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Dick Harpootlian’s Gun Joke Draws Jeers
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Excellent article!
While I am familiar with Sutton’s firm and understand what they do, Harpootlian would have been better served to bolster Sutton’s testimony with a matched pair of testimonial buggy mules: a forensic pathologist and a forensic ballistics expert.
I thought Sutton made it clear he was a subject matter expert in the field of mechanics, physics, and kinetics. One must have a detailed understanding of how guns, cars, phones, and explosions “work.” His testimony had everything to do with the path of where those bullets went AFTER they left the gun barrel. You know, the trajectory, the physics, the math. Esoteric stuff to most, solid thermodynamic mathematics to others.
As for Harpootlian and his lighthearted quip, that WAS funny. You had to be there!
These cancel cultists need to get over themselves.
Well said Will. Dick has been joking regularly. His protractor joke from last week had me chuckling. I have not been that impressed with Dick’s skills in cross or now direct examinations, but he has a robust sense of self deprecating humor.
tempest in a teapot, but i do wonder how the joke may have gone over with the jury? can be surprising what juries lock in on, and if they view Dick as making light of a double murder they’ve given up a significant part of their lives to deal with, could be bad for the defense
“chasm of perspective”
The chasm of perspective is with people like Will who assign way too much importance on the small small world of Elon’s Twatter.
It’s not cancel culture to point out that Harpootlian’s joke (about being tempted to shoot the prosecutors) was inappropriate in a double murder trial. Holding people accountable for their inappropriate behavior in a courtroom setting, arguably one of the most serious settings, is just called upholding decorum. At the very least, it was uncouth. Call me old fashioned, but I am disappointed in Dick. Remember when people were raised with basic manners and were expected to set a better example? What a world we live in when a State Senator jokes about murdering State Prosecutors who are doing their job.
In my opinion, if someone is willing to kill an innocent animal with a weapon, it wouldn’t take too much for them to be willing to also kill a human, given the right circumstances. There’s a bit of a screw loose with those people. Alex was a gun fanatic (and he raised his boys to be gun fanatics) so shooting his soon-to-be-ex wife (or having a hired gun do it) isn’t implausible. I believe Paul was just in the wrong place at the right time and ended up being a secondary casualty.
No matter who you are you never ever point a gun at someone. one of the first things you hear over and over when learning to shoot. second, I’m not sure why Harpootlian thinks he is funny. This trial is not a joke.
Harpootlian & Murdaugh
Just a couple of over-privileged, boomer nepo-babies who have gotten away with crimes their wholes lives, thanks to their Daddies and Granddaddies, finally exposed for the incompetent boobs they really are.
Will Folks is there to happily ride in the passenger side as their scrub.
So you’re here up defend the man who mocked your own reporter, Mandy Matley, as your own “sexual alter ego” because he’s a sexiest good ole boy who doesn’t think woman can be investigative journalists? You’re seriously here to say “He’s a terrible lawyer who showed tremendous disrespect to my colleague, but let’s not go wild with ‘cancel culture'”. Honestly Mandy made me want to subscribe to your news site, but seeing this story where you suggest people suffering the mildest of consequences for their incredibly sh*tty behaviour are being CANCELLED, just tells me everything I need to know about this publication.