tara.

boy mom💙Media Personality📻|NOLA⚜️

[tara. @tarajae_]

❤️

[T a y 🖤 @tieyoo]

Can’t relate to people who don’t put their kids first

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Chicago, it’s good to be home!

Michelle and I built the Obama Presidential Center to be a place where people of all ages can learn, play, and work – and we can't wait to welcome you all later this week!

[ᴹᵘᵛᵃ ᥫ᭡ @TvkeOfff]

as someone who’s genuinely good to people, platonic or romantic, it’s never my loss.

[🪞 @MsJah_]

The best compliment I can ever receive is how much of a great mom I am. 🤍

[tara. @tarajae_]

I want to thank God for working WAY HARDER than Satan! He’s playing favorites, it feels AMAZING. 😊

[tara. @tarajae_]

@heyhoneyrae That part.

[Legally Loc’d @Twatch_Me_Workk]

It’s easy for people to dismiss race as a factor when they’ve never had to live with race being a factor in nearly every aspect of their lives.

[Docket Diva 👩🏾‍⚖️ @_LaJanee_]

Karmelo Anthony was convicted and sentenced in the same day.
Verdict to 35 years in a matter of hours.
The sentencing phase (the phase where you fight for how many years a 19-year-old spends in a Texas prison) called one witness—His ‘mama’.

[Docket Diva 👩🏾‍⚖️ @_LaJanee_]

A properly built mitigation case includes a mitigation specialist, forensic psychologist, life-history documentation, school records, medical records, trauma assessments, character witnesses and community members.
People who can make a jury see a full human being, not just a defendant.

[Smooth. @ShaadSmooth]

Karmelo Anthony needed some better lawyers, my goodness.

[Docket Diva 👩🏾‍⚖️ @_LaJanee_]

1 witness and 2 questions. No character witnesses, pastor, coach or teacher. No mental health professional or mitigation specialist.

A teenager is about to be sentenced for murder, possibly for life, and that is the entire punishment phase the defense put on. It lasted less than hour? In my years of covering high profile cases as a journalist, I have never seen this.

This is an obvious pattern.

No expert witnesses in the guilt phase. Opening statements waived and now this. A competent mitigation case for a young defendant takes months to build—Investigators, childhood records, trauma history, neurodevelopment screening. You construct a human being in front of that jury so they cannot reduce him to the act alone.

They sent his mother up there to say she loves him. Two questions and sat down.

There are only a few explanations. The family didn’t know what they were missing. Counsel made a bad bet that guilt phase sympathy would carry over. Or this defense was never adequately funded or staffed for a case this size.

Every one of those is a problem. Together they form the outline of an ineffective assistance of counsel argument on appeal.

The sentence hasn’t come down yet. But the question of how this defense was built, and for whom, is already answered.

[Huckleberry @Huckleberrydime]

Hunter Metcalf conducted a press run immediately after the incident where he admitted to being involved in the incident. He was the first one to argue with Karmelo and then Austin joined in. So prosecutors didn't put him on the stand. Witnesses have credibility issues as well.

[tara. @tarajae_]

Horrible.

[tara. @tarajae_]

I want to thank God for working way harder than Satan…he’s playing favorites, it feels AMAZING. 🤗

[tara. @tarajae_]

@Datnaturalhigh Me too lol

[TINKABELL 🧚🏾‍♀️ @TinkDaBrat]

It’s my baby’s world I’m just living in it 🥹

[tara. @tarajae_]

@Datnaturalhigh Amber lmfao

[tara. @tarajae_]

@Dori_the_Queen 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

[tara. @tarajae_]

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON. 📺🎥
Radio bae turned TV bae??? 🤗🤗 #tarajae

[tara. @tarajae_]

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