT
03:37 - 23.130 A CARD? TO RELEASE?
03:37 - 23.897 >>I WILL. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A
03:37 - 27.000 PROCEDURE THAT I AM PERSONALLY
03:37 - 28.735 FAMILIAR WITH.
03:37 - 31.038 THAT IT'S JUST I'VE BEEN TOLD
03:37 - 31.671 THAT OTHER ATTORNEYS IN MY
03:37 - 34.241 OFFICE, YOU DO THE RULE.
03:37 - 34.841 5.88 HEARINGS HAVE SEEN
03:37 - 37.544 DEFENDANTS. WELL, I'M SORRY,
03:37 - 38.211 NOT DEFENDANTS. PEOPLE THAT
03:37 - 41.581 HAVE PROPERTY INTEREST DO AS AN
03:37 - 42.315 ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO GET THEIR
03:37 - 45.052 PROPERTY RETURNED TO THEM.
03:37 - 51.558 BUT THE SHERIFF SAYS NOW.
03:37 - 54.661 I THINK IT COULD BE ANY.
03:37 - 08.575 THERE'S A CASE THEY.
03:38 - 09.776 >>I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT THAT
03:38 - 10.577 I'M SUGGESTING THAT THAT MAY
03:38 - 12.345 HAVE HAPPENED AND THAT IS WHAT
03:38 - 12.979 I'VE HEARD WHEN TALKING TO
03:38 - 15.682 OTHER PEOPLE THAT WE STICK
03:38 - 16.383 WITH. WHAT
03:38 - 17.084 ACTUALLY DID. LET'S WORK SORT
03:38 - 17.751 OF TALKING ABOUT WHAT MAY BE
03:38 - 20.854 POSSIBLY COULD HAVE DONE.
03:38 - 23.356 >>EVENTUALLY HAPPEN.
03:38 - 23.990 ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS IS THE
03:38 - 24.658 COMMONWEALTH ENTITLED TO BE
03:38 - 26.493 THE CUSTODIAN OF SOMEBODY
03:38 - 27.661 ELSE'S PROPERTY.
03:38 - 31.031 I REALLY LET LET ME FOLLOW MY
03:38 - 31.731 OWN ADVICE. WHAT IS YOUR LEGAL
03:38 - 33.333 BASIS FOR BEING THE CUSTODIAN
03:38 - 33.967 OF THIS PERSON'S GOT? WHAT
03:38 - 40.974 LEGAL AUTHORITY DO YOU HAVE?
03:38 - 41.608 AND BEFORE THE STATUTE OF
03:38 - 43.710 LIMITATIONS UP.
03:38 - 44.411 >>THE COMMON ALL HAD THE STATE
03:38 - 45.846 FEDERAL CONSTITUTION PERMIT
03:38 - 49.683 THE COMMONWEALTH TO HOLD
03:38 - 53.153 EVIDENCE OF A CRIME I CAN'T
03:38 - 53.854 SAY THAT THE COMMONWEALTH HAS
03:38 - 54.521 AN INTEREST IN PURSUING THIS
03:38 - 56.223 CRIME IS A SPECIAL INVITATION
03:38 - 56.890 TO SUP. THERE'S NOTHING THAT
03:38 - 03.063 COME EVERY GIVEN THE COMEBACK.
03:39 - 04.364 THERE IS NO PROCEDURE IN PLACE
03:39 - 06.433 FOR THE COMMONWEALTH TO SUE
03:39 - 08.668 A SPAWN TAKE GIVE PROPERTY BACK
03:39 - 09.402 YOUR RATE. ARE YOU SERIOUS?
03:39 - 11.204 BUT I MEAN, I DON'T I'M NOT
03:39 - 13.273 TRYING TO BE GLIB HERE, BUT
03:39 - 13.940 >>WHY IS THERE NEED TO BE A
03:39 - 14.641 PROCEDURE FOR THE GOVERNMENT
03:39 - 15.342 TO GIVE BACK PEOPLE'S PROPERTY
03:39 - 20.280 THAT YOU'RE NOT LAWFULLY HOLD?
03:39 - 22.282 >>I THINK IT WOULD BE OWNER
03:39 - 23.283 SOME TO THE COMMONWEALTH TO
03:39 - 24.284 CONTINUALLY DO THAT. THAT IS
03:39 - 26.820 WHY THIS RULE EXISTS FOR PEOPLE
03:39 - 27.454 THAT ARE AGGRIEVED BY THE
03:39 - 28.188 SEARCH AND SEIZURE TEACHER COM,
03:39 - 30.590 WHICH AS YOU CAN SEE, THE
03:39 - 34.594 MOTION THAT.
03:39 - 35.695 THE AT THE TIME THE MOTION WAS
03:39 - 37.631 FILED, THE SEXUAL INVITATIONS
03:39 - 38.431 WAS NOT. YOU DON'T ASSERT THAT
03:39 - 40.600 IN THIS. THIS REALLY MEAN YOU
03:39 - 44.437 RAISE THE ICU. THE COMMONWEALTH
03:39 - 45.539 RAISE THIS ISSUE ABOUT WE COULD
03:39 - 47.007 REFILE CHARGES. NOT WHEN THE
03:39 - 48.909 MOTION WAS FILED, THE MOTION
03:39 - 50.143 WAS FILED. YOU ARGUE DERIVATIVE
03:39 - 50.977 CONTRABAND?
03:39 - 51.878 >>WITHOUT ANY, WITHOUT ANY
03:39 - 54.247 RECORD, WITHOUT ANY CITATION TO
03:39 - 54.915 A STATUTE WITHOUT ANY COMMON
03:39 - 55.549 LAW, PRINCIPLE TO SUPPORT
03:39 - 56.917 RETAIN THE PROPERTY OR FOR
03:39 - 00.153 FITTING UNDER THE RULE, IT'S
03:40 - 01.521 ONLY LATER ON.
03:40 - 04.491 ALMOST AFTER EVEN AFTER THAT,
03:40 - 05.392 HYPER IN RULE 600 GRAND THAT
03:40 - 07.160 YOU STARTED ARGUING THAT YOU
03:40 - 07.827 HAVE 5 YEARS OR 10 YEARS TO
03:40 - 10.864 FILE CHARGES, WHICH IS PLAINLY
03:40 - 14.501 NOT TRUE. IT'S PLAINLY NOT
03:40 - 15.202 TRUE. YOU HAVE YOU HAD 360 AT
03:40 - 15.902 BEST AND TO RULE 600. YOU HAVE
03:40 - 18.271 364 DAYS OR SOMETHING LIKE
03:40 - 19.539 THAT, RIGHT?
03:40 - 20.240 >>I BELIEVE THERE IS CASE LAW
03:40 - 22.976 WHERE IF THE PROP THE COMING
03:40 - 23.710 OFF
03:40 - 24.411 IS NOT IS IS DULY DILIGENT THE
03:40 - 26.279 TIME TO REFILE DOES NOT COUNT
03:40 - 29.349 AGAINST THEM. SO PUSH BACK ON
03:40 - 30.450 THAT HARD
03:40 - 33.286 NUMBER. BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE
03:40 - 33.987 FIRST RAISED THE INABILITY TO
03:40 - 34.688 WEAR. WHEN DID YOU FIRST READ
03:40 - 35.255 THAT YOU WERE GOING TO
03:40 - 38.358 POTENTIALLY REFILE CHARGES?
03:40 - 41.027 >>WE RAISED IT IN THE BRIEF
03:40 - 41.728 HERE THAT THAT WAS POTENTIALLY
03:40 - 42.429 AN OPTION AT THE TIME. I WOULD
03:40 - 46.266 SAY THAT RULE 5.88 DOES NOT
03:40 - 46.933 REQUIRE THE COMMONWEALTH TO
03:40 - 47.601 THE. IT JUST REQUIRES US TO
03:40 - 48.268 PROVE THAT IT WAS DERIVATIVE
03:40 - 51.905 CONTRABAND. THERE'S NOTHING IN
03:40 - 52.606 THE RULE THAT SAYS THAT COMING
03:40 - 53.273 UP NEXT, PROOF YOU CAN PROVE
03:40 - 55.075 THAT IT WAS DERIVATIVE
03:40 - 56.376 CONTRABAND.
03:40 - 57.043 >>YOU CAN YOU ARGUE THAT WAS
03:40 - 57.744 DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND, BUT YOU
03:40 - 59.980 DIDN'T PROVE IT WAS DERIVATIVE
03:40 - 03.016 CONTRACT.
03:41 - 05.185 >>THERE IS A LOWER EVIDENCE.
03:41 - 10.557 SHERRY OF THRESHOLD FOR THESE
03:41 - 11.291 >>I DO BELIEVE THERE IS ONE
03:41 - 14.394 LINE IN WHICH THE JUDGE HERSELF
03:41 - 15.095 MOVED THE PEOPLE WORK THAT OUR
03:41 - 17.998 ATTORNEY GAVE TO HER INTO THE
03:41 - 22.068 RECORD
03:41 - 23.737 >>I SAW NO MOTION TO ADMIT NOR
03:41 - 26.873 GETTING OF THOSE IS IT SEEMED
03:41 - 30.477 PRETTY SLAW.
03:41 - 31.411 >>WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SORRY?
03:41 - 34.481 ONE 0ND, I DO HAVE THAT
03:41 - 38.285 HIGHLIGHTED
03:41 - 42.722 SO THAT'S WHY ON.
03:41 - 43.857 PAGE 19, THE COURTS. AS I DO
03:41 - 44.457 WANT TO MAKE PART OF THE
03:41 - 45.959 RECORD. THE POLICE REPORT
03:41 - 46.960 EVERYTHING MCCONNELL SENT TO ME
03:41 - 50.964 WHICH IS CENT ON EVERY CASE
03:41 - 54.067 AS PART OF THE RECORD. I DO.
03:41 - 57.270 I WILL SAY THAT THE TO MR.
03:41 - 57.937 EVERITT SMITH TESTIFIED THAT
03:41 - 03.343 SHE POINTED A LOADED GUN AT
03:42 - 05.945 HER NEIGHBORS. THAT IS.
03:42 - 06.746 CLEARLY EVIDENCE THAT A
03:42 - 07.947 BYPRODUCT OF THE EVIDENCE THAT
03:42 - 09.582 THE GUN WAS USED IN AN UNLAWFUL
03:42 - 10.317 MANNER, WHITE HOUSE, THAT ALONE
03:42 - 10.917 EVIDENCE IT WAS USED AND
03:42 - 11.551 UNLAWFUL MATTER. MAYBE THE
03:42 - 14.921 NEIGHBOR WAS THREATENING HER.
03:42 - 16.489 >>THE JUDGE DID NOT BELIEVE
03:42 - 19.526 HER ARGUMENT THAT SHE WAS
03:42 - 24.397 DEFENDING HERSELF.
03:42 - 25.065 OKAY. SO LET'S ASSUME YOU'RE
03:42 - 28.034 RIGHT. OKAY. LET'S ASSUME YOU
03:42 - 29.569 PROVE THAT WAS CONTRABAND.
03:42 - 31.571 >>WHAT STATUTE ALLOWS YOU TO
03:42 - 34.874 FORFEIT. IN THE ABSENCE OF A
03:42 - 36.876 CRIMINAL CONVICTION.
03:42 - 40.814 >>THAT THERE IS NONE. BUT THIS
03:42 - 43.683 ISN'T FORFEITURE. THIS WAS ALL
03:42 - 44.351 SAYS FORFEITURE. IT SAYS THE
03:42 - 45.719 COURT MAY GRANT FORFEITURE.
03:42 - 46.820 THE COURT DID NOT GRANT
03:42 - 48.655 FORFEITURE. THERE WAS NO ORDER
03:42 - 49.322 FOR FORFEITURE, SIGNED WITH
03:42 - 50.724 THAT REQUEST WORK BETTER THAN
03:42 - 52.692 THE RULE BECOMES AN EXCEPTION
03:42 - 53.727 TO EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE
03:42 - 54.627 HAVE. IT'S AN EXCEPTION TO
03:42 - 55.729 CIVIL FORFEITURE STATUTES OF
03:42 - 57.030 EXCEPTION TO OUR RULES THAT
03:42 - 57.697 SAY YOU CANNOT HAVE CRIMINAL
03:42 - 00.233 TORTURE FORFEITURE ACTION TO
03:43 - 01.935 ABSENCE OF A CONVICTION.
03:43 - 02.602 WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS IT ALL
03:43 - 04.704 THE COMMONWEALTH HAS TO PROVE
03:43 - 06.639 IN THE KEN, THE MOVE AND THE
03:43 - 08.808 IN A MOTION TO RETURN PROPERTY,
03:43 - 09.676 EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NO
03:43 - 11.611 PENDING CRIMINAL CHARGES IS
03:43 - 12.812 A LOWER EVIDENTIARY BURDEN OF
03:43 - 13.413 THE WRONGFUL USE OF THE
03:43 - 16.049 PROPERTY AND THEN IT CAN HOLD
03:43 - 22.255 ONTO AN INDEFINITE.
03:43 - 25.158 >>I BELIEVE WE ARE SAYING IN
03:43 - 27.160 THIS CASE SPECIFICALLY THE
03:43 - 27.861 COMMONWEALTH NO LONGER HAS AN
03:43 - 29.095 INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY
03:43 - 32.298 BECAUSE IT CANNOT PURSUE
03:43 - 33.800 CHARGES RELATED TO IT.
03:43 - 35.735 >>SO YOU COULD MOVE THIS CASE
03:43 - 36.403 TOMORROW BY HANDING THEM THE
03:43 - 36.936 GUN AND WE'LL GET A
03:43 - 37.604 NOTIFICATION THAT THE CASES
03:43 - 40.006 MOVE. WE DON'T NEED TO DECIDE
03:43 - 42.575 IT.
03:43 - 44.677 >>AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW THE
03:43 - 45.745 PROCEDURES SPECIFICALLY FOR HOW
03:43 - 47.447 THE RETURN OF PROPERTY WOULD
03:43 - 49.182 WORK, BUT I GUESS AS TO WHETHER
03:43 - 49.916 NEEDS TO BE A PROCEDURE, YOU'RE
03:43 - 50.583 CONCEDING YOU HAVE NO LAWFUL
03:43 - 52.252 RIGHT TO HOME TO HOLD THIS
03:43 - 56.022 WEAPON. IF YOU'RE CONCEDING
03:43 - 56.856 IT TODAY, WE HAVE NO BASIS TO
03:43 - 57.557 HOLD THIS WEAPON AND YOU HAVE
03:43 - 59.325 NO INTEREST IN. YOU HAVE NO
03:43 - 59.993 INTEREST IN HOLDING. I DON'T
03:43 - 03.496 UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE STANDING
03:44 - 05.498 ON CEREMONY. I MEAN, THIS IS
03:44 - 06.199 THESE ARE THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO
03:44 - 08.268 LARGELY IRAN REPRESENTED HIS
03:44 - 10.136 PROPERTY HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE
03:44 - 11.137 GOVERNMENT AND THEY COME BACK
03:44 - 13.206 IN THE FALL OR RULE AND GOOD
03:44 - 15.074 FOR THIS WOMAN. SHE FOLLOWED
03:44 - 16.075 OUR WHICH I THINK IS
03:44 - 16.709 QUESTIONABLE ANALYSIS, BUT
03:44 - 18.611 NONETHELESS ARE PRESSING TO
03:44 - 21.648 FILE WITHIN 30 DAYS. AND YOU
03:44 - 22.749 PRESENTED
03:44 - 25.685 NO EVIDENCE AND YOU ARGUED WAS
03:44 - 26.319 DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND. YOU
03:44 - 27.053 CAN'T CITE THE STATUTE. YOU CAN
03:44 - 28.788 SET A LAW THAT SAYS YOU CAN
03:44 - 29.622 HOLD DERIVATIVE CONTRABAND
03:44 - 31.724 INDEFINITELY. AND YOU COME UP
03:44 - 32.725 WITH THE STORY OF REFILING
03:44 - 33.693 CHARGES UP HERE. BUT YOU HAVE
03:44 - 34.694 NOW CONCEDED THAT YOU'RE NEVER
03:44 - 35.728 GOING TO REFILE CHARGES, BUT
03:44 - 36.663 YOU STILL REFUSE TO GIVE THE
03:44 - 37.664 GUN BACK BECAUSE THERE'S NOT
03:44 - 38.331 A RULE OR A PROCEDURE TO GET
03:44 - 42.001 SOMEBODY BACK. THE PROPERTY.
03:44 - 43.937 I MEAN, OUR POSITION IS AND
03:44 - 44.571 THAT THERE'S NO MECHANISM.
03:44 - 46.973 OUR POSITION IS THAT IF SHE
03:44 - 47.607 FILED THE RULE 5.88, ALLEN
03:44 - 48.675 DOESN'T.
03:44 - 50.343 >>UP FOR BID REFILING.
03:44 - 51.010 >>WAIT, SAY THAT AGAIN. IT'S
03:44 - 51.277 NOT.
03:44 - 52.779 >>SO I MAY NOT HAVE EXPLAINED
03:44 - 56.883 THAT VERY WELL. OUR POSITION
03:44 - 58.852 IS THAT SHE DID EVERYTHING
03:44 - 59.586 RIGHT UNDER ALLEN. SHE FILED
03:44 - 02.188 WITHIN 30 DAYS. ALLAN DOES NOT
03:45 - 02.822 PROHIBIT HER FROM FILING A
03:45 - 05.525 SUBSEQUENT MOTION FOR A TIME TO
03:45 - 08.895 PROBABLY HAVE TO.
03:45 - 10.997 THAT IS THE RULE AS IT STANDS.
03:45 - 12.198 I THINK THE COMMONWEALTH IS
03:45 - 16.436 WORRIED THAT IT COULD OPEN
03:45 - 17.070 ITSELF UP TO EYE. TO SUE A
03:45 - 19.339 HAVING TO RETURN THOUSANDS OF
03:45 - 21.307 FROM WITH PROPERTY. WE'RE BACK
03:45 - 24.110 TO THE ORIGINAL PREMISE.
03:45 - 26.045 IF YOU'RE THE GOVERNMENT, YES.
03:45 - 26.946 >>TELL ME WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE
03:45 - 30.016 TO CONFISCATE PROPERTY FROM
03:45 - 31.784 AN INDIVIDUAL.
03:45 - 35.154 WITH NO BASIS OTHER WE MAY OR
03:45 - 36.155 ARREST YOU.
03:45 - 37.056 >>WELL, WE DID ARREST HER AND
03:45 - 39.259 SHE WENT TO A PRELIMINARY
03:45 - 41.127 HEARING IN THIS CASE WAS
03:45 - 41.828 DISCHARGED. IT WAS JUST THERE
03:45 - 43.663 TO THIS MESS. THERE WEREN'T.
03:45 - 45.832 THERE ARE NO CRIMINAL CHARGES
03:45 - 48.668 PENDING. NO, IT WAS DISMISSED
03:45 - 49.369 BECAUSE THE COMPLAINANT DIDN'T
03:45 - 51.804 APPEAR. IT WAS AN DISMISSED
03:45 - 52.672 FOR SOMETHING THE COMING OFF
03:45 - 53.406 DIDN'T APPROPRIATELY OR THAT WE
03:45 - 54.641 DO ACT PASSED THIS MISSILE THAT
03:45 - 56.543 THE COMMONWEALTH HAVE CRIMINAL
03:45 - 57.944 CHARGES PENDING AGAINST HIS
03:45 - 01.814 CLIENT AT THE DISMISSAL OF THE
03:46 - 02.549 RULE. 5.88 HEARING AT THIS THAT
03:46 - 04.183 WE ARE ASKING NOW WHAT THE
03:46 - 07.954 DISMISSAL OF THE CRIMINAL CASE.
03:46 - 11.024 SHE W LOOKED AT NFT NO FURTHER
03:46 - 11.758 CONTINUANCE CASE.
03:46 - 12.458 THIS CHARGE. IT WAS EVERY DAY
03:46 - 13.026 IN OUR KNOW HOW IT WAS
03:46 - 16.696 DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
03:46 - 18.598 SO THE COMING OF COULD HAVE
03:46 - 21.568 REFILED COULD HAVE YES, BUT DID
03:46 - 22.502 NOT DID NOT THERE OR AS WE SAT
03:46 - 23.636 THERE THAT DAY, THERE WERE NO
03:46 - 26.606 CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST HIS
03:46 - 29.008 CLIENT. BUT THE COMMONWEALTH
03:46 - 32.078 FELT COMPELLED. TO KEEP
03:46 - 32.979 CONFISCATING.
03:46 - 35.481 EVIDENCE, ALLEGED PROPERTY FOR
03:46 - 38.718 NO REASON OTHER THAN WE'RE
03:46 - 39.852 CONTEMPLATING POSSIBLY MAYBE
03:46 - 44.457 IT DEPENDS IF WE WANT TO FILE
03:46 - 46.526 THE CHARGES. WE WANT TO REFILE
03:46 - 47.627 CHARGES. YES, IT WOULD BE
03:46 - 48.261 EVIDENCE OF A CRIME. THE
03:46 - 48.895 COMMONWEALTH IS PERFECTLY
03:46 - 51.230 WITHIN ITS RIGHTS TO OLD ON
03:46 - 51.698 WHAT THE BELT.
03:46 - 52.365 >>SO THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
03:46 - 53.066 THAT'S NOT EVIDENCE OF A CRIME
03:46 - 55.101 BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T CHARGED
03:46 - 55.468 TO CRIME.
03:46 - 57.770 >>IT'S EVERYTHING POSSIBLE
03:46 - 58.404 CRIME THAT YOU MAY CHARGE.
03:46 - 00.807 AND THE QUESTION IS, DOES OUR
03:47 - 01.908 CONSTITUTION TOLERATE HOLDING,
03:47 - 03.910 YOU KNOW, KEEPING SOMEBODY'S
03:47 - 04.611 PROPERTY WHILE, YOU KNOW, IN
03:47 - 05.278 THIS SITUATION WE'VE ALREADY
03:47 - 06.446 CHARGED AND THEN WITHDRAWING
03:47 - 08.748 THE CHARGES AND THEN TURN
03:47 - 12.018 AROUND, SAY, BUT YOUR HONOR,
03:47 - 12.819 IT'S IT'S WE CAN'T PROVE AS A
03:47 - 14.220 MATTER OF BEYOND A REASONABLE
03:47 - 14.854 DOUBT THAT ITS DERIVATIVE
03:47 - 15.788 CONTRABAND, WE CAN'T PLAY THAT
03:47 - 18.891 SITE AS STATUTE FOR CIVIL
03:47 - 19.993 FORFEITURE.
03:47 - 22.929 BUT WE WANT YOU TO JUST TAKE
03:47 - 23.630 OUR WORD FOR IT THAT WE MIGHT
03:47 - 25.431 POSSIBLY FILE CHARGES. AND
03:47 - 26.065 THEREFORE, WE'RE GOING TO
03:47 - 28.735 DEPRIVE SOMEONE OF THEIR
03:47 - 31.137 PROPERTY.
03:47 - 32.071 THAT'S THAT'S WHAT IT. THAT'S
03:47 - 33.272 NOT WHAT YOU DID. HEAR YOUR
03:47 - 35.008 THE COMMONWEALTH AND SAY WE
03:47 - 35.642 WANT TO KEEP THE EVIDENCE
03:47 - 36.309 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO FILE
03:47 - 38.177 CHARGES. BUT I'M GIVING YOU THE
03:47 - 38.845 BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. I JUST
03:47 - 40.179 DON'T SEE ANY YOU, KEVIN SAY TO
03:47 - 43.916 THE STATUTE YOU HAVE INCITED
03:47 - 47.186 A RULE. YOU HAVE INCITED ANY
03:47 - 48.087 OPINION FROM THIS COURT OR ANY
03:47 - 51.724 OTHER COURT THAT BASICALLY SAYS
03:47 - 53.059 THE COMMONWEALTH CAN HOLD
03:47 - 54.661 EVIDENCE INDEFINITELY UNDER THE
03:47 - 55.762 CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT EVEN HAVE
03:47 - 56.663 IT. THERE'S NOT EVEN EVIDENCE
03:47 - 57.330 CAN HOLD SOMEONE'S PROPERTY
03:47 - 57.997 INDEFINITELY. WHY WE TRY TO
03:47 - 00.500 FIGURE OUT IF WE MIGHT SOMEDAY
03:48 - 08.741 DO SOMETHING.
03:48 - 09.108 WOULD JUST
03:48 - 12.712 >>PUSHBACK THAT IT DOESN'T SEEM
03:48 - 13.346 LIKE THIS RULE. IS IS NOT
03:48 - 15.314 LETTING THAT OCCUR AND THAT
03:48 - 15.982 MIGHT BE IN A ISSUE WITH THE
03:48 - 17.950 RULE ITSELF. BUT THERE'S
03:48 - 19.852 NOTHING IN THE RULE THAT SAYS
03:48 - 23.089 THIS CAN OCCUR AGAIN. IT IS NOT
03:48 - 40.006 FORFEITURE. THE FRONT.
03:48 - 40.373 >>BECAUSE
03:48 - 42.475 >>SHE STILL HAS RIGHTS IN THE
03:48 - 46.446 GUN. IT HAS NOT. SHE DID TO
03:48 - 47.613 THE STATE. SHE CAN FILE A CIVIL
03:48 - 50.883 ACTION TO RETRIEVE THAT GUN.
03:48 - 52.151 SHE COULD FILE AGAIN.
03:48 - 53.052 >>IT WAS CALLED THE MOTION FOR
03:48 - 55.254 RETURN OF PROPERTY. YES, BUT
03:48 - 57.223 SHE COULD ALSO SUE THE STATE
03:48 - 58.391 FOR RETURN OF THE PROPERTY FOR
03:48 - 59.926 THE VALUE IN ANOTHER JOHN
03:48 - 01.661 REPROT. THESE ARE UNREPRESENTED
03:49 - 05.298 PEOPLE. THESE ARE UNREPRESENTED
03:49 - 07.366 PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO RIGHT TO
03:49 - 08.601 COUNSEL FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY.
03:49 - 10.570 THERE YOU'RE YOU'RE IMPOSING AN
03:49 - 12.705 AMAZINGLY HIGH BURDEN ON
03:49 - 14.474 SOMEBODY. BASICALLY YOUR RULE
03:49 - 15.641 IS THE GOVERNMENT GETS TO KEEP
03:49 - 16.676 SOMEBODY IS PROPERTY WITHOUT
03:49 - 19.579 LAWFUL JUSTIFICATION UNTIL THEY
03:49 - 20.313 HIRE A LAWYER AND BRING IN 1983
03:49 - 21.180 ACTION AND DECLARATORY MUST
03:49 - 22.548 ORDERING THE RETURN OF
03:49 - 26.085 PROPERTY. THAT'S YOUR RULE.
03:49 - 26.652 BUT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.
03:49 - 29.589 WHERE YOU JUST SENT YOU BELIEVE
03:49 - 32.158 IN COMMON WILL FORFEITURE.
03:49 - 36.963 ARGUING IS KABUL FORFEITURE.
03:49 - 39.398 A JUDGE SAYS THE NILE SOURCE
03:49 - 41.200 PONTING MEANS FOR FUTURE.
03:49 - 41.768 WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN
03:49 - 44.403 PENNSYLVANIA. SO TELL ME WHY
03:49 - 45.738 WE SHOULD.
03:49 - 46.405 OR TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED IN
03:49 - 48.474 EARLY IN THAT WE SHOULD RIVERS
03:49 - 51.511 BECAUSE WE SPECIFICALLY SAID
03:49 - 52.245 THERE IS NO COMMON WILL FORFEIT
03:49 - 56.082 I WROTE IT IN A CEO. TY FRYER.
03:49 - 56.349 YES.
03:49 - 20.239 >>ONE MOMENT A FEW GOVERNMENT.
03:50 - 22.275 >>I MEAN, I MY UNDERSTANDING
03:50 - 23.176 OF COMMON LAW FORFEITURE IS
03:50 - 26.245 THAT A CONVICTION HAS TO OCCUR.
03:50 - 26.946 OBVIOUSLY, THAT DID NOT HAPPEN
03:50 - 27.647 IN THIS CASE. SO I THINK FROM
03:50 - 30.983 MY UNDERSTANDING OF COMMON LAW
03:50 - 31.717 FORFEITURES THAT HISTORICALLY A
03:50 - 32.919 CONVICTION HAVE TO OCCUR.
03:50 - 34.587 AGAIN, THIS FEELS A LITTLE BIT
03:50 - 35.288 BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS CASE.
03:50 - 38.191 BUT FROM MY LIMITED RESEARCH
03:50 - 41.427 TO PREPARE AND A CONVICTION
03:50 - 43.329 WOULD HAVE HAD TO OCCUR.
03:50 - 46.365 >>HERE ARE YOUR SOURCES SORT
03:50 - 47.099 OF CLOSE. OKAY. THE ELIMINATING
03:50 - 48.167 COMMON LAW FOR PICTURE? YES, IN
03:50 - 48.868 THE SENSE THAT DIDN'T REQUIRE
03:50 - 52.305 CRIMINAL CONVICTION AND MORE
03:50 - 53.206 OUT AT YOU, RIGHT? BUT NOT
03:50 - 54.040 WELL. CIVIL FORFEITURE
03:50 - 54.640 DEFINITELY REQUIRES. THE
03:50 - 56.843 STATUTE IS NO SUCH THING AS
03:50 - 57.476 COMMON LAW. CIVIL CORRECT?
03:50 - 00.146 RIGHT. SO YOU DON'T HAVE A
03:51 - 00.813 STATUTE. YOU CAN SEE IF YOU
03:51 - 04.851 DON'T HAVE A CONVICTION.
03:51 - 07.987 YOU CAN SEE YOUR DISPUTE IS.
03:51 - 08.788 >>WE WE FORFEITED. SHE STILL
03:51 - 09.956 HAS RIGHTS, ALTHOUGH SHE
03:51 - 12.058 DOESN'T HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE IT
03:51 - 13.559 BECAUSE WE ARE THE CUSTODIANS.
03:51 - 14.293 >>FOR SOME INDEFINITE PERIOD OF
03:51 - 17.063 TIME UNTIL SHE HIRES A LAWYER
03:51 - 19.198 AND FILES A LAWSUIT.
03:51 - 19.899 >>OR FILES OF 5.88 MOTION FOR
03:51 - 23.669 RETURN OF PROPERTY WHICH ALLEN
03:51 - 24.303 DOES NOT BAR IN WHICH CASE
03:51 - 25.504 AGAIN, THE COMMONWEALTH HAS
03:51 - 26.205 NO INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY.
03:51 - 28.574 SHE NEEDS TO HAVE TO USE TO PAY
03:51 - 29.041 A LAWYER.
03:51 - 32.144 >>OR DO IT BY HERSELF AGAIN TO
03:51 - 33.246 FILE ANOTHER MOTION.
03:51 - 33.913 EVEN THOUGH THIS MOTION MAY
03:51 - 39.518 HAVE BEEN IMPROPERLY DENIED.
03:51 - 40.253 BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PROVE IT WAS
03:51 - 43.389 CONTRABAND FORFEIT DOUBLE
03:51 - 44.023 WITHOUT A CONVICTION UNDER
03:51 - 50.796 CIVIL COURT UNDER SOME STATUTE.
03:51 - 51.764 >>AGAIN, I WOULD SAY IRWIN
03:51 - 53.799 DOESN'T APPLY BECAUSE YOU
03:51 - 55.668 THERE'S NO HOLDING THAT 5.88
03:51 - 56.302 AND A DISMISSAL 5.80, AND
03:51 - 56.936 FORFEITURE THE SAME THING.
03:51 - 57.637 THERE'S A LOT OF CASE LAW THAT
03:51 - 58.237 SAYS THAT THEY'RE QUITE
03:51 - 59.105 DIFFERENT AND ONE DOESN'T
03:51 - 02.208 NECESSARILY TO THE OTHER.
03:52 - 03.676 SO AGAIN.
03:52 - 04.577 I DON'T BELIEVE ERLAND APPLIES
03:52 - 06.612 AND I DON'T BELIEVE WE NEEDED
03:52 - 09.415 A STATUTE IN THIS CASE. I THINK
03:52 - 10.082 WE'RE GOING TO SORT THIS ALL
03:52 - 10.750 MAY I ASK, HOW LONG HAVE YOU
03:52 - 13.152 BEEN WITH THE PHILADELPHIA D
03:52 - 15.721 A S OFFICE?
03:52 - 17.790 I THINK IT'S OVER 3 YEARS NOW A
03:52 - 19.792 LITTLE BIT. AND IS THIS YOUR
03:52 - 21.093 FIRST ARGUMENT BEFORE OUR
03:52 - 21.794 COURT? YES, YOU'VE DONE A VERY
03:52 - 22.495 NICE JOB ON A DIFFICULT ISSUE
03:52 - 25.698 THAT THEY SENT YOU HERE WITH.
03:52 - 26.866 I.
03:52 - 29.435 >>SO THE NEXT CASE WE'RE GOING
03:52 - 30.102 TO HEAR IS COMMONWEALTH THE
03:52 - 31.771 STATELY. I HOPE I'M PRONOUNCING
03:52 - 33.873 THE INDIVIDUAL'S NAME
03:52 - 34.440 CORRECTLY. THIS IS AN
03:52 - 36.943 INTERESTING MATTER AS HAS ALL
03:52 - 41.247 THESE
03:52 - 42.548 CASES ARE. IT INVOLVES A
03:52 - 44.951 FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE WHERE AN
03:52 - 45.818 INDIVIDUAL IS CHARGED WITH
03:52 - 46.519 RESISTING ARREST. AND THERE'S
03:52 - 49.188 A CHALLENGE MADE THAT WE'RE
03:52 - 50.556 GOING TO HEAR ABOUT AS TO IF
03:52 - 53.793 THE UNDERLYING ARREST WAS
03:52 - 55.328 LAWFUL, WE'RE NOT LAWFUL.
03:52 - 56.128 SO THAT THE FACTS OF THE CASE
03:52 - 58.230 INVOLVED A PHILADELPHIA POLICE
03:52 - 59.165 OFFICER THAT DOES A ROUTINE
03:52 - 59.765 TRAFFIC POLE. I'M SORRY.
03:52 - 02.635 TRAFFIC STOP POSE A MOTOR
03:53 - 04.170 VEHICLE OVER. AS PART OF THAT
03:53 - 04.904 STOPPED THE PHILADELPHIA POLICE
03:53 - 09.141 OFFICER PAINS THE NAME AND DATE
03:53 - 09.875 OF BIRTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT
03:53 - 11.911 HE'S PULLED OVER. HE STOPPED
03:53 - 13.713 THE INDIVIDUAL FOR TINTED
03:53 - 14.981 WINDOWS WHEN HE RUNS THE NAME
03:53 - 16.916 AND DATE OF BIRTH OF THE
03:53 - 17.650 INDIVIDUAL DRIVING THE CAR WITH
03:53 - 18.351 THE TINTED WINDOWS, THE POLICE
03:53 - 20.586 OFFICER LEARNS THAT THERE ARE
03:53 - 21.187 BENCH WARRANTS FOR THAT
03:53 - 24.657 INDIVIDUAL'S ARREST, A BENCH
03:53 - 25.758 WARRANT BENCH BEING THE JUDGES
03:53 - 27.426 MEANS A JUDGE HAS ISSUED A
03:53 - 28.060 WARRANT MOST LIKELY CAUSE.
03:53 - 28.761 THE INDIVIDUAL DID NOT APPEAR
03:53 - 30.997 FOR A COURT HEARING AT SOME
03:53 - 34.333 TIME PRIOR.
03:53 - 35.568 BASED ON THAT INFORMATION, THE
03:53 - 37.970 WAY THE POLICE OFFICER LEARNS
03:53 - 38.637 THIS IS BY CHECKING HIS HIS
03:53 - 39.972 MOBILE COMPUTERS, LAPTOPS AND
03:53 - 42.942 HIS POLICE VEHICLE. HE SEES
03:53 - 43.743 THAT THEIR BENCH WARRANTS.
03:53 - 46.746 HE EVEN CALLS INTO POLICE
03:53 - 48.714 HEADQUARTERS SPEAKS TO SOMEONE
03:53 - 49.648 IT I SEEN THIS CORRECTLY.
03:53 - 50.282 THIS INDIVIDUAL WANTED FOR
03:53 - 50.883 BENCH WARRANTS AND IT'S
03:53 - 53.152 CONFIRMED OVER POLICE RADIO IN
03:53 - 55.187 THE SQUAD CAR THAT YES, IN
03:53 - 57.356 FACT, THE INDIVIDUAL PULLED
03:53 - 58.057 OVER IS HAS MULTIPLE WARRANTS.
03:53 - 00.826 THE POLICE OFFICER THEN GETS
03:54 - 03.295 OUT OF HIS VEHICLE APPROACHES.
03:54 - 05.031 THE PULLED OVER A VEHICLE.
03:54 - 06.966 IT REMOVES THE DRIVER OF THAT
03:54 - 07.566 VEHICLE. AND DURING THAT
03:54 - 10.536 PROCESS, THEY GET INTO A
03:54 - 11.504 PHYSICAL
03:54 - 12.671 ARCTIC ALTERCATION. POLICE
03:54 - 13.372 OFFICER SAYS THAT THE ELBOW OF
03:54 - 15.508 THE PERSON THAT HE'S REMOVED
03:54 - 18.644 FROM THE CAR IS SWUNG BACK AND
03:54 - 20.646 HITS HIM IN THE FACE.
03:54 - 21.647 BUT THE PERCY TO THEIR TRIAL IN
03:54 - 22.782 THE PHILADELPHIA COURT OF
03:54 - 23.449 COMMON PLEAS. AND DURING THE
03:54 - 26.218 TRIAL, THERE WAS AN OBJECTION
03:54 - 27.019 MADE BY DEFENSE COUNSEL.
03:54 - 32.024 AND IN THIS IS WHERE THE ISSUES
03:54 - 32.925 ARISE FROM WHAT SAID AT THE
03:54 - 35.694 TRIAL IS THAT AN ELEMENT OF THE
03:54 - 36.862 CRIME OF RESISTING ARREST IS
03:54 - 39.265 THAT THE POLICE WERE PERFORMING
03:54 - 41.200 A LAWFUL ARREST DURING THE
03:54 - 44.336 PERFORMANCE OF A LAWFUL ARREST.
03:54 - 45.104 INDIVIDUAL RESISTED. THERE'S
03:54 - 45.771 MORE ELEMENTS IN THERE. BUT
03:54 - 48.407 THAT'S THE PARTICULARS THAT
03:54 - 49.075 WE NEED FOR THIS ARGUMENT IN
03:54 - 50.609 WHAT THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY
03:54 - 53.045 ARGUED AT THE TRIAL LEVEL IS
03:54 - 55.848 THAT ABSENT PROOF? THAT THE
03:54 - 56.882 BENCH WARRANTS WERE, IN FACT,
03:54 - 00.052 VALID, THAT THERE WAS A BASIS
03:55 - 03.289 TO MAKE THE ARREST.
03:55 - 03.989 IT WAS NOT A LAWFUL ARREST AND
03:55 - 04.890 THEREFORE THE PROSECUTION
03:55 - 05.558 CANNOT SATISFY THE ELEMENTS
03:55 - 09.428 NEEDED FOR RESISTING ARREST.
03:55 - 11.664 IN WHAT'S GOING TO BE DISCUSSED
03:55 - 12.298 AND WHAT I'M PARTICULARLY
03:55 - 15.901 INTERESTED IN IS A IS A NUANCE
03:55 - 18.104 IN THE ARGUMENT. ONE OF THE
03:55 - 19.271 THINGS THAT WE EXPECT TO HEAR
03:55 - 22.274 FROM THE THE COUNCIL'S CAN
03:55 - 24.210 ARGUE THIS BEFORE THE SUPREME
03:55 - 24.777 COURT IS WHETHER THE
03:55 - 27.880 DETERMINATION OF IT BEING A
03:55 - 28.781 LAWFUL ARREST.
03:55 - 29.482 IS MADE BY THE JUDGE WERE MADE
03:55 - 33.018 BY THE JURY. ANOTHER WAY TO SAY
03:55 - 35.187 THAT IS IS THE FACT THAT THE
03:55 - 36.188 ARREST WAS LAWFUL A MATTER OF
03:55 - 37.223 LAW IN WHICH THE JUDGE MAKE
03:55 - 37.890 THAT DETERMINATION IN THE
03:55 - 39.492 STANDARD BY WHICH IT'S MADE IS
03:55 - 42.728 A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
03:55 - 44.463 MORE LIKELY THAN NOT.
03:55 - 46.065 OR ALTERNATIVELY, IS IT UP TO
03:55 - 46.732 THE FACT FINDER? IS IT UP TO
03:55 - 49.735 THE JURY TO DETERMINE AN
03:55 - 50.436 ELEMENT OF THE CRIME? THAT IS
03:55 - 53.405 WHETHER OR NOT THE ARREST WAS
03:55 - 54.039 LAWFUL AND WHICH CASE THE
03:55 - 56.742 PROSECUTION HAS TO PROVE THE
03:55 - 58.811 LAWFUL ARREST. BEYOND A
03:55 - 00.779 REASONABLE DOUBT. AND THE
03:56 - 01.814 DIFFERENCE IN THE EVIDENTIARY
03:56 - 04.984 STANDARD WILL HAVE A LARGE
03:56 - 06.619 IMPACT ON HOW THESE CASES
03:56 - 07.219 CAN PROCEED. ANY TIME. A
03:56 - 07.820 RESISTING ARREST CHARGE
03:56 - 09.088 THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF
03:56 - 13.058 PENNSYLVANIA. GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:56 - 14.460 YOUR HONORS AND PLEASE THE
03:56 - 16.295 COURT. MY NAME IS CATHERINE
03:56 - 17.429 MINES AND I REPRESENT MISTER
03:56 - 18.531 STEADILY.
03:56 - 19.398 >>AND FROM THE DEFENDER
03:56 - 21.333 ASSOCIATION TO PULL THE MIC UP
03:56 - 22.835 A LITTLE BIT. YES, YOU'LL HAVE
03:56 - 23.569 TO FORGIVE ME. I'M GETTING OVER
03:56 - 25.838 BEING STILL GETTING A LITTLE
03:56 - 27.873 BIT BREATHLESS, BUT IT WILL AT
03:56 - 29.875 LEAST COMEY TALKING SLOWLY.
03:56 - 30.843 TAKE YOUR TIME. AND JUST TO
03:56 - 32.278 REMIND EVERYONE, IF YOU COULD
03:56 - 32.978 SPEAK INTO A MICROPHONE, I DO
03:56 - 35.347 HAVE I HAVE ONE HEARING IT AND
03:56 - 36.015 THEN WON. THAT TOLD ME WHAT
03:56 - 38.551 YOU'RE SAYING INTO THE MINE
03:56 - 40.953 FROM.
03:56 - 43.088 IT IS NOT THE EXISTENCE OF A
03:56 - 43.822 WARRANT WHICH RENDERS AN ARREST
03:56 - 46.358 LAWFUL. IT IS THE VALIDITY OF
03:56 - 48.694 WHAT.
03:56 - 49.395 THE LAWFULNESS OF AN ARREST IS
03:56 - 51.297 AN ELEMENT OF THE OFFENSE OF
03:56 - 51.964 RESISTING ARREST. AND WHEN A
03:56 - 54.233 DEFENDANT IS ARRESTED PURSUANT
03:56 - 57.069 TO A WARRANT, THAT WARRANT MUST
03:56 - 00.139 BE VALID IN ORDER FOR ASKED TO
03:57 - 02.208 BE LAWFUL.
03:57 - 02.841 THE REST MUST BE BASED ON
03:57 - 05.678 PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE
03:57 - 07.046 LAWFUL.
03:57 - 09.648 ALYSSA ARREST IS MADE PROBABLE
03:57 - 13.552 CAUSE IS DETERMINED AT THE TIME
03:57 - 14.253 OF THE ARREST BASED ON THE
03:57 - 14.920 OBSERVATIONS OF THE OFFICER,
03:57 - 17.423 WHAT THEY SEE, WHAT THEY
03:57 - 19.625 BELIEVE, ET CETERA.
03:57 - 21.327 WHEN A WARRANT IS INVOLVED,
03:57 - 21.827 THE PROBABLE CAUSE
03:57 - 22.494 DETERMINATION IS MADE AT THE
03:57 - 25.164 TIME OF THE ISSUANCE OF THE
03:57 - 26.799 WARRANT.
03:57 - 29.101 SO PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE A
03:57 - 29.969 WANT ACCESS TO IS NOT THE SAME
03:57 - 33.038 AS THE PROBABLE CAUSE
03:57 - 35.374 SUPPORTING THE WAR.
03:57 - 36.175 NOW ON THE AGENDA AND JACKSON,
03:57 - 36.875 THIS COURT WOULD JUST SAY THAT
03:57 - 39.612 AGAIN, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I
03:57 - 39.979 HEARD YOU
03:57 - 40.913 CORRECTLY. YES.
03:57 - 42.948 >>PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE
03:57 - 46.919 A WARRANT. EXCESS IS NOT THIS
03:57 - 49.121 ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH BUT A
03:57 - 50.990 WARRANT ITSELF IS SUPPORTED BY
03:57 - 52.558 PROBABLE CAUSE. THAT IS A GOOD
03:57 - 55.594 FAITH BELIEF THAT THE WARRANT
03:57 - 56.228 EXIST SUFFICIENT TO CREATE
03:57 - 57.763 PROBABLE CAUSE.
03:57 - 00.866 >>AND NO, YOUR HONOR AND I
03:58 - 01.467 WOULD I WOULD POINT TO.
03:58 - 04.270 >>ACTUALLY, NUMBER OF CASES
03:58 - 06.171 DISCUSS IN GOOD
03:58 - 07.206 FAITH DOCTRINE. IT'S THE ONE
03:58 - 09.275 THAT I WASN'T UPSET. GOOD
03:58 - 10.309 FAITH. MAYBE IT'S MORE
03:58 - 11.977 REASONABLE. I GOT ME EXCITED.
03:58 - 12.678 I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE
03:58 - 15.014 AND TALK ABOUT BOTH. BUT I
03:58 - 15.514 THINK THE CORRECT
03:58 - 18.217 >>STATEMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN A
03:58 - 21.453 REASONABLE BELIEF.
03:58 - 23.422 >>IT'S INTERESTING THE WAY THAT
03:58 - 24.323 THE LOWER COURT AND TO SOME
03:58 - 25.057 EXTENT THE COMMONWEALTH PRESENT
03:58 - 27.126 THIS CASE IS LIKE IS BY LOOKING
03:58 - 28.594 AT THE OFFICERS ACTIONS AND
03:58 - 30.629 SAYING, WELL, DIDN'T HE DO WHAT
03:58 - 31.430 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO? HE
03:58 - 34.566 CHECKED AND SOMEONE SAID THIS
03:58 - 35.968 OF THE POLICE RADIO.
03:58 - 36.669 WHAT ELSE COULD HE DO THAT AND
03:58 - 39.071 I THOUGHT JUST ARE ARE, ARE
03:58 - 39.338 YOU?
03:58 - 40.606 >>MAKING THIS THE SUFFICIENT
03:58 - 43.609 HUGE CHALLENGE.
03:58 - 46.779 >>WORD OR A REVIEW. AND IF SO,
03:58 - 48.180 WHY ARE WE HERE?
03:58 - 53.319 >>IT IS AN UNDERLYING
03:58 - 54.953 SUFFICIENCY ISSUE. BUT BIG
03:58 - 58.457 ISSUE THAT THE WARRANT ITSELF
03:58 - 59.658 MAY NOT BE ESTABLISHED AS VALID
03:58 - 01.093 IN ORDER TO MEET THAT BURDEN IS
03:59 - 03.295 THE ERA THAT I'M ASKING THIS
03:59 - 05.297 COURT. WELL, THE ARAB US I'M
03:59 - 07.333 ASKING THIS COURT TO FIND THAT
03:59 - 09.301 IT IS NOT SIMPLY THE EXISTENCE
03:59 - 10.669 OF A WARRANT, BUT THE VALIDITY
03:59 - 12.371 OF THE WARRANT THAT MATTERS
03:59 - 13.105 OPEN OFFICER. SO ARE YOU SAYING
03:59 - 19.812 >>THAT BECAUSE THE OFFICER?
03:59 - 21.513 >>BASED UPON A STOP OBTAINS
03:59 - 23.682 INFORMATION THAT A VALID
03:59 - 25.751 WARRANT EXISTS.
03:59 - 27.419 >>BASED UPON HE'S SPEAKING TO
03:59 - 28.153 THE APPROPRIATE CONTACTS IN THE
03:59 - 30.656 POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE GOING
03:59 - 31.857 THROUGH AND SEE. I SEE.
03:59 - 35.027 GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO STOP THE
03:59 - 38.664 CAR TO ARREST HIM.
03:59 - 39.331 >>AND THE ONLY PART OF THAT
03:59 - 39.898 STATEMENT I WOULD TAKE
03:59 - 42.334 EXCEPTION WITH IS THE WORD
03:59 - 44.837 BALLOT.
03:59 - 46.605 WHAT WE HAVE HERE A LOT TO HIM.
03:59 - 47.306 THAT'S ALL HE KNOWS. THE QUITE
03:59 - 50.743 REASONABLE WRITE IT THAT THE
03:59 - 51.377 ISSUE HERE IS WHAT THE DEA
03:59 - 54.613 OFFICER KNOW TO MAKE THIS A
03:59 - 55.681 LAWFUL ARREST.
03:59 - 56.281 >>NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN
03:59 - 57.983 WITHSTAND REASONABLE DOUBT THAT
03:59 - 01.186 A DIFFERENT STANDARD. BUT WE'RE
04:00 - 03.021 INDICATING SO AT WHAT POINT
04:00 - 06.058 BASED UPON YOUR LOGIC. DOES
04:00 - 10.129 AN OFFICER, IT'S GOING TO HAVE
04:00 - 10.696 TO DO WHAT HER SEAT TO
04:00 - 12.698 OBTAINING DISCOVERY FOR A
04:00 - 16.668 POTENTIAL OF REST. WHILE HIS
04:00 - 17.169 SAFETY IS AT RISK.
04:00 - 17.803 >>NO, YOUR HONOR. I WOULD.
04:00 - 18.871 I WOULD SIMPLY SAY THAT THIS
04:00 - 21.340 ISN'T ABOUT WHETHER THE OFFICER
04:00 - 22.007 DID THE RIGHT THING. THIS IS
04:00 - 26.378 ABOUT WHETHER THE COMMONWEALTH
04:00 - 26.845 AT TRIAL DID THE
04:00 - 29.448 RIGHT THING BECAUSE AN OFFICER
04:00 - 31.483 IN THE MOMENT. HE'S RELYING
04:00 - 33.452 ON WHAT HE HEARS AND IN FACT,
04:00 - 34.553 THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE
04:00 - 35.754 DOCTRINE SAYS OFFICERS CAN RELY
04:00 - 36.522 ON WHAT THEY HEAR OVER POLICE
04:00 - 38.624 RADIO. THIS IS NOT ABOUT
04:00 - 41.860 WHETHER THE OFFICER SHOULD HAVE
04:00 - 44.363 DONE MORE WAS MISTAKEN.
04:00 - 44.997 AS THIS COURT HAS STATED.
04:00 - 45.664 AND AS THE SUPREME COURT HAS
04:00 - 48.467 U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS STATED.
04:00 - 49.134 WHEN AN OFFICER DOES RELY ON
04:00 - 53.038 SOMETHING OVER POLICE RADIO.
04:00 - 54.907 WHEN WE COME INTO COURT, THE
04:00 - 56.809 COMMONWEALTH HAS TO BEEN
04:00 - 58.844 ESTABLISHED. BUT WHAT THEY WERE
04:00 - 59.545 LIGHT ON ESTABLISHED PROBABLE
04:00 - 02.548 CAUSE. AND SO THERE IS THERE IS
04:01 - 04.416 A LINE OF CASES.
04:01 - 05.150 SUGGESTING THAT AND TREASON AND
04:01 - 07.386 SHE I SEE THE LATE INTO
04:01 - 11.223 WARRANTS. ARE SUFFICIENT AND
04:01 - 12.458 THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT VARIED IN
04:01 - 15.093 THAT. SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY
04:01 - 16.261 ON THEIR FACTS HAVE MORE
04:01 - 16.895 INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THE
04:01 - 19.364 EXISTENCE OF A VALID WARRANT
04:01 - 23.402 THAN OTHERS.
04:01 - 24.036 >>TO THAT, TO THAT EXTENT,
04:01 - 26.338 ISN'T THERE A VAST DIFFERENCE
04:01 - 28.407 BETWEEN AN ARREST WARRANT
04:01 - 29.141 VERSUS A BENCH WARRANT AND THAT
04:01 - 30.909 AN ARREST WARRANT SEEMS TO BE
04:01 - 31.944 MORE OF THE TYPE THAT YOU ARE
04:01 - 34.813 DESCRIBING.
04:01 - 35.948 >>IF THE BEGINNING OF YOUR
04:01 - 37.850 PRESENTATION WHERE AN OFFICER
04:01 - 38.984 GOES TO A MAGISTRATE AND
04:01 - 39.685 SQUARES BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE,
04:01 - 42.454 THE FACTS THAT WOULD SUPPORT
04:01 - 44.022 HIS.
04:01 - 47.025 CAUSE FOR THE ARREST OF THE
04:01 - 47.693 INDIVIDUAL AND THE FACTS ARE
04:01 - 50.662 CONFINED TO THE 4 CORNERS OF
04:01 - 51.296 THE WEREN'T. WHERE IS IN A
04:01 - 53.332 BENCH WARRANT IS MORE OF AN
04:01 - 57.469 ORDER FROM THE COURT. SO IF
04:01 - 57.936 YOU ARE
04:01 - 00.105 >>IN MY MIND, AT LEAST I COULD
04:02 - 03.175 BE WRONG.
04:02 - 05.344 >>IF YOU ARE.
04:02 - 07.279 >>QUESTIONING THE AUTHORITY OR
04:02 - 07.880 THE PROPRIETY OF A BENCH
04:02 - 12.384 WARRANT IN ORDER OF THE COURT.
04:02 - 13.085 >>ISN'T THAT SOMETHING THAT'S
04:02 - 16.088 ESTABLISHES A MATTER OF THE
04:02 - 16.522 LAW? THE CASE.
04:02 - 19.358 >>IF THE COMMONWEALTH PRESENTED
04:02 - 20.425 EVIDENCE.
04:02 - 23.428 BUT IT WAS DONE CORRECTLY AND
04:02 - 24.496 THAT IT WAS SUPPORTED BY
04:02 - 25.531 PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE OR
04:02 - 26.798 NOT. IT WASN'T DONE CORRECTLY.
04:02 - 27.466 IT'S ON THE TRIAL JUDGE THAT
04:02 - 31.937 ISSUED THE BENCH WARRANT
04:02 - 32.971 CORRECT. IF
04:02 - 35.107 THE WARRANT ANY WARRANT.
04:02 - 35.807 I MEAN, THERE'S THE
04:02 - 36.508 CONSTITUTION DOESN'T SAY ONLY
04:02 - 37.109 ARREST WARRANT TO SEARCH
04:02 - 38.877 WARRANTS SHALL NOT ISSUE
04:02 - 39.912 WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE.
04:02 - 40.646 >>BUT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT EVEN
04:02 - 41.313 IF IT IS A BENCH WARRANT, IT
04:02 - 43.815 STILL MUST BE ESTABLISHED BY
04:02 - 46.618 PROBABLE CAUSE.
04:02 - 47.286 IT'S INTERESTING. I WHEN WE
04:02 - 49.388 THINK OF BENCH WARRANTS WHAT WE
04:02 - 52.357 THINK IT IS. SOMEONE IS IN
04:02 - 53.058 COURT TO GET SERVED. YOU KNOW,
04:02 - 54.793 THEY EXPECT TO COME BACK AT THE
04:02 - 56.795 NEXT HEARING. WERE ALL THERE.
04:02 - 58.430 AND, YOU KNOW, THE THE CHOIR
04:02 - 59.097 STAND UP AND CALLS OUT THE
04:02 - 01.199 PERSON GOT THERE. THEY HAD
04:03 - 02.334 SERVICE BENCH WARRANT IS
04:03 - 03.035 ISSUED. THIS IS WHAT WE THINK
04:03 - 05.537 OF IS THAT THE TYPICAL BENCH
04:03 - 08.574 WARRANT?
04:03 - 09.241 BENCH WARRANT THE TERM BENCH
04:03 - 09.942 WARRANT ACTUALLY ISSUED AND A
04:03 - 12.844 LOT OF SITUATIONS THEY COULD
04:03 - 15.013 BE ISSUED. IF.
04:03 - 18.083 SOMEBODY WASN'T COMPLYING WITH
04:03 - 18.784 HIM. THE TERMS OF RELEASE THEY
04:03 - 20.252 CAN BE ISSUED IF SOMEONE PAYS
04:03 - 23.388 A TICKET BUT DOESN'T PAY ENOUGH
04:03 - 24.323 GREAT. AND SO IN
04:03 - 25.657 THAT CASE, I DON'T WANT TO PUT
04:03 - 26.325 TO REST THE BENCH WHEN IT'S
04:03 - 26.925 ACTUALLY ALLOWS THEM THE
04:03 - 28.860 OPPORTUNITY TO PAY. THE AL CY
04:03 - 29.528 ACTUALLY WAS SURPRISE WHEN I
04:03 - 30.128 WAS READING THAT STATUE.
04:03 - 31.196 BUT THE BENCH, WHAT'S CALLED A
04:03 - 34.199 BENCH WARRANT, THEY CAN PAY
04:03 - 37.102 THE OFFICER. GET A TICKET AND
04:03 - 37.769 THEN CLEAR THE CASE. ONLY IF
04:03 - 39.972 THEY CAN'T PAY, DO THEY GET TO
04:03 - 40.772 BE ARRESTED? AND SO A BENCH
04:03 - 42.741 WARRANT CAN MEAN A LOT OF
04:03 - 46.678 THINGS. AND SO THE WORDS BENCH
04:03 - 47.379 WARRANT. I WOULD SAY ON TO NOT
04:03 - 52.384 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE.
04:03 - 54.853 I'M SORRY. JUST LIKE WHAT YOU
04:03 - 57.623 WANT. IS THAT THE SPEAKING INTO
04:03 - 58.357 A MICROPHONE SORRY, THE COUNCIL
04:03 - 59.491 THAT.
04:03 - 02.361 >>THE NUMBER OF IT TO USE
04:04 - 03.729 ABROAD, SONNY AND IS THAT THE
04:04 - 06.832 THE TRIAL JUDGE SUSTAINED YOUR
04:04 - 09.101 OBJECTION.
04:04 - 09.901 THAT YOUR BEST EVIDENCE.
04:04 - 11.403 OBJECTION. THERE WAS NO PRINT
04:04 - 15.340 OUT OF THE BENCH WARRANT.
04:04 - 17.476 THERE WAS NO IT THIS IS NOT
04:04 - 18.210 ABOUT THE OFFICERS. PROBABLE TO
04:04 - 18.877 BELIEVE THE WARNINGS IS THAT
04:04 - 20.646 NOBODY'S CHALLENGING THAT IT'S
04:04 - 23.749 AS THAT I TAKE IT. YOU'RE
04:04 - 25.183 SAYING THE
04:04 - 29.054 THERE WAS NO VALID WARRANT
04:04 - 29.721 ESTABLISHED IN COURT. SO THE
04:04 - 30.389 THAT'S THE MISSING PIECE OF
04:04 - 32.624 THE ARRESTS BEING LAWFUL.
04:04 - 36.828 ISN'T THAT THE POINT? THAT'S
04:04 - 37.729 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
04:04 - 39.164 >>IT'S REALLY INTERESTING.
04:04 - 39.798 WHENEVER YOU LOOK AT WHAT
04:04 - 41.833 LITTLE WANT THERE IS IN THIS
04:04 - 43.935 CASE, IT'S SHOCKINGLY LITTLE
04:04 - 44.903 THE THINGS THAT WE DON'T KNOW
04:04 - 46.905 OUTWEIGH THE THINGS THAT WE
04:04 - 48.073 DO. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CASE
04:04 - 48.740 WAS FOR. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
04:04 - 51.243 KIND OF EVENTS WHEN IT WAS.
04:04 - 51.710 IS THAT MATTER?
04:04 - 53.645 >>DOESN'T THAT DOESN'T MATTER
04:04 - 56.682 WHAT KIND OF CASE IT WAS?
04:04 - 57.582 >>WELL, ACTUALLY,
04:04 - 00.719 IT DOES BECAUSE IF IT'S FOR A
04:05 - 01.853 SUMMARY THAT
04:05 - 02.888 HE MIGHT HAVE JUST BEEN
04:05 - 03.522 REQUIRED TO PAY SOME MONEY
04:05 - 06.425 RATHER THAN JUST SIMPLY BE
04:05 - 07.592 TAKEN
04:05 - 10.228 INTO CUSTODY. YOU KNOW, I MEAN,
04:05 - 11.296 THIS WHOLE COUNCIL THAT'S I
04:05 - 12.197 MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THIS CASE
04:05 - 14.433 GENERATED. PROBABLY THE MOST
04:05 - 15.934 SPIRITED DEBATE, MY CHAMBERS
04:05 - 16.635 OF ANY CASE. I THOUGHT I CAME
04:05 - 17.302 ON THIS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
04:05 - 19.638 IT'S IT'S IT'S VERY
04:05 - 20.038 INTERESTING.
04:05 - 22.808 >>AND HERE'S YOU'RE GETTING
04:05 - 23.408 TO THIS LAYER ARGUMENT.
04:05 - 26.378 I UNDERSTAND THAT THE THAT THE
04:05 - 28.580 COMMONWEALTH MAY HAVE NEXT STOP
04:05 - 29.214 HERE BY BY DOING THE BARE
04:05 - 30.215 MINIMUM, WHICH WOULD BAN ALL
04:05 - 30.916 THEY DO IS PRODUCE THE WAR AND
04:05 - 35.253 SHOW THE WARRANT. WAS THERE.
04:05 - 35.854 BUT ARE YOU TAKING IT TO
04:05 - 39.357 ANOTHER LEVEL? LET'S SAY, LET'S
04:05 - 40.292 SAY THE POLICE OFFICER LOOKS ON
04:05 - 42.094 THE COMPUTER SYSTEM CONFIRMS
04:05 - 42.794 WITH SOMEONE IS ON THE RADIO.
04:05 - 44.463 YEP. THERE IS A WARRANT OUT
04:05 - 45.097 FOR THIS PERSON, THE BENCH
04:05 - 47.632 WARRANT OUT FOR THIS PERSON'S
04:05 - 48.266 ARREST, ARREST.
04:05 - 49.768 LET'S SAY THE COMMONWEALTH DID
04:05 - 52.804 PUT THE WARRANT ON AND SAID,
04:05 - 54.172 YEP.
04:05 - 54.873 A POLICE OFFICER HAD YEARS THE
04:05 - 55.507 WARRANT THERE WAS A VALID
04:05 - 58.944 ARREST. WERE THERE'S AN ARREST
04:05 - 00.746 WARRANT OUT FOR THIS PERSON'S
04:06 - 01.880 ARREST POLICE OFFICER, A FACT
04:06 - 02.547 OF THE ARREST AND THE PERSON
04:06 - 03.381 RESISTED AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT
04:06 - 07.252 OF A POLICE OFFICER. SO ALL
04:06 - 09.988 THAT OUT. ARE YOU SAYING THAT
04:06 - 12.958 YOU THEN GET TO GO TO ANOTHER
04:06 - 13.692 LAYER AS DEFENSE COUNSEL ON THE
04:06 - 17.262 RESISTING ARREST CHARGE AND
04:06 - 18.363 ACTUALLY TRY TO FIGHT THE
04:06 - 20.265 UNDERLYING FACTS THAT RESULTED
04:06 - 20.999 IN TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE BENCH
04:06 - 24.402 FOR IS THAT SORT OF TAKES IT
04:06 - 25.137 TO ANOTHER LEVEL. IF ALL YOU'RE
04:06 - 25.670 SAYING IS, LOOK, THE
04:06 - 28.106 COMMONWEALTH JUST NEEDS TO
04:06 - 29.341 PRODUCE THE BENCH WARRANT.
04:06 - 30.342 THAT'S ONE THING. IF YOU'RE
04:06 - 35.347 SAYING WE NOW WE'LL TURN THIS
04:06 - 35.981 INTO A LITIGATION OVER THE
04:06 - 36.715 UNDERPINNING FACTS OR PROCEDURE
04:06 - 37.382 THAT LED TO THE ISSUANCE OF
04:06 - 38.083 THE BENCH WARRANT. THAT TAKES
04:06 - 40.352 IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL. DOESN'T
04:06 - 42.888 IT?
04:06 - 43.822 I WOULD SAY THIS IN SOME WAYS
04:06 - 45.624 COULD PARALLEL 4 CORNERS.
04:06 - 46.358 I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S WHAT THIS
04:06 - 46.625 IS.
04:06 - 49.294 >>BUT I'M JUST USING THIS AS AN
04:06 - 52.864 EXAMPLE, RIGHT? POLICE OBTAINED
04:06 - 53.565 A WARRANT. IT'S BASED ON WHAT
04:06 - 57.769 THEY BELIEVE IS PROBABLE CAUSE.
04:06 - 58.370 WE GET THE COPY OF THIS
04:06 - 59.538 WARRANT, WHICH IS, AGAIN, MORE
04:06 - 00.205 THAN HAS BEEN DONE. IN THIS
04:07 - 01.673 CASE, WE GET A COPY OF THIS.
04:07 - 04.810 ONE WILL SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT,
04:07 - 05.443 THEY WANT SPECIFIC ENOUGH.
04:07 - 08.180 IT'S WHATEVER REASON WE DON'T
04:07 - 09.347 BELIEVE IT'S QUITE PROBABLE
04:07 - 10.081 CAUSE. WE CAN GO INTO THE COURT
04:07 - 12.250 AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THE
04:07 - 14.085 CHURCH SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
04:07 - 14.653 DONE. THIS WARRANT WAS
04:07 - 17.255 INSUFFICIENT AND THERE'S PLENTY
04:07 - 21.159 OF PRECEDENT
04:07 - 21.760 FOR THAT. IT ISN'T ON A
04:07 - 22.360 RESISTING ARREST CHARGE.
04:07 - 23.094 WELL, AND I'M JUST USING THIS
04:07 - 24.996 AS AN ANALOGY WAY, BUT I THINK
04:07 - 26.097 THAT WE CAN TRY TO BUY
04:07 - 26.698 RESISTING ARREST CHARGES
04:07 - 27.399 BECAUSE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
04:07 - 28.033 WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE IS
04:07 - 31.736 POLICE OFFICERS IN THE FIELD
04:07 - 32.170 HAVE NO IDEA.
04:07 - 32.871 >>WHAT THE UNDERLYING LEGAL OR
04:07 - 36.341 FACTUAL BASIS OF THE WARRANT IS
04:07 - 37.075 THEIR DUTY BOUND WHEN THE COURT
04:07 - 39.311 ISSUES AN ORDER CALLING FOR
04:07 - 40.378 SOMEBODY TO REST TO EFFECT THE
04:07 - 43.315 ARREST. SO I CAN UNDERSTAND
04:07 - 44.149 SORT OF A LINE IN THE SAND
04:07 - 44.850 BEING IN THESE TYPES OF CASES.
04:07 - 46.785 THE COMMONWEALTH MUST AT A
04:07 - 49.788 MINIMUM PRESENT THE WAR.
04:07 - 50.422 IT I AM A LITTLE CONCERNED
04:07 - 51.122 ABOUT GOING TO THE NEXT LAYER
04:07 - 53.191 AND SAYING AND WE GET TO NOW
04:07 - 56.261 CHALLENGE THE WAR IN WHICH CASE
04:07 - 57.329 OFFICERS MAY SAY, HEY, I'M NOT
04:07 - 58.730 GOING TO RISK GETTING CLOBBERED
04:07 - 59.364 OUT HERE TO DO THESE BENCH
04:07 - 00.065 WARRANTS. IF THESE PEOPLE ARE
04:08 - 02.033 GOING TO TURN AROUND AND GET
04:08 - 07.606 AWAY WITH IT.
04:08 - 08.240 AND OFFICER BELIEVES THAT
04:08 - 10.709 THEY'RE IN GOOD FAITH THAT
04:08 - 11.409 THERE IS A WANT.
04:08 - 13.511 >>I THINK THAT THIS IS VERY
04:08 - 16.448 GOOD PARALLEL TO THE COLLECTIVE
04:08 - 17.148 KNOWLEDGE DOCTRINE. WE'RE NOT
04:08 - 20.185 ARGUING THAT THE OFFICER DID
04:08 - 21.119 ANYTHING WRONG HERE.
04:08 - 24.890 AND IT WAS I DON'T KNOW THAT
04:08 - 25.590 WOULD NECESSARILY BLOWBACK ON
04:08 - 28.693 THE OFFICER BECAUSE IN ALL OF
04:08 - 29.394 THESE CASES IN WHICH THERE WAS
04:08 - 31.129 AN INVALID WAR AND MADE IT TO
04:08 - 31.930 EXPIRED. MEAT ALREADY BEEN
04:08 - 33.198 SERVED. MAYBE IT WASN'T
04:08 - 35.400 SUPPORTED BY PROBABLE CAUSE.
04:08 - 36.101 NO ONE IS SAYING THIS OFFICER
04:08 - 39.504 SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT.
04:08 - 40.238 WELL, IT'S KIND OF COLD COMFORT
04:08 - 43.341 FOR AN OFFICER'S PROBABLY NOW
04:08 - 44.509 OUT ON HARDLINE.
04:08 - 45.210 >>WELL, BUT IF THE INDIVIDUAL
04:08 - 45.877 DID COMMIT ANOTHER OFFENSE,
04:08 - 48.246 THEN WE'D BE HAVING A DIFFERENT
04:08 - 48.680 CONVERSATION.
04:08 - 51.416 THIS IS THIS IS REALLY JUST
04:08 - 52.217 ABOUT
04:08 - 52.884 WHERE THERE'S ONLY RESISTING
04:08 - 54.552 ARREST ASKED, WHAT CAN I CAN I
04:08 - 54.920 FOLLOW UP.
04:08 - 58.723 >>I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE
04:08 - 59.624 NOT ASKING. CAN YOU TELL ME
04:08 - 00.292 WHAT THE PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC
04:09 - 02.327 DEFENDER'S OFFICE IS ASKING?
04:09 - 02.994 IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT DO YOU
04:09 - 07.399 FEEL IS THE PROPER PROCEDURE?
04:09 - 09.401 UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE A
04:09 - 10.969 POLICE OFFICER PULL SOMEBODY
04:09 - 11.670 OVER? LOOK, CITIZEN CI CPC ICY
04:09 - 13.972 AND SEES AN ARREST WARRANT FOR
04:09 - 14.940 THE PRESTIGIOUS PULLED OVER
04:09 - 15.607 WHAT YOU HAVE TO WAIT THERE
04:09 - 18.209 PHYSICALLY COME DOWN TO 13.
04:09 - 19.010 0, 1, STILL, BURT STREET.
04:09 - 19.711 SEE IF THEY CAN FIND A COPY OF
04:09 - 21.780 THE ACTUAL 3RD QUARTER SESSIONS
04:09 - 23.882 NOTATION OF THE BENCH WARRANT.
04:09 - 24.549 WE BRING IN A JUDGMENT, CALL
04:09 - 27.319 THEM WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAT DOES
04:09 - 28.653 THE PUBLIC DEFENDERS A
04:09 - 30.188 PHILADELPHIA THINK IS REQUIRED
04:09 - 32.924 UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES TO
04:09 - 36.027 JUSTIFY WE ARREST OF MR.
04:09 - 36.661 STEADILY A VALID WARRANT.
04:09 - 39.597 AND THE ONLY ARGUMENT IS THAT
04:09 - 41.266 POLICE OFFICER OBTAIN OR OR
04:09 - 44.502 VERIFY THE VALIDITY OF THE WAR
04:09 - 45.203 AT THE TIME OF THE ARREST SUCH
04:09 - 45.837 TO INSULATE HIMSELF IN THE
04:09 - 48.440 EVENT THAT HE GETS PUNCHED IN
04:09 - 50.442 THE FACE OR OR ASSAULTED
04:09 - 52.243 OTHERWISE OR IF THAT'S NOT WHAT
04:09 - 55.814 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHAT DOES
04:09 - 56.414 THE COMMONWEALTH FOR THE
04:09 - 57.082 DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN
04:09 - 59.084 PHILADELPHIA HAVE TO PRESENT
04:09 - 00.251 IN COURT.
04:10 - 00.952 THE SHOW THAT IT DOES GET THE
04:10 - 04.322 COURT TO CALL THE CLERK QUARTER
04:10 - 05.056 SESSIONS AND SAY MR. MCCAFFREY,
04:10 - 05.724 YOU ARE THE CLERK, A QUARTER
04:10 - 10.795 SESSION IN JUDGE DAUGHERTY'S
04:10 - 12.897 COURTROOM ON APRIL 15 THAT 20
04:10 - 13.565 20ND IS THIS YEAR. NOTATION
04:10 - 14.165 YESTERDAY IS WAS A BENCH
04:10 - 15.934 WARRANT ISSUE. YES, IT WAS.
04:10 - 16.634 WHAT WAS THE BENCHMARK FOR MR?
04:10 - 18.536 STEADILY FAILED TO APPEAR FOR A
04:10 - 21.706 COURT HEARING THAT DAY.
04:10 - 22.607 >>I WOULD SAY THAT WE'RE NOT
04:10 - 24.442 ASKING THIS COURT TO SAY
04:10 - 25.076 THERE'S A SPECIFIC SET OF
04:10 - 27.112 CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MUST ALWAYS
04:10 - 29.180 HAPPEN WHEN THERE'S A WANT TO
04:10 - 30.048 FALL. WELL, WE ARE ASKING IS
04:10 - 33.118 THAT THIS COURT TO REQUIRE THAT
04:10 - 34.085 WHEN IT COMES
04:10 - 34.819 TO TRIAL? WELL, ACTUALLY, WE'RE
04:10 - 37.155 NOT TALKING ABOUT WHETHER THE
04:10 - 38.156 OFFICER DID ANYTHING WRONG IN
04:10 - 38.823 THIS. I JUST, YOU KNOW, THAT
04:10 - 39.491 CLEAR. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO
04:10 - 44.929 TRIAL THAT THE COMMONWEALTH.
04:10 - 45.530 PRESENT EVIDENCE OF ITS
04:10 - 46.231 VALIDITY. NOW, THAT CAN HAPPEN
04:10 - 46.898 IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
04:10 - 48.233 AND THERE'S ALSO MANY
04:10 - 50.435 SITUATIONS THAT IT WON'T COME
04:10 - 51.936 UP. I WOULD HESITATE TO SAY
04:10 - 52.604 THERE'S ONE WAY IT COULD BE
04:10 - 53.338 DONE. IT COULD BE OUT OF COUNTY
04:10 - 54.339 AND CANADA COURT. YOU CAN GET
04:10 - 55.073 THE BEST WINE, A BENCH WARRANT.
04:10 - 57.642 THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT KINDS
04:10 - 58.109 OF WAYS.
04:10 - 59.177 IT'S REALLY NOT A COUNTY
04:10 - 02.213 WORKER. BEAVER COUNTY. WHAT
04:11 - 04.282 HAPPENS?
04:11 - 04.949 A BENCH WARRANT FROM BEAVER
04:11 - 06.985 COUNTY WILL GET A GOOD START
04:11 - 08.019 WOULD BE A COPY OF THE WARRANT
04:11 - 08.720 ITSELF AND LOOK, YOU KNOW, ONE
04:11 - 10.088 REALLY, REALLY SIMPLE WAY TO
04:11 - 12.424 DO THIS IF THEY KNOW WHAT THE
04:11 - 13.091 BENCH WARRANT WAS FOR, GET A
04:11 - 15.660 COPY OF THE BENCH. WANT TO COPY
04:11 - 16.828 OF
04:11 - 17.529 THE DOCKET.
04:11 - 21.666 >>THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT THE
04:11 - 23.501 FACT THAT THIS IS AN AUTOMOBILE
04:11 - 24.069 EXPECT THAT I CAN TELL
04:11 - 24.769 DIRECTIONAL A TOP US THE FACT
04:11 - 26.805 THAT THIS IS OUR AUTOMOBILE
04:11 - 27.572 PLAY ANY ROLE.
04:11 - 29.507 BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING IF IT WAS
04:11 - 32.544 FROM BEAVER COUNTY THAT GOOD
04:11 - 33.178 START WOULD BE TO OBTAIN.
04:11 - 35.914 >>THE WARRANT FROM BEAVER
04:11 - 37.382 COUNTY.
04:11 - 38.316 >>ARE YOU SAYING AT TRIAL?
04:11 - 39.050 OH, YES, YES, OF COURSE.
04:11 - 39.684 YOU WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
04:11 - 42.387 CLARIFYING ONLY. I WERE JUST
04:11 - 46.391 TALKING ABOUT THAT TRIAL.
04:11 - 47.058 IT ISN'T THE EXISTENCE OF A
04:11 - 49.394 WARRANT THAT CREATES PROBABLE
04:11 - 50.361 CAUSE ITS VALIDITY.
04:11 - 51.329 >>AND IN THIS CASE, THE
04:11 - 51.963 COMMONWEALTH DID YOU OUT?
04:11 - 54.566 THEY PUT AN OFFICER ON TO SAID
04:11 - 56.534 REPEATEDLY.
04:11 - 58.303 AND MAKE ANY EFFORT TO TRY TO
04:11 - 59.037 FIGURE THAT I DO. NOW I HAVE
04:11 - 02.240 TO STOP YOU THERE BECAUSE I'M
04:12 - 04.642 NOT SURE I AGREE WITH YOU.
04:12 - 07.712 >>PROBABLE CAUSE GOING TO BE
04:12 - 08.480 BASED ON
04:12 - 12.016 THE REASONABLE POSITION THAT
04:12 - 13.485 THE OFFICER TOOK BASED
04:12 - 15.220 ON THE INFORMATION THAT HE
04:12 - 18.389 RECEIVED. THE WARRANTS WERE
04:12 - 19.724 VALID. IS IT BASED ON?
04:12 - 21.059 WHAT WHAT WAS REASONABLE FOR
04:12 - 24.295 AN OFFICER TO BELIEVE UNDER
04:12 - 27.031 THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES?
04:12 - 27.966 >>WELL, I WOULD SAY THAT TO WAR
04:12 - 29.067 AND WHEN WE'RE EVALUATING
04:12 - 29.801 PROBABLE CAUSE, YOU LOOK AT THE
04:12 - 31.669 TIME OF THE ISSUANCE OF THE
04:12 - 34.606 WARRANT, NOT THE OFFICER WHO
04:12 - 36.574 FINDS EVIDENCE OF THE WARRANT
04:12 - 37.175 AT THE RESISTING ARREST
04:12 - 39.978 OCCURRED AT THE TIME THE
04:12 - 42.347 OFFICER WAS PURSUING.
04:12 - 43.047 >>IF WE'RE JUDGING WHETHER THE
04:12 - 47.218 RESISTING ARREST CONVICTION.
04:12 - 51.489 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE HAVE TO
04:12 - 53.658 FOCUS ON
04:12 - 54.359 ON THAT MOMENT, BUT MAYBE I'M
04:12 - 55.026 MISUNDERSTANDING. CAN I CAN
04:12 - 55.960 I ENTER THE NINER POSE THERE
04:12 - 59.297 COME A CHIEF.
04:12 - 00.532 >>COUNCIL. I THINK.
04:13 - 01.533 THE POINT YOU'RE TRYING TO
04:13 - 02.233 CONVEY HERE AND MAYBE THIS IS
04:13 - 07.839 NOT RESPONSIVE TO THE CHIEF
04:13 - 08.473 POINT IS. WHEN YOU'RE NOT,
04:13 - 09.073 YOU'RE NOT ASK YOU THIS.
04:13 - 09.707 THE FOCUS ON THE POLICING
04:13 - 12.310 INTERACTION. IT'S NOT A
04:13 - 16.781 QUESTION OF WHAT WHAT THIS GUY
04:13 - 17.448 DID WHAT'S HIS NAME STEADILY
04:13 - 20.018 ITS ITS ABOUT WHEN IT COMES
04:13 - 23.588 TO COURT? A KEY COMPONENT OF
04:13 - 25.757 RESISTING ARREST IS THAT THERE
04:13 - 27.859 WAS A LAWFUL ARREST AND A
04:13 - 28.860 COMPONENT OF THAT IS THE
04:13 - 30.828 EXISTENCE OF A VALID WARRANT
04:13 - 32.297 AND WENT TO WIN. THAT OBJECTION
04:13 - 33.064 WAS SUSTAINED AND IN THE
04:13 - 33.765 COMMONWEALTH DIDN'T COME BACK
04:13 - 36.234 AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO GET
04:13 - 37.202 THAT WARRANT IN EVIDENCE THEY
04:13 - 37.802 WERE MISSING A THEY WERE
04:13 - 40.104 MISSING. A COMPONENT OF THIS
04:13 - 41.172 CRIME IS NOT THE POINT.
04:13 - 41.806 >>AGREED. AND I DON'T EVEN
04:13 - 44.142 BELIEVE THEY WERE ATTEMPTING
04:13 - 44.742 TO PUT IN A COPY OF THE
04:13 - 47.078 WARRANT. HE WAS JUST ATTEMPTING
04:13 - 48.246 TO READ WHAT HE SAW HIS MDT.
04:13 - 51.015 I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE WAS
04:13 - 51.716 LOOKING AT NC. I SAY JUST HIS
04:13 - 52.951 COMPUTER TO WRITE SAY, IN OTHER
04:13 - 55.186 WORDS SAYING I HEARD THERE WAS
04:13 - 55.887 I HEARD THERE WAS A WARRANT IS
04:13 - 56.487 NOT THE SAME AS THE
04:13 - 58.923 COMMONWEALTH BRINGING IN THE
04:13 - 00.525 WARRANT. WE SHOULDN'T BE A
04:14 - 03.628 DIFFICULT THING TO DO. I
04:14 - 04.696 WOULDN'T
04:14 - 05.530 THINK SO. WELL, IT BUT IT'S
04:14 - 06.297 THAT ITS AGAINST GO BACK.
04:14 - 06.998 THE LAYER LAYER THING, THOUGH,
04:14 - 09.968 IS WHEN YOU SAY VALID WARRANT.
04:14 - 13.004 >>THAT'S WHERE I'M STRUGGLING.
04:14 - 14.239 IS.
04:14 - 15.940 THE FACT THAT A WARRANT IS
04:14 - 16.608 ISSUED AND THEY SHOW THAT A
04:14 - 17.242 WARRANT WAS ISSUED FROM A
04:14 - 20.245 POLICE OFFICER. PERSPECTIVE IS
04:14 - 21.045 A VALID WARRANT. IS THAT ENOUGH
04:14 - 25.183 THAT THAT THE COMMONWEALTH JUST
04:14 - 25.817 PROVE YES, WHEN THE POLICE
04:14 - 26.517 OFFICER II EXECUTE THE ARREST,
04:14 - 28.086 THERE WAS A WARRANT IN PLACE
04:14 - 28.786 FOR HIS ARREST PERIOD. HERE'S
04:14 - 31.723 THE WARRANT THAT WAS IN PLACE
04:14 - 34.726 FOR HIS ARREST AT THE TIME
04:14 - 35.727 PERIOD. IS THAT A VALID
04:14 - 36.728 WARRANT? ARE YOU SAYING THAT
04:14 - 38.296 ONCE THE COMMONWEALTH PUTS THAT
04:14 - 39.030 AND THEY ALSO HAVE TO BRING THE
04:14 - 41.899 EVIDENCE UNDERLYING THE MOMENT
04:14 - 44.535 WAR 2, WHICH JUSTICE MCCAFFREY,
04:14 - 45.770 I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, BRINGING
04:14 - 46.604 THE CLERK OF COURT OF SESSION,
04:14 - 47.338 BRINGING THE JUDGE BRING IN THE
04:14 - 48.539 ATTORNEYS THAT WERE IN THE
04:14 - 50.908 COURTROOM WHEN THAT HAPPENED,
04:14 - 51.576 YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S THEIR
04:14 - 52.176 BURDEN, RIGHT? IT'S THE
04:14 - 52.844 COMMONWEALTH'S BURN TO PROVE
04:14 - 55.780 BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT
04:14 - 57.048 A CRIME WAS COMMITTED AND
04:14 - 57.882 THEREFORE PROVE THE VALIDITY OF
04:14 - 58.516 THE WARRANT, WHATEVER THAT
04:14 - 01.085 MEANS. SO WHAT DOES VALIDITY
04:15 - 02.053 ME?
04:15 - 02.987 >>I DELIVERED THE MEANS AT THE
04:15 - 04.756 WARREN IS SUPPORTED BY PROBABLE
04:15 - 05.456 CAUSE. AND I WOULD SAY NO, WE
04:15 - 06.124 DON'T HAVE TO BRING EVERYONE
04:15 - 08.293 WHO WAS IN THE COURT RAMMING.
04:15 - 10.228 I MEAN, THE WAY THAT WE LOOK
04:15 - 12.363 AT WARRANTS AND ESTABLISHED,
04:15 - 14.399 WHETHER THEY'RE SUPPORTED BY
04:15 - 16.501 PROBABLE CAUSE IS BY THE WIND
04:15 - 18.269 ITSELF AND POSSIBLY AN
04:15 - 18.970 AFFIDAVIT OF PROBABLE CAUSE.
04:15 - 19.704 IT'S IF IT'S ACCOMPANIED BY ONE
04:15 - 20.938 AND IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES
04:15 - 22.974 BECAUSE THE JUDGE IS THERE,
04:15 - 24.309 THEY AND THEY SEE THE PERSON
04:15 - 25.043 DIDN'T SHOW UP. AND I KNOW THAT
04:15 - 27.211 WAS SERVICED ABOUT THE FACT
04:15 - 27.812 THAT YOU COULD IT.
04:15 - 30.081 >>YOU'RE SAYING YOU SAID THIS
04:15 - 33.751 EARLIER, 4 CORNERS. SO IF THEY
04:15 - 34.419 PRODUCE THE WARRANT, YOU ARE
04:15 - 36.854 PERMITTED. THEY DON'T HAVE TO
04:15 - 37.422 DO ANYTHING ELSE. THEY
04:15 - 38.256 AUTHENTICATED. THEY PRODUCE IT.
04:15 - 40.058 HERE IS THE WAR. THERE WAS A
04:15 - 40.758 WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST. WE'RE
04:15 - 45.063 DONE. HE PUMMELED THE OFFICER.
04:15 - 47.231 WE REST OUR CASE.
04:15 - 49.300 THAT'S ENOUGH. NOW YOU MAY LOOK
04:15 - 51.202 AT THE 4 CORNERS AND SAY, WELL,
04:15 - 52.537 WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT HE'S
04:15 - 54.339 NOT THERE. SAME KEVIN BROBSON.
04:15 - 55.306 THERE'S ANOTHER KEVIN BROBSON.
04:15 - 56.040 IT WAS DIFFERENT. KEVIN BROBSON
04:15 - 00.845 OR YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO ANY
04:16 - 01.779 NUMBER OF THINGS. BUT BUT YOU
04:16 - 02.480 CAN'T THEN SAY, WELL, WE MOVED
04:16 - 07.719 TO DISMISS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T
04:16 - 08.386 HAVE THE AND THAT THE JUDGE
04:16 - 09.087 TESTIFY. WHAT SHOULD THE BATCH
04:16 - 09.787 ONE OF THE YOU'RE NOT ARGUING
04:16 - 12.890 FOR THAT PRINCIPLE?
04:16 - 13.891 >>I'M NOT ARGUING FOR.
04:16 - 16.060 >>A SPECIFIC TYPE OF EVIDENCE
04:16 - 18.129 THAT MUST COME IN. BUT AS THE
04:16 - 21.332 WAR ENOUGH. IN SOME CASES, IT
04:16 - 23.735 MIGHT BE.
04:16 - 25.770 >>I MEAN, AND LIKE I SAID, I'M
04:16 - 26.871 NOT I'M NOT ARGUING FOR A
04:16 - 27.739 SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES,
04:16 - 28.439 BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW,
04:16 - 31.242 THERE'S THERE'S WARRANTS WERE
04:16 - 32.276 ISSUED IN ALL
04:16 - 32.777 DIFFERENT PLACES.
04:16 - 34.345 >>IN ALL THE WAY, FROM ALL
04:16 - 35.380 DIFFERENT KINDS OF WARNINGS
04:16 - 36.114 FROM ALL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, I
04:16 - 36.814 WOULD SAY THAT IN IN A LOT OF
04:16 - 40.985 CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WOULD BE.
04:16 - 43.654 BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS ACTUALLY
04:16 - 44.389 I'M GONNA GO TO THE GOOD FAITH,
04:16 - 47.425 THE KID FACE DOCTRINE. AND WHAT
04:16 - 49.961 I WAS SAYING BEFORE IS
04:16 - 53.564 COURTS AND THE PENNSYLVANIA
04:16 - 54.265 COURTS HAVE AGREED THAT WHERE
04:16 - 57.602 THERE IS AN ARREST IN THIS
04:16 - 58.236 COURT HELD THAT IN JOHNSON
04:16 - 58.903 WHERE THERE IS NO REST ON AN
04:16 - 01.305 INVALID WARRANT THAT IS AN
04:17 - 01.773 UNLAWFUL ARREST.
04:17 - 04.142 IF THE WARRANT ITSELF IS NOT
04:17 - 08.479 VALID. THE REST IS UNLAWFUL.
04:17 - 09.414 AND
04:17 - 10.148 IT DOESN'T. THE OFFICERS BELIEF
04:17 - 12.817 IN ITS VALIDITY IS SORT OF
04:17 - 13.418 BESIDE THE POINT ITS THE
04:17 - 15.653 VALIDITY OF THE WARRANT THAT
04:17 - 16.387 MAKES THE ARREST LAWFUL.
04:17 - 16.988 THE ONLY REAL DIFFERENCE
04:17 - 19.824 BETWEEN THE FEDERAL COURTS AND
04:17 - 20.591 OUR COURTS IS WHEN IT COMES
04:17 - 21.292 TO MOTION TO SUPPRESS THAT WE
04:17 - 24.395 PUT THE EVIDENCE AND ANYWAY ON
04:17 - 25.930 A GOOD FAITH BASIS. BUT IT IS
04:17 - 26.531 THE LAWFULNESS OF THE
04:17 - 27.198 UNDERLYING ARREST. HOWEVER,
04:17 - 31.269 THEY CHOOSE TO ESTABLISH THAT.
04:17 - 32.470 THAT MAKES, YOU KNOW, REST,
04:17 - 33.604 LAWFUL. SO WE'RE NOT ASKING
04:17 - 34.238 FOR THIS COURT AND I DON'T
04:17 - 36.441 ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT'S BEFORE
04:17 - 37.108 THIS COURT ANYWAY. THE ONLY
04:17 - 39.877 QUESTION BEFORE THIS COURT IS.
04:17 - 42.847 DO THEY HAVE TO ESTABLISH
04:17 - 43.448 VALIDITY OF THE WARRANT?
04:17 - 44.182 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS
04:17 - 45.116 IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING MORE
04:17 - 48.286 THAN THE EXISTENCE OF THE
04:17 - 49.320 WARNING. IT HAS
04:17 - 50.421 TO BE WHAT OTHERWISE IS NOT A
04:17 - 52.623 LAWFUL ARREST BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
04:17 - 54.592 THAT IT.
04:17 - 55.693 >>HIS CONDUCT STEAD LEAST
04:17 - 56.527 CONDUCT ON THE STREET THERE,
04:17 - 59.897 WHICH WHICH I WATCHED A COUPLE
04:17 - 02.967 TIMES IS NOT ENOUGH. YOU ALSO
04:18 - 04.936 NEED
04:18 - 06.971 THE ORIGINAL, THE THE THE THE
04:18 - 08.039 ARREST TO BE VALID BEFORE HIS
04:18 - 08.739 CONDUCT. I MEAN, RIGHT THERE
04:18 - 11.275 HAS TO BE A VALID WARRANT.
04:18 - 14.445 THAT'S THE POINT. AND I KEEP
04:18 - 16.647 COMING BACK TO. IT IS WE'RE
04:18 - 19.817 NOT. WELL, LET ME JUST STOP
04:18 - 23.888 THERE. OKAY.
04:18 - 27.525 I'M SORRY ON.
04:18 - 31.496 >>THAT'S EXACTLY WHY IT'S
04:18 - 32.129 REALLY JUST ABOUT WHEN AN
04:18 - 33.030 ARREST IS BASED ON A WARRANT,
04:18 - 33.598 THEY HAVE TO ESTABLISH
04:18 - 34.699 STABILITY OF AND THERE'S A
04:18 - 39.804 NUMBER OF CASES IN WHICH THEY
04:18 - 40.738 DO THAT WITHOUT PRESENTING THE
04:18 - 41.472 WARRANT ON THE DOCKET AND ABOUT
04:18 - 43.941 CALLING ANYONE. YOU KNOW,
04:18 - 46.277 THERE'S ADAM. ONE CASE. WELL,
04:18 - 50.815 THAT AND I THINK WHERE THERE'S
04:18 - 52.583 A AND OUT OF STATE TROOPERS,
04:18 - 54.886 WE SAY EVEN AND SHE ACTUALLY
04:18 - 55.887 WITH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
04:18 - 57.889 INFORMATION FROM THE WARRANT IN
04:18 - 58.789 IT. AND IT'S SORT OF THE ISSUE
04:18 - 59.790 IS ABOUT WHETHER THEY HAVE TO
04:18 - 01.893 HAVE THE WARRANT IN HAND.
04:19 - 03.728 AND IT TURNS OUT THAT BECAUSE
04:19 - 04.595 THE NCI SHE REPORT WAS
04:19 - 05.263 SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH THAT
04:19 - 05.997 PROBABLE CAUSE AND TO ESTABLISH
04:19 - 09.133 EVERYTHING. BUT JUST PUTTING
04:19 - 09.767 THAT IN A TRIAL, THAT WAS
04:19 - 12.003 ENOUGH. AND THERE MAY BE A LOT
04:19 - 12.904 OF CASES WHERE THE NCI C HAS
04:19 - 14.071 ENOUGH INFORMATION IN IT, BUT
04:19 - 16.207 IT DOES SUPPORT THE PROBABLE
04:19 - 17.775 CAUSE DETERMINATION. SO WE'RE
04:19 - 18.442 NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT
04:19 - 19.710 HAVE TO ALWAYS BRING IN ANY ONE
04:19 - 23.381 PARTICULAR THING. IT'S JUST
04:19 - 24.382 THAT SAYING. HAVING ONE
04:19 - 25.950 STATEMENT FROM SOMEONE OF A
04:19 - 26.617 POLICE RADIO SAYING WARRANTS
04:19 - 29.520 JUST IT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH.
04:19 - 30.321 IT
04:19 - 32.290 DOESN'T EVEN ADDRESS ABILITY.
04:19 - 33.190 ONLY IT ADDRESSES EXISTENCE.
04:19 - 35.626 OKAY. I THINK WE UNDERSTAND
04:19 - 36.494 YOUR ARGUMENT. ANY OTHER
04:19 - 37.194 QUESTIONS. JUSTICES.
04:19 - 40.331 >>ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LET'S
04:19 - 49.473 HEAR FROM ATTORNEY ANGLER.
04:19 - 50.174 >>GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHIEF,
04:19 - 53.978 JUSTICE AND JUSTICES OF THE
04:19 - 56.247 SUPREME COURT MAY PLEASE THE
04:19 - 56.948 COURT. MY NAME IS ALEX ANGLER.
04:19 - 57.682 AND NOW THEY ARGUE ON BEHALF OF
04:19 - 59.383 THE COMMONWEALTH OF
04:19 - 00.451 PENNSYLVANIA HAPPILY.
04:20 - 04.555 THIS CASE IS ABOUT WHETHER THE
04:20 - 05.556 EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT A
04:20 - 06.457 RESISTING ARREST TRIAL IS
04:20 - 07.191 LEGALLY SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW THE
04:20 - 07.858 TRIAL COURT TO CONCLUDE THAT
04:20 - 12.063 A LAWFUL ARREST HAD OCCURRED.
04:20 - 12.797 I WANT TO START BY HIGHLIGHTING
04:20 - 16.033 WHERE WE ARE, WHICH IS
04:20 - 17.301 SUFFICIENT. YOUR VIEW UNDER
04:20 - 17.902 THAT STANDARD OF REVIEW
04:20 - 18.936 RESPONSE, PRINCES ARE DRAWN IN
04:20 - 21.939 FAVOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
04:20 - 24.208 AND THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT
04:20 - 26.410 OTHER HYPOTHETICAL EVIDENCE
04:20 - 27.078 MAY HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO
04:20 - 29.880 FURTHER PROVE GUILT SOURCE JUST
04:20 - 30.615 IN A SENSE, RATHER QUESTION FOR
04:20 - 33.684 YOU IN COURT AS WHAT EVIDENCE
04:20 - 34.285 ACTUALLY WAS PRESENTED.
04:20 - 37.188 AND OUR POSITION IS THAT THE
04:20 - 37.922 EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE ESTABLISH
04:20 - 38.856 THAT OFFICER MORE ACTS WITH
04:20 - 41.892 PROBABLE CAUSE AT THE TIME THAT
04:20 - 43.027 HE.
04:20 - 46.430 ATTEMPT AT AND THAT ACTUALLY
04:20 - 47.999 AFFECTS MADE AN ARREST. WELL.
04:20 - 48.733 >>WE WERE NOT. AGAIN, I DON'T I
04:20 - 51.002 DON'T KNOW. THE FOCUS IS ON
04:20 - 51.702 THAT OFFICER. THE FOCUS IS WHY
04:20 - 55.272 DIDN'T SHE BRING THE WARRANT?
04:20 - 57.308 WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO DO
04:20 - 59.410 SO TRIAL? ALL THIS PERIOD OF
04:20 - 01.312 TIME LATER, BECAUSE WHAT IM
04:21 - 04.482 WHAT YOUR ARGUMENT AMOUNTS TO
04:21 - 05.750 IS AS LONG AS AS LONG AS
04:21 - 07.918 OFFICER A I CAN SAY OFFICER BE
04:21 - 09.053 TOLD ME TO MAKE THE ARREST.
04:21 - 12.123 THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH IS IT IS THE
04:21 - 14.191 SAME THING.
04:21 - 14.892 >>WELL, ABOUT 2 THINGS. WHAT I
04:21 - 15.593 WOULD SAY THAT THIS ISN'T LIKE
04:21 - 17.561 THE CREAM CASE WHERE AN
04:21 - 18.195 OFFICER'S JUST RELYING ON
04:21 - 20.765 ANOTHER OFFICER MAKING A BALD
04:21 - 21.432 ASSERTION THAT WITH THAT GUY
04:21 - 23.234 LOOKS LIKE A ROBBERY SUSPECT.
04:21 - 23.868 IN THIS CASE, YOU HAVE AN
04:21 - 26.637 OFFICER ACTUALLY CHECKING.
04:21 - 28.673 POLICE SAY THE BASIN SELF
04:21 - 29.573 REALIZING THE EXISTENCE OF
04:21 - 30.174 THANK YOU LOST THE BEST
04:21 - 31.308 EVIDENCE. OBJECTION TO THAT.
04:21 - 32.009 THAT'S WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO THE
04:21 - 34.011 SAME THING. NOBODY'S NOBODY'S
04:21 - 37.148 ARGUING BAD FAITH. LET'S.
04:21 - 38.716 >>LET'S PUT THAT ASIDE.
04:21 - 40.451 IT IN AS A MATTER OF LAW.
04:21 - 42.820 I THINK IT'S INDISTINGUISHABLE
04:21 - 43.954 BECAUSE IT COMES DOWN TO.
04:21 - 48.592 THEY TOLD ME THIS, THEREFORE.
04:21 - 49.493 YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT'S A VALID
04:21 - 50.094 ARREST. THAT'S THE VALID
04:21 - 52.630 WARRANT. THERE IS. WHERE'S THE
04:21 - 53.931 WHERE'S THE WARRANT?
04:21 - 56.067 >>SO THEY SAID 2 THINGS AND
04:21 - 57.902 I WILL GET TO THE HEAD. LET ME
04:21 - 59.136 FIRST SAY THERE WAS AN
04:21 - 59.770 OBJECTION TO THE OFFICER'S
04:21 - 03.007 TESTIMONY ABOUT WHAT HE DID
04:22 - 03.708 WITH THIS MDT. THERE WAS ALSO
04:22 - 05.142 VIDEO FROM HIS BODY-WORN CAMERA
04:22 - 08.245 THAT WAS ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE
04:22 - 09.180 DEPICTING THAT
04:22 - 09.880 EXACT INVESTIGATION. THE TRIAL
04:22 - 12.316 COURT SITTING AT THE SPENCE
04:22 - 13.818 TRIAL HEAD GRAZING LAND FOR
04:22 - 15.953 BASED ON THE COMBINES TESTIMONY
04:22 - 17.021 ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN CONFIRM THE
04:22 - 19.290 DISPATCHER. BUT THIS OFFICER
04:22 - 19.990 WAS CHECKING POLICE DATABASES.
04:22 - 22.460 MDC FOR THIS. IS THAT THE
04:22 - 23.661 WARRANT? SO?
04:22 - 24.395 RECOGNIZING AGREE THAT THERE IS
04:22 - 27.698 AN OBJECTION TO STAND AS IS
04:22 - 28.365 TESTIMONY. BUT THERE'S STILL
04:22 - 28.966 EVIDENCE THAT'S WHAT THE
04:22 - 31.535 OFFICER WAS DOING IN THAT IN
04:22 - 33.671 THAT MOMENT.
04:22 - 34.338 >>ASKEW A DIFFERENT QUESTION
04:22 - 38.776 AND STARTS US IN FOLLOW-UP TO
04:22 - 41.645 JUSTICE WEX IF JUSTICE WEX
04:22 - 45.382 PROPOSAL TO YOU IS CORRECT.
04:22 - 45.983 >>THEN DOES THAT MEAN
04:22 - 48.986 THAT IF ULTIMATELY WHAT SEEMS
04:22 - 49.487 LIKE A REASONABLE?
04:22 - 52.056 >>PROBABLE CAUSE DETERMINATION
04:22 - 55.059 BY THE POLICE OFFICER AND AN
04:22 - 56.994 ARREST. IF THAT ULTIMATELY
04:22 - 57.895 TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN
04:22 - 58.562 ERRONEOUS BASED ON SOMETHING
04:22 - 01.599 NOT WITHIN THE OFFICER'S
04:23 - 02.399 KNOWLEDGE
04:23 - 05.436 LIKE THE THE LYDIA WARREN, THE
04:23 - 07.238 MARQUESS, NOT IN
04:23 - 08.706 FACT, VALID. THEN DOES THAT
04:23 - 11.242 GIVE RISE TO OUR ACCEPTANCE OF
04:23 - 13.711 INDIVIDUALS RESISTING ARREST
04:23 - 16.447 AND, YOU KNOW, PUMMELING A
04:23 - 17.248 POLICE OFFICER JUST BECAUSE
04:23 - 20.518 THAT PERSON BELIEVES THAT ARE
04:23 - 21.252 MAY ULTIMATELY BE CORRECT, THAT
04:23 - 23.854 THIS ARREST ASSAULT. I'M REALLY
04:23 - 25.623 NOT GOING TO BE SUSTAINED.
04:23 - 27.691 >>OTHER CRIMINAL OFFENSES THAT
04:23 - 28.692 WOULD COVER THAT KIND OF
04:23 - 29.727 CONDUCT AGGRAVATES ON A LAW
04:23 - 31.629 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WHICH WAS
04:23 - 32.263 NOT CHARGED IN THIS CASE,
04:23 - 33.464 THOUGH, THAT THERE WAS NO
04:23 - 37.268 HOMELESS ARREST, CANNOT FORESEE
04:23 - 38.269 RESISTING ARREST, CANNOT STAND
04:23 - 39.303 >>IF IF IN YOUR HONOR'S WORDS
04:23 - 41.305 AND I THINK THAT THEY'RE
04:23 - 42.173 IMPORTANT AND IT LATER TURNS
04:23 - 43.340 OUT THAT THE WARRANTS AND OUT
04:23 - 45.910 AND THAT'S PART OF THE HEART OF
04:23 - 46.610 THE ISSUES THAT THERE IS SORT
04:23 - 48.979 OF A PRESUMPTION THAT BECAUSE
04:23 - 49.547 OF THE WARRANTS, RIGHT
04:23 - 52.283 INTRODUCED THAT THEY CANNOT
04:23 - 53.784 INVALID OR THAT IT TRIAL COURT.
04:23 - 54.485 AND SO IT'S A QUESTION OF LAW
04:23 - 57.788 CANNOT HAVE CONCLUDED THAT AND
04:23 - 59.590 I THINK THE JUSTICE MONUMENT
04:23 - 00.257 IMPORTANT POINT EARLIER THAT
04:24 - 00.925 THESE ARE JUST ONE. SO WE'RE
04:24 - 03.160 TALKING ABOUT, I THINK THE
04:24 - 05.162 NATURE OF THE WARRANT, IT'S
04:24 - 07.064 ALSO RELEVANT TO THIS QUESTION
04:24 - 07.731 BECAUSE I CAN ARREST WARRANT
04:24 - 11.035 THAT'S REVIEWED BY MAGISTRATE
04:24 - 11.669 IS RELYING ON AND OFFICERS
04:24 - 12.169 STATEMENTS AND HIS
04:24 - 14.371 INVESTIGATION, WHICH MIGHT
04:24 - 18.075 INCLUDE. WITNESS STATEMENTS
04:24 - 18.876 OR BELIEFS. A BENCH WARRANT IS
04:24 - 20.778 ISSUED IN A VERY NARROW
04:24 - 21.478 SPECIFIC CONTACTS. IT'S ISSUED
04:24 - 23.414 ONE, SOMEONE HAS HAD NOTICE TO
04:24 - 26.517 APPEAR IN COURT AND IT'S NOT
04:24 - 31.989 VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE.
04:24 - 33.791 RIGHT. AND TO SHOOT BY JUDGING
04:24 - 34.458 BY JUDGE. ONLY FOR THOSE ARE
04:24 - 36.827 SPECIFIC REASONS. I THINK IF
04:24 - 37.394 ANYTHING THERE, SIR, A
04:24 - 40.764 PRESUMPTION THAT A BENCH
04:24 - 41.765 WARRANT IS INHERENTLY MORE
04:24 - 42.466 VALID, RELIABLE, SUPPORTED BY
04:24 - 43.133 PROBABLE CAUSE OR WAS IT AN
04:24 - 47.504 ARREST WARRANT? BUT DO I MEAN?
04:24 - 48.339 >>THERE'S NO QUESTION THE
04:24 - 49.006 OFFICER BELIEVED THERE WAS A
04:24 - 49.673 BENCH WARRANT. I UNDERSTAND
04:24 - 51.909 THAT. AND I'VE SEEN THE VIDEO
04:24 - 55.779 COUPLE TIMES. THE QUESTION IS
04:24 - 56.480 NOW ITS TRIAL TIME. WHERE'S
04:24 - 58.482 THE WARRANT? THEY SAY THE JUDGE
04:24 - 59.416 SUSTAINED THE DEFENSE
04:24 - 01.485 OBJECTION. AND THEN YOU DIDN'T
04:25 - 03.220 COME BACK AND BRING THE WARRANT
04:25 - 04.889 OR SHOW SHOW THE EXISTENCE OF
04:25 - 06.690 THE WAR IN SOME OTHER WAY.
04:25 - 08.559 SO IT'S NOT ON THE OFFICER.
04:25 - 10.060 IT'S ON YOU. IT'S ON THE
04:25 - 10.728 COMMONWEALTH FOR FAILING TO
04:25 - 13.397 PROVE IT A NECESSARY ELEMENT OF
04:25 - 15.733 THIS CRIME.
04:25 - 16.433 >>WE ARE CERTAINLY NOT A HARD
04:25 - 19.270 THING FOR THE COMMONWEALTH TO
04:25 - 19.904 DO. HAVE THE BENCH WARRANT
04:25 - 20.604 SPRINT BEEN PRESENTED. I GUESS
04:25 - 24.308 WE WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY.
04:25 - 25.976 BUT I THINK THIS YEAR IS THAT
04:25 - 27.077 THE PROSECUTION'S DECISION NOT
04:25 - 30.114 INTO SEMIS, THAT FATAL TO THE
04:25 - 30.915 CONVICTION
04:25 - 31.448 DID IT MEAN THAT THE
04:25 - 32.116 COMMONWEALTH COULD NOT HAVE
04:25 - 35.486 PROVEN TO THE EVIDENCE THAT
04:25 - 36.120 A LAWFUL ARREST OCCURRED?
04:25 - 37.288 I THINK BY ANALOGY, IF THE
04:25 - 39.356 SAVANNAH SUPPRESSION MOTION
04:25 - 39.924 AND THERE IS SIMPLY A
04:25 - 42.660 BOILERPLATE ASSERTION THAT THE
04:25 - 45.529 ARREST WAS UNLAWFUL.
04:25 - 46.263 BUT NOW CONTENTION AS TO THE
04:25 - 46.931 VALIDITY OF THE ONGOING WAR
04:25 - 47.631 AND OR THAT IT HADN'T BEEN
04:25 - 50.701 REVOKES OR RESCINDED OR
04:25 - 51.402 PREVIOUSLY SERVED.
04:25 - 52.102 IF A COMET THAT PRESENTED THE
04:25 - 53.904 EXACT EVIDENCE THAT IT DID IN
04:25 - 57.074 THIS CASE, THE TRIAL COURT, A
04:25 - 00.110 SUPPRESSION ORDER OR NOT.
04:26 - 01.111 BY FINDING THAT THERE WAS A
04:26 - 01.812 LAWFUL ARRESTS. WE LET ME ASK
04:26 - 02.513 YOU THAT WHEN WE GIVE YOU LET
04:26 - 03.914 ME PUT SOME MEAT ON THAT BONE A
04:26 - 04.848 LITTLE BIT. LET'S SAY POLICE
04:26 - 05.582 OFFICERS PATROLLING AND SOMEONE
04:26 - 08.052 RUNS UP WITH A POLICE CAR AND
04:26 - 09.954 SAYS.
04:26 - 13.090 >>THAT PERSON ACROSS THE STREET
04:26 - 14.058 JUST SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
04:26 - 14.725 AND THEN THE POLICE OFFICER
04:26 - 17.594 GOES OVER THERE AND AFFECTS
04:26 - 20.698 THE REST BASED ON WHAT THAT
04:26 - 21.765 PERSON TOLD THEM.
04:26 - 22.499 WHEN AND THAT PERSON, THEN THAT
04:26 - 24.335 ARE AFFECTING THE REST ON
04:26 - 25.703 RESIST ARRESTS.
04:26 - 26.403 >>AND THE PROSECUTION CHARGES
04:26 - 27.671 THEM. IT'S ENOUGH FOR THE
04:26 - 30.774 POLICE OFFICER TO SAY I
04:26 - 32.076 ARRESTED.
04:26 - 35.179 BECAUSE SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT
04:26 - 35.913 THEY COMMITTED A CRIME. IS THAT
04:26 - 38.449 ENOUGH TO GET A CONVICTION FOR
04:26 - 40.517 RESISTING ARREST?
04:26 - 43.020 >>I THINK THAT IN THAT EXAMPLE,
04:26 - 46.023 THE THE WITNESSES, A STATEMENT
04:26 - 46.724 WITHOUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION,
04:26 - 49.727 -4 PROBABLE CAUSE FOR AN
04:26 - 50.661 ARREST, PARTICULARLY IF THERE
04:26 - 53.731 ARE PROPERTY CIRCUMSTANCES.
04:26 - 57.568 IF THE OFFICER DIDN'T WITNESS,
04:26 - 58.235 LET'S MOVE. LET'S ASSUME THE
04:26 - 58.936 OFFICER BELIEVE THE INDIVIDUAL
04:26 - 00.137 BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES,
04:27 - 00.838 THE INDIVIDUAL LOOKED LIKE SHE
04:27 - 03.240 JUST BEEN BEATEN UP. SHE SEEMED
04:27 - 05.642 TO HIM TO BE CREDIBLE.
04:27 - 06.276 >>AND HE SAID A REASONABLE
04:27 - 06.910 BELIEF. OKAY. THEN CAN YOU
04:27 - 09.313 ANSWER JUSTICE PROBE SINCE
04:27 - 10.681 QUESTION?
04:27 - 12.716 >>AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY OR IF
04:27 - 13.450 IT WERE SAY A DOMESTIC INCIDENT
04:27 - 15.953 AND A WOMAN RAN UP TO SEVERAL
04:27 - 16.620 OF THE VARIOUS I, YOU KNOW,
04:27 - 17.287 CRACKS LET THEIR ABSOLUTELY
04:27 - 20.758 OFFICER WOULD PROBABLY HAVE
04:27 - 22.726 PROBABLE CAUSE ASSAULT WILL
04:27 - 23.861 BE A VALID ARREST BECAUSE IT
04:27 - 24.495 WAS SUPPORTED BY PROBABLE
04:27 - 27.197 CAUSE. YES, WHICH WHICH IS IS
04:27 - 28.432 THERE SOME?
04:27 - 29.299 >>AND I KNOW ACTUALLY KNOW
04:27 - 31.602 THERE'S CASE LAW OUT THERE TO
04:27 - 32.536 SUPPORT WHAT YOU'RE OPPOSING
04:27 - 33.303 COUNSEL'S ARGUMENT. I THINK THE
04:27 - 34.171 UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS
04:27 - 34.938 ISSUED OPINION. IT IS STUFF ON
04:27 - 38.008 THIS. SO I REALIZE, BUT IT'S
04:27 - 38.375 IT'S JUST.
04:27 - 41.745 >>I I I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
04:27 - 43.781 HOW I CAN RATIONALIZE THAT
04:27 - 46.884 ANSWER, WHICH I THINK EVERYBODY
04:27 - 48.886 AGREES WOULD BE PROBABLE CAUSE
04:27 - 50.721 TO EFFECT A VALID ARREST AND
04:27 - 51.922 RESISTING ARREST FOR RESISTING
04:27 - 53.524 ARREST CHARGE WITH BIG WITH
04:27 - 59.963 THIS IDEA OF A VALID WARRANT.
04:27 - 00.697 AND WHAT IS REQUIRED. THERE ARE
04:28 - 03.033 NO SIGNS ACTUALLY MY PROM.
04:28 - 04.902 I'M STRUGGLING WITH BACK.
04:28 - 07.704 WHY WE LOOK AT THE ARREST ON
04:28 - 08.405 ONE HAND WITH ALL THE TOTALITY
04:28 - 09.106 INFORMATION THE POLICE OFFICER
04:28 - 10.541 HAS TO REACH OUT TO EVALUATE
04:28 - 13.210 THE LEGAL VALIDITY IN THE
04:28 - 13.811 HYPOTHETICAL I GAVE YOU.
04:28 - 16.747 BUT I THINK AS JUSTICE WORK
04:28 - 17.448 POINTS OUT CORRECTLY, THE CASE
04:28 - 19.716 LAW WHEN IT COMES TO AN ARREST
04:28 - 24.054 BASED ON A WARRANT.
04:28 - 25.122 >>SEEMS TO SAY.
04:28 - 25.689 >>DOESN'T MATTER WHAT
04:28 - 28.125 INFORMATION THE POLICE OFFICER
04:28 - 30.194 HAD AT THE TIME AND HOW CAN
04:28 - 31.228 THAT BE? IT'S THE VALIDITY OF
04:28 - 32.729 THE WARRANT THAT MATTERS.
04:28 - 33.263 I DO THINK THERE'S A
04:28 - 35.866 DISTINCTION TO BE MADE BECAUSE
04:28 - 38.102 IN THOSE CASES THERE IS A
04:28 - 38.769 >>A PRETRIAL MOTION. THERE'S
04:28 - 39.503 AND SPECIFIC ASSERTION THAT THE
04:28 - 43.107 UNKNOWN WARREN WAS EFFECTIVE.
04:28 - 46.376 IN THIS CASE THAT THAT DIDN'T
04:28 - 47.911 HAPPEN. AND THAT OFFICER,
04:28 - 48.612 THERE'S NO PER SE RULE THAT A
04:28 - 49.213 WARRANT HAS CHOSEN TO BE
04:28 - 52.616 INTRODUCED AT A SPECIAL HEARING
04:28 - 53.550 TO APPROVE. BUT IT'S VALID.
04:28 - 55.919 THERE'S ALSO NO REQUIREMENT
04:28 - 56.620 THAT AN OFFICER HAVE A WARRANT
04:28 - 59.056 AND HANDS TO EFFECTUATE AN
04:28 - 05.395 ARREST OR OR A SERVICE.
04:29 - 08.465 >>YOU CAN YOU DIDN'T PROVE AT
04:29 - 10.000 TRIAL.
04:29 - 13.070 THE PROBABLE ASPECT OF THE THAT
04:29 - 17.141 WOULD SUPPORT. THE WARRANT.
04:29 - 18.175 THAT'S THE POINT IN IT BEGAN
04:29 - 20.177 YOU. YOU DIDN'T BRING THAT
04:29 - 21.645 ELEMENT TO PROOF AT TRIAL OF
04:29 - 22.346 IT. IT'S NOT GOING TO CUT ITS
04:29 - 24.848 OPPRESSION. IT CERTAINLY CAN
04:29 - 28.085 KIND OF THE TRIAL.
04:29 - 29.219 >>I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT WOULD
04:29 - 30.120 UNDER THE UNDER THE
04:29 - 30.821 CIRCUMSTANCE OF THIS CASE AND
04:29 - 33.290 ABSENT ANY SPECIFIC ALLEGATION
04:29 - 34.124 OF
04:29 - 36.760 A BASIS FOR AN AWFUL MESS THAT
04:29 - 37.161 THEY.
04:29 - 37.794 >>DID SHOW OFF OR HAS THE
04:29 - 42.332 BURDEN IS NOT ON THE DEFENDANT.
04:29 - 43.000 WHILE THE BURDEN IS ON THE
04:29 - 45.469 COMMONWEALTH TO PROVE EVERY
04:29 - 46.136 ELEMENT BEYOND A REASONABLE
04:29 - 48.805 DOUBT, SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A BIG
04:29 - 50.207 ELEMENT MISSING HERE.
04:29 - 50.908 >>I ABSOLUTELY AGREE THAT IT'S
04:29 - 53.343 OUR BURDEN. DEFENSE HAS NO
04:29 - 53.944 BURDEN.
04:29 - 57.414 I GUESS I'M I'M TRYING TO MAKE
04:29 - 58.048 IS THAT ABSENT A SPECIFIC
04:29 - 58.582 CONTENTION, ELLISON,
04:29 - 00.517 SUPPRESSION CONTACTS, NOT
04:30 - 04.688 RESIST ARREST TRIAL. THERE'S NO
04:30 - 06.757 PRESUMPTION THAT ARRESTS ARE
04:30 - 07.658 PERCENT OR WARRANTS ARE
04:30 - 08.659 INVALID. UNLIKE WARRANTLESS
04:30 - 10.928 SEARCHES AND SEIZURES THAT ARE
04:30 - 11.595 PRESUMPTIVELY UNREASONABLE.
04:30 - 14.164 AND THEN THE COMMONWEALTH MUST
04:30 - 15.132 PROVE THERE.
04:30 - 15.799 BUT ANY WHEN IT COMES TO AN
04:30 - 18.368 ARREST WARRANT AND THERE'S NOT
04:30 - 21.838 A PRESUMPTION THAT.
04:30 - 22.506 SPECIFICALLY WE'RE TALKING A
04:30 - 23.207 BENCH WARRANT OF BALTIMORE HAS
04:30 - 26.009 NOT SUGGESTED THERE'S SOME
04:30 - 26.643 PRESUMPTION OF INVALIDITY.
04:30 - 27.244 I
04:30 - 28.078 >>PROMISE ARE IGNORING THE IDEA
04:30 - 28.712 THAT THERE'S A PRESUMPTION
04:30 - 31.248 YOU'RE SENDING A PRESUMPTION
04:30 - 31.715 THAT IT EXISTS.
04:30 - 32.416 >>I THINK IN THE CONTEXT OF A
04:30 - 35.485 BENCH WARRANT, IT'S A FAIR.
04:30 - 36.186 RESULT FOR THE TOP COURTS HAVE
04:30 - 40.023 MADE HERE. HOW CAN YOU HOW CAN
04:30 - 40.457 YOU SAY THAT?
04:30 - 41.124 >>YOU'RE GONNA YOU'RE GOING
04:30 - 44.261 TO HAVE A CONVICTION OF A CRIME
04:30 - 45.295 BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT WHEN
04:30 - 45.929 ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE
04:30 - 50.968 CRIME IS BASED ON INFERENCE.
04:30 - 52.202 BUT NOT PROOF.
04:30 - 55.138 >>AND ARE SUFFICIENT TO REVIEW.
04:30 - 55.706 AND FRANCE'S ARE MADE.
04:30 - 57.307 >>SO THEN DOES THAT DISREGARD
04:30 - 00.377 THE TRIAL JUDGE'S RULING AND
04:31 - 01.311 BEST EVIDENCE?
04:31 - 04.414 >>I DON'T BELIEVE SO BECAUSE
04:31 - 05.616 THERE IS A
04:31 - 07.017 EVIDENCE IN THE FORM OF THE
04:31 - 07.718 BODY-WORN CAMERA SHOWING THAT
04:31 - 10.053 THE OFFICER WAS PUTTING THE
04:31 - 11.822 INFORMATION THAT HE'S GIVEN
04:31 - 12.556 BY THE DEFENDANT AND I'M DT AND
04:31 - 13.223 DISCOVERING THE EXISTENCE OF
04:31 - 16.526 WARREN SEE THEM TURNS TO THIS.
04:31 - 18.428 ASKED THAT SERVICE. AS YOU
04:31 - 19.463 KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT STARTS
04:31 - 20.397 BEFORE.
04:31 - 21.198 >>WELL, I'VE WATCHED THE VIDEO
04:31 - 23.333 COUPLE TIMES AND I CAN'T READ
04:31 - 25.469 WHAT'S ON THAT MDT. NOBODY CAN
04:31 - 28.071 YOU KNOW, NOBODY CAN READ IN
04:31 - 28.739 THAT VIDEO. WHAT'S ON THAT?
04:31 - 29.373 AND IT ABSOLUTELY. I'M NOT
04:31 - 30.107 SUGGESTING THAT THE TRIAL COURT
04:31 - 31.708 COULD HAVE, BUT THE TRIAL
04:31 - 33.277 COURT.
04:31 - 34.511 >>COULD REASONABLY INTERPRET
04:31 - 35.212 EVENTS TO BE THAT THE OFFICER
04:31 - 37.681 IS PUTTING THE INFORMATION AND
04:31 - 38.315 JUST PLEASE COME HERE AND
04:31 - 40.784 DISCOVERING THE THAT IS FOR
04:31 - 42.519 THE SUCCESS. ESPECIALLY WHEN
04:31 - 43.220 YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT ONE
04:31 - 46.323 OF HER RADIO AND CONFIRM THAT
04:31 - 46.957 DISPATCH THAT THE EXCESS.
04:31 - 50.093 >>OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
04:31 - 53.163 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU
04:31 - 15.118 ALL THE TIME.