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Guy Hamilton-Smith

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Attorney. Wreck of a poet. Civil rights & criminal defense. Husband. Words @theappeal , @Slate . @JustLeadersUSA Impact Council, #LwC 2019. Fussy & difficult.

Don’t Cry, Call Guy!

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

1 month

A lesson I’ve learned about having your whole life collapse overnight is that you can spend so much time obsessed with getting your old life back. Old friends and opportunities, the thing you worked so hard to build. There is no such thing as an old life. There is only life.

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I thought again and...yes it’s still slavery thanks

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Well most sexual abuse is intrafamilial or a friend of the family and if the punishment becomes “death” then I think there’s pretty good reasons to conclude that harm that takes place in the shadows is gonna stay in the shadows.

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BREAKING: Florida Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would give the death penalty to those who commit sexual crimes against children.

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What in the exonerative tense is this

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You’ll have to literally assault me for me to tip less than 20 percent

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

6 years

Uhhh, so y'all remember that story about the AL sheriff who was using money meant to feed inmates to buy a swanky vacation house? Yeah. He got the dude who was the source for the story arrested and housed in a jail he runs.

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4 years

What's ironic is that mainstream gun control legislation at both state and federal levels was actually enacted in response to the Black Panthers gaining political clout, so this guy is technically right, just not in the way he thinks he is.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

People who are in prison should be able to vote.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

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Last Thursday, @GovAndyBeshear restored the right to vote to more than 140,000 people. The next day, I registered to vote for the first time in almost two decades. I am one of those 140,000. I wrote about it for @Slate :

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Getting a Second Chance in Kentucky

Kentucky’s new governor just restored voting rights to 140,000 people. I am one of them.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Suffering

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@JoyceCarolOates Yes. Back then everyone just drank heavily and blew their brains out. Now we get to be depressed!

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Yes normally people do fall to the ground when you *watches video* run them over with your SUV

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9 months

@mattxiv Sometime in the 1800s judging on the quality of that photo

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

A thing I think about a lot is how we came here and stole peoples land and murdered them and passed laws making stealing a Crime and made what we did Not Stealing

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4 years

People who are in prison should be able to vote, too.

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4 years

People in prisons should be allowed to vote.

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The U.S. census includes incarcerated people in the population counts of where they're imprisoned. In many prison towns, that has led to voting districts made up primarily of prisoners who can't vote.

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4 years

I just voted in my first presidential election in about 20 years!

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11 months

@ShitpostGate Putting the lol in felolny

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I think police and politicians pivoting to “what about the rapists” is a really good example of how they exploit sexual violence for money and power

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

We are a country where if someone says “get fucking rid of these baby jails” the discourse will be way more bent about the fact that someone said “fucking” than the fact we have baby jails

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@goblinqueenpie @Hbomberguy “There’s another settlement that” Oh my GOD Preston shut up I’m trying to do some interior decorating over here

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

What an interesting way to say that police broke his ribs and collapsed his lung.

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Man suffers collapsed lung and broken ribs in 'excessive' use of police force in Victorian jail cell

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

5 years

Yeah criminalizing things is cool but have you ever tried adopting a public health model for social problems to address root causes?

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

11 months

@radleybalko That’s what we call “production of child pornography.” Im assuming the federal indictment for these troopers is coming any moment now.

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9 months

@Hbomberguy That’s not true. They have to endure paid vacations if they do something wrong.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

People in prison should be able to vote.

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4 years

@edburmila @tarenceray Affordable 👏 life 👏 preservers

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4 years

@alittleleader When I weighed much more than I do now, I purposefully avoided the doctor because I didn't want to get on the scale.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I’ve had addictions of various kinds throughout most of my life and Joe Biden saying he was proud of his son for overcoming drug addiction was one of the few humanizing moments of this entire election season and I just want to express my gratitude for it.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

If prisons worked we would be the safest nation on the face of the planet.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

If you agree that the criminal legal system is racist then I’m not sure why you’re not in support of letting everyone in prison vote.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Do you mean the folks who say things like “fuck your feelings” and refer to others as snowflakes and make fun of safe spaces? Surely we wouldn’t want to hurt their feelies

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4 years

I get that the media elites hate the president but realize that over 68 million Americans voted for him, in what has to be one of the closest contest in modern presidential history. While you gleefully celebrate his demise you are also insulting those who supported him.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

If you’re conscripted to fight fires when you’re a prisoner, you should be able to be a firefighter when you’re released. That isn’t hard.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

People who are in jails and prisons should be allowed to vote. That’s it. That’s the whole tweet.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

That’s how physics works!

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

5 years

Sanders is also the only candidate who said that people in prison should be allowed to vote, which is the only right answer imo.

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5 years

If you only know @BernieSanders from cable news, you need to watch this. Actually, if you know and absolutely adore Bernie Sanders, you need to watch this, because it is brilliant and beautiful. Sending so much love to New-Heart-Bernie.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I’m a year sober from alcohol. Certainly something to be grateful for.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

6 years

I had a suicide attempt my second year in law school. I sought treatment for my depression, rather than let it kill me. That I sought treatment for depression was then used against me at character and fitness. I was cross examined for hours on sessions I had with my therapist

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

It does occur to me that if the federal response to the coronavirus would have been handled differently, my friend might still be alive. So it is extremely difficult for me to muster up any kind of sympathy or well wishes for the folks who indirectly put my friend in the ground

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

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Also, I was raped when I was eight years old by a sixteen year old boy who was, I believe, raped by his own father. I would not want him to be put to death. My feelings about it and him are complex, but nowhere these days do they approach killing.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Loving the “well if you didn’t want to die in jail drowning in your own blood because of some horrible virus then you shouldn’t have broken the law” takes from people who have certainly broken the law at some point in their lives

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Wherein the CA9 affirms on habeas a *squints* nine year sentence for a defendant failing to inform authorities within five days when he became homeless

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

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I remember getting booked into jail, and wanting to die. The booking officer asked me if I was suicidal, and I was about to say yes when he looked at me and shook his head. I got that he wanted me to say no, and so I did. I now realize that was an act of compassion.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Y’all realize that, like stranger danger, human trafficking is the next moral panic that’s getting used as justification to grant the state ever-growing authority, right?

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I’m not sure I would necessarily recommend taking a decade long gap between graduation and bar exam for anyone else, but it seems to have worked in this instance. I passed. Been a long road. Very grateful for all the support from folks near and far.

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I think about stuff like this and it calls to mind the scene in handmaids tale where they stone someone to death for raping a handmaid. Obviously they must be extremely anti rape.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

5 years

There is no legitmate penological reason to refuse to allow people in prisons to vote. Not a single one.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I wish people had the same level of outrage over people wrongfully convicted, or sentenced to shamefully long periods of incarceration, or being tortured, that they do someone undeserving getting a pardon.

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@rainnwilson Idk if it is so much anti-Christian as it is the idea that people are not what they seem, and that in our culture Christianity has often been seen as a stand-in for goodness and morals whilst greasing the skids for all sorts of grim displays of humanity.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Isn't it easier to send something to a dead person than for a dead person to send something back? idk I'm not, like, a dead person scientist over here

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Your government sent 1.1 million dead people stimulus checks. Wonder how many of these folks also voted absentee?

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@EdWhelanEPPC You’re making people waste one of their 600 tweets on this piece of crap? Sadist.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

1 year

@RaxKingIsDead Do we have to have toxicity within the *squints* birding community

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

If you’re opposed to rape, but not for people that you don’t like, then you aren’t opposed to rape.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Abandoning your principles once they become inconvenient means you don’t have principles. You have tactics.

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6 years

Outrageous. Dude has a 17 year old gf when he is 20. Age of consent in Ohio is 16. Totally fine. But he takes a naked picture of her, and since the *federal* definition of minor is under 18, he's facing production of CP charges. 15-30 years penalty.

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Man charged after admitting on stand that he created child porn

A Cleveland man who testified in defense of his roommate in a child pornography case admitted on the stand to taking sexually explicit pictures of a then-underage girlfriend, and now faces a charge...

www.cleveland.com

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Really enjoyed this feature piece on Seth Abramson

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4 years

Semi regularly I like to remind folks that if I am ever killed, I do not want my killer put to death. I do not want them to be given an LWOP sentence. I want them to have an opportunity at redemption. I want them treated with dignity and respect. Do that for me.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

5 years

I don’t think we care as much as we say we do about preventing crime. We care a lot more about punishing people, more than perhaps makes us comfortable to acknowledge. If we prevented crime, there’d be fewer people to punish. We’ve come to prefer outrage to safety.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Fun fact: sex offense registries were originally deployed in the 1940’s by California to largely target LGBTQ individuals who remain over represented on registries (and indefinite civil detention) today.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

Re the Toobin thing: we’ve put people on public sex offender registries for decades for far less than what he did.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

The thing about prisons is that we have this idea that if we take broken people and break them more then they will be better people. We can have retribution if we want it, but let’s not kid ourselves that we can do that at the same time as rehabilitation.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

I wonder how many practicing attorneys would pass the bar exam if they had to take it tomorrow. If any failed it, does that mean they should lose their license to practice, since they aren’t “minimally competent?” If not, why not?

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@Chris_Meloni @justinboldaji Officer I would like to report a murder

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4 years

It's just really weird that prosecutors can secure indictments in 99.9% of the cases they present to a grand jury but this case just happened to be in that .1% so strange I wonder why

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Just registered to vote for the first time in eighteen years. Thanks, @GovAndyBeshear .

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

The biggest thing i learned in 10ish years in criminal defense is that whether or not someone has broken the law has very little to do with what kind of a person they are. Some of the best people I met are in prison for murder. Some of the worst ones helped put them there.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

People will cry “let’s have some civility, please!” While standing astride a mountain of bodies, drenched in blood. Civility isn’t the same thing as humanity. It isn’t the same thing as decency.

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6 years

We say we want people to get help, but the incentives are to stay sick and pretend that everything is fine. Maybe it’s the incentives that are sick.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

“Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet” is a quote I never heard before but wow is that accurate

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@postingwhilegay Tag urself im “luxury prisons for the rich in America”

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Okay, but this is good, actually.

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4 years

A reminder: Judge Amy Coney Barrett wrote a lengthy dissent in favor of gun-ownership rights for felons.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Well if Jesus didn’t want to get executed he shouldn’t have broken the law seems fair to me

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4 years

Important update: my parents called me to wish me luck on the bar and told me they loved me and were proud of me and were confident in my abilities

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I almost forgot the best part - I was turned away from three different treatment providers despite being actively suicidal when I sought treatment. Maybe we ought to make accessibility to treatment a priority as well idk.

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5 years

Post script:

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@NatlParkService Good advice. You don’t have to be faster than the bear. Just faster than at least one friend.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

5 years

I get wanting to punish people. And wanting to punish them for eternity. But she didn’t do anything wrong. She’s a hard worker and good at what she does. She was fired for a crime I committed thirteen years ago. My heart is broken. She was so happy to have this job.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

3 years

I think the fact that people like public defenders and people in prison aren’t being prioritized for vaccines reflects that these are political decisions, not public health ones.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

*stares into HIV criminalization*

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Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱

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maybe we need a federal law making it a felony to knowingly expose someone to a deadly disease.

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So... what I’m hearing is that there was no evidence for more than ninety five percent of the people we held for years without charges. According to the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

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Unpopular take: life sentences are immoral because they are blind to the human capacity for change, redemption, and hope.

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There is something uniquely cruel, I think, about a justice system that simultaneously says that it wants you to reintegrate into your community but actively opposes and undermines those efforts at every turn.

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Good. That’s how indigent defense works.

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The guy who paraded a Confederate flag through the Capitol. “Zip tie guy.” #OathKeepers , #ProudBoys and the woman who stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. What do they all have in common? You’re paying for their defense. #CapitolRiot

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Hot take: If you’re committed to ending mass incarceration, and you aren’t committed to ending sex offense and other public conviction registries, then you aren’t committed to ending mass incarceration.

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I’m not part of the political club said the governor whose father was also the governor

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4 years

Even in their correction they can’t stop gaslighting. The “child came to be assisted” after the child’s parents were violently dragged from their vehicle and beaten in front of the child that was “assisted”

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Statement:

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@dolo_sensei War famine and pestilence

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@jameskzeigler Opening twitter is a different kind of hell vs opening my email

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I just found out that one oldest friends overdosed on heroin and fentanyl. He’s dead. And I loved him a lot. He was like family to me. He showed me such incredible kindness at a time in my life when I desperately needed it. I feel like I failed him.

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I just really don’t know how you could be an ICE attorney in 2020. I’d rather starve in the streets.

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Guy Hamilton-Smith

4 years

Oh and ICYMI when I was on lockdown / for those of you who “follow” me without accounts, I passed the bar exam.

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4 years

Just remembered that if MLK hadn’t been assassinated, he could still be alive today. None of this stuff is very far in our past y’all.

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Solitary confinement is torture.

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A thread on how being open to pain can lead to some beautiful journeys. About a year ago I got mugged. He was maybe twenty, and he wanted my bicycle. He said he had a gun, and I didn’t see it, but I didn’t figure my hundred dollar Walmart huffy was worth killing or dying over

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@godlikemind @kalihollowayftw This is in fact such a brilliant observation that you could build an entire and relentless marketing campaign around it. One that never ends. That is broadcast from inside the brains of consumers nonstop, that haunts their dreams. It will only end when they see the films.

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What an exhausting time to be a human who cares about the world and the other people that live in it

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@CBHessick @JonathanTurley The constitution was also a nice tradition. Sad to see that one go.

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I passed the 2020 bar exam and I don’t even get cool bragging rights bc I took it in feb

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I was reminded of this gem today

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Something that the Chauvin trial taught me is that there are a bunch of attorneys on Twitter who don’t have a lot of familiarity with criminal law or procedure but aren’t letting that deter them

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