There was a time earlier in my life that I believed the pinnacle of my professional career would be to be a Supreme Court Justice. I choose my words carefully. I didn’t say, “I want to be a Supreme Court Justice.” I though that is what I should do if I wanted to be successful […]
We got an email from a friend-of-the-blog yesterday asking about the legality of videotaping police officers, probably based on the case in Maryland where this video came from: If you’ve got 3:37 to spare, watch the whole video – it’s a thrilling opportunity to get a first-person view of what great fun it must be […]
I wrote about cop blogs last week, and how I enjoy the opportunity to look at the world through the lens of a police officer for a couple of minutes each morning. It’s productive and insightful and, at its best, reminds us that so many of our goals and objectives are the same, despite the […]
Google Maps offers reviews of local businesses, which is awesome for the most part, except when you end up with blatantly fake reviews written by disgruntled former employees posing as clients, claiming you sent mafia-style “social workers” ’round to collect extortion payments. (Which currently exist on our listing, so if you found us via Google […]
That subject line up there is cited as one of the new problems cited by the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, regarding DWI in the state. Houston DWI attorney Paul Kennedy has a smart post about it on his blog, and it’s revealing to me something about “tough on crime” and unintended consequences. Basically, the […]
I just got around to the comments on the Popehat post, and there’s a great one that summarizes my opinion pretty well: […] This was compromise verdict, among jurors who believed the cop guilty of voluntary manslaughter or murder, and slave-mentality jurors who refuse to believe that a cop is ever wrong about anything.[…] The […]
I was going to write a response to Popehat’s post from last night that the verdict in the Johannes Mehserle trial was the correct one, but I noticed that Scott Greenfield beat me to it this morning. I get the point that Popehat is trying to make – that if you argue in favor of […]
At lunch today I enjoyed a discussion between ESPN legal analyst Roger Cossack and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. In an unscripted conversation, Toobin and Cossack talked over lunch about the role of law and the media in society. Early in the conversation, Toobin remarked that it seemed ludicrous that BP was spending $10 – […]
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 […]