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Matthew Segal@segalmr.bsky.social |
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Admitting rap music or videos in criminal trials is highly prejudicial, especially bc "by no means is rap the exclusive genre for glorification of criminal activity."
Some examples from the Court:
search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn...
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Simply Ed
@gojira65.bsky.social
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Next you're going to tell me that Joe didn't shoot his woman down.
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Syn Fawkes
@synicism.bsky.social
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That's... surprisingly reasonable for Texas.
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Adam Strong-Morse
@ahstrongmorse.bsky.social
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Kinda shocking to omit Swift’s “No Body, No Crime”…
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Tim
@tjrbare.bsky.social
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Ok but the court here is unfairly eliding the fact that Bob Marley did *not* shoot the deputy
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Rhett Derrick
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@leghk.bsky.social
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A shocking judicial recognition that fiction exists in the arts, but I'm surprised they didn't call them "perjurious."
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Will Rosecrans
@wrosecrans.bsky.social
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As somebody who doesn't know anything or care about rap, if I was on a jury and a prosecutor put on a music video I would 100% think it was like when a substitute teacher put on a movie in school because they have no curriculum.
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Маєхей
@mayhewmayhem.bsky.social
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This is Reno erasure
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Steve Downey
@sdowney.bsky.social
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"classically" - 😂 Although, yes, Odysseus absolutely would have.
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Darklydreaming
@darklydreaming.bsky.social
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Dear gods I hummed a few bars from every single one of those songs in order
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Wes Flinn (derogatory)
@wesflinn.bsky.social
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@professorberry.bsky.social - this may be relevant to your interests.
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Chacho Rogers
@chachorogers.bsky.social
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@gabrielmalor.bsky.social At first blush this seems like an
(exceedingly rare) example of pop culture references used appropriately in a legal opinion, but the Taylor Swift reference a couple sentences earlier is forced and a bit cringey. What's the overall verdict?
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robertus
@robertus.bsky.social
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To say nothing of history's greatest serial killers, Metallica
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sadvil 😎
@sadvil.bsky.social
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Still not unconvinced that the Dixie Chicks didn’t kill Earl. They sung it like they meant it
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Mike tha Bike
@mwookie.bsky.social
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Johnny Cash, for instance.
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