http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/us/houston-journal-honky-tonk-love-gets-its-day-in-probate-court.html
The New York Times
U.S.
Houston Journal; Honky-Tonk Love Gets Its Day in Probate Court
By JIM YARDLEY
Published: February 2, 2001
HOUSTON, Feb. 1— The spectacle of rich people fighting over money ranks just below football as a favorite spectator sport in Texas, so it seemed fitting that Anna Nicole Smith took the stand in the lawsuit over her billionaire husband's estate on the day after the Super Bowl.
And there she sat for much of this week, alternately pouting or shouting or crying in an unpredictable ramble of tears and testimony that has led the local nightly newscasts and provided yet another titillating chapter in this unending tale of big Texas money and strip joint love.
''This is better than a soap opera,'' said Lillian Seifried, 58, who attended the trial on Wednesday rather than baby-sit for her grandson so that she could catch a glimpse of Ms. Smith.
Mr. Hardin: ''Ms. Marshall, is the answer to my question that you cannot show us and direct us to a single document that shows Mr. Marshall promised you half?''
Ms. Smith: ''I would have to get back to you on that one, Rusty.''
Mr. Hardin: ''O.K., well that's very nice of you, Ms. Marshall, but I'm asking you right now, Do you know of any?''
Ms. Smith: ''I will have to get back to you because I'm going to have to go and look at papers.''
Mr. Hardin: ''When this is all over, Ms. Marshall, wouldn't you and I both prefer that neither of us get back to the other?''
Ms. Smith: ''Oh, gosh.''
And so it went. Mr. Hardin worked to portray her as a gold digger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
Motive (law)
In law, especially criminal law, a motive is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. Motive in itself is seldom an element of any given crime; however, the legal system typically allows motive to be proven in order to make plausible the accused's reasons for committing a crime, at least when those motives may be obscure or hard to identify with.
The law technically distinguishes between motive and intent. "Intent" in criminal law is synonymous with mens rea, which means no more than the specific mental purpose to perform a deed that is forbidden by a criminal statute, or the reckless disregard of whether the law will be violated.[citation needed] "Motive" describes instead the reasons in the accused's background and station in life that are supposed to have induced the crime.
Motive is particularly important in prosecutions for homicide. First, murder is so drastic a crime that most people recoil from the thought of being able to do it; proof of motive explains why the accused did so desperate an act.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002113----000-.html
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 103 > § 2113
2113. Bank robbery and incidental crimes
(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or attempts to obtain by extortion any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association; or
Whoever enters or attempts to enter any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association, or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, credit union, or as a savings and loan association, with intent to commit in such bank, credit union, or in such savings and loan association, or building, or part thereof, so used, any felony affecting such bank, credit union, or such savings and loan association and in violation of any statute of the United States, or any larceny—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(d) Whoever, in committing, or in attempting to commit, any offense defined in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both.
(e) Whoever, in committing any offense defined in this section, or in avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such offense, or in freeing himself or attempting to free himself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any person, or forces any person to accompany him without the consent of such person, shall be imprisoned not less than ten years, or if death results shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weapon
weapon
any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
anything used against an opponent, adversary, or victim
A means used to defend against or defeat another
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interference
interference
Radio. a. a jumbling of radio signals, caused by the reception of undesired ones.
Psychology. the forgetting of information or an event due to inability to reconcile it with conflicting information obtained subsequently.
run interference, Informal. to deal with troublesome or time-consuming matters, as for a colleague or supervisor, esp. to forestall problems.
The inhibition or prevention of clear reception of broadcast signals.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/premeditation
premeditation
the act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially an intentional crime
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felony murder doctrine
a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_Murder_Doctrine
Felony Murder Doctrine
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine current in some common law countries that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when a victim dies accidentally or without specific intent in the course of an applicable felony, it increases what might have been manslaughter (or even a simple tort) to murder. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally responsible for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
Motive (law)
In law, especially criminal law, a motive is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. Motive in itself is seldom an element of any given crime; however, the legal system typically allows motive to be proven in order to make plausible the accused's reasons for committing a crime, at least when those motives may be obscure or hard to identify with.
The law technically distinguishes between motive and intent. "Intent" in criminal law is synonymous with mens rea, which means no more than the specific mental purpose to perform a deed that is forbidden by a criminal statute, or the reckless disregard of whether the law will be violated.[citation needed] "Motive" describes instead the reasons in the accused's background and station in life that are supposed to have induced the crime.
Motive is particularly important in prosecutions for homicide. First, murder is so drastic a crime that most people recoil from the thought of being able to do it; proof of motive explains why the accused did so desperate an act.
From 10/28/1955 ( International Terrorist against the U.S. federal government that is Bill Gates a.k.a. "The Toilet Ayahtollahette" and a.k.a. "The Toilet Juice" is a cowardly violent criminal and actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government and U.S.A. allies ) To 6/7/1976 ( date hijacked from me:my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) is 7528 days
From 6/7/1976 ( date hijacked from me:my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 7528 days
From 7/20/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 10042 days
10042 = 5021 + 5021
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 4/14/1977 ( date hijacked from me:I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) is 5021 days
From 10/30/1961 ( Tsar Bomba - Soviet Union explodes 50 megaton hydrogen bomb ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 12862 days
12862 = 6431 + 6431
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) to 10/11/1976 ( date hijacked from me:U.S. Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by U.S. President Gerald Ford and applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 6431 days
From 4/18/1943 ( Isoroku Yamamoto - Imperial Japanese Navy commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II - deceased - aircraft crash during World War 2 combat ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 19632 days
19632 = 9816 + 9816
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 1/17/1986 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Iron Eagle" ) is 9816 days
From 11/15/1966 ( date hijacked from me:Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and I was Gemini 12 astronaut returning from orbit of planet Earth ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 11020 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 9/16/1993 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US TV series "Frasier" features central figure "Dr. Frasier Crane" as talk-show psychiatrist on Seattle local radio ) is 11020 days
From 4/2/1978 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US TV miniseries "Dallas"::premiere miniseries episode "Digger's Daughter" ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 6864 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) to 5/1/1982 ( date hijacked from me:my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 6864 days
From 9/21/1968 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US TV series "Adam-12"::series premiere episode "Log 1: The Impossible Mission" ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 10344 days
10344 = 5172 + 5172
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) to 5/1/1973 ( date hijacked from me:my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is: 5172 days
From 9/15/1975 ( date hijacked from me:Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" including "Welcome to the Machine" ) To 1/16/1997 ( International Terrorist Organization against the U.S. federal government that is Microsoft-Corbis actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 7794 days
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 11/16/1984 ( date hijacked from me:premiere US film "Night of the Comet" & premiere US film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" & premiere US film "Missing In Action" ) is 7794 days
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/jan97/97avilpr.mspx
Microsoft Announces the Immediate Availability of Office 97
Market Momentum Builds for Innovative New Product Designed for Customers
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 1997 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate availability of Office 97, the new version of the world's best-selling productivity suite, which integrates the ease of intelligent applications with the power of the Web. Microsoft launched Office 97 with a worldwide, 30-city tour and a customer event today in New York that includes a keynote address by Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook
Microsoft Outlook[ Microsoft Office & Microsoft Outlook & Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries and all business associations actively instigate coup d’état and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ]
Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite.
Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also includes a Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing.
It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, Sharepoint lists and meeting time allocation.
Versions
Outlook 97 (version 8.0) included in Office 97 released January 16, 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
Motive (law)
In law, especially criminal law, a motive is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. Motive in itself is seldom an element of any given crime; however, the legal system typically allows motive to be proven in order to make plausible the accused's reasons for committing a crime, at least when those motives may be obscure or hard to identify with.
The law technically distinguishes between motive and intent. "Intent" in criminal law is synonymous with mens rea, which means no more than the specific mental purpose to perform a deed that is forbidden by a criminal statute, or the reckless disregard of whether the law will be violated.[citation needed] "Motive" describes instead the reasons in the accused's background and station in life that are supposed to have induced the crime.
Motive is particularly important in prosecutions for homicide. First, murder is so drastic a crime that most people recoil from the thought of being able to do it; proof of motive explains why the accused did so desperate an act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
Kleptocracy
A kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy) (root: klepto+kratein = rule by thieves) is a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population. A kleptocratic government often goes beyond merely awarding the prime contracts and civil service posts to friends (a common feature of corrupt governments[citation needed]). They also create projects and programs at a policy level which serve the primary purpose of funnelling money out of the treasury and into the pockets of the executive with little if any regard for the logic, viability or necessity of those projects.
The creation of a kleptocracy powered by dictatorship typically results in many years of general hardship and suffering for the vast majority of citizens, as civil society and the rule of law disintegrate. In addition, kleptocrats routinely ignore economic and social problems in their quest to amass ever more wealth and power.
The protection society has against kleptocracy is largely dependent on the effectiveness of the rule of law to prevent political leaders abusing their powers, the free flow of information (necessary to properly identify kleptocrats) and ability of the population to remove corrupt leaders from office. Many such protections are included in legal documents such as a constitution or a bill of rights and are also found in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17. Many countries have these protections, on paper; in many cases, the rules have not been enforced. The imposition of a government on property rights may not be limited to taxation, licenses, and eminent domain and may extend to outright nationalization of privately held property if left unchecked by the rule of law.
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080603-N-5758H-153 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 3, 2008) Damage Controlman 2nd Class Stephanie A. Cockrell, left, and Damage Controlman 3rd Class April M. Smith, assist a "Tiger Cub" in donning a fire fighting ensemble during Tiger Cruise 2008 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth R. Hendrix (Released)
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080603-N-5758H-153
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakedown
Shakedown
Shakedown may refer to:
Extortion, a criminal act of coercion or intimidation for personal gain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
Extortion
Extortion, outwresting, or exaction is a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups. The actual obtainment of money or property is not required to commit the offense. Making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the unlawful demanding and obtaining of something through force, but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/usc_sec_10_00000899----000-.html
TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART II > CHAPTER 47 > SUBCHAPTER X > § 899
§ 899. Art. 99. Misbehavior before the enemy
Any member of the armed forces who before or in the presence of the enemy—
(1) runs away;
(2) shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property which it is his duty to defend;
(3) through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any such command, unit, place, or military property;
(4) casts away his arms or ammunition;
(5) is guilty of cowardly conduct;
(6) quits his place of duty to plunder or pillage;
(7) causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the armed forces;
(8) willfully fails to do his utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy; or
(9) does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies when engaged in battle;
shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
[ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization as convicted that is US DOD & Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government with all Microsoft-Corbis partners contributors staff employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courts-martial_in_the_United_States
Courts-martial in the United States
Courts-martial in the United States are criminal trials conducted by the Military of the United States. Most commonly, courts-martial are convened to try members of the U.S. military for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the U.S. military's criminal code. However, they can also be convened for other purposes, including military tribunals and the enforcement of martial law in an occupied territory. Courts-martial are governed by the rules of procedure and evidence laid out in the Manual for Courts-Martial and Military Rules of Evidence, respectively.
a military judge determines questions of law, and the members of the panel (or military judge in a judge-alone case) determine questions of fact.
From 6/19/1968 ( my 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor and I am US military fighter jet ace-in-single-day during Vietnam War ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is: 1777 days
From 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) to 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is: 1777 days
From 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) To 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) is 644 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) To 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is 644 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies
General of the Armies
General of the Armies and General of the Armies of the United States are the highest possible ranks in the United States Army.
After World War II, which saw the introduction of U.S. "5-star" officers who outranked Washington, both Congress and the President revisited the issue of Washington's rank. To maintain George Washington's proper position as the first Commanding General of the United States Army, he was appointed, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 January 19, 1976, approved by President Gerald R. Ford on October 11, 1976. The law established the grade as having "rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present,"clearly making it superior to General of the Army. The Department of the Army Order 31-3, issued on March 13, 1978 had an effective appointment date of July 4, 1976. The rank ensures that no United States military officer outranks George Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Admiral_%28United_States%29
Fleet Admiral (United States)
Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy (FADM), or more commonly referred to as Fleet Admiral, is a five-star flag officer rank and is presently considered the highest possible rank in the United States Navy.
The insignia for Fleet Admiral comprises five stars in a pentagon design with a thick rank stripe, below four smaller stripes, on the service dress blue uniform.
The Fleet Admiral rank is reserved for war-time use only
