5:25 Story 8: The officer just admitted to routinely falsifying his Log book. This has just brought into questin the validity of every single case he has been involved in.

"Are you stupid or corrupt?" is pretty much a perfect mic drop moment.

5:09 “Ah- You smelled alcohol on the defendant’s breath? With that heavy wind, from that far away, through that level of rainfall, localized *entirely* through a three-inch crack!?” “…Yes!” In this skit the title could still be ‘Steamed Hams’ because that cop got cooked

Very refreshing to have stories like these that aren't just a text to speech. I listen to these while drawing and listening to an actual person talk and occasionally give input is infinitely better than the usual

Love the Mexican Restaurant one most😂"Yeah, I- Oh." Yeah. OH. But also love the lawyer that worked on the weekend to tear experts apart, the freakin EMPTY BINDERS, eight words, and arm wrestling. That arm wrestling one is WILD

The guy with a bunch of empty binders was great 😂😂 (story 23)

Story 31 makes me think of when Megatron was yelling at Starscream saying "YOU ARE EITHER LYING OR YOU'RE STUPID!"

I work with preschoolers…”they argued 10 minutes with a 4 year old” made me unexpectedly cackle 😂😂

Story 6: There's a massive difference in the cost of the fine between a speeding ticket (usually up to 10mph over speed limit) and reckless driving (which you'll almost always get for 15+mph over the speed limit to the tune of about $300 in most states, so at least he got out of the reckless driving charge.

46:50 Okay, but you have to understand one thing Undersparked, there are several ways of tripping a breathalyzer without having been driving under the influence, including using mouthwash within minutes of being pulled over. The information given in the post isn't enough to go on for if the person in Story 37 actually was drunk driving or not, only that the case had reason to be thrown out on Fourth Amendment grounds. As far as the lawyer in question may have known, his client could have been fully innocent anyway or been guilty as sin, but given it wasn't relevant to the case, they didn't bother arguing it, nor did they share that with us due to A) attorney-client privilege and B) it not being relevant to the story outside of that being what the cop put him away for after the traffic stop.

Story 37 something happened similarly to me. Was driving a friend home from my house and had a moth hit my windshield and my wipers didnt clean the guts off so i pulled over and started cleaning it off with a napkin and a water bottle. A cop pulled up while i was cleaning the moth off and made me get into my car, ran my liscense, got us out of the car, searched my car, ran me through field sobriety tests, and eventually ticketed me for no seatbelt worn before telling me to leave and put my seatbelt on. Went to court had dashcam video (interior/exterior video dashcam) and my passenger's statement of events provided to the judge and my ticket was tossed out and judge didnt seem too pleased with the situation. (Seatbelts worn by both of us until i got out to clean the moth off after pulling over and parking which was before the office pulled up behind me. Then the camera shows the officer pull up and order me into my vehicle before he approached my car all while having his lights on.) Few years ago the whole department was closed as it was found after an investigation many officers pulled over high end or nice looking vehicles at night and searched them illegally always using the excuse the reason for the stop was "suspicious persons/vehicle matching the description" and drivers were being ticketed with things that would be dismissed pretty easily when the cops couldnt find anything to arrest the person on. Things looked normal until you dug into the various stops being performed and saw that there was an unusually high amount of times the generic "suspicious vehicle/person matching description" excuse was used for initiating a traffic stop.

46:50 I get it. I hate drunk driving but the fault lies on the officer who abused his power. It's a lose - lose situation but a corrupt officer is way more dangerous than a drunk driver.

Story 31: The technique being mentioned here is probably the Reid technique. Essentially, they pull you into admitting it by acting like either you already did or there's just no question about it. It's really, REALLY easy to get a false confession using the Reid technique if you aren't REALLY careful.

"Saw a lawyer straighter up MURDER..." :0 "a COP..." :O "with words" :|

Story 37: Drunk driving is definitely stupid and dangerous. Letting cops break the law is also stupid and dangerous. One of those pick-your-poison situations, I guess.

Please do these hour long videos again! I understand they must take a lot of time but this was awesome.

Story 10 was indeed badass lol - Reads book - Gets asked to put passage in his own words - "these are my words. I wrote this book" - Wears shades and Thug life plays in the background or something

Story 6: Going 5 over is cheaper in every way than going 17 over

2:32 this guy was a real sport. Good for him for owning up and moving forward on a positive note.

The last story is just really sad to me tho. The fact that she walked right by without even acknowledging her daughter is just so sad to me.

story 16 they definitely threw him a bone for agreeing they were in the wrong and decided not to waste their time, show's that sometimes agreeing a hill isn't worth dying on will will get you some mercy

In some places, 15 or more over the posted speed limit gets an additional reckless driving charge. If he argued the ticket down from 17 over to 5 over that's still a big win.

My favorite was my own as a pro se civil litigant. One of the lawyers for my adversary openly blurted out and admitted the exact fact that as THE dispositive fact under the law proved to be a slam-dunk for me. I quietly stated “I rest my case”, sat down and shut up. The transcript is a tour de force of a divorced single mom appearing pro se against her ex who was armed with 2 very high-profile, expensive lawyers and my prevailing against them in open court with a packed seated gallery, standing-room only remaining (full of lawyers packing the “pews” and lining the walls standing shoulder-to shoulder), on the record, and the judge telling my adversary and his lawyers that I was more competent and better prepared than any lawyer I could have retained had I had enough money to hire one. That as 39 years ago and still satisfies. I treasure that transcript.

The restaurant case has 2 issues, one: how the f*** is kitchen cleaning waste getting onto the shop floor? Either the building is not fit for purpose, or the staff need retraining. And 2: why do the company think they shouldnt need to pay the staff for the hours they work? If it takes 3 hours to clean the kitchen, then that needs to be included in wages.

If police body cam information is lost or deleted, it must be assumed that it would have proven corruption by the police.

13:42 Absolutely no chance you thought you were going to make that corner at that speed 😭

46:55 I don't like someone getting away with it, but at the end of the day the presumption of innocence and the rights of the parties involved must be the guiding forces of the court. Allowing police and prosecutors to overstep the law to get more convictions would put even more innocent people in jail.

aw yeah an hour long video right when I'm bored to death at work 🎉🎉 ty lol

#24 Absolutely got the memo but the corp probably still wasn't wanting to pay for the "closing down time" after close... so it continued 100% what happened since the corp is the typical no we don't pay past Time X but you still need to do YZ

11:46 is a masterful gambit. Luring him into a false sense of security with the random weeks, not telling him the date but making him say it, not dropping the bombshell until he confirms the lie himself

As someone who works in the legal field (not a lawyer) I love these stories 😂 please do more.

Story 37: Agree driving under the influence isn't good, however what the officer did (my opinion) is worse. If what they did held up, it sets the example.

Yessss, an hour long video from my favorite reddit answers yt channel about my favorite "x of reddit" subject, lawyers. I've been feeling sick since yesterday and slept until 3:45, so this was a nice improvement to my day :)

OK story 37. The guy being drunk may be bad and I say that with air quotes, but that is not the story here. That cop is pulling over random people simply for being in that location. If that sort of behavior is going to be acceptable then you are not safe in your personal possessions. That’s why it’s a fourth amendment violation. Put it this way if he spent five minutes watching the guy and observed anything that looks like drunken behavior. He would’ve had a reason to pull him over. He didn’t do that what he was doing was violating the guys rights end of story

7:30 it's an HOA. It deserves to lose every case in existance.

god i love law

Wow! Almost an hour! I love long videos

Story 25 sounds like a case of a judge and the cop having solid rapport and knowing when to give a kid a break, not a cop not knowing what he’s doing.

Story 35 I would be visibly confused in mock trials for losing points on not calling an "asked and answered" objection. The point was not to say anything. It's better for your case to shut up and sit down. Someone who realizes that deserves the points the most.

Story 37 feels like a perfect example of 2 wrongs don't make a right. The defendant was definitely guilty of driving over the limit, Wrong. The officer then did the worst possible thing and went after a rando for suspicion of doing something not illegal because he didn't seem to belong there... Yeah thats wrong 2 and that there kills the right.

Story 16; you'd be amazed how much leniency you get when you don't contest things that aren't overly major. I got a massive reduction in fine with the following exchange "how would you like to plead?" "well, I'd _like_ to plead not guilty, but..."

i am now convinced the world's best customer service people are basically lawyers LOL

Welp, after watching this - it's time to go watch "My Cousin Vinny" again. :)

i like the longer videos!

Years ago we were commercially fishing in Alaska. It can get very competitive and a lot of the best fishing is right against the boundary line. We were very frustrated that the fisheries police were hassling people who were just barely legal instead of people who were very obviously and blatantly illlegaly fishing. So we said screw it. We went several miles inside of the boundary line. To our consternation, rather than ticket the obviously illegal fishermen we were boarded and ticketed with misdemeanor criminal charges. We had to fly back to Alaska during winter for the trial. The state trooper I testified that his current memory was better than the notes he took at the time. And we asked him why he wrote our coordinates both forwards and backwards. He said that he wasn't sure which was which. That barely got us an acquittal. Because the judge said he basically believed all fishermen were crooked and so he had to grudgingly give us the benefit of the doubt. That is part of why I'm a lawyer today. We couldn't have been more honest and the law hassle dust instead of the people who were blatantly fishing crooked. the cop contradicted himself and admitted on the stand that he didn't know the very basics of the law he was pretending to enforce.

Dave have loved your videos. Started watching because my husband had worked for CFI and I rode along. Saw your leaving and returning videos. Watched a few of the camping videos and lost track. My feed brought me this one. Glad to see you making a happiness change for you. Look forward to seeing more from you. Best wishes and hoping for more. God bless.

Thank you so much for your efforts in these videos 🥰

Story 16 just goes to show that it’s better to be honest. It really does pay (or at least cost less in the long run).

Story 16: Sometimes it pays to be honest.

im sleeping good tonight

I'm never this early to a video... ever. this is either a good omen or a very very bad one

Story 3: Of course he spoke to his attorney, what else is he supposed to do?

youtubes recs been really bad lately, saw you pop up, gave the vid a chance. was not disappointed! Thanks for the new content rabbit hole :D

Ari Melber's answer: "When Peter Navarro confessed in an interview. On camera. I wasn't expecting that."

just wanna say i really like the longer format videos :)

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! YOU ARE SO AWESOME!

With all these cops and other idiots lying on the witness stand, it makes me wonder whether perjury is no longer prosecuted.

Story 28. Wow, that ending just got worse, and worse for the criminal.

I'm also currently facing a round of bogus charges for threats with obscenity where no threats were made whatsoever. What makes it a case that I think would be mentioned in this Reddit is the fact that the judge himself is the one who screwed the courts in this case. This is because at my bond reduction hearing the judge on the record speaks to the district attorney and tells them that he just read the criminal complaint and he could see plenty of profanity but he could not see a single threat made by me to anyone that I spoke to on the phone. The fact that the judge has even stated that there were no threats yet I'm charged with threats with obscenity means that the whole thing is bogus and anytime I have to deal with this after that statement which at this time is already one month after that statement was made by the judge it all counts against the courts and the district attorney not me

That cleaning the restaraunt early case... I really hope there was further malicious compliance, or there'd be huge grounds for wage theft!

He'll plead, your honor. He can't pay enough for me to continue, and I rest my case.

This is the right way to do a reddit compilation video

That reads like a woken up judge and lawyer from a monotonous day in spring break and actually LOOKING at what happened instead of just the charges (story 16)

15:48 Story 16: this reads like a Dahr Mann video... "thank you for telling the truth... we will give you fewer charges"

Finally a long video!!

44:00 Typical lawyer behaviour stealing other people’s parking spots.

I love when someone does the fish out of water reaction

Story 20: To sum it up, Spite is a powerful motivator

The Are you Stupid or Corrupt story: I suspect it was a combination of both Stupid and Corrupt...He didn't properly learn the Interrogation Technique 4 months ago (The Stupidity) and was too determined to "Catch the Killer" (The Corruption) to apply what he did remember of the Technique when Interrogating the Autistic Suspect...

This was a very good video

Story 40: I'm convinced that lawyer is a huge spiderman fan.

I'm not at all surprised the Jury gave the Restaurant 0% Liability for the injury to Kid B... The Lawyer argued the Restaurant had a Duty to Protect it's Patron's (AKA Customer's)...and he's right, they do... The problem with that argument is neither kid A nor Kid B were in fact a Customer of the Restaurant since neither kid bought anything from the Restaurant... You can't be a Customer until you spend money to buy something...

Thanks Mr.Sparked! A XL size upload!

Yay an hour video:)

That arm wrestling deal. Its great

This was rly good

I have a funny little story for you. I was the defendant being charged with bogus retaliatory charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer because I dared to call them out on not knowing what they were talking about or even knowing how to do their job right and then I use two profane words to criticize them and their actions. After almost a year of fighting the case and me telling them to shove three plea agreements their backsides and getting my attorney changed because the first one was completely incompetent. My second attorney who practiced civil rights litigation as well as criminal defense law put in a motion to dismiss all charges based on civil rights violations play and never had to show up. He was called by the judge and told to pull over to the side of the road because he is not needed in court they did the introductions and then the da proceeded to request that all charges be dropped in the interest of Justice because after finally revealing their evidence after almost a year they have no way to convict me at trial. Case dismissed and thrown out permanently

I was requested by a foreign government to be an expert witness in a smuggling/forgery case. This was based upon affidavits that one of our investigators and myself produced. Our headquarters staffs were going back and forth to authorize me to go based upon the Interpol request. I was given the email thread and there was one stupid response. One person said that why not send an affidavit instead of me. The response from another was that his previous affidavit was the basis of the request. How it was phrased was like “can’t you read dummy!”

The bad Mexican restaurant owner case: Cinco de Mayo is actually celebrated more in America than in Mexico. It is somewhat like St Patrick’s Day - celebrated very differently in its home country than here. A good analogy would be an American holiday celebrating the Battle of New Orleans. Mexico’s Independence Day is on September 16th. They actually celebrate for the entire month of September. The Battle of Puebla (celebrated as Cinco de Mayo) happened literally years after Mexico achieved independence from Spain. It was actually a dispute over a debt Mexico owed to France. So, it is true that a Mexican restaurant in the United States would need additional staffing on May 5th, a similar restaurant in, say, Cabo San Lucas or México City probably wouldn’t.

Story 21- That cop is toast. Now, every case he is involved in, the prosecutor will have to disclose that the officer was found, on the record, to have lied under oath.

I love this❤❤😊

Story 28, respect to the cop for saving this guy's life. Now if only there were no stories of corrupt or lying police in here.

While driving a car my dad bought off of the company he worked for, I had an RCMP officer just about wreck pulling a u-turn to chase me down. I was young (but so was he TBH) and he wouldnt believe me that according to the sleedometer, I wasn't speeding. He even tried to make it *MY* fault he made a poor choice amd almost wrecked making the u-turn. I had a suspicion, so I got the same court-recognized company that certifies the RCMP speedometers to certify that car. It was significantly out low - in my favour. I went to court withnthe officially stamped report in my hand. I tried to talk to the prosecutor and he wouldnt listen to a thing. Court was going long - into everyones lunch, in particular the judge. Mine was pretty near the end of morning docket, if not the last case on docket before lunch break. The prosecutor went through their entire routine, figuring this was an aur tight case. The judge asked if I had anything to say, so I said I did amd that I had proof that at the time, the speedometer was significantly under reporting, whichbInwas unaware of, that I had told the RCMP officer and the prosecutor as well, but here we were on his lunch. He asked for the report, I provided it, he looked briefly at it, did some math and realized I was at or UNDER the speed limit at the time according to the speedometer, thew it out and glared at the RCMP officer and prosecutor and said "NOW can I go to lunch? I'm STARVING." The prosecutor tried to give me shit for not showing him before, but I stated loudly enough for the judge to hear yet again that I had tried and he had arrogantly brushed me off. I think there was some drama after that. I never fixed it, I just mentally subtracted the measured amounts for the different speed ranges and never had another problem.

i love this

Not a lawyer but was the one who was being unlawfully evicted because they wanted to renovate our apartment after we had massive water damage after we had signed a new lease but before it went into affect. They legally can not do that. Our new lease started on June 1st they were waiting us out trying to get us to just give up but in the mean time were still accepting our rent check. Once they realized that wouldn’t look good for them in court they cut off our ability to pay our rent then tried to evict us for non payment. however they had messed up and 1. Accepted rent from us after the new lease was supposedly no longer valid. So if we didn’t have a valid lease why were they allowing us to pay rent? And then 2. They failed to fix a fire alarm that had been shorted out due to water damage. We had emails they knew about it and they would let maintenance know. I had emails from maintenance saying they fixed it. Then had photos that clearly showed no one had even touched it since I had put tape across it with the date (and had the date and time of when it was taken) and then I also had photos after they claimed it was fixed with the tape clearly never being moved. Ran into the fire marshal who was at the complex for another matter. Asked him if it would be against code to have a non functioning alarm that was clearly water damaged and not fixed. He was very much not happy. Sent an email to the complex with us CCd on it and demanded it to be fixed. We also finally forced the complex to honor the original lease after proving what they were doing was illegal. Ya, judge wasn’t happy with them for admitting they accepted rent when they claimed we had no valid lease.

37:29 "You're not just wrong, you're stupid."

Story 24: The restaurant is the only one at fault for the incident. There is no reason for workers to have to keep working hours that they would not be paid. If the restaurant refuses to compensate for all the hours needed to clean up then they could just as easily leave the work only a third finished and let the health inspector do the rest of the judgment.

I'm defending in a home invasion robbery case. The victim is on the stand: Me on Cross: Are you sure it was my client? I mean it was dark, right? Witness/Victim: I'm 80% sure. Me: No further questions, Your Honor. Verdict: Not guilty Why? Only evidence was the eyewitness/victim's ID. Only 80% sure? Not proof beyond and reasonable doubt.

I feel like destroying body cam footage would be a crime on it's own... But maybe the US is being weird

Preliminary hearing on probable cause. Cross examination of a cop who said something stupid. I started to follow up and the judge said, “Counselor, do you want to quit while you re ahead?” “Yes your honor, yes I do.”

In story 25 I believe it is you said something about a way to beat a cases to get pulled over by a cop who doesn't know what they're talking about. Well that would be 99% of cops so you have a very high chance of that being the case

Story 15 11:40 might be one of my favorites in this whole almost hour long video!

Story 10 just said they didn't want to sue the bigger company that could afford to defend themselves in a long case and not be browbeaten into settling, not that the big company would get away with everything

The 55 tocket can be better then a higher speed ticket

Story 28 where they had obvious justification to take the fingerprints without a warrant but applied for and instantly got a warrant: exactly. If your case is so obviously correct that you can get a warrant in seconds, you should be required to get that warrant because obviously spending those seconds is a trivial impact. If you can't afford to spend the time it would take to get a warrant then your case must be relatively weak which is all the more reason to have a judge look closely and make a careful and deliberate decision whether to grant the warrant. Literally the only time you shouldn't get a warrant is when it's an immediate life it death case. Ironically exactly when you would be most willing to risk getting your evidence thrown out IE the evidence was thrown out but at least we stopped him from literally murdering someone.

holy cow i didn't even NOTICE how long this video was

Story 25. Could be that the cop wanted the guy to go free. Not every day you see someone arrive to traffic court in a suit. And it's out of his jurisdiction.

Well he lost one ticket and got a lesser one so still saved himself money

Not many know this, but there’s a rule of thumb when it comes to speeding tickets you can issue tickets to people going over the speed limit by so much but you really don’t have to as long as they’re not going so much over the speed limits if they’re going like a little bit over then it’s OK but if it’s too much over then you can write them a ticket and also if they’re going to speed limit just to match the speed of traffic you also don’t have to issue a ticket and you should not because you would have to do it to everyone since they’re all going around the same speed to match traffic even though it’s over the speed limit

13:11 >case involves Cinco de Mayo > watching this video on Cinco de Mayo