So What If You Might Be Innocent?
I was reading Mark Bennett’s account of the long and winding road that lead to the U.S. Supreme Court granting a stay of execution for Hank Skinner, a Texas man who’s claiming that some untested DNA...
View ArticleMy New Extreme Project
I’ve been blogging about legal issues for several years now, and I’ve learned a lot about lawyers and law firms and legal marketing, and I’ve earned the trust and respect of the legal blogging...
View ArticleJurors’ Presumptions
As a non-lawyer, and as a generally law-abiding citizen, my main interaction with the criminal justice system is going to be as a juror. But over at a public defender, Gideon is saying that jurors...
View ArticleWhat Might Have Been…
Well, with Justice Stevens retiring from the Supreme Court, it’s time to start another round of speculation and wishful thinking about who will get the job this time. I have no idea who the mainstream...
View ArticleIf Not Now, When?
It looks like filling the next Supreme Court vacancy is yet another area in which I disagree with the Obama administration. CBS News‘s Jan Crawford says Obama wants “a sparkling intellectual who could...
View ArticleThe METDI Defense
Jeff Gamso has a fascinating post about the probabilities behind a DNA match. If you do felony criminal law (from either side of the aisle) and I tell you the number is 6.17 quadrillion, you probably...
View ArticleTrial Lawyers and the Winner’s Curse
Chances are, you don’t enjoy movies as much as you think you will. That’s because movie tickets present us consumers with a tricky problem of incomplete knowledge. We want to buy tickets to movies...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities
I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like to lately, but fortunately, there’s plenty of other good stuff to read. Mirriam Seddiq has a terrific article about what she’s learned practicing criminal law...
View ArticleWhat To Do About Innocence?
There’s been round-the-blawgosphere turmoil about Lee v. Lampert, in which the 9th Circuit basically said that the AEDPA‘s time limits for filing a habeas petition still apply even though pretty much...
View ArticleWho’s Talking In the Blago Camp?
The defense has rested in the corruption trial of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich without letting the jury hear his testimony. Other people are discussing what it’s fair to assume about Blagojevich’s...
View ArticleGerry Spence and the Economic Of Extremism
Economists generally believe that extremism is probably a mistake. That’s because every choice involves a trade off. You’ll start with the easiest trades first, but as you push to greater extremes,...
View ArticleOf Criminal Defense and Flushing Toilets
There’s been a lot of discussion in the criminal defense bloggosphere about the role of the criminal defense lawyer. Basically, prosecutors are supposedly charged with seeking justice. The question...
View ArticleNot Even Close
Deep inside the cynical exterior of a Miami criminal defense lawyer…beats the heart of a true believer. Brian Tannebaum wins his case, and shows us that sometimes not even the federal government can...
View ArticleTurkey Tom Lawsuit
It’s still October, but it’s not too early to get into a Thanksgiving atmosphere. Jimmy John’s is suing Halsted Street Deli (a local sandwich shop here in Chicago) over the names of two sandwiches....
View ArticleInfobleg – Suing Government Contractors?
I need to beg my legal readers for some information. I’ve been arguing with some guy in another blog’s comments that if the airport passenger checkpoints were operated by private security firms instead...
View ArticleSmell the Retaliation
Scott Greenfield is more familiar than I with the history of Joel Rosenberg’s recent conflicts with the Minneapolis police department, leading up to Joel’s arrest, and in his latest post Scott offers...
View ArticleCan’t Deduct Defense?
It’s a good question, really… Over at Popehat, Patrick has this to say about Joel Rosenberg’s defense fund: Note that this is not tax-deductible. The government does not encourage its subjects to stand...
View ArticleOh My God, Chicago Has a Criminal Defense Blogger!
Back in July of 2009, I declared myself the Greatest Criminal Defense Blogger in Chicago. This was not a boast, it was a lament. I am not a lawyer, and most of my posts have nothing to do with criminal...
View ArticleGood Guys Don’t Suborn False Confessions
There’s a lovely case over at Simple Justice today. According to the news story, it went something like this: A guy was murdered, and a man named Douglas Warney came forward to police saying he knew...
View ArticleStalin In the Courtroom
Jamison Koehler takes on the topic of accepting responsibility. I read about it all the time in crime stories and legal blogs: The defendant is convicted, and the severity of his sentence depends on a...
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