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Certain high-profile defense attorneys require at least a portion of their retainer be paid in cash, because it can’t bounce, and it guarantees some payment as the case opens (and assets are seized by various entities).

My understanding is that their phones were taken in the search warrant. The cash very well could partially have been as a retainer for their attorneys (the attorneys they retained are very expensive).

They couldn’t be there while the search warrant was being executed anyway

Couple things… 1. Bouchard is full of it. To have a judge sign the warrant, the officer-in-charge has to testify. It was televised in the kid’s case. If he wasn’t told there was a warrant, that’s on his OIC, not the prosecutor’s office. 2. The prosecutor’s office is also full of it. By the defense attorney’s statement, it sounds like the OCPO knew exactly what they were doing to try to make it look like these parents were running (when they were not), to ultimately request bond be denied (which in any other case it would not be). It’s going to be very hard to find a jury of peers for these parents, and the prosecutor is playing games to make them look even worse than they already do.

Don't you remember? Gun = knife = car = airplane They're all the same in that universe.

“Because we can’t eradicate all murders we shouldn’t eradicate any”

Personally, I think the arrangement he was sent to today should be unconstitutional. Putting a 15yo in the adult jail secluded to an area by himself is nothing short of a three-year sentence to solitary confinement. If the kid is 15, it should be on the juvenile detention facility to ensure his and others' safety in the facility. One-on-one if needed.

The 16yo boy killed was a rising star on the Oxford varsity football team. He had been named to the 1st Team All-Region squad and had been visiting schools, with the possibility of receiving offers.

By the sounds of the most recent press conference, the number of fatalities may increase. At least one victim is on a ventilator after surgery and others remain in critical condition.

There is also empirical evidence indicating that while they are a fancy and expensive visual, metal detectors are largely ineffective at preventing school shootings. I don't doubt your anecdotal evidence, but I also think those results may be more attributable to who is often attending school in the first place. If the shooter or shooters are not stepping into the school to begin with (presumably they're not if shootings are happening en route to/from the school but not within), they are not the target of this prevention effort.

The media's fascination with the lack of metal detectors at Oxford HS is getting on my nerves. If a kid wants to bring a gun into school, they are going to find a way to do so (if - AND ONLY IF - they have access to a gun in the first place). Could Oxford (and the vast majority of Oakland County schools that do not have them) spend the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to install metal detectors and then staff them 16+ hours daily for every school day and the following events within the school? Sure, in theory. It would take away from educational funding elsewhere, but it could be done... To be foiled in an instant by a kid who then shows up 30 minutes late and texts their unsuspecting friend "hey can you let me in the side door I don't want to be marked tardy"...... or who throws their backpack next to that side door..... or who gets it past the metal detector anyway because they know that as the 1000th kid passing through on the 100th day of school, the overwhelmed and exhausted staff standing by the metal detector as 5-10 kids pass through at once isn't going to think twice about it going off and them continuing through (see TSA success rates, see nearly every time the shoplifting alarm goes off in a store)..... or, or, or.... The answer is not arming teachers, and the answer is also not turning schools into prisons. The answer is two-fold. One, go back in that kid's life and find the points where intervention was still possible. Not some "marks of a school shooter" BS that sells in the headlines, but the tangible signs that he was maladaptive, mentally ill, or otherwise not forming appropriate attachments with others. There was a point - maybe yesterday, maybe a month ago, maybe five years ago - where this tragedy was preventable. With the right people involved in this child's life, four lives (including his own, about to spend his life behind bars) would not have ended today. Second, and objectively easier, take away the fucking guns. If that gun is not accessible to him, four lives are spared today. Easy as that. I'm done being cute about this, I'm done toeing some line for people who are so damned passionate about a grammatically ambiguous sentence written 230 years ago. People do not need to own machines whose sole purpose is to kill other people. Period. But thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, see y'all next time after nothing changes.

Just for clarity, you quoted @Archie, but it tagged me for some reason.

An SRO and a responding officer were both there within five minutes.

I used to work at a facility for children in Oxford. Most of it was shut down a few years ago, but I am still friends with many staff employed through the district. Worried for them.

Hitting close to home today.

Trades in the later 1st round and beyond don't typically happen until draft day, and with good reason. If the second pick is at 24, the board falls such that you have 3 WRs available who you like, and the Ravens or Titans at 30 call you, or even the Texans or Jaguars at 34, you'll probably entertain that a lot more than you would if you're sitting at 24 with only one WR left who you like.

Brian Kelly and scum are synonymous. If ND didn’t want this as his ending they should have fired him when a kid died on his watch.

I feel bad for him, reports are that he’s hurting bad and trying to toughen through it. His line is doing him no favors. That said, he can go 7-10 and I won’t lose any sleep.

I thought he was a bit over the top at times (the “OH - JAH - BO” at the end comes to mind), and that the FOX broadcast was dreadful (I still don’t know if the late 4th and 4 completed pass by Ohio State was correctly ruled). But because M won I also don’t care.

That's a lot of points. I don't bet but I would take Iowa +10.5

I think it’s likely that Michigan is slow out the gates. I think they’ll win in the end but I would take Iowa plus the points.

I think Michigan won for many of the reasons that we identified pregame as ways that Michigan could pull off the upset (but wouldn't allow ourselves to believe it possible)... They generated pressure consistently, kept Stroud from getting comfortable, the secondary kept up with Ohio State's wideouts (other than a few other-worldly plays), and the offense executed nearly flawlessly. Beyond that though, something I don't think many saw coming (though maybe we should have), Harbaugh and his staff clearly out-coached Day and his staff. Harbaugh was prepared with an excellent game plan, did not deviate when it got touch-and-go early, and along with Gattis and McDonald executed it consistently from the opening snap to the final kneel... Day looked surprised, out of his element, and at times confusingly conservative. Michigan was in the driver's seat for all but maybe one drive of that game.

Alabama doesn't look like Alabama. I know it's a rivalry game, but Auburn has not been good in a while.

I think it has more to do with the playoff than the NIL rules. Every big school has sponsors and alums that will pay out the wazoo to make sure that they get the players they want. Michigan may be late to that party because they didn't get a head start like the schools who have been paying-to-play for years, but they'll catch up. The playoff though is a joke right now. Even counting only the Power Five, you have a sport that only allows the "top" 6% of teams into the playoff. I put top in quotations because who knows how many #5-16 teams would have made a run if they were allowed to. The playoff format is what has allowed schools like Ohio State to continue to succeed with a trust fund coach like Ryan Day. You don't have to even try to recruit, you're practically the only place available if a kid wants to win a National Championship. If the CFP ever finally adjusts, and allows for at least 20% to make the playoff (about 12 teams), I think we will see a fallout in subsequent recruiting classes, where kids will say "hey I can go to (Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Baylor, Stanford, etc.) and actually maybe have the chance to compete for a National Championship.", which will allow for the coaches of those schools to actually compete with Alabama and Ohio State. As it is, those schools (including Michigan as of late) cannot realistically say "come here to win championships". It's like a D1 to D2 difference.

This really does feel program changing. I don't know if it will allow Michigan to flip the script on Ohio State and start picking off those 5* recruits, but it just feels like the most impactful win by Michigan football I've seen in my lifetime.