Moving to dismiss is a standard legal manueuver. If you don't do it, you're not representing your client well. Don't take it so seriously. Cases are hardly ever dismissed if there are any factual questions involved.
Judge Martinez will give the motion due consideration, and Sloggers may be surprised at the outcome - though not so much for those who've actually read the motion and reviewed the related video analysis (.pdf).
Sure, the "Mexican piss" movie trailer whets our outrage-porn appetite, but the feature-length version fails to deliver. This motion argues it ain't even worth sitting through.
With no head kick on video, Monetti's insistence on an unrecorded head kick makes it a swearing contest - where the complainant is already caught in multiple manifest falsehoods. Peter Holmes is no friend of police misconduct - right? - and his department's review of this Coming Attraction is spot on.
If only Cobain HAD kicked the Mexican piss out of Monetti:
"Duran and Lopez-Pando testified that while being robbed, Duran told Monetti to restrain his machete- and gun-wielding companions, saying, "get your boy off me."
Monetti responded by telling Duran to "just give him what you got," and "just give him five dollars."
While Monetti was ultimately not arrested or charged, there is nonetheless substantial evidence that he was, in fact, complicit in the robberies."
When I'd like to grab the attention of an innocent bystander I regularly use "I'm going to beat the mexican piss out of you", it works every time. All the kids are saying it these days while handcuffing innocent people and fake kicking them that happens to leave magic bruises. What a waste of my money I would pay in taxes if this country had reasonable drug laws.
"When I'd like to grab the attention of an innocent bystander "
You mean the innocent bystander TWO witnesses said was involved in the armed robberies and was with the men charged with using a machete and gun to rob people? That innocent bystander?
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"Duran and Lopez-Pando testified that while being robbed, Duran told Monetti to restrain his machete- and gun-wielding companions, saying, "get your boy off me."
Monetti responded by telling Duran to "just give him what you got," and "just give him five dollars."
While Monetti was ultimately not arrested or charged, there is nonetheless substantial evidence that he was, in fact, complicit in the robberies."
Resistance is very. very. very. very. expensive.
Sure, the "Mexican piss" movie trailer whets our outrage-porn appetite, but the feature-length version fails to deliver. This motion argues it ain't even worth sitting through.
With no head kick on video, Monetti's insistence on an unrecorded head kick makes it a swearing contest - where the complainant is already caught in multiple manifest falsehoods. Peter Holmes is no friend of police misconduct - right? - and his department's review of this Coming Attraction is spot on.
"Duran and Lopez-Pando testified that while being robbed, Duran told Monetti to restrain his machete- and gun-wielding companions, saying, "get your boy off me."
Monetti responded by telling Duran to "just give him what you got," and "just give him five dollars."
While Monetti was ultimately not arrested or charged, there is nonetheless substantial evidence that he was, in fact, complicit in the robberies."
You mean the innocent bystander TWO witnesses said was involved in the armed robberies and was with the men charged with using a machete and gun to rob people? That innocent bystander?
"
"Duran and Lopez-Pando testified that while being robbed, Duran told Monetti to restrain his machete- and gun-wielding companions, saying, "get your boy off me."
Monetti responded by telling Duran to "just give him what you got," and "just give him five dollars."
While Monetti was ultimately not arrested or charged, there is nonetheless substantial evidence that he was, in fact, complicit in the robberies."