Sees dead guy, "what happened?", "well you see he took the gun like this and", *Gunshot* , "Oh my God he's dead" , rushes in and sees dead body, "oh my got what happened?", "Well you see he took the gun like this"...
@@FFKonoko yeah that is what happens, when someone is dumb enough to have a loaded gun, turn off the safety, aim it at themselves, and pull the trigger.
@@nathanglover8938 It is totally ok to not have a gun. I don't have one. But I do think that he wouldn't ever make a gun joke for the sole reason of not wanting to appear in a video with a gun, in any context.
A lot of people have died from lawyering, executed because of Prosecutors covering up mitigating evidence and Defense Attorneys who were beyond incompetent.
I live in Ohio. Not too bad a place to be exiled today if you nail a cozy, small city near the Erie Lakefront. Especially where the Black Swamp used to be. Then again, I’ve never been exiled, I’ve just lived here all my life.
@@jayobsia4699 Ohio is pretty great in the right places, has the amenities and things to do like that of a big city location. But without the crazy ass taxes or stupid high home prices. With that said, please do continue to think of ohio as a shit hole. It helps keep our housing prices down and our taxes low too :)
A more successful (but insane) trial tactic involving guns in court: In the 1800s, lawyer Temple Lea Houston successfully defended a client accused of shooting a man in cold blood. His argument was that the man killed in self-defense, because the victim was a bitter rival who was going to shoot and kill his client. He demonstrated this by *pulling out a gun and firing at the jury,* causing them to scatter and panic. After the ruckus calmed down, he revealed that the gun was loaded with blanks. He wanted to show how quickly easily a gunman could shoot you if you didn't act fast, which is why his client had to pull a Han Solo and shoot first. Also, the jury was initially rigged with the dead man's friends, but when the gunfire caused them to flee into the streets, they mingled with the public and were thus disqualified from jury duty. The next jury was more favorable to Houston's client, who was acquitted.
“You might ask yourself ‘How was it possible for Clement Vallandingham to shoot himself’ Well...” No, Devin!! We believe you! It’s already happened three times, I’m not asking how!
@@krissp8712 Ohio didn't officially become a state until 1953. It was declared a state in 1803, but didn't get the presidential stamp of approval until President Dwight Eisenhower signed off. He back-dated the declaration to the original date. Source: Mental Floss
My grandma once did something of similar nature, just safer. Got her diet Pepsi, fumbled it, and spilled it all over herself. When asked how she did that, she used her new cup of Pepsi and demonstrated....by accidentally spilling it on herself yet again in the same fashion. For the rest of the night every sentence spoken involved laughter. Good times.
This is like the real life equivalent of the Tomska skit "What Happened?" Every time someone asks what happened, they demonstrate the person shooting themselves, only to shoot themselves.
Bugs Bunny : I give up, Mr. Fudd. Why is the state of Ohio different? Elmer Fudd : Because it's high in the middle and wound on both ends! O-HI-O! *Fudd always pronounces his R's as W's.
@@TheKitKatThe Im sorry, were you trying to say something with all that incoherent rambling you just did. Are you having a stroke? Can the stroke happen faster?
@@tirsden thanks for the names, found it fast because of that, that was.. special. And the looks of those ladies after she storms off, the "OMGWTF" is all over their faces!
As a firearm enthusiast, a few additional notes: - apparently the gun was basically typical percussion revolver, which means that checking whether each chamber was loaded or not was very difficult cuz these chamber were blind holes unlike modern metallic cartridge revolver where you can see bases of your cartridges in its bored-through chambers, but checking whether accidental discharge could happen or not was actually very easy; Just check your percussion caps! If there had been no percussion caps in his revolver, he wouldn't have accidentally discharge it into his stomach even if it is loaded... - "Original" objective of NRA was basically "educating ppl how to shoot rifle properly and accurately for hunting and recreational target shooting via private enterprise (cuz gov was always slow to do anything) and hopefully it would improve overall quality improvement of shooting capability of US army's men." One of the reasons why Burnside was chosen as the first president was the fact that he was actually very good gun designer (ofc another was the fact he learned rather horrendous shooting capability of US army's men in kinda traumatic way)
“Everything repeats over and over again. No one learns anything, because no one lives long enough to see the pattern.” - Marceline, Adventure Time. Wise words from a kid's TV show.
Of course, only an immortal vampire would actually see that. For further confirmation, just look at Babette from the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim! She LOOKS like she's 10 years old, but she's ACTUALLY well over 300, and a Vampire! She's been around long enough to see the true nature of things. And she actually uses her young appearance as a weapon. She understands that her child appearance automatically puts EVERYONE off-guard, which makes her a nearly perfect assassin. Not to mention what she says that she did to someone who ACTUALLY tried to take advantage of her.
This guy had a WILD life. Like, yeah, knew the whole "best defense ever" story, but not the rest of his life. This was a wild story from start to finish.
I get it Burnside was a poor general, but thst doesn't give Lincoln the right to violate the 8th Amendment. Like, sentenced him to Ohio?? If that's not cruel and unusual, idk what is
"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." - Anton Chekhov
Me seeing the title: is this the guy who proved someone accidentally shot themselves by accidentally shooting himself? Me after watching the video: Called it!
Wow! I heard of "the layer that accidentaly shot Himself, prooving His client's innocence", but I had no idea of all the crasyness surrounding that story! Great video Legal Eagle !
I had to pause and laugh over that orange sliding in. I don't know why, but that really got me today; it had me rolling! ETA: Devin and I must be on the same wavelength today. When he said "Order 38" I murmured "execute order 66!" in the Emperor's voice only to realize Devin was making the same joke.
"The Universe has a dark sense of Humor" - Many years ago my niece and three others were in an auto accident that left them severely injured, except the male driver of the car at fault, who was miraculously unhurt. The next day, while the 3 young women were in the hospital, he was complaining to his friends that he had no car to drive. Then he hopped on his bicycle and rode down the street, promptly hit something, fell off, and broke his jaw. Occasionally, rarely unfortunately, the universe shows its dark sense of humor.
When I was 6 years old, my dad taught me the first rule of firearm safety - don't point a gun at anything you don't want shot. Immediately after, he taught me the second rule: Every gun ever is loaded. Always. No matter if you just checked it, it's loaded.
@@ImLuna_az ...uhm...so I would...uhm....know gun safety? Why wouldn't you teach a child gun safety? What? Do you want children not being safe around guns?
@@rom65536 Can't be annoyed by children if there are no children, lol. Seriously though, most of the world doesn't trust anyone with guns at all. Significant amounts of people can't even look before crossing a road, so keeping the magic boom-sticks out of their caveman hands is probably a good idea.
The thing that interests me the most about Abe Lincoln is how he's taught in different stages. Elementary and middle school, he was the president that abolished slavery. High school, his motives were to preserve the Union, with or without the abolishing of slavery, but as the war went on, he had to make the abolishing of slavery a main outcome of the war due to Britain looking sus. Then in College, he was even more complex, now you learn about how tyrannical he became during the war, like suppressing the press. He starts as a saint and ends as a complex character who is imperfect, but generally still a good man with the good of the nation in his heart. He's definitely one of my favorite presidents to learn about
The stages of cocky downfall. Treat all guns as if they are loaded. Treat all guns the same, regardless of if they are loaded or not. Treat loaded guns as if they are empty.
True story; Ambrose Burnside was in fact the person who made sideburns a common phrase for that specific facial hair configuration. For you see the man was a notorious drunk (in addition to a failure as a military commander). He once got so completely trashed he messed up his own name while introducing himself to a foreign dignitary. He introduced himself as General Sideburns.
"hey sometimes guns go off on accident, isn't that what you're trying to prove actually?" "Nah it'll be fine." -self inflicted gunshot lawyer and his colleague
OBJECTION! No real objections, I was just hoping since you cover fictional suits you might want to take a look at The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck
For anyone wondering if this was before the invention of the safety or something, it would seem the answer is yes. Some googling indicates teh first grip safeties were developed in the 1880s (intended "childproof" certain guns), with other designs gaining popularity in the 1890s and into the 1900s.
Most of them are smart. They make themselves look incompetent and say stujpid things to appeal to a certain base, while actively working for their own ends, and flip-flopping as the need arises. There are quite a number, however, who got elected due to pure extremist rhetoric, and barely have a high school education, especially in the House.
I think this is another perfect case of what can only be best described as "the only difference between fiction and history is that fiction has to make sense". This seemed like something straight out of a drug trip.
It's astounding to me to see him get treated with such kids' gloves. Fortunately, we've moved far from the 1800s, these days a public official surely would be at the very least impeached for inciting a riot, right?
@@matthewstone7218 the Segway is the cool but totally dorky thing you ride. Fun fact, the creator of the Segway died when he rode one off a cliff trying to prove how quickly it can stop
Jokes aside, at least 61 lawyers had been killed in the Philippines under Duterte, out of which 26 were work-related killings, 15 drug related, only 12 personal and 15 unknown.
Thanks for the explanation, I was wracking my mind trying to understand how an orange, of all objects ould possibly be related to baseless political conspiracies and rejection of the vote.
I have seen soap operas with fewer dramatic twists than this guy’s biography. And the kinda death my dad would have told me about as a weird one-liner as a kid.
I was actually needing a coffee subscription soon, hopefully me using the code still helps you out! Been listening to a lot of your videos in the background lately, really enjoy the way you take complex legal topics and break them down to be digestible, without it feeling "dumbed down." You're just explaining it in plain language, and it makes it so much easier to understand, while still being entertaining. It's a fine line to walk, and you walk it well. Well done, sir!
Fun fact, that hotel he shot himself still exists. It's also a restaurant where they serve a peanut butter barbeque bacon cheeseburger and is currently owned by the family of US Senator Rob Portman.
Eh you can walk into a grocery and get your food. Women aren’t dying in child birth like they used to. Etc. Even with all the chaos in the world humans are doing the best they have ever done.
This reminds me of the bit where a police officer asks how someone died, and the other officer shot themselves, demonstrating how the person died, and it just kept repeating as more officers came in.
@@Veecy I mean yea there was some broad stuff but I’m kind tired of the orange jokes. Again, it was funny at first, but it feels like now it’s just being drawn out for no reason. He’s not president anymore. He’s already been banned from Twitter. It’s the equivalent of a dead joke.
At the very end for the sponsor: "You might ask yourself, 'How was it possible that Clement Vallandigham actually shot himself', well-" Not gonna lie, I half expected Devon to pull out a prop pistol and say "Allow me to demonstrate..."
Could be worse. You could be sentenced to Kansas -a Kansan Or worse yet, Missouri! -an ex-Missourian, who realized that even _Kansas_ is an improvement
I love these videos! Because of your story-like videos my fellow 1Ls now know way more facts than they cared to know about poor Ms. Palsgraf and Mr. Katko and Mr. McDonough’s adventures. Please keep them coming!
It's almost like voting in an inexperienced, non-standardised and obviously flawed system with no computers leads to more easy voter fraud and with experience and modern technology people have had to find new ways of rigging like gerrymandering and foreign intervention!
It was an issue back then. Kidnapping people, drugging them, forcing them to vote multiple times. Some people think that Edgar Allen Poe was used for fraudulent voting the day/night of his death. Although we’ll probably never know for sure what cause his death or what events lead up to it
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 actually, a fair bit of the winning party is wary of this too. Remember the primary how Bernie was winning all night and had a huge crowd, and at the last second the lights went out and Biden won. Also, have you the confidence to actually hear out folks like crowder who've found (by hand mind you) thousands of illegal votes? If not, do you really have any ground to stand on?
Legal Eagle: "He got his client acquitted at the cost of his own life..." Me: "Ok a bit extreme" Legal Eagle: "...and then was found guilty of treason and exiled before sneaking back into his country in disguise." Me: "NANI?!"
**laughs in Repeated History** then **groans in the realization that it is in Repeated History** The Stupid... it not only lives but it seems to be immortal.
🦅 Any other famous lawyers I should cover?
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Your snarky comments fill me with joy!
@@LegalEagle cool
Do the Monk episode “Mr. Monk Takes the Stand”!!
Richard “Racehorse “ Haynes
I'd love to see you cover Alexander Hamilton!
Sees dead guy, "what happened?", "well you see he took the gun like this and", *Gunshot* , "Oh my God he's dead" , rushes in and sees dead body, "oh my got what happened?", "Well you see he took the gun like this"...
So a light grenade?
Mmm whatcha say
That sounds like a comical Twilight Zone episode.
A Tomska reference in Legal Eagle comments made my day.
@@blink2nap Your welcome!
The best defence is a good offense, tackle the judge.
I got sentenced to life in jail for tackling the judge. But it's ok he got cancelled!
Rookie move; gotta tackle the bailiff first... 😉
@@CliteTMSUBSCRIBE If you tackled the judge hard enough you wouldn't get sentenced. An unconscious judge can't convict you!
Why was my comment removed?
Need to dodge the bailiff in the well first!
"I'm not in any danger, I've carried pistols for a long time" *proceeds to break every basic gun safety rule*
It takes a lot of experience to violate so many rules with such efficiency.
Someone who is experienced with firearms getting cocky, overconfident, arrogant, forgetting that is a tool designed to harm or kill?
Yeaaah.
@@FFKonoko yeah that is what happens, when someone is dumb enough to have a loaded gun, turn off the safety, aim it at themselves, and pull the trigger.
perhaps the rules of gun safety were still work in progress at the time (i.e. not documented yet)?
@@Twisted_Code What about "unwritten rule(s)"?
“...and sentenced him to...Ohio.” Didn’t realize this was a horror story.
From my time there, I never realized I was being punished. The people I knew were quite pleasant, a little hyperreligious, but very nice.
Burnside: "No! No please! Anywhere but there!" Lincoln: "Michigan, then?" Burnside: "O...Ohio's fine"
@@4everhabs ohh come on michigan is not that.... *Looks at Flint* ohh nvm
also a legal travesty since I am pretty sure thats a cruel and unusual punishment.
The only place worse is brazil
Objection: "the greatest case of his life" and "the last case of his life" are not mutually exclusive.
I second this
I was about to raise that. Good on you; great minds think alike?
Sustained
What about "Most memorable case of his life?"
@@gamerleal9265 let's be specific. For him? Not really, he's dead!
“You’re probably wondering how he shot himself...” - I genuinely thought Legal Eagle was about to pull out a gun to demonstrate
Lol
A missed opportunity. He is too PC for that joke.
@@Alkis05 Gotta love America, where it's "too PC" to not have a gun.
@@nathanglover8938 It is totally ok to not have a gun. I don't have one. But I do think that he wouldn't ever make a gun joke for the sole reason of not wanting to appear in a video with a gun, in any context.
I’m sure there was a stupid deaths segment in horrible histories about how it happened
Your Honor, I’m going to pull what I call a “Pro Gamer Move”.
Not the only thing hes gonna pull
@@captnbluehat pull the chair...
Lawyers don't die, they respawn.
"as well as a loaded gun, tho i don't actually know that it's loaded!"
I think it's a rule. Show a loaded gun in the first scene, and you have to Chekhov the rest of the boxes.
On His Tombstone: Died due to lawyering
The first time that someone physically died from lawyering instead of just loosing their soul
@@AxxLAfriku get back to your containment facility SCP-00242412. your content is too confusing for the mortal mind to understand.
Alternatively:
Here Lies Clement Vallandingham
Objection
Overruled, June 17, 1871
A lot of people have died from lawyering, executed because of Prosecutors covering up mitigating evidence and Defense Attorneys who were beyond incompetent.
That's an epic taph.
Sentenced to Ohio. What a terrible sentence, truly.
I live in Ohio. Not too bad a place to be exiled today if you nail a cozy, small city near the Erie Lakefront. Especially where the Black Swamp used to be.
Then again, I’ve never been exiled, I’ve just lived here all my life.
@@joshuahunt3032 i'm so sorry.
@@jayobsia4699 Ohio is pretty great in the right places, has the amenities and things to do like that of a big city location. But without the crazy ass taxes or stupid high home prices.
With that said, please do continue to think of ohio as a shit hole. It helps keep our housing prices down and our taxes low too :)
Something the Supreme Court has ruled to be cruel and unusual.
Agreed
“Sentenced him to Ohio”
A fate worse than death, some might say
Detroit is worst I'd say.
@@Zarafin Detroit is a city, so no, not the worst
No...that honor goes to New Jersey. Ohio is a close second.
Yeah Ohio isn't even real
@@therealevilmudbug you're thinking Wyoming
My favorite quote from trial transcripts, "Your Honor, my client is not a criminal, he simply failed to comply with the law."
"This military tribunal has no jurisdiction to try me! I'm not a member of this army!"
"Congratulations, you've been conscripted."
Draft 'em. Hang 'em. Repeat. A sound strategy.
A more successful (but insane) trial tactic involving guns in court: In the 1800s, lawyer Temple Lea Houston successfully defended a client accused of shooting a man in cold blood. His argument was that the man killed in self-defense, because the victim was a bitter rival who was going to shoot and kill his client. He demonstrated this by *pulling out a gun and firing at the jury,* causing them to scatter and panic. After the ruckus calmed down, he revealed that the gun was loaded with blanks. He wanted to show how quickly easily a gunman could shoot you if you didn't act fast, which is why his client had to pull a Han Solo and shoot first.
Also, the jury was initially rigged with the dead man's friends, but when the gunfire caused them to flee into the streets, they mingled with the public and were thus disqualified from jury duty. The next jury was more favorable to Houston's client, who was acquitted.
Compelling.
I might have risked being tackled by the Balliff to table that Lawyer for a stunt like that
There's more than one state where a defense like that might still work.
Wow
@@Ange1ofD4rknessOh yes, run at the man with the gun, why don’t you try that, tell us how it worked out?
“You might ask yourself ‘How was it possible for Clement Vallandingham to shoot himself’ Well...”
No, Devin!! We believe you! It’s already happened three times, I’m not asking how!
You gotta admit, that would make for an exciting final video.
Is this a tomska refrence?
@@awesomeninja1311 Is that a pigeon reference?
@@psychopompous489 Is any of this a JoJo's reference?
@@awesomeninja1311 oh my god what happened
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.” -Mark Twain
Damn right, four-fathoms
"Do I at least get a chance to explain myself?”
“This is America- so no.”
"This isn't America! This is OHIO!"
Since when??
_Always has been._
Nice reference
@@krissp8712 Ohio didn't officially become a state until 1953. It was declared a state in 1803, but didn't get the presidential stamp of approval until President Dwight Eisenhower signed off. He back-dated the declaration to the original date. Source: Mental Floss
No this is Patrick
A scott the woz fan
Sentences at the time were so cruel.
"I sentence you to Ohio"
Chilling
CLEAR8thamendmentchallenge
I've never seen dirtier forest than I have in Ohio. Just trees covered with dirt. Everywhere
Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Judge: "You get Ohio."
Patrick Henry: "ahhhh shit..."
Atleast he wasn't sentenced to Brazil (Brazilian btw and its a joke for the people who take this serious)
@@FrozenSpaceYT True story. BUT NOT FOR LONG SINCE BIG DICK LULA IS BACK BABY.
"He was sentenced to Ohio" That falls under cruel and unusual punishment.
Definitely falls under unusual, but not very cruel considering some are sentenced to New Jersey.
@@wta1518 that's like saying that a certain form of torture isn't cruel because some are worse.
It's both depressing and weirdly comforting to know that humanity was just as much of a hot mess back then as we are today.
Learning history gives an unmatched sense of perspective.
And yet people act like we are worse now then we were, even though that's demonstrably false.
@@bored_person I mean it really depends on place, time, and social/class position.
@@DeathnoteBB Does it really though?
@@zashgekido5616 Yes, of course.
"General Burnside. You have been found guilty of being a lousy general and are hereby sentenced to...OHIO"
Dear God
What the hell happened to banning cruel and unusual punishment?
"Death! By exile."
Better than detroit
*NO! NOT OHIO!!!!*
My grandma once did something of similar nature, just safer. Got her diet Pepsi, fumbled it, and spilled it all over herself. When asked how she did that, she used her new cup of Pepsi and demonstrated....by accidentally spilling it on herself yet again in the same fashion. For the rest of the night every sentence spoken involved laughter. Good times.
This is like the real life equivalent of the Tomska skit "What Happened?" Every time someone asks what happened, they demonstrate the person shooting themselves, only to shoot themselves.
Wait I'm confused, what happened?
Well you see he picked up the gun like this and *bang*
Oh no, my twin brother !!
@@spaghettidoneright1229 Oh no, MY twin brother!
"Mommy, what happened to dad?"
"Well you see honey"
How come so many people know about this video lmao
The Animaniacs said it best a long time ago: "All is strange and vague." "Are we dead?" "Or is this Ohio?" Of course, in Vallandigham's case, both!
There are no places other than Ohio. There is just Ohio, and your proximity to it.
@@erinfinn2273 As someone from Ohio, can confirm.
@@andydrosky4846 where at in Ohio I’m in piqua
Bugs Bunny : I give up, Mr. Fudd. Why is the state of Ohio different?
Elmer Fudd : Because it's high in the middle and wound on both ends! O-HI-O!
*Fudd always pronounces his R's as W's.
OBJECTION!
The plural of "Jedi" is "Jedi."
That said, that joke earned my sub. Well done.
@Sarcastic Dude get your dark ways out of here
@Sarcastic Dude OBJECTION! The singular of "The Jedi" is "Luke Skywalker."
"Florida Man shoots Himself To Prove A Point." Never change Florida Man. lol
Florida man shoots himself, notices two days later
Well, THAT Florida Man definitely changed. From alive to dead...
@@RustyDust101 but still the same inside.
@@aperson9430 well, maybe missing a bit of blood and brains. and skull. and other stuff but hey, still mostly the same!
@@TheKitKatThe Im sorry, were you trying to say something with all that incoherent rambling you just did. Are you having a stroke? Can the stroke happen faster?
Say what you will, that was an argument to die for.
will: :)
HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Amen!
He killed the prosecution's case.
"You might ask yourself, how was it possible that Clement Vallandigham actually shot himself?" DEVIN NO DON'T DO IT
You HAVE to look at the Kentucky lawyer who stormed off out of a zoom court after the judge called her out on her fake claims of her client
👀 I’d love a vid on that
Absolutely
Whoah, I just found the clip (Shameka O'Neil, 7-ish mins posted by David Byrne) and... aahahahaha. Uh. Gods.
@@tirsden Thanks for the source. Wow ... that's ... something haha
@@tirsden thanks for the names, found it fast because of that, that was.. special. And the looks of those ladies after she storms off, the "OMGWTF" is all over their faces!
“Vallandigham was dead set on proving this theory correct to his co-counsel”.
*gives an ‘Agatha All Along’ wink*
This comment, I like it. *Another!*
As a firearm enthusiast, a few additional notes:
- apparently the gun was basically typical percussion revolver, which means that checking whether each chamber was loaded or not was very difficult cuz these chamber were blind holes unlike modern metallic cartridge revolver where you can see bases of your cartridges in its bored-through chambers, but checking whether accidental discharge could happen or not was actually very easy; Just check your percussion caps! If there had been no percussion caps in his revolver, he wouldn't have accidentally discharge it into his stomach even if it is loaded...
- "Original" objective of NRA was basically "educating ppl how to shoot rifle properly and accurately for hunting and recreational target shooting via private enterprise (cuz gov was always slow to do anything) and hopefully it would improve overall quality improvement of shooting capability of US army's men." One of the reasons why Burnside was chosen as the first president was the fact that he was actually very good gun designer (ofc another was the fact he learned rather horrendous shooting capability of US army's men in kinda traumatic way)
right, the nra has changed even more than the democratic and republican parties.
“Everything repeats over and over again. No one learns anything, because no one lives long enough to see the pattern.” - Marceline, Adventure Time. Wise words from a kid's TV show.
Of course, only an immortal vampire would actually see that.
For further confirmation, just look at Babette from the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim!
She LOOKS like she's 10 years old, but she's ACTUALLY well over 300, and a Vampire!
She's been around long enough to see the true nature of things. And she actually uses her young appearance as a weapon.
She understands that her child appearance automatically puts EVERYONE off-guard, which makes her a nearly perfect assassin.
Not to mention what she says that she did to someone who ACTUALLY tried to take advantage of her.
Everything stays, but it still changes.
What did Santayana say about history? I forget.
@@Psiberzerker *4-weeks-delayed rimshot. That repeats itself every 4 weeks*
@ExDeeXD Music people that choose to abuse the pattern didn't really understand it as well as they thought.
"I know you think that lawyers are super smart..."
You believe I still think that after the US tour of Rudy and the Krakens?
I was doing something else while this was playing in the background and I had to rewind and see if he'd popped up any imagery behind that sentence lol
This guy had a WILD life. Like, yeah, knew the whole "best defense ever" story, but not the rest of his life.
This was a wild story from start to finish.
"A lawyer is only as good as their last cup of coffee." Godot from Phoenix Wright, best attorney, confirmed.
Oh my gosh I thought the exact same thing
Question: is a cup of gourmet coffee that's been poisoned good... or bad?
@@benjaminoechsli1941Good, it’ll keep you caffeinated for the rest of your life
I get it Burnside was a poor general, but thst doesn't give Lincoln the right to violate the 8th Amendment. Like, sentenced him to Ohio?? If that's not cruel and unusual, idk what is
Depends on where.
Hey! Wait a minute! I’m from Ohio. Haven’t lived there in years. um.... 😶
@@clrobinson1776 as a proud Michigander, screw Ohio
I heard he knew he would do a terrible job and refused to be a general several times
@@ninjafahita half right
"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
- Anton Chekhov
It's a surprise tool that'll come in handy later
- Mickey Mouse, picture of Anton Chekhov unrelated
"Take him to... Ohio!"
"Oh god, no! Not Ohio! Anything but Ohio! Get your hands off me! No!"
Would you rather go to New Jersey
@@cmorris9494 Hmm, could be worse. Could be Detroit!
@@noecarrier5035 Or Florida!
If you're going to complain, we'll make it CLEVELAND OHIO!!!
@@peterblood50 "You monsters! How can you live with yourselves?? This is cruel and unusual!"
Me: *lazily scrolling through UA-cam*
Legal Eagle: “Have you ever heard the tragedy of Clement Vallandigham?”
I thought not. It's not a story the NRA would tell you..
“He could save his client from death, but not himself. At least until the next bar fight, anyways...”
Darth Vallandingham was a dark lord of the confederacy, so powerful and so unwise that he could influence bullets to create... Death.
"Is it possible to learn this power?"
"Not from the plaintiff."
@@pugpug6425 then again, I don't listen to anything the NRA says anyway....
"Florida man accidentally shoots himself, notices two days later" XD
Of course he did.
Yeah, that's the one I want the answer to, badly! How on earth does that work?! Did the man not have the ability to feel pain or something?! 🤯
Me seeing the title: is this the guy who proved someone accidentally shot themselves by accidentally shooting himself?
Me after watching the video: Called it!
Ditto!
A death so stupid, it is officially considered one of these:
ua-cam.com/video/Pl2--uPEsy4/v-deo.html
Vallandigham: "Tom Myers accidentally shot himself."
Prosecution: "Objection. Speculation."
Vallandigham: "My god! I've shot myself!"
Judge: "Overruled!"
lol
Wow! I heard of "the layer that accidentaly shot Himself, prooving His client's innocence", but I had no idea of all the crasyness surrounding that story!
Great video Legal Eagle !
oh a layer did that too?
when you capitalize "His" like that it sounds like the lawyer in question is God
I had to pause and laugh over that orange sliding in. I don't know why, but that really got me today; it had me rolling!
ETA: Devin and I must be on the same wavelength today. When he said "Order 38" I murmured "execute order 66!" in the Emperor's voice only to realize Devin was making the same joke.
At least he didn't go for the depths of "Execute Order 69." Or 34...
@Melanie Magolan, I was right there with you Melanie.
What was with the orange? I understood the jokes but I'm not getting the orange reference. I'm scrolling through the comment section to find out.
@@EweChewBrrr01 The former president’s skin color.
@@EweChewBrrr01 It represents Trump and his orange appearance from his makeup.
The order 66 joke was so perfect, I started making it in my own head, then DJ swooped in and knocked it out of the park.
The dancing skeleton during the "last words" segment absolutely killed me
"The Universe has a dark sense of Humor" - Many years ago my niece and three others were in an auto accident that left them severely injured, except the male driver of the car at fault, who was miraculously unhurt. The next day, while the 3 young women were in the hospital, he was complaining to his friends that he had no car to drive. Then he hopped on his bicycle and rode down the street, promptly hit something, fell off, and broke his jaw. Occasionally, rarely unfortunately, the universe shows its dark sense of humor.
Karma is real.
i thought he was going to be run over by a truck
When I was 6 years old, my dad taught me the first rule of firearm safety - don't point a gun at anything you don't want shot.
Immediately after, he taught me the second rule: Every gun ever is loaded. Always. No matter if you just checked it, it's loaded.
6?
@@robertjarman3703 I was a late bloomer.
That’s smart, good safety tips from him, but… why were you learning about guns as a child?
@@ImLuna_az ...uhm...so I would...uhm....know gun safety?
Why wouldn't you teach a child gun safety? What? Do you want children not being safe around guns?
@@rom65536 Can't be annoyed by children if there are no children, lol. Seriously though, most of the world doesn't trust anyone with guns at all. Significant amounts of people can't even look before crossing a road, so keeping the magic boom-sticks out of their caveman hands is probably a good idea.
The thing that interests me the most about Abe Lincoln is how he's taught in different stages. Elementary and middle school, he was the president that abolished slavery. High school, his motives were to preserve the Union, with or without the abolishing of slavery, but as the war went on, he had to make the abolishing of slavery a main outcome of the war due to Britain looking sus. Then in College, he was even more complex, now you learn about how tyrannical he became during the war, like suppressing the press. He starts as a saint and ends as a complex character who is imperfect, but generally still a good man with the good of the nation in his heart. He's definitely one of my favorite presidents to learn about
Won't lie, it did take me a quick second to understand why a sliced orange floated across the screen. Then it made me laugh.
Shit's gonna age like milk though.
@@bluephreakr more like a good keg of whiskey.
What's the catch?? I don't get it haha. I'm from Paraguay, sorry.
It’s a passive nod to Trump...
@@alemorenopaez “Orange man” is a meme-y nickname for a certain ex-president. And I do mean president with a small ‘p’.
He forgot the first two rules of gun safety: Treat all firearms as if they're loaded, and never point a gun at anything you're not willing to destroy.
The stages of cocky downfall.
Treat all guns as if they are loaded.
Treat all guns the same, regardless of if they are loaded or not.
Treat loaded guns as if they are empty.
Also know what is behind your target, in case the bullet isn't stopped.
True story; Ambrose Burnside was in fact the person who made sideburns a common phrase for that specific facial hair configuration. For you see the man was a notorious drunk (in addition to a failure as a military commander). He once got so completely trashed he messed up his own name while introducing himself to a foreign dignitary. He introduced himself as General Sideburns.
"Just... don't"
***Immediately checks comments for dumpster fires***
Me too.
Same reason I am here, people spouting historical bits without proper context or knowledge of the shift in where "left" and "right" now lay
@@OberstFeldwebel43 can I get uhhhhh *A SOUTHERN STRATEGY*?????
I almost did a spit-take with my coffee when the orange showed up.
It's a great way of saying something, without having to say a work. sm
People are really entertained by the same orange-man joke years later.
Hope you learned something from this episode, and your next spittake is provided by the finest local coffee from Trade.
3:50
"Sentenced him to... Ohio"
OBJECTION: the Supreme Court has ruled against the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
"hey sometimes guns go off on accident, isn't that what you're trying to prove actually?"
"Nah it'll be fine."
-self inflicted gunshot lawyer and his colleague
"Rip to the guy who I'm trying to defend against by arguing he shot himself, but I'm different."
"Well either nothing happens or I win the case by default. Either way, it's checkmate."
OBJECTION! No real objections, I was just hoping since you cover fictional suits you might want to take a look at The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck
Seconded!
Yeeeeesssssss, my childhood idol!
Curse m' kilts!
Yes! We need something like that after the crazy shenanigans of the last year.
For anyone wondering if this was before the invention of the safety or something, it would seem the answer is yes. Some googling indicates teh first grip safeties were developed in the 1880s (intended "childproof" certain guns), with other designs gaining popularity in the 1890s and into the 1900s.
"the beatings will continue until morality improves"
I love this deep cut.
Morale, but yes
@@mariag.8242 But if you slide morality in there, it still works. So that's neat.
Always a good day when Legal Eagle uploads a video more than a minute long.
12:28 I swear to god I thought he was going to say “well, he took a gun like this one and WHOOPS”
"I know you think lawyers are super-smart"
Me looking at the senate and congress that consist mostly of lawyers. "Nope"
Most of them are smart. They make themselves look incompetent and say stujpid things to appeal to a certain base, while actively working for their own ends, and flip-flopping as the need arises. There are quite a number, however, who got elected due to pure extremist rhetoric, and barely have a high school education, especially in the House.
I think this is another perfect case of what can only be best described as "the only difference between fiction and history is that fiction has to make sense". This seemed like something straight out of a drug trip.
Legal Eagle: “Now we look at lawyers who have significantly sacrificed themselves for their clients”
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen: “Oh hello”
At this point, calling them lawyers is a bit debatable with how much they've discredited themselves.
Wait, he plotted to overthrow the government and then was just like "well that didnt work, guess I'll be a regular lawyer"
Well, considering what happened recently at the senate I'm not surprised.
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr _did_ manage to overthrow the current government and also went “Well that worked, guess I’ll be a regular lawyer”
It's astounding to me to see him get treated with such kids' gloves. Fortunately, we've moved far from the 1800s, these days a public official surely would be at the very least impeached for inciting a riot, right?
@@Arrakiz666
Haha very funny original joke
@@WhaleManMan Hey, it was good for Legal Eagle, it's good for me.
Lots of crickets there. Should look into an exterminator for that Florida citrus problem, lol.
Careful how you phrase that, given the symbolism.
"A lawyer is only as good as his last cup of coffee" - best Segway ever
*Segue
@@kcguy8864 I spelt it like that and there was a redline... I figured that people would get what I mean
@@matthewstone7218 the Segway is the cool but totally dorky thing you ride. Fun fact, the creator of the Segway died when he rode one off a cliff trying to prove how quickly it can stop
Sounds like something Godot would say
@@matthewstone7218 I'm sure we did.. & *I* wrote that so you would know how to spell it from now on.. helpin u out
Can we all appreciate the funky dancing skeleton at 10:19, and adamantly petition Devin to include this character in more future videos?
Being a lawyer is a dangerous job.
Can promise you won't go hungry
Jokes aside, at least 61 lawyers had been killed in the Philippines under Duterte, out of which 26 were work-related killings, 15 drug related, only 12 personal and 15 unknown.
Not as dangerous as in the Middle ages when trial by combat was official and the lawyer was hired to fight, not talk.
That’s amazing he used an Orange representing a “public official with baseless conspiracy theories” in today’s world! LOL
And accepting political defeat... life hasn't changed as much as you might think
Well yk the historical democrats where very similar politically to modern republicans
Thanks for the explanation, I was wracking my mind trying to understand how an orange, of all objects ould possibly be related to baseless political conspiracies and rejection of the vote.
It's not that amazing
@@WhaleManMan I was pointing out the obvious at that time lol
I have seen soap operas with fewer dramatic twists than this guy’s biography. And the kinda death my dad would have told me about as a weird one-liner as a kid.
a one liner?, how do u fit that all in in one line?
"I know you think lawyers are super smart..."
😂😂
I was actually needing a coffee subscription soon, hopefully me using the code still helps you out! Been listening to a lot of your videos in the background lately, really enjoy the way you take complex legal topics and break them down to be digestible, without it feeling "dumbed down." You're just explaining it in plain language, and it makes it so much easier to understand, while still being entertaining. It's a fine line to walk, and you walk it well. Well done, sir!
Fun fact, that hotel he shot himself still exists. It's also a restaurant where they serve a peanut butter barbeque bacon cheeseburger and is currently owned by the family of US Senator Rob Portman.
Statement: the star wars reference is much appreciated
Amused agreement: I absolutely concur, meatbag.
4:03 This is infinitely funnier due to how you don’t even change your tone. It took me a second to realize what was happening.
Ah, yes, the "I'm a responsible gun owner" statement that I hear so often in my state.
Would that be the state of denial or delusion?
@@nonna_sof5889 Hahaha, that's what I normally think when I hear it said.
Oooo let me guess: Florida? Texas? Alabama?
@@ToniGlick Hey, that's 3 guesses! All wrong, but close. OK.
@@Elitistb616 Louisiana?
One thing you realize as you learn more about American history:
It's always been bad. And is only marginally better today.
That is true of the world in general.
Eh, "better" is relative, unfortunately. Depends on who you are.
@@Currumpaw No, pretty much no matter who you are, you're better off today in America than you would have been any time in history
"The past was the worst." Simon Whistler
Eh you can walk into a grocery and get your food. Women aren’t dying in child birth like they used to. Etc. Even with all the chaos in the world humans are doing the best they have ever done.
"... and sentence him to Ohio" is possibly the funniest thing I've heard all day.
“Commence Order 66”.... “Sir wrong order”
This should go to and stay at 66 likes
Ok i will not ruin it
"Politicians just gracefully accept the results of a lost election".... Haha, dying laughing!
Clement Valladingham: not laughing
*Orange slowly appears in the background of the screen*
@Harambe Catcher I can't tell if you are serious.
Also, he talks about baseless conspiracy theories, and yet another orange appears.
@Harambe Catcher Honestly, this just proves how immature Trump supporters are.
This reminds me of the bit where a police officer asks how someone died, and the other officer shot themselves, demonstrating how the person died, and it just kept repeating as more officers came in.
So what happened?
Well , he picked up the gun. Put it to his head and **bang**
Burnside was a brilliant General who could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Didn't he warn the army that he would be a bad choice for a General, yet accept when hearing who the alternative was?
"General Sherman. The time has come.
Execute order 66."
"Yes, Mr President"
*Seige of Mandalore Flashbacks*
@@SmellyUnfortunate007 *PTSD of Sherman's march to the sea.*
Actually he more or less carried it out himself though...
I'll never get enough enjoyment from witnessing the butthurt that Sherman inspired in the South.
This man is throwing nonstop shade at modern politics and I'm living for it
Nah he’s throwing nonstop shade specifically at trump. It was funny at first. It’s been in every video and I’m kinda getting bored of it.
@@johnmoler5613 A lot of it was at Trump, but there was more broad stuff too
@@Veecy I mean yea there was some broad stuff but I’m kind tired of the orange jokes. Again, it was funny at first, but it feels like now it’s just being drawn out for no reason. He’s not president anymore. He’s already been banned from Twitter. It’s the equivalent of a dead joke.
At the very end for the sponsor: "You might ask yourself, 'How was it possible that Clement Vallandigham actually shot himself', well-"
Not gonna lie, I half expected Devon to pull out a prop pistol and say "Allow me to demonstrate..."
Some laywer are smart, Devon's one of those.
The Thriller dancing skeleton is just icing on the cake, lol.
Check out Stephen Colbert and The Bone Zone to see them all in action.
"He sentenced him to Ohio."
I'd pay to hear that type of punishment in a court of law lmao.
The oranges alone are worth a "like". Couldn't imagine who they could be referring to...
They are a racist reference to the "orange " people
This is how I expect someone who supported the Confederacy would die
He lived and died making bad decisions
I'm just waiting till you get a bunch of Confederates posting replies
Tru
@@chrisprizzle278 Don't think confederacy defenders would be watching videos like this.
@@user-bm9fo5kr1l they’re not fans of smarter people questioning their racism
10:20 That dancing skeleton 😂 Whoever thought law videos could be so much fun!
My new favorite lawyer generalization: "A lawyer is only as good as their most recent cup of coffee!"
Godot approves.
That applies mostly to any job that requires a working brain. Though substitute "tea" in my case. 😄
@@elon4417 *Phoenix Wright screaming in the distance*
"Sentenced to... Ohio."
The worst punishment there is! (This post is brought to you by an Ohioan.)
Could be worse. You could be sentenced to Kansas
-a Kansan
Or worse yet, Missouri!
-an ex-Missourian, who realized that even _Kansas_ is an improvement
Or worse yet - Florida. We all know about "Florida man". - ex-Buckeye living in Florida.
How is everyone forgetting Siberia! It’s a fate worse than death.
No, the worst punishment there is would be Illinois. Missourian speaking.
@@the4tierbridge Ohio is worse than Siberia coming from an Ohioan
I love these videos! Because of your story-like videos my fellow 1Ls now know way more facts than they cared to know about poor Ms. Palsgraf and Mr. Katko and Mr. McDonough’s adventures. Please keep them coming!
“Illegal votes denied him his term”. Where have I heard that one before
It's almost like voting in an inexperienced, non-standardised and obviously flawed system with no computers leads to more easy voter fraud and with experience and modern technology people have had to find new ways of rigging like gerrymandering and foreign intervention!
You heard that on twitter, and from the losing party. Two sources that are obviously trustworthy and have no reason to lie lmfao
It was an issue back then. Kidnapping people, drugging them, forcing them to vote multiple times. Some people think that Edgar Allen Poe was used for fraudulent voting the day/night of his death. Although we’ll probably never know for sure what cause his death or what events lead up to it
Bush vs Gore?
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 actually, a fair bit of the winning party is wary of this too.
Remember the primary how Bernie was winning all night and had a huge crowd, and at the last second the lights went out and Biden won.
Also, have you the confidence to actually hear out folks like crowder who've found (by hand mind you) thousands of illegal votes? If not, do you really have any ground to stand on?
Legal Eagle: "He got his client acquitted at the cost of his own life..."
Me: "Ok a bit extreme"
Legal Eagle: "...and then was found guilty of treason and exiled before sneaking back into his country in disguise."
Me: "NANI?!"
So he slipped up a bit on chronology
HAHA😄🤣😂😆 me too (confused anime face 🙎♀️)
Perhaps he meant "then" as in "back then"...
I wish you had a podcast, I would listen to it all day every day!
**laughs in Repeated History**
then
**groans in the realization that it is in Repeated History**
The Stupid... it not only lives but it seems to be immortal.
This has big Oversimplified History vibes and I LOVE IT.
0:18 OBJECTION! That flag has 50 stars. That is incorrect for 1871.