Heart Cage, an 18+ upcoming mystery otome game with all yandere love interests, is now on Kickstarter!
"You are a detective who has just moved to a new town. You are involved in a serial killer case, and three mysterious residents (Or more?!) are approaching you!
Don't trust anyone! But... can you?"
Demo features:
♥ custom name
♥ 8k words(for demo)
♥ 11 CGs (with one NSFW cg)
♥ Fully voiced!
♥ 3 love interests (more in the full version!)
♥ You can choose both NSFW mode or SFW mode, SFW mode is safe for streaming!
♥Available Languages: English (US), 繁體中文
You can try the demo (18+) or support the game here!
"He was really the best eyewitness that they found," David T. Beito, a historian at the University of Alabama who has written about the Till case, said Wednesday. "I don't want to diminish the role played by the other witnesses, but his act in some sense was the bravest act of them all. He had nothing to gain: he had no family ties to Emmett Till; he didn't know him. He was this 18-year-old kid who goes into this very hostile atmosphere."
The trial opened September 19, 1955. On September 23, the all-white jury, after deliberating for 67 minutes, acquitted both defendants.
Mr. Reed's testimony, Professor Beito said, was no less valuable for that.
"The prosecution - and this is not emphasized enough - was arguing a conspiracy case," he said. "They were arguing that more than two people were involved in the crime, that it wasn't just Milam and Bryant. And Reed's testimony was that it was a crowded pickup."
The other white men in the truck were believed to be cronies of Mr. Milam and Mr. Bryant, the black men employees of Mr. Milam who were forced to take part in the crime. None of the other men, black or white, was ever charged.
With the aid of T.R.M. Howard, a prominent local black doctor and civil rights advocate, Willie Reed was sent to Chicago, where he was given round-the-clock police protection at first. But the terrors of the crime and trial overtook him, and he was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown.
For years during their marriage, Mr. Louis suffered from nightmares, Juliet Louis told The Associated Press.
J.W. Milam died in 1980, Roy Bryant in 1994. In a 1956 article in Look magazine for which they were paid, the two men admitted to having murdered Till.
Putting this thought re s2 under the cut for later, it’s something I discussed with @inkyblotposts but I guess it’s triggering (though, tbh, I think s2 will have a LOT of triggers):
I think that they will use guillotines in the last trial performance, in front of live audience, and I think the yellow dress that’s handed to Lestat after will instead be Claudia‘s head.
I said it before, I don’t think they’ll pull their punches and that live performance to judge Claudia and Madeleine… will definitely be one.
Trump has so many charges against him that he's almost certainly going to be convicted of something. Not everything, probably not even a majority, but something. He knows he won't get unanimous acquittals across the board, so his only hope will be to slip loyalists onto some of the juries to hang them. A mistrial means months or years of delays as prosecution works each case through the system all over again.
In New York, he'd be retried over and over until a unanimous verdict is reached, guilty or not guilty, however long that takes, and every state level Republican candidate from now on will campaign on promises to drop the charges or pardon him or help him in some way, shape, or form.
In Georgia (he hasn't been indicted yet, but it's coming), he's going to be pardoned almost immediately. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets pardoned before it even goes to trial. Yeah, the governor refused to find 11,000 votes for him, but he's still a Republican and trump is still the leader of his party. If he didn't pardon trump, he would be crucified by his voters and shamed out of office, and his successor would pardon him instead. If he stood his ground and couldn't be bullied into resigning, then just as in New York every Republican candidate would run on the pardon promise platform. Trump will NEVER face justice in Georgia.
In the federal case in Florida, a mistrial means the judge, a trump appointee, could drop the charges and prevent the DOJ from retrying it. Best case scenario, it would get delayed into 2025 or 2026 and a different judge in the southern district of Florida will be randomly assigned to it, but that's assuming Biden wins re-election in 2024. If trump wins, he'd immediately pardon himself, or invoke the 25th to have his loyalist VP pardon him to avoid a Supreme Court decision on a self-pardon's validity. If Biden wins, the 2028 Republican candidates will all run on promises to pardon him, so he'll be out of prison the second the White House goes red. I don't trust Democrats to hold the line long enough for him to die in prison.
The federal case in Washington, DC looks open and shut, the best chance for a conviction. Trump only has four appointees in that district, so the odds of him getting off on a retrial in case of a hung jury are 4 in 13, 30.77% (4/15, 26.67% if Biden can fill the two remaining vacancies). Again, all this does is kick the can down the road until 2025 or 2026. He will walk free whenever the Republicans take back power.
The only way donald trump faces long term consequences for his crimes is if New York stays solid blue for the rest of his life, something like the next 15 or 20 years. The federal charges will disappear the second one of his allies gets elected president; I don't think the party would nominate him for a fourth time in 2028 if he loses 2024 for them, so it's looking like it's gonna be ron desantis vs Kamala Harris (God help us all). Then again, who knows? A lot can happen in the next 5 years, so maybe some nobody will be frontrunner by then and desantis will have slinked away into post-gubernatorial obscurity like Jeb and Charlie Crist. Whoever trump endorses will be the nominee, so whoever strokes his ego the hardest will have hometeam advantage. My money says it'll be some blonde woman or a lightskinned black guy for diversity points (whoever it is, they'll be even farther right than trump himself)
I was on trial for something normal like shoplifting in a small claims court, but then I got randomly accused of being a spy because I was also Nathan Hale, for some reason. I was also trying to leave so I could get to opening night of a musical I was in. Everybody at the court was very dramatic and some people had intense monologues and/or cried. All I could think about is getting to the theater on time.