So, a man is convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl in El Paso. While in jail and awaiting appeal for his death sentence, he finds religion. As prosecutors argue for the death penalty, his religion is invoked to portray how he’s changed since the crime was committed. Similar stories to this aren’t uncommon, […]
I read a lot of blogs every day. There’s a folder in my RSS reader called “law” with somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 blogs in it. A lot of them are by criminal defense lawyers. Some are by journalists. A couple are by prosecutors, and a few are by public defenders. And a few […]
This post by Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice reminded me of this article that’s on the cover of The Onion this week. Sadly, that’s often the case when reading criminal justice stories. Greenfield details the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that overturned a death sentence for a man convicted of killing two police […]
Our oldest daughter has a reading log that we’re supposed to sign every night. In the world of a rules-oriented, law-and-order loving elementary school student, there is nothing more devastating than not completing your homework. But every now and then we get home late, dinner isn’t ready until 7:00 p.m., and it’s a scramble to […]