2007
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December 2007
- Happy New Year
- We Guarantee a Painless, Happy Death
- The Private Police of the Recording Industry (Update)
- “Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere”
- Everything Changes When It Happens to You
- Pet Peeve of a Prosecutor: People
- What Should Criminal Defense Lawyers Sip on New Year’s Eve?
- Parole Is Again a Political Football
- The New York Football Giants Win The Big Game!
- There’s No Privacy in Cellphone Nation
- Fear Not, Ohio is Safe Again
- Tankleff’s Out, Now What?
- The Big Picture On Falling Crime Rates
- The 437 Most Important Rules for Blawging Blawgers Who Blawg
- David Tarrell, Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year 2007
- Who Needs Starr Jones When We’ve Got Ken
- Blawging is Easy, Right?
- Marty Tankleff Free on Bail
- U.S Military: Torture Confessions Are AOK!
- Some View
- What’s the Deal in Texas?
- Predatory Borrowers Have No One To Blame
- A Lawyer Who Blew It, But Learned
- A Juror Capitulated, As Predicted, in White Conviction
- Fairness to New Lawyers
- What Has Avvo Done For / To You? (Updated)
- Peace On Earth
- Lawyers Appreciate . . . Integrity
- Why Yes, I Am Offended By Huckabee
- Is Cigna A Murderer?
- WSJ: Avvo Is The Source
- Why Does Our Legal System Value Money Over Life?
- The Last Week of December, 2007
- Imus — The “I” Stands for Irrelevant
- A Sick Internet Prank, A Dead Kid and A Father Convicted
- Criminal Procedure: They Have GOT to Be Kidding!
- Final Grades, For Students and Lawyers
- Society in Jail (Or How I Came to Love The Warrant)
- Passive Physical Resistance Gets A Jolt
- Best Line of the Day
- Why Try The Unwinnable Case?
- New Orleans, An All-American City
- Marty Tankleff Finally Gets A New Trial
- The Wiki of the Practical Blawgosphere
- Just Want Everyone To Know, Part 3
- The Power To Do Justice
- Telecom Immunity: But What About The Really Illegal Stuff?
- Spector to Robert Shapiro: You Sucked and I Want My Million Back
- Should Crime Victims Get Their Own Seat In The Well?
- A Scholarly Approach To Search & Seizure That May Actually Work
- Is the Patient Stable?
- I want to be a solo because . . .
- Justice Revisited (A Good Thing To Do) (Updated to include Matlock)
- The Ugly House Made Me Do It
- Junk Science: Try Arguing With a Dog
- The Listserv Crutch: Propping Up the Incompetent?
- Dueling Cameras: Fighting Fire with Video
- Sword Falling and Other Fun Lawyer Tricks
- Sued For Dying in New Jersey
- The View Of North Shore Slavery
- Victims on Trial: The Everyday Business of Courts
- The Citizen Journalist or Irresponsible Blogger
- Are You Listening? They ARE Spying on US (Update)
- Nominations Open For Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year 2007
- Judges Afraid, Congress Annoyed
- Is Plea Bargaining Just Another Form of ADR?
- Picking Nits on Sunday
- What’s a Comma Between Friends? (Updated)
- When The Lone Holdout is a Racist
- ABA: 2007 The Year of the Blawger
- Really Big and Butt Ugly (Updated)
- Subpoena Quashed For Encryption Password
- Florida Criminal Defense Lawyer Attacked For Blawging
- The Blawgosphere Hits a New Low
- Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year, 2007
- So They’re on Steroids — What Now? (Updated)
- Anything That Fits, They’ll Print
- 72,000 Law Review Articles
- Practical Blawgosphere: New Life to Pre-Sentence Memos
- Utah Taser Video, The Final Chapter (?)
- New Opportunities Breed New Challenges
- Reasonable Is as Reasonable Does
- Practical Blawgosphere: The Language of Defendants’ Failure
- Best Argument of the Day
- Liptak is Back in my Doghouse
- Breaking News From Delhi
- Tasers Are Safe Because Johns Hopkins Says So
- Poisoning The Well
- Utah Taser Video: The Cop Perspective
- Lawyers: Not Even In The Game
- SCOTUS Endorses Rejection of Crack Sentencing Disparity
- Outsourcing To India — But Can They Handle Arraignments?
- No Fame. None At All
- Trial Men versus Law Men
- Lied to By A Gecko
- Busted on Mars? Call Me and I’ll Set You Free
- CIA Videotapes Destroyed: Let’s Put On A Play!
- The Crime of Juror Honesty in the First Degree
- Lawprof Teaches Taser Relations
- Don’t Try This With An Ipod
- The Last Peep Show in New York
- The Blog Police Are Coming
- Some Like It Orally
- Blame the ABA, Not the Law Schools
- A Judge Who Understands His Job
- LexBlog Asks, Simple Justice Answers
- A Little Help, Please
- Isn’t One Murderer Enough?
- The Price of Fame
- Simple Justice Is Just Average Ugly
- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out at Harvard
- Major Defects Discovered in Prestigious SUVs
- Old Media Says Blawgs Are For Dawgs
- You Didn’t Listen And Now You Too Are A Lawyer
- Muslim Travel Alert From The Second Circuit
- We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Conviction
- The Blue Wall Revisited (Again)
- Hillary Says “Hang ’em High!”
- Prosecutors: Champions of the Poor and Downtrodden
- Alternative Ways To Understand Criminals
- The Secret Award For Best Blawg
- Judy In Disguise
- 4th Amendment Doctrine: Does It Matter Anymore?
- The End of the Age of Innocence
November 2007
- Conflict of Interest, Smart Choices and Biglaw, Part 2
- Conflict of Interest and Free Choices, Part 1
- Simple Justice Named to ABA Top 100
- Rudy Guiliani LOVES Indigent Defense Funding
- Sometimes, It’s Not Just The Cross-Racial ID
- The Definitive Answer: Age Over Beauty
- What If The Cellphone Didn’t Ring? Judge Restaino’s Folly
- Inductive Reasoning Means Murderer Walks
- Too Much Applause For Aimless Rambling
- Biglaw: Respect is a Two-Way Street
- Felder Feels For “Challenged” Judge (plus Another!)
- More on the Value of Indigent Defense
- A Picture Is Worth A Conviction
- Liptak’s Redemption – Judges Giving Away Money
- You Can’t Possibly Lose
- Tasers Don’t Care If You’re Canadian
- The Death of Writing
- Children Dying in Adult Prisons
- Another Modest Proposal
- What Becomes of the Innocents?
- Crocs and the Law
- If You Really Want to Understand Autism
- This One’s Gonna Be Ugly
- Strange Doings on the Federal Bench
- Those Who Can’t Should Control Themselves
- OT — Black Friday is A Disease
- How Much Impact Should Victims Have?
- Indeterminate Sentencing Just Sounds Confusing
- NY Court of Appeals Rejects the Crime of Standing With Intent
- Can We Agree on Thanksgiving?
- Open File Discovery – Better But Not Perfect
- Police To Be Trained To Identify Autism
- Solove’s “Reputation” Already Coming in Handy
- Judges Gone Bad
- Concern For Witnesses Or Admission Of Failure
- Another Law School. Woo Hoo!
- Situation Normal In Pretrial Release, Or Not?
- In Homage To Public Defenders
- Who Is Adam Liptak And What Is He Doing?
- Ex-Judge David Gross Sentenced
- Reader Mailbag
- What’s Your Score?
- Building The Practical Law School
- Keep The Junk Science To Yourself
- Too Tough In The Media Can Also Be A Problem
- Teach Your Children Well
- The Biggest Federalist Issue In Law Today
- Sentencing Reform – Who Needs Judges Anyway?
- Broken Courts – Non-Lawyer Judges Must Go
- Dennis Kozlowski’s Conviction Affirmed
- Lindsey Lohan Serves 84 Minutes
- Note To Schumer: Judges Don’t Have To Be Prosecutors
- Criminal Law, Or Law At All?
- Taking Note of Charging the Jury
- What To Do With Murderers?
- Practical Blawgosphere: Some Days Are Worse Than Others
- Eugene Volokh Must Be Goofing With Us
- What’s Old Is New For Criminal Defense Lawyers
- More Welcome PsOV
- NYCLU Sues New York Over Inadequate Indigent Defense
- Madame Zuwonga Wears Prada
- Why Not Hire the Best?
- No More D.P. In D.C.
- Continuing Legal Education, For Better or Worse
- Solvency Isn’t Rocket Science
- ATL Takes A Bow
- Privacy is So Yesterday
- Politics and Parole
- One Last Chance To Make It Real
- Moot Court and Mute Judges
- But What Does The New York Times Think Of Us?
- Judicial Raises: Do It Or I’ll Write Again!
- The Rise of Bernie Kerik, American Hero
- Gotbaum: Asphyxia by Hanging?
- Bits & Pieces
- Leslie Crocker Snyder is Back in Town
- Now That It’s Over
- New York Lawyers to Walk the Walk For Pakistan
- The Clash Between Competence and Inclusion
- Are Public Displays of Affection A Crime?
- San Francisco (Not Frisco) Criminal Defense Lawyers To Be Heard
- Lesson from the Beatles, “Help”
- Putting the Legal World in Perspective
- Ugly Case With A Common Flaw
- This is Definitely NOT Legal Advice
- Liveblogging A Murder Trial
- I Voted For Judge Today
- The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers
- How To Undo Ineffective Assistance of Counsel At The Plea
- When the Expert Knows Everything
- 2007 Best Law Blog Update
- The Unworthy Opponent
- The Economics of Baiting the Rat Trap
- If John Ashcroft Says So, Then . . .
- Practical Blawgosphere: Can We Compete?
- A Tale of Two Conspiracies
- Will The Good Guys Ever Win?
- Welcome Class, I’m Your CrimLaw Prof
- The Rat Paradox Explodes
- The Battle Lines Are Drawn!
- You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Spams You
- The Upside of Gouging the Poor
- The Next Great Drain On Indigent Defense?
- Science Fiction Gets The Finger
- Crack Guidelines Update
- Please Watch This
- A Risky Strategy That Paid Off
- Don’t Bidzirk Me
- The Secret of Success
- When You Stop Kissing Up
October 2007
- Who Gets To Define Torture?
- Book Review: The Future of Reputation
- Does Connecticut Pay Attention?
- Is It Us or Them?
- Last One Out, Shut The Door
- Life Rule
- The Magic of Rape
- Skakel Revisited: The Mickey Sherman Conundrum
- Loser Truth
- Thanks to a Wealthy Plaintiff From Disabled Students
- Why All The Fuss About Law Porn?
- Gate-Keeping Long After The Horse Has Left
- Help Wanted: LawProfs, No Experience Desired
- 208 and Counting
- Slime in Cayuga County DA Campaign
- Was Texas Judge “Killer” Keller On To Something?
- Practical Blawgosphere: What Higazy was Really All About
- Justice Ginsburg’s Dissenting Motives Criticized
- Larry Craig on the Cutting Edge
- Roy Black: Simple Justice Nailed It!
- No Science to Policing
- Bad Work at the Supreme Court
- The Twisted Case of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz
- Retroactivity of Crack Guidelines Correction
- Supreme Court Mechanics
- Police and the Disabled
- Law School Problem Solving 301: The Law School
- The Russian Front
- Crossing the Expert, Step By Step
- The “Jack Bauer” Scenario
- Steal This Post
- Mr. Mukasey Finds His Groove
- What to Do When You’re a Jew
- Hanging Around in Times Square
- Do Not Call
- The Up and Down of Lawyering Up
- Polls Are Open
- Post Mortem on the Lynne Stewart / Chicken Little Tempest
- Mr. Mukasey Goes to Washington
- 1st Amendment: Honor God
- The Ultimate Judge of Morality
- Law School Problem Solving 201: The Students
- Don’t Force It
- Blog Awards – Putting Lipstick on a Pig
- The Ethicist Tackles the Tough Issues
- Practical Blawgosphere: The Dozier Demand Scam
- Law School Problem Solving 101: The Professors
- Act Like a Lady
- Lynne Stewart: Bainbridge Has Fleas
- Is Ann Coulter Worth This Much Thought?
- Just How Many Die in Custody?
- The Ugly Back Side of Blawging
- Sui Generis Is Running Another Contest!
- Crminal Lottery: Winners and Losers
- Ann Coulter Wants Me To Be “Perfected”
- What To Make of Thomas Sowell?
- Wendy Murphy is Hot, Hot, Hot!
- Fox Doesn’t Love Me Anymore
- The End of Redress: State Secrets Doctrine
- The Perfect Imperfection of Juries
- The Client Lied. Now What?
- The Price of Sharing
- Nino “Jack Bauer” Scalia in 24
- Squaring Blackwater and Sovereignty
- We Know Everything About You
- Chutzpah File; Prosecutor Sues Wrongly Convicted Man
- Taking the Corporate Apologists to Task
- Gotbaum 3: New York Media Is the Problem
- What to Tell Your Daughter?
- Gotbaum Update: The Best Defense
- And Another Meme Bites The Dust
- Death Penalty Meets Closed Doors
- Obama Won’t Be Pinned
- Practical Blawgosphere: Paying Over Time
- A Little Help, Please
- Officer, Does This Refresh Your Recollection?
- Sol Wachtler Is Back!
- And Now, A Snarky View of Britney, Kevin and the Kids
- Anita Hill Learns a Lesson
- Slow Blawg on a Busy Week
- Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I’m a Tier 1 Grad
- Betsy Gotbaum’s Daughter in Law Dies in Custody. How?
- DNA Bringing Reforms, and Some Cops Just Hate It
September 2007
- Another First Monday in October
- Arbitration Gets a Bad Rap
- The Limits on Plea Options
- Is Law School Really That Bad These Days?
- The Russell Result – Hard Drive or Hard Time?
- Lynne Stewart – Enough Already
- Miss Manners in Court
- The Advocate’s Dilemma: His Own Words
- Law Schools Are Not Dinosaurs
- Cops Gone Wild – When Cop Writes Cop
- Girls Gone Wild Wants ME?
- Silent Submission Under Miranda
- Rethinking Marijuana Today
- When Your Reach Exceeds Your Grasp
- Voir Dire Aftermath
- Mukasey: The Symptom or Disease?
- The Pain in the Back Row
- Documents for the Undocumented
- Love Them Car Chases
- Superlawyers with Cheese, Please
- As Many Clients as Possible
- The Academic Freedom Fascists
- Keeping Your Cool
- When A Judge Demands Too Much
- True Taser Talk
- The Curious Mel Weiss Prosecution
- Mandatory Attendance Lands Simple Justice in the National Law Journal
- LawBizBlog to Blawgers: You’re All Just a Bunch of Mercenaries
- “But I Meant To Kill Him” and Other Explanations
- Jerk in the First Degree
- Elimination of Annoyances by Force
- ACLU — We Have Nothing Better to Do
- The Practical Blawgosphere: The Scam Factor
- Johnny Unitas Busted!
- It Takes a Thief
- As If Sleeping During Trial Wasn’t Bad Enough
- The Sanctity of Privilege versus Big Signs
- Michael Mukasey, the Next AG?
- Beware the Crazy Client
- Commentary: Tipping the Scale of Uniformity
- Appeals Court Buries the Body So No One Knows
- The End of Crime
- Panic Watch 2007
- How Many Years If You’re Acquitted?
- A Better Class of Criminal
- What’s a Warmonger Like At Home?
- Panic – The Larry Craig Defense
- 9/11 – To Each His Own
- Someone Gets Forced To Pay
- Hanging Out A Shingle
- Appellate Follies
- Losing By Winning
- A Prof’s View From Inside the Jury Room
- 3 Short Takes: Stuff You Should Know About III
- Biglaw: The Prosecutor Myth Lives
- The Real Threat to Criminal Defense
- The New Alford Plea
- Sen. Larry Craig, Caught Double Dipping
- What’s the Problem with Kids Today?
- “If I Represented bin Laden…”
- Student Speech Slides Further Downhill
- Consequences Clarified – ACD and YO
- The Cop Mind: Certainty in the Face of Ambiguity
- Labor Day, 2007
- Raging Law School Debate: Compulsory Attendance
- The Real Fashion Police
August 2007
- The Dream Team Phenomenon
- More Short Takes: Stuff You Should Know
- The FBI’s New New Toy
- Texas: Where Decisions Are Decisions and Lawyers Are Nervous
- The 3L Dilemma, Part 2
- 3 Short Takes: Stuff You Should Know About
- Commentary: The Economics of Flash
- Are Lawyers Protected?
- The Last Week In August
- The Changing Face of Legal Research
- Practical Blawgosphere: The World is Flatter
- Something to Think About As You Wait on the Tarmac
- The 3L Dilemma
- Presidential Politics Made Simple
- Store Policy and Crime
- Nanny Diaries: Reviewing the Review
- Sometimes The System Works
- “Well Settled Law” In Lieu of Balls
- OT: Blawgosphere Trackbacks and Cialis
- The Fallacy of True Believers
- The Great Debate: Cameras or Justice?
- $1000 Per Hour – Cheap At Half the Price
- Is 40 Years Long Enough?
- When Cops Go Wrong, #32
- Parting Words
- Role Reversal: The Law Review Shakedown
- Junk Science and Little Black Boxes
- Zero Tolerance and Why Magic Bullets Miss Their Mark
- Forget Star Jones, Meet Star Polygraph
- Aside: A Commentary About Controversy
- Do You Wiki?
- The Law Belongs to Star
- Sleepless in New York
- An Interesting Choice by the New York Times
- Crawford’s Muddled Jurisprudence
- Can Scoundrels Steal Clients?
- Is This Sexist?
- Competing With Scoundrels
- Conflict Aversion and Personality Traits
- The Blight of the Jail House Lawyer
- Ready, Set, Trial
- Another System Failure: Lawyer’s Aren’t Always the Answer
- Judging Judges
- Ethics, Open Warfare and Straw Men
- Ethics and Defensive Lawyering: Open Warfare!
- The Ever-Increasing Universe of Voodoo Prosecutions
- What NOT to wear
- What NOT to Say
- No Speaky English
- A Change of Pace
- It’s Just Not That Hard to Grasp
- Why White Murders Matter More
- Soundbites With A Side of Substance
- ABA Capitulates
- Happy Anniversary to Me
- Get Ready for the Mortgage Fallout
- The Fashion of Forfeiture
- The Moment After The Guilty Verdict
- What Real Americans Have to Say
- Professional Courtesy
- If You Thought Legalese Was Garbage
- From the Office of Propaganda
- Lawyer Fashionista: Critical Data
- Fat: The New Black
- What’s Worse Than A Violent Sociopathic Criminal?
- Ah, Technology
- Paid His Debt to Society
- The Judge Hates Us
- Diggers of Dirt
- Mandatory Arrest and Gaming the System
- Incentive For Inefficiency
- 5 Year Old Boy Shot Dead. Cop Clams Up.
- Sex Offenders Must Have An Option
- Shame as Punishment
- Harry Potter and Legal Scholarship. Give Me A Break!
- Nino To The Rescue!
- The American Dream: Marry Guiliani
- Cognitive Dissonance: The Games Minds Play
- Court to Ex-Louima Cops — Bend Over
- Good, Bad or What? Clientvision
- Beating the Lawyer, Part 3
July 2007
- Taken to the Illogical Extreme
- The Russell Case Could Be Any of Us
- Great Advice For the Budding Criminal Defense Lawyer
- Another Stunning Tragedy
- Beating the Lawyer, Part 2
- The Practical Blawgosphere: Keeping Score
- Beyond Some Reasonable Doubt
- Odd Lawyer Phrases
- There’s No First Amendment For Lawyers
- Can Democrats Finally Be Democrats Again?
- When Jurors Just Plain Lie
- For Gideon…With Love, Nino
- Prison — Rehab At Work
- Lawyer Shot, Bar in Turmoil
- Peaking Under the Robe
- Beating the Lawyer, Part 1
- Investigate All You Want, But No Names
- Housekeeping Update
- Judge Nancy Gertner Orders Government to Pay $100M
- Disclosures About Brady Disclosures
- Death by Long Distance
- Aggravated Vehicular Homicide – Solution Du Jour
- Dead in the Water — Thanks to Go Daddy
- Batson Backwards
- Heartfelt Pleas, But No Answers
- Wait Till My Momma Gets Here
- Ignored Again / Ignored No More
- Making Sense of Selfishness
- Unqualified? Don’t Mention It
- A Reason to Watch TV
- Finally, Innocence Beyond DNA
- New Residents of The Blawgosphere
- Executive Privilege and It’s Impact on the Public Psyche
- Why We Don’t Belong in Biglaw
- Cops Target Habitual Texas Republican Driver
- Undercover Barbie and Perp Ken
- Pretext Searches, Scams in the Name of Truth
- Has White Collar Gone to the Dogs?
- True Tales of Appeals Court Conference
- The Death of the Trial: It’s Different In Criminal Law
- Tgif
- Sound Familiar
- When Doctors Become Terrorists
- Trials; Where Have You Gone?
- The Politics of Youth and the Law
- Are Faxes Dead?
- The Cost of a Criminal Defense
- Even The Dark Side Agrees
- Drop The Fork, You’re Under Arrest
- Juror’s Reaction to DNA Testimony — Man, Was I Ever Wrong!
- Admitting Mistakes – Why Can’t Lawyers Do It?
- Does Innocence Count?
- Theory v. Reality
- Judge David Gross, From Diamonds to Disgrace
- Sentencing Basics, Part II
- A Primer on Sentencing
- They Had Time For Sex?
- The Full Employment For Lawyers Act, Part 1
- Meet the Kid Haters
- Frustrations of a Young Champion
- A Modest Proposal
- Fighting Form
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Tragedy is the Mother of Invention
- Would A Wig Help?
- Court TV Gone? It’s Tru
- A Bold Move by Justice E.J. Goodman
- Those Who Can, Do
- More Housekeeping
- Blawgosphere: Revenge of the Old Guard
- The Process is the Punishment
- 32 Years Is Just Too Long
- The Appeal to Common Sense
- Mental Impairment as a Mitigating Factor
- Who’s In Charge? Lawyers on Juries
- Maybe Not for Lawyers, But for Clients?
- Would You Buy a Car from This Man?
- And Now, Jurors’ Attire
- The Lawyer Look
- The Home of the Compliant
- 231 Years and Still Trying
- Getting It Wrong: What Are the Chances?
- What Scooter’s Commutation Means For Us
- Bush Commutes Libby Sentence
- Knowing, Voluntary and Intelligent
- Give Me Your Cell Number
- Dealing with the “Official Woman”
June 2007
- Arrests Should Come With Instructions
- Fragile X and Chris Benoit
- Avvo: My chat with Paul
- The KISS Principle UPDATE
- Neatness Counts
- Judged by a Higher Authority
- Lies and the Lying Lawyers Who Tell Them
- “What They Know” at Deliberations
- Fair and Impartial?
- No Bong Hits Today
- I, Witness
- Strange But True
- The KISS Principle
- The Polls are Closed!
- The Penalty is The Problem
- Good Questions Coming From The Avvo Debate
- Second Circuit to Booker: Drop Dead
- Dancing with the Cops: The Miranda Two-Step
- Poll: New York or That Other State
- The Choice To Remain Silent
- The Consumerist: Very Interesting Indeed
- The Avvo Controversy Continues
- The Snitch Corroboration Rule
- SCOTUS: Passenger has Standing to Challenge an Unlawful Stop
- Chambermaid: Just Read It
- A Belated Thank You to Professor Myres McDougal
- Lessons from Nifong
- NY Criminal Defense Lawyers: Texan Says “We Got It Better”
- The Other Drunk Driver
- Regional Differences (or Texas Whiners)
- And Now, A Word From Bob
- Execution Update
- Suppression: Opportunity Lost
- Possible Parole Violater Caught. And Summarily Executed
- America’s Funniest Home Blawgs
- Return of the Flea (Or How I was John McNamara’d into Submission)
- You Paid How Much?
- Court of Appeals 2: Open for Business
- NY Court of Appeals: So You Think You Can Dance?
- Watch the Watch
- Customer Complaints
- Slavery on the North Shore
- What’s in a Name
- The Sopranos Finale – Metaphor or TV Show?
- What Took So Long? The Avvo Lawsuit
- Season Finale! The Paris Hilton Show
- We Need To Get A Grip
- Inventing the Wheel
- NEWSFLASH: Paris is not free?
- In Appreciation of President George
- Avvo Day 2: Is it soup yet?
- NEWSFLASH: Paris Hilton Free!
- A Letter From Wolfowitz
- The People are not ready, your Honor.
- Yippee! The Avvo Ratings Are Here!
- Re-Entry: Where Do They Go From Here?
- Predicting the Future
- The Meaning of Charity
- Rudy Remembered
- What does Jon Stewart think of Nancy Grace?
- Andrew Speaker —–> TB Andy?
- Graceless Nancy on Hot Topic Paris
- The Doctors’ Revenge (plus the Flea Feeding Fenzy)
May 2007
- The Flea Settles Down
- Best Line of the Day
- Judicial Elections: Is this what we’re in for?
- Q and A
- Larry Birkhead Screws Again?
- Everyone Dropped the Ball
- In Fairness to Caucasians
- The Cop Chronicles Continue
- SCOTUS Watch – Justice Thomas at his Word
- Memorial Day 2007
- Legal Antics: Dave Chappelle
- To Tell The Truth
- As Ye Sow Department: Proms, etc.
- The Cop Trilogy: Conclusion?
- Et tu? Second Department Cop Reversal
- When The System Fails: Cops as Defendants
- Why Judge Lippman?
- Python Spotting #2
- Cross-Racial IDs and Assumptions
- So you wanna be a snitch, huh?
- Hourly Billing — Not For Me
- What Do You Know About DNA?
- Preserve or Die
- The Boom and Bust Cycle
- Waiving a Jury — Why Numbers Mean Nothing
- Liar, Liar
- Cut to the Video Tape
- How Can It Ever Be Made Right?
- Tools of the Trade, or at the mercy of Sony Vaio
- Get It Right The First Time
- The Law Doesn’t Get Any Funnier
- You’ve Lost That Booker Feeling
- High Profile – The Ego Dilemma
- The Flea Bite (or lessons learned from angry fans)
- Resisting the Fist
- Class Assignment 102
- Pest Control: No More Flea
- Sign on the Dotted Line
- Through the Eyes of a Flea
- We, the Jury, find…
- NY Sentencing Reform: The Usual Suspects
- The Right to Text Message
- The Overzealous Lawyer?
- Finger Lickin’ Good!
- Rational Sentencing — Another Try
- Headline of the Day
- Paris in Springtime
- Name That Tune
- The US Sentencing Commission Cracks?
- Diane Sawyer Is Just a Regular Gal
- Sadly, Another Point Proven
- Beer with a Cop Chaser
April 2007
- Could You Use Smaller Words?
- And If You Felt Bad for Judges…
- But I Used to be a Prosecutor…
- Why Should It Matter?
- The Merit Selection Panacea
- Class Assignment 101
- My Brain Made Me Do It!
- Lawyer Under Attack – Again
- It’s the Defense Lawyers, Stupid
- It’s Tough To Be The Big Guy
- Court TV: Why Bother?
- Why Imus?
- Compensatory Damage
- A Penny for your Thoughts
- Lessons from Duke
- Bless the little children
- DNA, A little dab will do ya!
- Some Housekeeping Stuff
March 2007
- Take a (Salary) Hike!
- The Unloved Lawyer
- Seeing is Convicting
- What’s Good for the Goose…
- Reversal Report #2
- Don’t Worrry, We’re Alone
- I’m Ready for my Close-up, Justice DeMille
- What Decisions Really Say
- Even Lawyers Have Their Moments
- Learned Hand Was Wrong
- Take My Wife, Please
- “We Have Made Mistakes”
- Legal Malpractice and Criminal Defense
- The State Pushes Ahead
- Booker Changes Everything
- From Tony Colleluori, “That Lawyer Dude”
- Reversal Reports Redux
- Gulag Albany?
- Murder in a Martini?