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cock-holliday · 10 months

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An Australian judge overseeing a case of police brutality stopped the trial, told the jury that no one could find the cop guilty, dismissed the jury, and acquitted the cop himself.

#australian politics #australia #police brutally #judge corruption #aus pol

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mostlysignssomeportents · 7 months

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One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself

Today (Oct 16) I'm in Minneapolis, keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Thursday (Oct 19), I'm in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. Friday (Oct 20), I'm at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.

But the membrane separating corporations from people is selectively permeable. A corporation is separate from its owners, who are not liable for its deeds – but it can also be "closely held," and so inseparable from those owners that their religious beliefs can excuse their companies from obeying laws they don't like:

https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2014/10/13/hobby-lobby-and-closely-held-corporations/

Corporations – not their owners – are liable for their misdeeds (that's the "limited liability" in "limited liablity corporation"). But owners of a murderous company can hold their victims' families hostage and secure bankruptcies for their companies that wipe out their owners' culpability – without any requirement for the owners to surrender their billions to the people they killed and maimed:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

Corporations are, in other words, a kind of Schroedinger's Cat for impunity: when it helps the ruling class, corporations are inseparable from their owners; when that would hinder the rich and powerful, corporations are wholly distinct entities. They exist in a state of convenient superposition that collapses only when a plutocrat opens the box and decides what is inside it. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Key to corporate impunity is the rigged bankruptcy system. "Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," so every successful civilization has some system for discharging debt, or it risks collapse:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/

When you or I declare bankruptcy, we have to give up virtually everything and endure years (or a lifetime) of punitive retaliation based on our stained credit records, and even then, our student debts continue to haunt us, as do lawless scumbag debt-collectors:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

When a giant corporation declares bankruptcy, by contrast, it emerges shorn of its union pension obligations and liabilities owed to workers and customers it abused or killed, and continues merrily on its way, re-offending at will. Big companies have mastered the Texas Two-Step, whereby a company creates a subsidiary that inherits all its liabilities, but not its assets. The liability-burdened company is declared bankrupt, and the company's sins are shriven at the bang of a judge's gavel:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit

Three US judges oversee the majority of large corporate bankruptcies, and they are so reliable in their deference to this scheme that an entire industry of high-priced lawyers exists solely to game the system to ensure that their clients end up before one of these judges. When the Sacklers were seeking to abscond with their billions in opioid blood-money and stiff their victims' families, they set their sights on Judge Robert Drain in the Southern District of New York:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/23/a-bankrupt-process/#sacklers

To get in front of Drain, the Sacklers opened an office in White Plains, NY, then waited 192 days to file bankruptcy papers there (it takes six months to establish jurisdiction). Their papers including invisible metadata that identified the case as destined for Judge Drain's court, in a bid to trick the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system to assign the case to him.

The case was even pre-captioned "RDD" ("Robert D Drain"), to nudge clerks into getting their case into a friendly forum.

If the Sacklers hadn't opted for Judge Drain, they might have set their sights on the Houston courthouse presided over by Judge David Jones, the second of of the three most corporate-friendly large bankruptcy judges. Judge Jones is a Texas judge – as in "Texas Two-Step" – and he has a long history of allowing corporate murderers and thieves to escape with their fortunes intact and their victims penniless:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice

But David Jones's reign of error is now in limbo. It turns out that he was secretly romantically involved with Elizabeth Freeman, a leading Texas corporate bankruptcy lawyer who argues Texas Two-Step cases in front of her boyfriend, Judge David Jones.

Judge Jones doesn't deny that he and Freeman are romantically involved, but said that he didn't think this fact warranted disclosure – let alone recusal – because they aren't married and "he didn't benefit economically from her legal work." He said that he'd only have to disclose if the two owned communal property, but the deed for their house lists them as co-owners:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24032507-general-warranty-deed

(Jones claims they don't live together – rather, he owns the house and pays the utility bills but lets Freeman live there.)

Even if they didn't own communal property, judges should not hear cases where one of the parties is represented by their long term romantic partner. I mean, that is a weird sentence to have to type, but I stand by it.

The case that led to the revelation and Jones's stepping away from his cases while the Fifth Circuit investigates is a ghastly – but typical – corporate murder trial. Corizon is a prison healthcare provider that killed prisoners with neglect, in the most cruel and awful ways imaginable. Their families sued, so Corizon budded off two new companies: YesCare got all the contracts and other assets, while Tehum Care Services got all the liabilities:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-bankruptcy-judge-david-jones-033801325.html

Then, Tehum paid Freeman to tell her boyfriend, Judge Jones, to let it declare bankruptcy, leaving $173m for YesCare and allocating $37m for the victims suing Tehum. Corizon owes more than $1.2b, "including tens of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices and hundreds of malpractice suits filed by prisoners and their families who have alleged negligent care":

https://www.kccllc.net/tehum/document/2390086230522000000000041

Under the deal, if Corizon murdered your family member, you would get $5,000 in compensation. Corizon gets to continue operating, using that $173m to prolong its yearslong murder spree.

The revelation that Jones and Freeman are lovers has derailed this deal. Jones is under investigation and has recused himself from his cases. The US Trustee – who represents creditors in bankruptcy cases – has intervened to block the deal, calling Tehum "a barren estate, one that was stripped of all of its valuable assets as a result of the combination and divisional mergers that occurred prior to the bankruptcy filing."

This is the third high-profile sleazy corporate bankruptcy that had victory snatched from the jaws of defeat this year: there was Johnson and Johnson's attempt to escape from liability from tricking women into powder their vulvas with asbestos (no, really), the Sacklers' attempt to abscond with billions after kicking off the opioid epidemic that's killed 800,000+ Americans and counting, and now this one.

This one might be the most consequential, though – it has the potential to eliminate one third of the major crime-enabling bankruptcy judges serving today.

One down.

Two to go.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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divine--intervention · 5 months

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NEW OC, THIS IS ERIAN

#ultrakill #ultrakill oc #Erian #Angel oc #Erian is a council member #They judge people using the “words of god” on the fabric around their neck #as well as the inside of their rings #these rings appear whenever Erian judges someone #or is in the presence of a virtue or lower #Erian twists the words to get their way #similar to how corrupt churches irl do it #they're the only one who can read these words after all. not you.#lethes art

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cyarsk52-20 · 10 months

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I'll keep saying it because it's true: the goal of the Roberts Court is to eradicate equal rights and delegitimize the courts. Expand/ change/ get rid of the corrupt judges of the supreme courts

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ride-a-dromedary · 6 months

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Imagine spending a century trying to put an end to the suffering of a singular (powerful and connected to the entirety of the surrounding land tbf) fae child to rid the land of a curse, succeeding, and then being dragged to a place where literally hundreds of children are suffering and starving and dying and there's not even a pinpoint reason for it, people are just letting it happen, and then when you express that maybe that's actually kinda fucked up, being told: "Idk I think you're overreacting"

#this is about halsin in baldur's gate #BG3 Musing #if i were halsin maybe i too would seriously contemplate tearing down the establishment board by board #i'm sorry that slight change to that line saying that halsin's idea of harshly judging baldur's gate being TYRANNICAL like bro #tyrannical to whom? bootlickers and politicians that are rewarded by a corrupt system?#it's almost funny with how obtuse it is but also????#that's why orin's thing is such a gut punch - halsin's primary concern is the life that isn't even being given a chance to thrive #imagine being the *cause* of their suffering - of their deaths #bravo orin good research skills #elves value children! they are precious and far between! of course he thinks that's fucked up!!#and he would be *right*#halsin should respond to a player saying that with a 'i pray to silvanus you never procreate'#also anyone bring up the goblin kids on this post it's on sight

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simply-ivanka · 2 months

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“The [prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty … whose interest … in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the two-fold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed, he should do so. But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.” Justice George Sutherland Berger v. United States

#trump #trump 2024 #ivanka #president trump #america first #americans first #repost #america #donald trump #fani willis #Fulton County #corruption #New York #judge engoron

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fumifooms · 10 months

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Monsters and Ghosts

Monsters & Ghosts, the monstrous siblings

The Toudens Dungeon Meshi Ryoko Kui

Red song lyrics (both fonts & shades): Animal by The Living Tombstone // Black background song lyrics: This is Home by Cavetown // The two dialogue bubbles, flighted birds & swallowing: Shut Hell by Yu Ito // Blue quote: Susan Ee // White background quote: Numbers 13:32, the Bible // “Burning shadows of human hands” song lyrics: Uncanny by GHOST // Brown-gold song lyrics: My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone // Orange quote: Mira Grant Last quote below: Stephen King // Last song lyrics below: Monster from Adventure Time.

#web weaving #dungeon meshi #laios touden #falin touden #touden siblings #CORRUPTION ARC #YAYYY #-clenches fist- it’s about empowerment and the tragedy of social ostracization #and security #this is literally my fav angst narrative ever #me when flighted birds have hollow bones 😞#Canonically Laios has a monster motif while Falin has a ghot motif sorry I didn't show more of Falin being haunted #they are judged they are used they are scapegoated they are villified #they are tired.#this is more in line with what I was trying to do with the Poison Tree lyrics in my first web weaving #every new web weaving I pepe sylvia about Dunmeshi harder #THIS IS TOO BIG I FEEL LIKE I’M GOING INSANE #the target audience is me oops #i might make a more coherent remake of this one one day #cw gore #cw blood #next web weaving is either gonna be Laios corruption again or the dungeon being the demon’s digestive organ teehee #dungeon meshi spoilers #spoilers

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overclause · 8 months

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AVA Hollow Heads designs! I'm going to be drawing the colour crew designs next : )

yes the png texture on Victim is intentional

Design notes + Headcanons down below

All of them have some sort of neck wear as you can see. Chosen one has a cape (because he is the chosen one) Dark has this two tailed shawl type thing, Second has a two tailed scarf (get it? because second? two? yeah) and Victim has a turtle neck.

All of their scarves glow when they activate their powers, not because the scarfs are the source of power or anything its just because it looks fancy i think. All of them have had those scarfs since they were first created, its kind of a hollow head thing.

Victim's turtle neck used to be a regular scarf but during his fight with Alan his scarfs tail was cut off by the man himself, resulting in it glitching out and not having any sort of texture or anything (like the transparent png background thing) When his alleged "powers" aren't activated, his scarf is pitch black along side with some other parts of his body, lower legs and arms. Because of his scarf he can't really activate any sorts of powers anymore (or never really got the chance to anyway) so he uses his coat instead. How? well thats... for later...

I wanted to give Victim a more classy look, but i do know that he lives in a very corrupt town and that look is maybe a bit too fancy for him. So he dosen't wear his coat most of the time. Meanwhile, Dark loves walking around like a drag queen as he goes on and terrorizing random people. Chosen? Well he has main character syndrome so his apperance is explainable i suppose- And Second is the actual main character who prefers comfort over looks so he has very comfortable shorts and socks. Second's gloves are also meant to resemble artist gloves cause yk the man draws for a living ((fkin literally)

Victim is the tallest and oldest (29+ yo), Chosen and Dark are twins (24-27 yo) although Chosen is taller than Dark and the only reason why Dark is at the same height as him is because he wears heels, and Second is the youngest and shortest (19-21 yo)

Anyways thats all im gonna drop here for now, hope you like them!

And also i almost forgot to mention, the flower in Victim's little vest pocket is a black rose and black roses mean rebirth, so thats a bit of symbolizm i suppose

#animation vs animator #animator vs animation #animation vs animation #ava the chosen one #ava tdl #ava agent #ava the dark lord #ava tco #ava the second coming #ava tsc #funfact i had to redraw this drawing 2 times because my computer crashed and the files got corrupt #but overall im proud of the results #dont judge my ability to draw hands i beg you

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baejax-the-great · 7 months

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People are real quick to call Ajax stupid, but I'd like to see you win a battle of wits against Athena's specialest pet crook when she's feeding him lines

#tagamemnon #ajax #odysseus #also in some version the judges were corrupt and had picked odysseus before it even started

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movielosophy · 2 months

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Judge Dee’s Mystery | Do you want me to be an official or a villain?

#Huaiying is so tired of corrupt official #judge dee's mystery #大唐狄公案 #cdrama #zhou yiwei #character: di renjie #aesthetics

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starsoftheeye · 4 days

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hate explaining why i love tma to people cause most of the people i know irl will look at me weird if i even mention who jane prentiss is

how am i supposed to explain my attraction to her to anyone

my "jane prentiss is hot and its important to the plot" powerpoint didn't help my case

#ive never felt more judged at powerpoint night #tma #the magnus archives #jane prentiss #jane prentiss tma #the corruption

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the-ships-to-rule-them-all · 6 months

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I don’t think people realize how all consuming October 7, the war and the rising antisemitism is to most Jews right now. I was just on a five day family trip and nearly every single conversation ended up circling back to what’s going on in Israel, across the world and at home. My mom knew Vivian Silver, an incredible peace activist thought to be held hostage and I had to sit there and watch her realize that not only was Vivian murdered at her home 38 days before but that she was likely burned if it took this long for her body to be identified. I was forced to sit there and watch my mom, my favorite woman in the world, watch her face crumple. We were sharing updates, accounts to follow, venting and releasing frustrations. It is a constant unbreakable struggle right now for me and most Jews I know to not be glued to our phones, to not pay attention. Because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t. Because we can’t afford to turn our backs on what’s going on. And there’s a deep ever present grief not only for the victims of October 7th, the innocent citizens of Gaza, the hostages and also for my own personal sense of safety and security. I am also grieving what is a shattering beyond measure of my present and future trust in people as I’ve witnessed how easily well intentioned kind hearted people have decided to say nothing, publicly or privately, or who have quickly fallen into vicious antisemitic rhetoric. I’m just sharing into the void at this point but it’s been unimaginably hard on a personal level. I’m not the same person I was when I went to bed on October 6. It’s as though I’m a shadow, made of grief and anger and tiny fractured bits of hope. Every piece of joy feels as though it’s been muted because of how quickly it fades. And even the moments that last are related to my Jewish identity somehow. I am not sure where I go from here.

Have a cat gif for reading all of that

#abby speaks #jumblr #I don’t know if anybody in the tag relates to how I’m feeling but it feels like the right place for it to go #not tagging I/p and antisemitism though this post deals with it because I don’t want to get bombarded #Jews can reblog as can followers #I’ll say it here to fend of comments; this is my personal reflection #I’ve stated several times that I believe in a Palestinian state and their rights of self determination libration and pursuit of life #I simply don’t believe that that should come at the cost of Israel’s right to exist and to Jewish safety around the globe #if that makes me a Zionist than I am a proud Zionist #I firmly believe that those taking advantage of this pain and horror to spread hate will be judged by karma #that includes the settlers in the Israeli West Bank; Netenyahu and his corrupt colition #and anyone who is ripping down and defacing posters of the hostages #Hamas is a terrorist organization that benefits no one but themselves #if you truly cared about the Palestinians you would have understood that they need to be removed and their agenda dismantled

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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[From Robert B. Hubbell’s Newsletter]

Fifth Circuit holds a biased and embarrassing hearing on the mifepristone ruling of Judge Kacsmaryk

Federal district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order withdrawing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling and ordered that the ruling go into effect immediately. The US Supreme Court reversed the 5th Circuit and issued an unusual order that effectively told the 5th Circuit it could not ban the distribution of mifepristone until the Supreme Court ruled on the matter. In other words, the Supreme Court put the 5th Circuit on a “time out” for bad behavior.

A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on the merits of the appeal today. The hearing was an embarrassment. The judges acted like petulant children who were upset that they had been reprimanded. Worse, they made no pretense of maintaining impartiality or objectivity—or adherence to the rule of law. The obscene display of judges following personal religious convictions rather than the Constitution is explained by Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, The 5th Circuit is furious that the Supreme Court put it in mifepristone timeout.

I highly recommend reading Stern’s article in full to get the full flavor of the hearing. Stern is at his best in this article. He writes, in part:

And here’s the punchline: Nothing these intellectual Lilliputians do will even matter. The Supreme Court has already decided that the 5th Circuit cannot be trusted with this case: In April, it froze the court’s previous decision stringently limiting access to mifepristone, expressly maintaining the freeze until the justices themselves take further action. Elrod, Ho, and Wilson are howling into the wind; they have no power to change a thing about federal regulation of medication abortion. The adults in the room have already put them in time-out. And rather than demonstrate that they can judge responsibly, they seized on Wednesday’s hearing to throw a combination temper tantrum/gaslight party. No lessons have been learned, no maturity acquired. This time-out probably isn’t ending anytime soon.

Ho read aloud random people’s criticisms of the FDA and made Ellsworth respond to them, then declared that federal courts should override the FDA’s scientific determinations because the agency isn’t trustworthy.

These are not serious people. This is not how real judges conduct themselves. This was barely a judicial proceeding. It was a struggle session in which three anti-abortion zealots yelled at attorneys who have already prevailed in this case once at the Supreme Court. Their rage should have been aimed at SCOTUS, but it’s not a good look for lower courts to trash-talk their superiors, so they redirected it to Harrington and Ellsworth instead. (Erin Hawley, wife of Sen. Josh Hawley, argued against mifepristone; the less said about her unceasing stream of shameless falsehoods, the better.)

I also recommend Talking Points Memo, Right-Wing Judges Mulling Restricting Abortion Drug: Isn’t The Real Problem Here How Mean You All Were To Kacsmaryk?

If we had a functioning Supreme Court that cared about the rule of law, it would castigate the 5th Circuit panel for its shameful display of bias, animus, and religious zeal.

But, as Stern notes, the 5th Circuit cannot restrict the distribution of mifepristone. And the failure of the 5th Circuit to address serious legal questions—like the absence of standing by the plaintiff doctors—may doom the 5th Circuit’s opinion to a chilly reception in the Supreme Court. We can only hope.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#corrupt right wing courts #Rule of Law #women's rights #human rights #Kacsmaryk #Corrupt SCOTUS #Radical Right Wing Judges #reproductive Rights #FDA #Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter

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cyarsk52-20 · 8 months

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Six years ago, some of y'all f..ked around and didn't vote for Hillary, and Roe v. Wade was overturned, and now affirmative action has ended. So stop f..king around with "Biden is too old," or "I am not going to vote unless..." before this sh.t turns into The Handmaid's Tale.

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science-lings · 3 months

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AU where Phoenix is just slightly more spiritually sensitive so instead of just being able to hear Mia's ghost, he gets to hang out with his great great (x?) grandfather Ryuunosuke who imprinted on him the moment he decided to become a defense attorney for gay reasons.

Also if anyone could magically be there for Pheonix while Edgeworth is fake-dead it would be Ryuunosuke.

I'm also a staunch believer in both Phoenix and Ryuu having rough/distant relationships with their family so it's funny to think that the only biological family member you can stand is the one that haunts you and looks exactly like you if you time traveled and cut your hair unevenly with safety scissors.

#i do think that ryunosuke judges pheonix so hard for his taste in men #oh you want a condescending european man with gray middle-parted hair and vampire fashion? oh you're defending him in court?#falling into the gaa/dgs side of aa #some of my favorite things about phoenix are mirrored in ryuu and it's making me so happy #oh you seem to be really open about your emotions but you push down all the messed up stuff so no one notices? you can't stand being alone?#I love them i love seeing them go through mental anguish #i like how phoenix is the crybaby one and ryuu is the one with severe baby face disorder #they're so pathetic but will absolutely destroy the legal world in any place they step foot in #whoops accidentally unveiled decades of corruption and government conspiracies bc I was being too nice to a stranger #ryunosuke naruhodo #phoenix wright #naruhodo ryuichi #ace attorney #going crazy stupid over here don't mind me

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rosespicule · 11 months

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has this been done before

#ace attorney #evillious chronicles #judgement of corruption #gallerian marlon #kaito #ace attorney judge #is that a tag #listen this came to me in a dream #been thinking about both series a lot #i’m sure it’s been done before #it is 2023 after all

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