WEBVTT - Gerrymandering America 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.600 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.040 Am six forty. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 KF five AM six forty a bill Handle here. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.200 It's a Saturday morning right up until eleven o'clock, and 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.000 I'll continue to take phone calls, but I'll tell you 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:17.759 about that later on. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.160 In the meantime. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.000 The phone number here eight hundred five two zero one 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.960 five three four, and it is the top of the hour, 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.560 which means lines are generally and they are open, So 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.720 jump in eight hundred five two zero one five three four. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.960 Eight hundred five two zero one five three four last hour. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:39.880 Boy did I get into it with a woman who 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.760 she just didn't want to hear what I had to say. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.440 I don't know why people bother, but they you know, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.199 fighting is fighting, and it's always fun to do an 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.800 oultier k an altercation or two. Eight hundred five two 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.360 zero one five three four. That's the number to hit. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:02.240 That's not number to dial. Welcome to Handle on the law. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.440 Marginal legal advice where I tell you have absolutely no case. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.360 This is a case that has being was looked at 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.040 very very carefully, and that has to do with the 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:25.200 Texas Republicans redistricting taking the map of their congressional districts 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:30.959 and reshaping those districts jerrymandering, if you will, so that 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:38.920 Republicans are mainly in certain districts to effectually add Republican districts. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.720 And the way it's done is you take all the 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.840 Democrats and you draw a line around the Democrats, and 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.440 you can draw a really weird, weird line with little 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.600 peninsulas and indentions and whatever, and so all the Democrats 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.560 are in that area, which means that the Democrats that 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.840 used to be in the other area are no longer there. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.400 And in the reverse, the Republicans. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.040 That used to be in those democratic or primarily democratic 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.880 areas aren't there anymore because of the redistricting. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.360 They are now. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.960 In what is primary primarily Republican areas, which means that 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.239 those particular districts are probably going to probably going to 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.600 go Republican. And with that, five new seats are being 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.120 created that are probably going probably going to lean. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.160 I mean, there are no seats are being. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:36.080 Created, but the way it is drawn up jerrymandering, redistricting. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.360 All right, Well, it was sued, there was a lawsuit 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:44.520 that hit a whole bunch of people. Districts, you had 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:52.320 school boards individuals. We're arguing that the districting, the redistricting 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.119 of those those congressional districts, was not really politics. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.800 It was race. That's what the Texas legislation sure was doing. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:08.400 It was segregating white from black because the Democrats in 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:13.440 that area are primarily black. Republicans majority white. And so 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:18.239 the argument was, you guys, did this for racial purposes. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:25.440 Now for political purposes. It's okay, purely political purposes. For 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.239 racial purposes, it's unconstitutional. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:29.560 You can't do that. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.440 So that was the case going up to the Supreme Court, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.160 and you had the Democratic leaders and folks that were 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.520 against this redistricting filing that lawsuit saying it's rac it's 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.760 racist race, and the Republicans are saying, no, it's not, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.800 it's politics as politics as politics. Well, the court gave 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.640 it to the Texas Republicans. The Supreme Court gave it 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.119 to them, saying it is not race, it is politics, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.280 and we're going to let this fly. Another reason that 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.120 they're doing this the court has done this outside of 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:07.200 that decision is that the Supreme Court gives tremendous power 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:13.880 and leeway to state legislators also congress it's their job 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:19.480 to legislate. It's not our job to legislate. We merely interpret. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.839 And so the court said that this is an issue 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.240 of interpretation. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.640 We've decided it is not racial. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.520 The fact that the Republicans happen to control the Legislative House. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.919 Okay, so they happen to control it. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.120 They have the ability to read district whenever they want, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 because that's the other issue. They're redistricting in the middle 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:50.160 of the census period, and traditionally it happens at the 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.960 end of the census whenever census are taken. But it's 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.360 gone the other way too. So the legislature was in 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.000 its power to do what it did. It was not 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.560 racial in makeup. And so the Texas Republicans win this one. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:07.120 Oh. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.719 By the way, this started with President Trump and he 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.520 told the Texas Republicans to. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:13.480 Do exactly that. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.440 And I think Carolina, either North Carolina or South Carolina 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.280 followed suit. And I think you have Missouri now doing 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.120 the same thing. California with Prop. Fifty went the other 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.960 way and there was a fight, and that's that continues on. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.520 It's gonna be very interesting to see what happens. All right, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:39.919 let's do it with handle on the law. Joanna, Hello, Joanna, welcome. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:49.400 Oh hi Bill, let me set me off the speaker. Yeah. So, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.479 first of all, I'm a senior citizen, so I don't 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.880 know if this plays into it. But I have a 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:00.000 camping van and I had a repair made in jail, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.760 and I don't use the van all the time because 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.200 it's a camping van. And so a couple of months later, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.839 when I was using it, I noticed that on the 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.040 level highest level of the air conditioner blower, it does 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:19.520 not blow at all level four. So they replaced the 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.720 heater core. It's a folk citing camping van. And I 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:27.719 looked up and indeed, that can happen when they replaced 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.920 the heater core. So I called and I. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.440 Got, okay, hang on glowing, let me there's a little 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.640 bit of confusion here. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:38.240 Uh. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.200 They replaced the heater core and you looked it up, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.080 and the problem that you had can come. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.800 Out of a replaced heater core. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:48.640 Mm hmm. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.159 Okay, So they put in a heater core that sometimes 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.920 goes south. A new heater core sometimes doesn't work correct 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.080 on that level four. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:00.000 Okay. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.080 So when I called, which was a couple of months later, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.000 because I don't use it, I'm senior. I don't even 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.440 know what to check for. I didn't even know what 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.520 to do. So the man was so aggressive, yelling and 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.600 screaming at me, and I said, sir, he said, this 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.760 isn't the part that I said. I know, but this 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.040 does happen with level four. He said, I'm going to 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.640 hang up on you, and he hung up and wouldn't 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.920 talk to me. All right, And then I had someone 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.920 else call for me, same thing. He just screaming and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.040 yelling and hanging out. So I'm kind of intimidated to 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.520 go there. I don't know what to do. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:36.440 You're not going to go there. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.720 You'd assume a small claims court. And what you're going 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.200 to do is whatever the cost of replacing that heater 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.200 core is, is what. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.320 You are going to sue him for. Now. What is 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:51.000 his defense? 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.680 Exactly what you said, and that is we will put 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.200 in Sometimes when we put in a new heater core, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.720 it doesn't work. That is not our problem. What we 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.520 do is supply a new heater core. We put it in. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.960 We've bought the equipment, we did the labor, and if 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.120 you have a problem, you go after the manufacture, not me, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.360 And so you get to go file lawsuit against the 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.480 manufacture of the heater core because I think he's got 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:20.960 a defense. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.080 I think he has a defense. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.000 But here's the thing I looked up in this this 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.960 particular problem. When they put in the heater core, it 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.280 should just be a wire that's bumped. It can be 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.320 it's only something that happens when they are putting in 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.679 the heater core. They bump something or sensual. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:39.720 Okay, or you didn't tell me that. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.920 The only way it can happen if they negligently put 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:43.760 in the heater core. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.440 Correct. They have to do something wrong, is that right? Okay? 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.520 So here's what you have to do is bring someone 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.880 else in because you won't talk to you fix it. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.560 And there's the amount of money that is now. Oh, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.520 first you make a demand in writing of the pair man, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.480 the first guy, and you tell him, I expect you 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.080 to pay for it. Here's the bid. I got to 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.439 repair it or you come out and repair it. He's 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.880 probably gonna ignore you. And then you file a small 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.360 claim suit action against him. And the fact that you 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.560 are elderly. How old is elderly? 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.360 How old are you three? 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:21.400 Three? 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.360 You're seventy three? Yeah, yeah, you're not elderly. I mean 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:24.920 not today. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.360 You know, seventy three is a new seventy two, so 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.400 it really doesn't matter. So when you are over I 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.920 think seventy two or sixty five, whatever it is, you can. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.079 Speed up going to trial. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.960 I don't know if that happens in small claims court 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.280 whether you can speed it up, because it goes pretty 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.320 quickly anyway, and you can't have a lawyer, and you 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.400 just make the argument. You bring someone else in who 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.080 does the whole thing, and you have the bid, you 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.839 have what was wrong with it, and there it is. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.800 So first the demand, he'll ignore it. Then you get 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.480 the bid and you tell him this is when I 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.920 get a cost. You go ahead and pay for this 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.920 or repair, and then you sue in small claims court. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:08.080 That's it. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.559 My question. Do I send the letter the demand letter? 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.120 Do I send it registered mail? 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:13.640 Yes? 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.280 Yes, yes, you do email, You do registered mail, You 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.760 do everything you can, you send it via camel, whatever 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.959 you can to make sure that he can't say I 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:25.800 never got it. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.800 His argument. Other argument was, so you're yelling and screaming 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.760 at me. I said, just wait, I know what you're saying, 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.880 but this is something, oh that doesn't matter. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.920 Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah, the screaming doesn't matter. Court 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.280 doesn't care about that. Scream right back. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:40.040 Yell at him. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.480 When you call him up and you say you got 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.439 to repair it, just scream at him, same way. It's 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.640 all you have to do. It's not that complicated. Yeah, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.160 Courts don't care how people act toward each other unless 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.560 they're threats. And he was just being obnoxious. He just 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.439 sounded like a complete bastard. That's all this is. Handle 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.520 on the Law, can't find a m A six forty, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.439 don't handle Saturday morning right up until eleven o'clock. Richard 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.960 Murrow from eleven to two, and Neil Savadria with the 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.040 Fork Report All Things food and food Ease from two 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:20.280 to five. The phone number here for marginal A little 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.560 lesson Marginal, A little less than that eight hundred five 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:29.679 two zero one five three four eight hundred five two 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:35.280 zero one five three four. Oh, welcome back, Handle on 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.640 the Law, Marginal Legal Advice, John. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.599 Welcome John, Yes, h right, All right. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.880 Well, I got a I got a pretty complicated situation here. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.480 Hellong story, but I'll try to be brief. I borrowed 0:11:54.520 --> 0:12:01.160 my sister's car. She hates me all this, and she 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.040 took my cell phone because I wanted to call my 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:09.400 accountant where I used to live, so she wouldn't give 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:14.360 it to me. And the bottom line is I took 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.800 her car, drove to where my accountant lives, which is 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.959 about an hour and a half away, in the middle 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.880 of the night, doing like one hundred miles an hour 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.959 on the freeway. Anyway, I get to it. How we talk. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:32.880 He takes care of my tax problem. And she had 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.480 loadjack on her car. And it's a piece of shoe. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.680 It's a nineteen ninety eighty. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.200 Well me, okay, I'm a little I'm a little confused. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.240 She you hate her, yet you borrowed her car. She 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.760 let you borrow it? Is that right? 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.080 Okay? So the bottom eye line is she reports it stolen, 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.960 I go to jail. She won't drop the charges. So 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.679 now I'm trying to get it expunged off my record 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.680 because Okay, I had a public November. I was homeless, Okay, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.280 I was living in the park. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.240 Yeah, Unfortunately that doesn't matter as far as the law 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:09.920 is concerned. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:11.600 So, uh, there you are. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:17.959 You were convicted of grand theft auto effectively correct? Yeah, correct, okay, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.360 And uh that's it. That's the felony you were convicted of. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:22.280 I have that writer. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.080 There are other crimes, correct, correct, Okay. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.480 Well there's there's a few other things that took place 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.080 while I was homeless too that I got arrested for 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:32.760 as well. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.000 That what happened in those cases. This was after the 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.440 after you were convicted for the auto deft. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.840 Super quick, somebody stole my bike. I'm living in the park. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.800 One of the homeless people there goes, oh, hey, man, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.600 I have a bike, just go pick it up. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.720 So okay, so that doesn't matter, but I don't care. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.720 I don't care about the facts of that. Were you 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.040 convicted of any crime while you were homeless? 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.280 Yes? Three. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.920 You were convicted of three more crimes. One was the 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.280 what were the trouble? A total of three okay, and 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:12.760 those crimes were what. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.400 Okay, first one my sister, right right. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.600 I understand that loads got it. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.000 I got it, I got it load Jack okay, yeah, okay. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.520 So so I don't want to go back to my 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.440 accountant's house to be embarrassing. So I walked briefly down 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.560 the street I lived in. Uh well, I don't want 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.880 to say any cities. I walked down the street and 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.880 I see this Ford Bronco all smashed up off road, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.920 vehicle had been rolled, the workless, cave in, windows broken, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:46.960 muddle over. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:48.280 Did you take it? 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:48.400 So? 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:49.200 I took it? 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:50.400 Okay, took it. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.320 I drove it fifty. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.280 Okay, that's still theft. If it's worth over one thousand 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.080 dollars or nine hundred and fifty bucks, that's still fa Okay. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.520 So there's another Okay, there's another with a language, So 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:09.760 the guy who stole it. So you stole a stolen car, right, okay? 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:16.720 And you were convicted, but you're still convicted of that theft? Yeah, okay, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.240 what's the next one? 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:21.320 And then the bicycle? 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.560 Okay? So you were So you have three convictions? And 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.200 what what? What is all right? Okay? Burkelary, all right? 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.600 Was it the conviction for as a felony or misdemeanor? 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.760 Fellenny felony? So you have three felonies on your record? 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:39.880 What is your question? 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.880 How do I get them expounds? 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:43.960 Good luck? 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.200 Okay, because you have some violent crimes involved in that. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:55.560 They are felonies. When did this happen? John? How long 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:55.720 are you? 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.560 April thirteen, twenty twenty three. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.920 Oh, so you're only talking to a couple of three years. Yeah, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.320 not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. Misdemeanors can be expunged. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.960 Felonies very very difficult. And then you're talking. You know, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.160 in some cases you can't at all because the law 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.080 is crystal there. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.000 In some cases it is wobbler. They can go either way. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:24.120 One okay, one more thing, yeah, one more real quickly? 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.840 Okay. So when I went into Ventura County, I weighed 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.360 two hundred and thirty pounds. I'm six foot four, played 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.120 football my whole life, right, I was a commissioner for 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.800 the city. I list okay, right, all right, okay. When 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.920 I came out, I weighed one hundred. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:48.160 Ft against the county. Having nothing to do with your felonies. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.480 It's a separals, it's a several. It's a separate civil suit, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.880 which is eminently defensible. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.840 You are so out of luck. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.000 It was a bunch of long stories, and these are 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:00.880 sab stories. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:01.320 Now. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.040 The stop stories have to do with mitigating the sentence, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.120 and that is when a conviction happens. And now you're 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.760 looking at, for example, ten to twenty hypothetically. Then you 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:20.440 throw the sob stories up. Then you ask for the minimum, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.680 then your return he goes, but your honor. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:23.240 Look at this. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:29.800 He was in the big murder cases, abused as a kid, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:35.439 mentally ill. In John's case, look at everything that happened 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.320 to him. He turned out to be homeless when he 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.240 stole the bicycles. Look what the circumstances are when he 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.120 took his sister's car. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:48.560 I mean all of that, but the conviction not so good. Now, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.600 let me tell you when you do need a lawyer. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.080 If you've been injured, let's say, get a car accident, 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.720 or you go to a big box store and a 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.200 big box falls on your head. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.240 I've had those happen. 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Where I give you marginal advice is eight 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.640 hundred and five to zero. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:52.760 One five three four Welcome back. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:58.600 Handle on Law marginal legal advice. Steve, Hello, Steve, Europe, welcome. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:00.800 Handle. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.720 So yes, I buy a house in Yorba Linda. It 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.280 has a right of way eastman three hundred feet from 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.239 the road, and it is thirteen feet wide. When I 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.359 looked at my title and I went to the city 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.480 and I looked at the survey, it's supposed to be 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.280 twenty feet wide, not thirteen feet wide. Do I have 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.760 the right to take this seven feet from the neighbor? 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:24.640 Okay? 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.160 It's a first of all, you talking about an easement, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.280 so it's a the ability to use it. If you're 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.520 talking about taking it, what do you plan. Let's say 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.240 you take back the seven feet. What are you gonna 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:35.600 do with it? 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.400 Just because we're thirteen feet It is not possible, for example, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.000 for one car to be part an emergency vehicle to 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:43.720 enter my home. 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.359 Okay, got it? So it has to stay open. There's 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:48.360 no stay open. 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:49.880 Anybody can access it. 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:50.920 Right, Okay, fair enough. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:56.480 And so it was represented to you as a twenty 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.960 foot eastman and now you find out it's a thirteen 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:06.120 foot easement. Correct, Yes, physically okay, god, okay, Okay. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.840 There's a there's a few things that you can do uh. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.159 First and foremost, I think you can just unravel the sale, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:15.560 just unravel it. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.360 When was when was his property by Steve? When when 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:19.800 did you buy? 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:21.399 Oh? 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.240 Okay, so you're okay, you're well within the statue. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.880 So uh you can just say I want my money back, 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:28.000 you have your property back. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.160 That's one thing you can do. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:30.800 Uh. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.280 The other thing you can do is to. 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:39.320 Figure out, uh, the value of the home at thirteen 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.479 foot easement versus a twenty foot easement. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.679 But it is not possible if I just to add 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.320 to this with because. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.119 This now, no, you can't you know, it's already recorded 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.080 as that with You can't just walk in no, unless 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.400 it's recorded that you have a twenty. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.960 Foot yes, this this is my point. The title, the 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.680 title report says twenty feet. This title is thirteen feet. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.320 All right, I understand, I understand. And what you're saying 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.760 is you are out thirteen feet. Title says that you 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:18.080 have the twenty foot easement and they sold it to 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:21.440