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Jurors would not be taking this long to acquit Manafort

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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/17/18
hung jury actually. Stupid Ellis shoulda just used 8 jurors...
Maroon glittery market
  08/17/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/17/18
tcr
irate pearl meetinghouse dragon
  08/17/18
Probably. I think the jurors are not provided with the evide...
bearded deer antler
  08/17/18
asking about RD is not great. It means they do NOT think he'...
boyish internal respiration whorehouse
  08/17/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/17/18
maybe Im wrong. i do shitcrim defense and talk about RD all ...
boyish internal respiration whorehouse
  08/17/18
i am betting on a pedantic 105 IQ juror insisting they all a...
orchid dashing public bath tank
  08/20/18
Not a crimmo but talking about RD sounds dangerous. It seems...
slate infuriating theatre striped hyena
  08/20/18
Also not a crimmo or a jurymo but this seems like tcr analys...
nudist obsidian half-breed
  08/20/18
If you don’t have the facts, argue the law. If you don’t hav...
Bat-shit-crazy very tactful step-uncle's house
  08/20/18
Its framing. I live and die by it, from voir dire to verdict...
boyish internal respiration whorehouse
  08/20/18
Pounding RD is extremely important, especially if the prosec...
Bearded Fortuitous Meteor
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/20/18
lol this is completely backwards. a conviction would have c...
Razzmatazz cerise jap parlour
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/20/18
think it's fair to say no one fucking knows how juries behav...
boyish internal respiration whorehouse
  08/20/18
lol at opening up the jury system to everyone. what a disast...
orchid dashing public bath tank
  08/20/18
Lawyers never not reading tea leaves.
garnet kitchen
  08/20/18
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slate infuriating theatre striped hyena
  08/20/18
seriously. it's 50/50. just stfu and wait.
Sapphire flirting national
  08/20/18
ELI5 why I'm supposed to gaf about this trial
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
bc absolutely everything is now a proxy civil war, even NFL ...
boyish internal respiration whorehouse
  08/20/18
Seems like my energy would be better devoted to, well, anyth...
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
btw I don't think a 5 yo would understand what a "proxy...
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/20/18
So it's libs looking for the scalp of somebody Trump-related...
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/20/18
Your guess is as good as mine, brochacho. tcr seems like ign...
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
Because if you have to pay taxes, then so does this asshole....
Soul-stirring temple
  08/20/18
So every "tax evasion" case should be the subject ...
Talented Marketing Idea
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/20/18
Jens David Ohlin, vice dean and law professor at Cornell Law...
orchid dashing public bath tank
  08/20/18
one weird trick
slate infuriating theatre striped hyena
  08/20/18
prediction: 2-3 guilties, >2-3 acquits, a few hung.
Appetizing Box Office Hissy Fit
  08/20/18
I was on a jury once when I was in college. I heard some tru...
sable aromatic love of her life
  08/20/18
I was an alternate once, so I sat through the trial but didn...
slate infuriating theatre striped hyena
  08/20/18
And this is a DC jury - so take that sentiment and multiply ...
onyx pontificating community account university
  08/20/18
Mine was in state court in prince georges county. Very dark ...
sable aromatic love of her life
  08/20/18
(Outed as a Terpmo)
onyx pontificating community account university
  08/20/18
Double threat brother
sable aromatic love of her life
  08/20/18
Not a DC jury, but thanks for playing.
irate pearl meetinghouse dragon
  08/20/18
In the 2016 election, there were 1.28M votes cast within the...
Bearded Fortuitous Meteor
  08/20/18
When your only measure is how people voted in an election, y...
irate pearl meetinghouse dragon
  08/20/18
Agreed. However, the voting breakdown does give some insight...
Bearded Fortuitous Meteor
  08/20/18
the key fact is most jurors are retards so who knows what's ...
Motley corner
  08/20/18
They're supposed to be 100 iq mouthbreathers who can pay att...
Bearded Fortuitous Meteor
  08/20/18
100 IQ people don't breathe through the mouth, that's the av...
marvelous selfie
  08/20/18
Wouldn't Northern Virginia presumably have a pretty educated...
comical bistre school clown
  08/20/18
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Thriller sadistic church building mexican
  08/21/18


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Date: August 17th, 2018 12:49 PM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633035)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 12:50 PM
Author: Maroon glittery market

hung jury actually. Stupid Ellis shoulda just used 8 jurors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633049)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 12:58 PM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633116)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 12:59 PM
Author: irate pearl meetinghouse dragon

tcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633121)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 1:01 PM
Author: bearded deer antler

Probably. I think the jurors are not provided with the evidence though, and have to go off their memory from trial. Which could make convictions difficult on the big charges depending on how dumb they are etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633141)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 1:01 PM
Author: boyish internal respiration whorehouse

asking about RD is not great. It means they do NOT think he's innocent, but are wondering if their sense he is guilty is "enough" to pass RD standard.

So yeah, even if it were acquittal across the board, they are not leaving saying he's innocent... which means they will likely NOT acquit across the board, if that makes sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633143)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 1:04 PM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633170)



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Date: August 17th, 2018 1:06 PM
Author: boyish internal respiration whorehouse

maybe Im wrong. i do shitcrim defense and talk about RD all the time. If one of my juries came back asking about it (has never happened), Id naturally assume they dont believe in defendant's factual innocence. Could still acquit but for legal, RD reasons, which is cutting very close to the bone afaic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36633180)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:44 AM
Author: orchid dashing public bath tank

i am betting on a pedantic 105 IQ juror insisting they all agree on DEFINITIONS before getting into the evidence. it was a long trial and there are a lot of counts, not surprising it is taking a while.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647648)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:45 AM
Author: slate infuriating theatre striped hyena

Not a crimmo but talking about RD sounds dangerous. It seems very lawyerly and beyond jurors, who are really just asking themselves "is this guy guilty or not?"

By saying RD, RD, you're implying that well maybe he's guilty but this technicality says you should vote otherwise

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647652)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: nudist obsidian half-breed

Also not a crimmo or a jurymo but this seems like tcr analysis to me. Can any crimmos or shitlawers provide scholarship on how juries react to D pounding RD?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647718)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy very tactful step-uncle's house

If you don’t have the facts, argue the law. If you don’t have either, argue the standard of proof...and say a novena.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647959)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 1:32 PM
Author: boyish internal respiration whorehouse

Its framing. I live and die by it, from voir dire to verdict.

The psych mindset of the juror is that he is here because the guy "did something".

You need to violently re-frame that and pound "presume he is innocent", "not here to judge him guilty, but examine if RD has been surpassed". Mak them stare down the state from the perspective of your guy.

If you allow it to be a horse race of who has got the better case, crim def will lose 100% of the time, instead of just the majority of the time.

I POUND RD

"Even if my guy did it, you have a single doubt, right?!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36648797)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:41 PM
Author: Bearded Fortuitous Meteor

Pounding RD is extremely important, especially if the prosecution reinforces that "beyond a reasonable doubt" doesn't mean "beyond all doubt." Typically you'd start by explaining that the defendant is innocent unless proven guilty by the government and that the jury has to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt. By default, the jury has to return a not guilty verdict. The only way the jury can return a guilty verdict is if the only reasonable interpretation of the evidence is that the defendant is guilty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649755)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:35 AM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647604)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:37 AM
Author: Razzmatazz cerise jap parlour

lol this is completely backwards. a conviction would have come out quickly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647618)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:40 AM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647628)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:40 AM
Author: boyish internal respiration whorehouse

think it's fair to say no one fucking knows how juries behave behind closed doors.

I ran into a juror of mine, in a NG, months after the verdict and he told me, "the hold out kept telling us that even if he was innocent God wanted him punished for something".

Proles are dumb, voir dire is useless, and they could be arguing about any fucking thing back there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647633)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: orchid dashing public bath tank

lol at opening up the jury system to everyone. what a disaster.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647660)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:41 AM
Author: garnet kitchen

Lawyers never not reading tea leaves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647636)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:46 AM
Author: slate infuriating theatre striped hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647654)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:58 PM
Author: Sapphire flirting national

seriously. it's 50/50. just stfu and wait.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649907)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:46 AM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

ELI5 why I'm supposed to gaf about this trial

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647653)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: boyish internal respiration whorehouse

bc absolutely everything is now a proxy civil war, even NFL cheerleaders

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647656)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:48 AM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

Seems like my energy would be better devoted to, well, anything except this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647663)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:52 AM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

btw I don't think a 5 yo would understand what a "proxy civil war" is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647681)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:52 AM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647683)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:55 AM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

So it's libs looking for the scalp of somebody Trump-related, no matter how irrelevant the crimes? And Trumpmos just hoping libs don't get that scalp?

IDK man, you can have it, seems pretty inconsequential

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647690)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647778)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

Your guess is as good as mine, brochacho. tcr seems like ignoring this sideshow entirely.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647784)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 12:19 PM
Author: Soul-stirring temple

Because if you have to pay taxes, then so does this asshole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36648356)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 12:24 PM
Author: Talented Marketing Idea

So every "tax evasion" case should be the subject of wall-to-wall news coverage?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36648377)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647677)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: orchid dashing public bath tank

Jens David Ohlin, vice dean and law professor at Cornell Law School, said the jury continuing to deliberate likely means they’re not super close to a verdict — but he pointed out that there are a lot of charges against Manafort for him to just walk away. “Manafort was charged with multiple counts of multiple charges, thus increasing the mathemetical likelihood of a conviction on at least some counts,” he said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647808)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 12:45 PM
Author: slate infuriating theatre striped hyena

one weird trick

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36648475)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Appetizing Box Office Hissy Fit

prediction: 2-3 guilties, >2-3 acquits, a few hung.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647824)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: sable aromatic love of her life

I was on a jury once when I was in college. I heard some truly retarded shit when I was deliberating with my fellow jurors. Who knows what they’re back there talking about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647886)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: slate infuriating theatre striped hyena

I was an alternate once, so I sat through the trial but didn't vote. By far the number one topic of discussion was when will this end and I better not miss any of my plans for this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647920)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:55 AM
Author: onyx pontificating community account university

And this is a DC jury - so take that sentiment and multiply it by 10.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647937)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:58 AM
Author: sable aromatic love of her life

Mine was in state court in prince georges county. Very dark jury.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647949)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: onyx pontificating community account university

(Outed as a Terpmo)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647957)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 12:12 PM
Author: sable aromatic love of her life

Double threat brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36648326)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: irate pearl meetinghouse dragon

Not a DC jury, but thanks for playing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36647963)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:40 PM
Author: Bearded Fortuitous Meteor

In the 2016 election, there were 1.28M votes cast within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Alexandria Division of the E.D. Va.

Votes for Hillary outnumbered votes for Trump 2:1, which doesn't bode well for the jury pool's political leanings. We can only hope that the pool was overrepresented by people from the southernmost and westernmost areas of the jurisdiction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649363)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:52 PM
Author: irate pearl meetinghouse dragon

When your only measure is how people voted in an election, you'll easily miss the forest for the trees.

Hillary took 90 percent of the vote in D.C., where Trump was in the single digits with Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.

None of those facts are relevant to what this E.D. Va. jury will do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649425)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:23 PM
Author: Bearded Fortuitous Meteor

Agreed. However, the voting breakdown does give some insight into the political leanings of a perfectly representative jury pool. Whether that will have any impact on the jury's deliberations is unknown. Ideally, it wouldn't have any impact on deliberations because the jury selection process is supposed to eliminate bias, but that's not realistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649634)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 2:51 PM
Author: Motley corner

the key fact is most jurors are retards so who knows what's going on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649419)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:25 PM
Author: Bearded Fortuitous Meteor

They're supposed to be 100 iq mouthbreathers who can pay attention & follow instructions. In a case of this magnitude, I'd imagine they fit that description rather well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649655)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:44 PM
Author: marvelous selfie

100 IQ people don't breathe through the mouth, that's the average IQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36649781)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 5:15 PM
Author: comical bistre school clown

Wouldn't Northern Virginia presumably have a pretty educated jury pool?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36650361)



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Date: August 21st, 2018 9:00 PM
Author: Thriller sadistic church building mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4054105&forum_id=2#36659183)