The Johnston post is the largest newspaper printed in Johnston, D.D., the nation's capital, and has a primary emphasis on national politics.Archibald Unveils Defense PlanSecretary of Defense Nathaniel Archibald IIIAfter two and a half years of planning, Secretary of Defense, Nathaniel "Nate" Archibald III released his indepth, several decade plan for a complete revitilzation of the United States Armed Forces from the ground up, building the organization around the so called "Marsten Reforms" that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Johnathan Marsten advised of.
The plan, currently in front of Congress, pushes for the tripling of the United States Armed Forces, massive defense acquisition from both foreign partners and domestic suppliers, and construction of innumerable bases across the nation, in addition to the creation of dedicated Joint Operations Centres, Cyber Command and Special Forces Commands, for flexibility amongst command and control.
Archibald admitted that this plan would take a full 30 years to complete, and would be extremely expensive, but with the massively increased defense budget, would be able to absorb it without issue, and by the end of it, as long as the United States went all the way with it would be "At their peak military capacity and strength and put us on proper footing not just in Seleya, but throughout the entirety of the Northern Council and it's two most senior and powerful allies; Hutori and Kazullia.
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Darklight Appeal DismissedJustice Irene Dawson of the Santiago Court of Appeals Delievering Her VerdictIn another blow to the Darklight case, Santiago Appeals Court Justice Irene Dawson, dismissed the appeal of Maya Darklight's Second Degree Murder Conviction earlier today.
Darklight's Attorney Mireille Thunder, noted a number of percieved mistakes in the trial, and attempt to introduce new evidence that showed doubt in the jury's conviction, outright questioning whether the jury even understood the concept of the charges that were before them, trying to paint Maya Darklight purely as the the victim, whose evidence against her was circumstanial at best, while painting Patrick Longfield as the real killer.
Justice Dawson listened to the case, before dismissing the entire case for a number of reasons delievered in her final verdict, in which Thunder interupted the Justice several times, all of which were overlooked by Dawson.
Alright after reviewing the evidence I have come to a conclusion and verdict. First; I'm going to tell you outright, I can't accept this (the receipts and banking information) in any official form of evidence. If the prosecution wasn't aware of them, they weren't introduced in the original trial, and this is the first time they are mentioned, I have to dismiss them.
Second, I note that much of your argument rests on the belief that Maya was telling the truth, and that we need to believe her, much like you believed that Patrick Longfield learned to erased his presence in homes, yet the prosecution believe Maya committed the crime and produced evidence as such, and you refused to acknowledge it
Third, I note that you failed to actually produce any evidence what so ever that Patrick was actually in the house. Your "reasonable doubt" is that he must have erased his presence, that's not reasonable doubt, that is a complete lack of evidence period. So from the evidence, Maya Darklight was the only conceivable suspect for the jury to look at.
Fourth; her alibi that she was at the grocery store at the time of death holds no merit; it's impossible to note what time she died because of how degraded the body was, so on that point, unless Maya wasn't in the house on the day of her death, and can prove it, she remains the only person who could have been there; unless you have actual hard proof another person had access and was there
Finally...
Thunder:
Your honor, Presumption of innocence mean there must do no doubt that Maya is the killer.
Justice Dawson
Let me finish Counsellor
Finally; the crutch of your entire legal defense resided around the strictest definition of reasonable doubt. But you forgot a critical word in that "reasonable" What you find reasonable is not what other people may find reasonable. Reasonable was added into the definition to account for the human factor that no everyone is going to see the same things as "reasonable". You may find the smoking of cigarettes a "reasonable" hobby, I would disagree. What you think is "reasonable" doubt that Maya is not the killer and that Patrick Longfield was, doesn't mean the members of the jury felt the same way. To the jury, and the jury alone, which were the ultimate arbiters in this case, Not you, not the prosecution and not Justice Potts, They had no doubt that Maya must have been the killer, with the verdict they delivered.
Thunder:
They had no witness. they never state the mobiles. how there is no reasonable doubt.
Justice Dawson:
The mobiles?
Thunder
You honor, if you believe that patrick was just an excuse, maya invented to explain wrong comportenents, she should have have been judged to be mentally instable and placed in psychiatric institution.
Justice Dawson
No, it's very possible she simply lied to avoid prison time; Patrick Longfield lied on the stand to attempt to avoid prison time stating he never raped anyone. While that argument might have worked, it won't work because the psychologist declared her mentally fit, aside from being heavily depressed
For those reason Miss Thunder, I am Dismissing this Appeal. Case Dismissed.