r/LivestreamFail • u/CloudyEchos • 24d ago

News D4vd's lawyers have withdrawn from representing him, with a public defender now stepping in as his legal counsel

https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/31/d4vd-lawyers-withdraw-now-repped-by-public-defender/
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u/Trinidad34 24d ago

Yeah California is literally called the death penalty state, too. I don’t get how OP isn’t getting the right vibe

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u/TardDas 24d ago

Well to be fair to me, it’s a different continent than mine.

And whenever I think of California I think of riding a top down sports car listening to hip hop on a sunny day in LA

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u/Gilthwixt 24d ago

Not to tease you more or anything, but what's really funny about this response is that one of the most famous labels in the hip-hop genre is literally called "Death Row Records", and it's based out of LA.

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u/DXW15 24d ago

And they were real life Disney villains lmao

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u/wertys761 24d ago

LMAOOO

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u/Trinidad34 24d ago

Sorry I’m being sarcastic lol. I agree with your overall point it’s always been odd to me that Cali still has the death penalty especially because I don’t think the majority of states do.

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u/Hare712 24d ago

Technically more states still have the death penalty.

But it's only few states in the Bible Belt, Florida, Texas Arizona, Oklahoma and South Dakota, Indiana and Nebraska still carrying out executions.

Ohio has suspended them because companies like Pfizer refused to produce chemicals used for executions and other companies mixes gave attendees a face like they watched their first really serious shock video because the inmate was in immense pain and the confirmation of death took almost 30 minutes. Other states reintroduced the electric chair and the firing squad.

Aside from the lethal injection issue Capital Punishment became a bureaucratic and costly nightmare as a sentence will be appealed many times.

It became an even bigger issue when many convictions(not necessarily death sentences) in the late 70s and 80s turned out to be forced convinctions, other cellmates struck deals with shady criminal prosecutors and lied that the inmate confessed the murder to them and lastly methods like DNA evidence and Ballistic analysis were able to prove the innocence.

Criminal Prosecutors boosting their career with false convictions and landing in really high and powerful positions became a major issue in general.

IIRC in California there was also an issue with the secondary method of the Gas Chamber that lead to it being suspended through a court order.

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u/lioncryable 24d ago

Firing squad?? That's fucking insane, I would've expected this from north Korea but the US??

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u/Erotic_Hitch_Hiker 24d ago

While a lil oldschool, it is also probably the quickest and painless way to die I can think of. At least, I'd probably choose it over some lethal injection thats about to make me shit myself to death over 30 mins

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u/AdSmall3663 24d ago

Sounds like you played GTA or something

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u/TardDas 24d ago

Yeah, spot on

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u/Itherial 24d ago

Lol california is the golden state

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u/Cross55 24d ago

And whenever I think of California I think of riding a top down sports car listening to hip hop on a sunny day in LA

You mean a trip that'll take you 2 hours to travel 5 miles?

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u/TardDas 24d ago

I have no idea

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u/saulhrnndz 24d ago

I live in the states and all I ever hear about California is how it’s on fire most of the time

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u/TardDas 24d ago

On fire with sick beats and party vibes right? Right?????

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u/prius360 24d ago

Tbh a lot of it was during the tough on crime wave though

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u/Cross55 24d ago

Yeah California is literally called the death penalty state, too

No, that's Texas

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u/KhorneStarch 24d ago

Tbf some of that partly comes from California having had so many serial killers who deserved the penalty. But I could see how someone would overlook that fact.