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Simple Justice

2009

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December 2009

  1. ABA Blawg 100: Death of the Beauty Pageant
  2. An Old Lawyer’s Message
  3. Ending Taser Terror
  4. Judge Larry Himelein Gets Slapped
  5. Calling The Pot Black
  6. Not For Publication
  7. Dying To Be In New York
  8. Nominations Open for Best Criminal Law Blawg Post of 2009 (Update)
  9. Feige’s Fiction and Bronx Reality
  10. The Difference Between 7 and 5
  11. Where To Keep The Prisoners
  12. Safety First: Fly Naked (Update)
  13. Nancy Grace: When Twinkies Clash
  14. The Second Circuit’s Holiday Message To Lynne Stewart
  15. Cell Phones Aren’t Closed Containers
  16. A Christmas Carol for Criminal Defense Lawyers
  17. Come Rest Ye Merry Blawgers
  18. A Merry Maricopa Christmas
  19. Relics of the Lawyer’s Life
  20. If Ethics Are Taught By Marketers
  21. Findlaw Plays Dirty
  22. Breaking Links
  23. Changes? What Changes?
  24. Joining The Maricopa Choir (Godin Update)
  25. Play That Funky Music, White Boy
  26. Maricopa Lives (Update)
  27. All Eyes On Maricopa County (Rally Update)
  28. A Felony and An iPod
  29. LawProf Althouse: Shoot The Vicious Snowball Predators
  30. Things To Do In The Snow (Update)
  31. Live Scientific Testimony Redux
  32. The Pointy Head In The Trench Rule
  33. Sympathy For The Devil, Maricopa Cut
  34. Cormac Carney: Judicial All-American
  35. Marketing the Wrong Message
  36. Slackoisie Need Not Apply
  37. When Science Isn’t
  38. There’s No Hiatus From Saying The Wrong Things (Update)
  39. Money Makes The World Go ‘Round
  40. The Season For Wreaths
  41. The Sound of Magic
  42. The Obligatory Caveat
  43. A Blogger Outs Himself; He’s a She
  44. Three Felonies A Day, The Blawg
  45. Hip Hop Interview
  46. Sum It Up
  47. Book Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System by Robin Sax
  48. Signs of Life in Maricopa
  49. Tiger’s Break
  50. In Judgment of a 12 Year Old
  51. Are We Mere Blawgers?
  52. Who Hates Social Media Snake Oil Salesmen?
  53. Do Drug Dealers Have The Right To Defend Themselves?
  54. Do They Know They’re Being Used?
  55. No One Gets A 35 Year Do-Over
  56. As Maricopa Turns: The Insurrection
  57. Is Twitter Really A Conversation?
  58. Honest Services Somersaults
  59. Future Lawprofs: Moving Further Away From Lawyers?
  60. Maricopa Help Wanted: Flak With Brain (Update)
  61. A Brand New Weapon For The Cops’ Arsenal
  62. A Neighborhood Holiday Stroll
  63. Simels Gets 14 Years For Tough Talk
  64. Where Ethics Go To Die
  65. Blawgospheric Darwinism (Update)
  66. Maricopa Sunday: Liddy and Donahoe Do The Jig
  67. The Public Defender Made Me Do It
  68. A Trial Without Evidence
  69. The Fascinating Life of a Blawger
  70. Run It Up The Flagpole and See Who Salutes
  71. Flip Side of the Spam Scam
  72. The Poster Boy For Intellectual Embarrassment
  73. Volokh Teaches Tranparency
  74. The Streets of Maricopa
  75. Lesson For Today: Terrorist Math
  76. A Scholar Blogs: The Wrong Question
  77. Mistrial Number 4 For John Gotti
  78. The Worst Kept Secret: Cops Lie
  79. No One Left To Honor (Update)
  80. Showdown in Maricopa (Update x 4; Stoddard Spends Night in Jail Voluntarily)

November 2009

  1. Tainting Tiger (Update)
  2. Four Cops Dead (Update x 2)
  3. How Not To Have An Impact On The Jury
  4. Comments, Plan B
  5. Sorry, No Justice Today
  6. Mortgage Blowback
  7. Reach Out And Put The Touch On Someone
  8. What’s A Parent To Do?
  9. As Long As You Can’t Add
  10. Just How Badly Do You Need Clients?
  11. Trust Your Price
  12. All The Trimmings
  13. The Thanksgiving Whine List
  14. At Least One Rule Applies
  15. The Circle Closes, At Least For The Moment
  16. Dan Hull: Post Traumatic Slacker Envy
  17. “Against The Popular Will”
  18. Finality or Innocence
  19. Duty To Twit
  20. A Blog That Shouldn’t (Update)
  21. When The First 18 Doesn’t Count
  22. Never Too Early To Prepare To Avoid The Death Penalty
  23. Avvo’s Big Three? Not Me, Thanks
  24. New York’s New DWI Bill: Compounding Stupidity
  25. Prosecutorial Immunity: Sometimes, A Legal Fiction Is Just A Fiction
  26. Kurt Greenbaum: Reporter As Rat
  27. The Virtue of Brevity, Or Mommy Said So
  28. Naming Names
  29. Remy Meets His Fate
  30. Mea Culpa in Maricopa (Update)
  31. Go Straight To Jail, Do Not Pass Go
  32. The End of the Duopoly?
  33. Scare Tactics
  34. Hope For Federal Court
  35. A Referendum on Blawgs
  36. Is It Wrong to Draw Lines?
  37. Too High A Price
  38. Who Stole Kevin O’Keefe’s Brain?
  39. But For Video: Misplaced Anger Edition
  40. Caution: Simple Justice May Be Bad For Your Emotional Well Being
  41. Do It For The Children: “Meep!” Edition
  42. Putting “Political Ideology Ahead of Safety”
  43. Big Numbers and No Influence
  44. Lessig Blew It
  45. Chicago Puts The Brakes On Lidar
  46. The View Through The Bars (Update)
  47. Fear of Flying
  48. Threading the Needle in Marikafka County
  49. Zero Tolerance For Three Strikes
  50. There’s No Atheists On A Hard Drive
  51. Not A Good Day In The Neighborhood
  52. ‘Cause The Bible Tells Me So
  53. Child Lifers: Get There By Camel
  54. The Good Life
  55. The End of Arizona Week
  56. The Path of Least Resistance
  57. Just A Diligent Kinda Officer
  58. We Almost Made It To 5
  59. If Only Half True
  60. Prosecutorial Indiscretion
  61. An Unsuccessful Conversion to the Cause
  62. Save the Connecticut 5?
  63. Just Part of the Crowd
  64. The Poisoned Water of Maricopa County (Update)
  65. A Naked Boulder Rolls Downhill (And A Related Twit)
  66. Sullivan & Cromwell Gets a Seat At The Execution
  67. A Very Long Island Without a Newpaper
  68. The Sturm and Drang of Blathering
  69. 6,500 Convictions Overturned

October 2009

  1. The Boom and Bust of Common Sense
  2. A Servant To The Cause
  3. Small Thoughts On Hate Crimes
  4. The Great Email Scare of ’09
  5. Sentenced To The Bench
  6. Swine Flu At $150 A Pop
  7. Facts? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts
  8. It’s Tough To Be A Rat In The City
  9. The Definitive Top 10 Rules For Successful Blawging & Twitting
  10. Nassau DA Race: Watson Finds Her Groove?
  11. The Verdict. Maybe. (Update)
  12. Who’s The Toughest Hombre In The Courtroom?
  13. Book Review: Protecting Court
  14. The Autistic Juror (Update)
  15. Kuehne Dismissal Affirmed
  16. A “One Man Innocence Project”
  17. Now This is Real Police Work
  18. Passing the Smell Test
  19. We’re Just Lawyers
  20. The Case For Bong Water
  21. For Nassau County District Attorney
  22. The Troll Tax
  23. It’s A Crime Because . . .
  24. What’s In A Name?
  25. Different is Always The Same
  26. Up Next, The Joe Tacopina Show
  27. Bernie Kerik Is A Twit
  28. Former AG Mukasey: Courts Aren’t Up To The Task
  29. When You’re Ahead, Shut Up
  30. Don’t Try This At Home
  31. It Pays to Check the Cite
  32. Even Blago Wants To Be A Reality TV Star
  33. Truth and Consequences
  34. An Unpleasant Ghost
  35. For The Benefit of Mister Thorne
  36. The Last Step Before The Verdict
  37. Al Franken Can’t Take a Joke
  38. The Balloon Boy Show Comes To A Court Near You
  39. Too Much Transparency
  40. Blogging Is Alive, And Aggravating
  41. The 9/11 Exception To Gant
  42. Meet the Neighbor
  43. Never Smear Your Own Client, Not Even In Death
  44. Death to the States, Federalize the Bar?
  45. Monserrate Beats The Felony
  46. Pick Your Burdens Carefully
  47. Legal Rebels: The Sky Is Falling!
  48. The Intangible Right To Prosecute
  49. McCarthy vs. Balko; The Texting War
  50. Schools Have Rules, Cub Scout Edition (Update)
  51. A Little Dab Will Do Ya
  52. The Meaning of Referral
  53. Juror Duty
  54. Just a Matter of Trust
  55. Say Who?
  56. A Million Reasonable Suspicions
  57. Schools Have Rules, Learning Disabled Edition
  58. Because It’s A Cross II
  59. Creepy Indeed
  60. Because It’s A Cross (Update)
  61. The Cruel Discipline of Twitter
  62. And So I Told Justice Alito…
  63. Plea Bargaining 201
  64. Things Not To Say To The Judge
  65. The Orphan of Tenaha
  66. Lawyer Marketing, Plan B
  67. At Least One Lie Against Gotti
  68. Thank You, Firefighter Patrick Joyce
  69. A Law Too Ugly
  70. The Final Final?
  71. Sullivan’s Justice; Still Inexplicable
  72. Newsday: Rice Was Wrong
  73. More Than A Mere Pester
  74. Life in the Fast Lane

September 2009

  1. ABA Journal to Lawyers: We Quit
  2. They First Came For Our Shoes
  3. Up To The Task?
  4. Retrial After More Than A Generation (Plus A Sexually Mutilated Corpse)
  5. Nassau DA Rice Feels The Heat
  6. The Silent Monday
  7. Issue Joined on a Hofstra Sunday
  8. Real Lawyers Eat Weenies
  9. A Case I’ve Never Tried
  10. The Look From The Rear
  11. Bury Your Mistakes
  12. Read ‘Em And Weep
  13. False Advertising: The Norm For The Future?
  14. Not Every Nurse Loves Cops
  15. Pottawamie and the Shaking Prosecutor Syndrome
  16. Naked Marketer Mudwrestling: Bodine v. O’Keefe
  17. The Hofstra DA Goes To School (Update)
  18. Tased For Being Disabled While Black
  19. The Downside of Client Reviews
  20. Jericho Catches Fire
  21. The Loser Is Always Right
  22. 15 Minute Lawyer Meets Uncle Fred
  23. A Well-Conceived Scheme
  24. This (pointing) Is A Book (Update)
  25. The Walmart Lode
  26. Rebel Rebel, Your Face Is A Mess
  27. NOW Pressures Judge To Convict, Before Trial
  28. CLE Gone Wrong
  29. Putting The Profit Into Crime
  30. Poor Allen Stanford
  31. Quality Matters; It Just May Not Be Enough
  32. What I Owe You
  33. The Sound Exercise of Discretion
  34. Think You Can Help? Then Let Soros Pay
  35. The Good Samaritan
  36. Cy Vance Is New York County’s New District Attorney
  37. But What Do Biglaw Children Think?
  38. The Sound of Silence
  39. Rakoff’s Revenge: When It’s Time To Say “No”
  40. Baby You Can Drive My Car (Update)
  41. Two Agents and a Hacker Go to a Bar
  42. Cash And Carry Expert (Update)
  43. Even Contracts Have Limits
  44. How To Succeed In Law School. Maybe
  45. Book Preview: Ordinary Injustice
  46. What, No 9/11 Post?
  47. Too Much Information
  48. Refuse in Vein; Cops To Draw Blood (Update)
  49. The High Price of Free Speech
  50. Cronkite In His Healey: And That’s The Way It Was
  51. How You Want To Die
  52. Readers Mailbag, Flack Edition
  53. The First Day, Again
  54. Lesson From Touring Brazil
  55. Law, Meet Malthus
  56. Define Bully
  57. All Reasoning Is Not Created Equal
  58. Love’s Labour’s Lost
  59. But For Video, The Weekly Version
  60. So Quantity Doesn’t Trump Quality
  61. But It Says So In A Journal
  62. 7 Things At Once
  63. When The Cop Arrives
  64. Confronting The Cult
  65. Places No One Should Ever Go
  66. Geek Is Not A Foreign Language (Update)
  67. No Apology Necessary
  68. You Want Privacy?
  69. The First Step Onto A Slippery Slope
  70. The Death of A Preacher
  71. Guru Who?
  72. Ugly Decisions of Meaningless Words
  73. Playing Find The Expert
  74. ABA to Prosecutors: Stop Being Unethical Scum
  75. Taser’s Response: They’re Just Plane Crashes
  76. Where Does “Cheap and Simple” Fit In?
  77. The Time For Talk Is Over
  78. We Never Figure Things Out First
  79. As The Story Spins: Death Threats Are Not A Positive
  80. A Bond Too Big

August 2009

  1. Will Handwriting Be The New Polygraph?
  2. The Second String First Amendment
  3. Shocking Memphis
  4. Lori Drew Appreciates Lawprofs. Do We? (Update)
  5. A Cautionary Tale for Non-Lawyer Readers (and Lawyers too)
  6. He’s Baa-aack
  7. Welcome The Digital Fourth
  8. My Blogolater Can Beat Up Your Blogolater
  9. Second-Guessing Judges
  10. Long Distance Law
  11. Poor Richard
  12. It’s 2:00 am; Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
  13. Simels Goes Down
  14. Plax Cops to 2
  15. Fender Bender. A Really Bad Fender Bender
  16. Here and There, Aqui y alli (Update)
  17. Leaving On A Jet Plane
  18. Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
  19. Health Care Follies
  20. Reason #37 To Hire Cops Who Shave
  21. Does The Word “Slackoisie” Offend You? Good
  22. Bad Result Breeds Ineffective Assistance
  23. Endorsement: Cy Vance, Jr. for Manhattan District Attorney
  24. But Technology Doesn’t Love You Back
  25. The Alfalfa Field Doctrine
  26. Another Tragedy Brings Another Law
  27. AALS Creates Permanent Committee on Hemlines
  28. It All Comes Down To The Taser
  29. Another Lesson From Charlie Nesson
  30. What Your Email Says About You
  31. A Dangerous Blogger (Update)
  32. What Your Email Address Says About You
  33. Fettered Discretion
  34. Good Work, If You Can Get It
  35. Ted Frank Finds His Groove
  36. Seven Lawyer Lives Lost
  37. Return to Willowbrook
  38. Future Lawyer
  39. The First Lawyer on the Obama Court
  40. The Jester Isn’t Laughing Now
  41. The Loudest Scream
  42. The Saddest Person in the Twittersphere
  43. Symbolism, Substance and the Future
  44. The Real You: Cash Machine
  45. Real Life Telephone Call
  46. Big Pictures and Mouse-Milking
  47. The Vernacular of The Lawyer
  48. Everyone is Not Entitled to an Opinion
  49. Eric Holder’s Awesome Solution
  50. Killer Keller and the Twinkie Defense
  51. The Rational Health Plan
  52. Can You Hear Me Now?
  53. Plaxico Burress Tries The Option Play
  54. Baptism By Taser
  55. They All Rolled Over
  56. New Meaning For Badgelickers
  57. Popular Mechanics, A Handbook For Judges
  58. Blawg Review #223, Sphincter Rules
  59. Need Options In A Troubled Economy?
  60. But For Video, Volume 43 (Update)
  61. Plea Rejected, Thankfully
  62. Fear of Signing
  63. Life and Death in the Blawgosphere

July 2009

  1. Beer Delivery For Obama
  2. Reverence and A Child’s Eye
  3. Plaxico Burress Goes Long
  4. Those Who Don’t, Teach (Update)
  5. Lawyer Fashionista: Haute Bronx
  6. Living a Life of Splendor
  7. The Sound of a Twit in an Empty Room
  8. Membership In A Club You Didn’t Join
  9. The Judge Who Almost Was
  10. Neither Had the Sense
  11. Like It Or Not, These Are Your Rights
  12. Pride or Revenue
  13. Are We Not Lawyers? (Update)
  14. Total Disaster
  15. A Vicious Libel and a Favor
  16. The Publius Syndrome
  17. When The Court Needs a Friend
  18. The Associated Press Sucks Eggs
  19. Cy Vance Plays The Stop and Frisk Numbers Game
  20. A Crime By Any Other Name (Non-Lawyer Edition)
  21. Cambridge PD Sergeant Saves President From Crash
  22. Wanna Buy My Brief?
  23. Hang the Jury or the Lawyer
  24. Let There Be Liability
  25. Keeping Your Cool
  26. Do It For the Children, Taser Edition
  27. If You’re Really, Really Desperate, Meet Law Guru
  28. Today, I Wear Short Shorts
  29. A Lesser Evil
  30. Racism or the American Experience? (Update)
  31. A Bum on a Stoop
  32. Consultant Nation
  33. Serving Corporate Masters
  34. Jane, You Ignorant Slut
  35. Hate and Harm
  36. The Standard Walter Cronkite
  37. What’s This In Reference To?
  38. Saving Sonia
  39. Consumer Beware
  40. The Lawyer Letter Commandeth
  41. Hope Steffey Settles With County
  42. The Valid Court Order (Update)
  43. ‘Cause You Got To Have Friends
  44. Welcome To Winnfield. Have A Nice Day
  45. Fidelity to the Law is No Excuse
  46. Naked Lawprof Mudwrestling, Co-Ed Edition (Update)
  47. Return to Sanity Looks Crazy
  48. The Media Loves A Title
  49. Where To Get A Tin Foil Hat
  50. Legislators Intend to Get Re-elected
  51. Because Mommies Spend More
  52. Freedom to Move; The American Way
  53. Hull Gets Tough: No-Wuss Zone Is For Real
  54. Book Review: “Three Felonies A Day,” Or Not
  55. Battle of the Strawmen
  56. A Trophy, A Twinkie and Your Respect
  57. When Mayberry Lays Off Andy and Barney
  58. Ineffective at Plea? Then What?
  59. Blogging For Dollars
  60. Dreier and The Bernie Scale
  61. If You Can’t Spank ‘Em, There’s Always The Taser
  62. Brady Violations: Not Just A “Rules” Issue
  63. Fair is Fair: Avvo Did Me Right (Update)
  64. Rights, Warnings, Weapons.
  65. Mother of the Year Lost
  66. Credit is a Two Way Street
  67. Unfollowed in St. Louis
  68. Courting Confrontation
  69. And Heidgen Sits and Waits (Update)
  70. Dear Sir, Please Help Me
  71. Compromise, And Other Bad Ideas
  72. Another Independence Day Parade
  73. A Win Too Late
  74. Taser Goes Too Far
  75. If You Liked Secret Wiretaps, You’ll Love This
  76. Time, Time, Time, Is On My Side
  77. But He Could Run, Couldn’t He?
  78. Now That There Is No Bar

June 2009

  1. Talking Heads: Just Smile and Look Pretty
  2. The Madoff Show Is Over. Who Won? (Update)
  3. “A Strong Basis In Evidence” of What?
  4. Remember, “Shouting Fire” tonight on HBO
  5. Three Answers to Nastiness
  6. Why Olson’s “Better Shake” Is Mostly For The Wealthy
  7. Running to Lose
  8. A Slice of the Health Care Pie
  9. In Dog We Trust?
  10. The Greenfield Approach to Bernie Madoff
  11. The Government’s Turn: Bernie Is Baaaaaad
  12. Savanna Redding: Almost a Victory. Almost. (Update)
  13. How Long Before The Plug Gets Pulled?
  14. 500 Comments Later
  15. The Old Guard’s Last Stand
  16. Pro Se Meets Confrontation
  17. When Classrooms are Lined in Rubber
  18. Madoff’s Turn
  19. Kindle DX: An Opposing View
  20. Atop the Fence
  21. Dangerous Confusion on Truth and Justice (Update)
  22. The Blawgosphere and Real World Collide
  23. The Humble Father
  24. Not Dead Yet
  25. Due Influence
  26. But What Do You Really Think?
  27. But Seriously, Give Up The Seat
  28. Top 10 People to Follow on Twitter
  29. Part of the Plan
  30. Movie Review: Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
  31. The Right Way To Surrender (Update)
  32. Search, Untethered
  33. Why Do The Supremes Bother?
  34. The Law, From the Cheap Seats
  35. Etiquette in Charm City
  36. The Death of Innocence
  37. Error Corrected, Error Revealed
  38. One Camera Too Many
  39. The Language of the Law
  40. A Talk With Judge Chin About Bernie
  41. When Bennett Goes Slumming
  42. Invitations to the Party, Academic Edition
  43. Who You Gonna Call?
  44. Soapbox Justice
  45. Another Prosecutor Loses Her Virginity
  46. Dead and Dying Links
  47. We’re Not Just Self-Promoters
  48. There’s No Cravath System For Criminal Defense
  49. Was It The Cop Or The Taser?
  50. No, He Doesn’t “Get It”
  51. Your Family, Unwitting Stars
  52. How Is She Supposed to Act?
  53. The One-Dimensional Defendant
  54. So You Think You Can Judge
  55. As Blatant As It Gets
  56. Was P.O. Omar Edwards Left In The Gutter?
  57. When The Going Gets Tough
  58. A Dollar and A Dream
  59. Sentences Don’t Have to Be Arbitrary Anymore
  60. Big Words, Little Words, Bad Words
  61. The Risk of Outing
  62. A Reason To Round Up The Kids
  63. Another Tragedy, Another Criminal
  64. Blaming The Judge For Counsel’s Bad Argument
  65. Sunday Stuff That Irks Me
  66. It’s Not For The Money
  67. Schools Have Rules, Taser Edition
  68. But What If She Was Black and Poor?
  69. Bodine to Twitter: You Ugly and You Dress Funny
  70. The Nanny Sentence
  71. Vanity Fair
  72. Taser, With Love From Niagara Falls (Update)
  73. Newsflash: Indigents Need Lawyers. Judges too
  74. Party, Slackoisie Style
  75. How Many Justices Should It Take
  76. “Optimism Is Not A Strategy”
  77. Lisa, Jose and Profuse Apologies (Update)
  78. Tolerance and Tolerance for Ambiguity
  79. A Cache of Guns and Two Chickens
  80. Barr Is Right, But So Very Wrong
  81. From Edwards’ Death, The Hope of Change
  82. A Wartime Consigliere
  83. Age Versus Crime

May 2009

  1. Suck Face
  2. With A Side of Spam
  3. A “Wise Latina” Herring
  4. Why We’ll Never Know
  5. Nino’s “Things That Rarely Happen”
  6. Everyone Screwed Up, But Only McNair Is Executed
  7. Officer Simoes Never Meant to Hurt Her (Update)
  8. Oh, That Memo
  9. Anyone Can; Everyone Shouldn’t
  10. If Unpopular Rights Can Be Undone
  11. Merely Having A Lawyer Isn’t Enough Anymore
  12. Falwell’s Liberty University Tosses Young Democrats as “Unchristian”
  13. My Website Is Worse Than Your Website
  14. So Sotomayor
  15. When You Say No, They Say . . .
  16. The Time To Speak (Update)
  17. Can 80 Million Slackoisie Be Wrong?
  18. Memorial Day 2009
  19. The Young and the Hapless
  20. Troy Davis Tests Our Faith
  21. Seeing It Through The Cops’ Eyes, Part 2
  22. Seeing It Through The Cops’ Eyes, Part 1
  23. A Fair Trade?
  24. We’re From The FCC and We’re Here To Help
  25. Drop The Photo Or I’ll Shoot (Update)
  26. Don’t, Just Don’t, Ever Do This. Ever
  27. How To Burn A Book
  28. Cop On A Limb (Update)
  29. Lawyer Fashionista: Dressing Down
  30. First, You Have To Get The Job
  31. Smile When You Perp Walk
  32. Shopping With Ruth Madoff
  33. Iqbal and Our Important Government Officials
  34. Win An SJ Excellence in Criminal Defense Award Today!
  35. A Story for Young Prosecutors
  36. Chicago: Get a Life, Give a Life
  37. Retribution and the Goldilocks Syndrome
  38. Love Science, Hate Science
  39. The Academy’s Guardians of Free Speech
  40. Tortured In Buffalo
  41. The Simpleton’s Guide to Liars
  42. Who Will Be The Next Enemy?
  43. Solo, The Last Refuge of Incompetence?
  44. Teach Your Children Well
  45. Judging Empathy: Is It Just the Five Percenters?
  46. Only A Matter of Time: Brooklyn Law Cheats Its Way to 61 (Update)
  47. Shotguns Aren’t Always the Answer
  48. The Taser/DNA Decision: When Cops Put Their Heads Together
  49. New York Court of Appeals: GPS Requires A Warrant
  50. Can You Smell That Smell?
  51. USLaw.com: A Call to Arms
  52. Lawyers Are Not Fungible
  53. The Gunslinger and the Nun
  54. Safer and Cheaper: Will It Fly?
  55. In Defense of the Socratic Method (Update)
  56. Because Religion Isn’t Supposed to be Fair
  57. Cops Combine Two Favorites: Taser and DNA
  58. The Backdoor of Background: Still Ajar
  59. The Slackoisie Fight Back (Update)
  60. Value, A Novel Concept For Lawyers
  61. The Shame of Parenting
  62. Wal-Mart Cops A Deal
  63. USLaw.com: The Verdict Is In
  64. Partying In House, or Why General Counsel Aren’t Like Us
  65. Granny and Me
  66. The Cowardly Law Clerks Attack
  67. What Can USLaw.com Do For You? (Update)
  68. Then There Can Be No Drunk Driving
  69. Flexing the Wrong Muscles
  70. Birth Of The Trench Lawyer Movement
  71. The Gentlemen’s “A”
  72. Qualifications: No Thought Greater Than 140 Characters
  73. Severe, Repeated and Hostile, This Means You!
  74. Chief Judge Lippman Forms Another Commission
  75. We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Synapses
  76. The Mercenary Profession
  77. Who’s Next?

April 2009

  1. John Stossel: Credit Cards Are Banks Gift To The Poor.
  2. Scalia’s Idea of Incentives (Update)
  3. Free Speech in the First Degree
  4. Joe Lieberman: Arlen Spector Is My Illegitimate Son
  5. $1.3 Million Awarded to Soros Justice Fellows
  6. Dreier To Plead: Keep Yer Stinkin’ Deal
  7. Hug A Victim
  8. When Your Manhood Measures 3 1/2 Inches
  9. No Right, But Utterly Wrong
  10. The Gripes of Wrath
  11. When The Magistrate Twits
  12. It’s Broken, Just Because You Say So
  13. How To Blog, As If They Have A Clue
  14. Slander, Talk Radio and Cyber Civil Rights
  15. Important Lawyer-Type Stuff You Should Know About
  16. The Free Speech of Bad Cops
  17. A Win for Juries: They Can Be Told
  18. Criminal Summary Judgment; Way Too Painless
  19. Not Without A Lawyer
  20. New Kids on the Block in Austin, Texas (Gov’t Juice Edition)
  21. Things Found in Justice Breyer’s Underpants
  22. Did Gant Create a New Test?
  23. Gant is Good; Gant Ain’t Great
  24. Waiting For The Checks To Roll In
  25. Fair Use and Freeriding
  26. The Debate About CCR Commentgate Continues (Lawprof Reaction Update)
  27. Keep Your Distance
  28. Computer Law Arrives by Pony Express
  29. Learning, One Blog At A Time
  30. Underdog Turns 3 Today
  31. Paying Attention to Commercials
  32. The Risk of Existing in Cyberspace
  33. The Wake of a Wake
  34. The Risky Number 5
  35. I Swear, Officer, That Wasn’t My Twit
  36. Membership in the Club Denied
  37. Yes! But That’s Not the Whole Story
  38. Troy Davis: Bowing to the Streamlined Apple
  39. Wrap-Up on CCR Symposium: The Horse Won the Race (Citron Update)
  40. Learned in the Law; An Alternative Route
  41. Spitzer, Unarmed
  42. The Stupidest Thing Ever
  43. Cyber Civil Rights Takes on the Internet
  44. Who’s Your Lawyer-Daddy?
  45. Biglaw Learns New Math
  46. Clinging to Power
  47. Good Tips for Potheads
  48. Cash Needed, But Not Good Enough
  49. In Praise of Vigorous Advocacy
  50. The Finance Cloud Has a Silver Lining
  51. Play Nice, Little Blawger
  52. Can You Hear Me?
  53. Blogging By The Numbers (Texas Lawprof Version)
  54. Raped Twice in the Subway
  55. Law is Easy. Ask Anybody
  56. Slackoisie to Biglaw: Be Funner
  57. If Rocky’s “Dead”, Then What?
  58. Score One for Henry Hyde
  59. Admit It! It Sucks! (Secret Wexler Photo Update)
  60. The Whole Spoiled Bunch
  61. Someone Is Keeping Score
  62. Judge Sullivan is Pissed. For Real
  63. The Winds of Change in New York Are Blowing
  64. Resist the Urge
  65. Cooperate, As a General Rule
  66. CDL Tip of the Day: Check for Video BEFORE Commenting
  67. Bean Bag Bingo
  68. No Future Here
  69. Reinventing Miranda
  70. “The Attorneys At Our Firm” or Why Lawyers Can’t Count
  71. Memo to Bloggers: Beware and Stand Up
  72. Judge Rips Head Off “Hero Mom”
  73. TSA: What’s In Your Wallet?
  74. Not For Top 10 Twitterers
  75. Fitting Round Technology Into A Square Hole
  76. Poverty in the First Degree
  77. Walking With Senator Stevens (Update)
  78. Taking Offers: The Turk Goes to Auction
  79. The Best Defense
  80. Open Season on Peremptory Challenges

March 2009

  1. Another Senator Guns For DataTreasury
  2. Searching and Seizing in a Digital World, Part II
  3. Because You Just Can’t Shoot People
  4. Cheap At Half the Price?
  5. Finally, A Marketing Concept That Helps
  6. Congress Discovers: It’s Broken, And We’ve Got The Solution! (Update)
  7. It Takes A Dominatrix
  8. Call First. I Repeat, Call First
  9. Searching and Seizing a Digital World
  10. Had Ryan Moats Lost His Cool
  11. Leaving One on the Table
  12. Killer Keller’s Got Her Shoes on Backward (Update)
  13. Coercive Pleas Get Another Slap
  14. Defending the Defenders
  15. Spare the Rod in Black and White
  16. Schools Have Rules, Supreme Court Edition (Update)
  17. Not My Yob
  18. But How Do You Feel About It?
  19. Lawyer +10
  20. Where Bailouts Are Born
  21. US Attorney, SDNY, Proves Why It’s The Best
  22. Please Retain Me
  23. The Last Nail in the Coffin
  24. Reason To Blog Number 14: Meet Guys
  25. The Old Briefcase
  26. The Benefit of Appearances
  27. Defenders of Truthiness
  28. I Watch TV, So I Know
  29. What Do We Expect From a Jury Anyway?
  30. A Special Bonus of Our Own
  31. Law & Order Wins, And A Boy is Nearly Stomped to Death
  32. Four Rules For Slackoisie Nirvana
  33. Elefant Keeps It Fresh
  34. The Expert Cop’s Self-Cognition
  35. Twitting With Grandma
  36. We’re Not Worthy of Geeklawyer
  37. If You Had Your Pick of Associates
  38. Pretense Exposed By Cop’s Fantasy
  39. Is The Supreme Court Irrrelevant?
  40. A Mixed Message To Lawyers
  41. Even Rats Have Cellmates
  42. But It’s a Contract
  43. Straight Into Solo, When There’s No Other Choice
  44. Do We Need Three Ways to Convict?
  45. Is the Pool Permanently Tainted?
  46. The Real Risk is the Loss of Childhood Happiness
  47. Madoff’s Madness Revealed
  48. Judge Posner Knows His Salad Dressing
  49. Should the Legal Proletariat Unite?
  50. Prosecutor: Better Than A Good Night’s Sleep
  51. But She Knew He Was A Professor
  52. The Madoff Gambit (Update)
  53. Shifting Speedy Trial Blame
  54. Beware the Demise of the Rockefeller Laws
  55. Is It Really A Woman’s Thing? (Update x2)
  56. Taking Up the Slack
  57. Deconstructing Eyewitness IDs in 60 Minutes
  58. The Yoda Factor
  59. Bail and Plea Don’t Mix
  60. Law School, Revealed
  61. Law School, Exposed
  62. Handicapping Madoff (Update)
  63. Bloggers’ Rights Hang by a Skank
  64. But America is the Center of the Universe
  65. The Pinochle of Substantive Knowledge
  66. A Lawyer and His Pen
  67. Reducing Peremptory Challenges? Too Clever By Far
  68. Mothers Are Scary When They’re Deadly
  69. Lawyers Against the Blawgosphere
  70. Drop the Barbie and Step Away
  71. But What About Ruth?
  72. Wanna Be A Solo (or, Solo is the New Black)
  73. Have Laptop, Will Travel
  74. Proof By Trick
  75. Illegal Use of the Hands
  76. Retaining Millenials (Or Slackoisie Suicide)
  77. Memo to Prosecutors: Cops Think You’re Dolts
  78. The Good Unrepetent Mother
  79. The Race is On
  80. The Value of a Good Education
  81. But For Video, Volume 36

February 2009

  1. The Death of Zeal
  2. Dan Abrams: Presumed Innocent is for Losers
  3. Time to Rethink…
  4. Appearances Matter
  5. Newsday Goes from Bad to Worse
  6. Must Every Harm Have a “Victim”? (Update)
  7. Welcome to Part F
  8. Beware the Government’s Claw in the Back
  9. When Cops are Sorry
  10. What Is It About Keeping Score on Twitter? (Update)
  11. Collateral Consequences of a Plea Revisited (Update)
  12. Playing Catch-Up
  13. Phoenix Rising
  14. When Schools Go to the Dogs
  15. Do Not Call, Don’t Mean Squat (Update)
  16. The Hyperbolic Hyperlink
  17. For the Love of Prosecutors
  18. A Right, A Writ, and Then What?
  19. No President is Untouchable
  20. So You Ruined Gary Condit For Nothing? (Update)
  21. Economics 101 (Slackoisie Version)
  22. Are Bar Associations Worth It?
  23. First Lattman, Now Slater?
  24. The Same Stories, Again and Again
  25. Science, Law and Manufactured Convictions
  26. What Time Will the Doors Close on Sharon Keller
  27. Even Cops Need Some Sleep (Update)
  28. National Academies of Science: Trust Nothing
  29. Twitter: Profit in 140 Characters or Less
  30. The D.C. Bar’s Avvo Issues
  31. The Dorm Doctrine at Amherst (Update)
  32. Getting Along or Getting It Right
  33. This Blawgosphere Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us
  34. Are Attackers “Awesome” to Feminists?
  35. The Charter of its Own Existence
  36. The Good Elected Judge
  37. Do It Or The Pony Dies
  38. It’s Not Just the Stars
  39. When Justice Hits the Wall
  40. Piling on Bob Simels
  41. Is it Soup Yet?
  42. What Black Thursday Will Mean Come Monday
  43. Tell It to the Children (Update)
  44. Nordstrom: Don’t Hate Us Please (Idiot Version) (Update)
  45. What Precedes an Ice Cream Cone?
  46. Surveillance Nation: Cause and Effect
  47. Confession of a Judge: “No More Than a Guess”
  48. So Many Ways Not to Communicate
  49. Unstimulated
  50. The Agony of Proving Innocence
  51. Lawyer to Geeks: YANAL
  52. Wayne Tompkins Time Ran Out
  53. The Love of Compromise
  54. Quien Es Muy Macho, Nordstrom or the Blawgosphere?
  55. There is a Time to Stop Trying to Win
  56. Cutting Down the School House Gates
  57. Symbiotic Monetization & Parasitic Blawgospheric Sequalae
  58. The End of the Rockefeller Laws? Don’t Count Chickens
  59. Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law: Does it Stand the Test of Time?
  60. Cruising The Neighborhood
  61. Schools and Cops, A Dangerous Combination
  62. Mortgage Fraud Costs Lawyer 30 Years of Files
  63. If Law Was Run By Non-Lawyers
  64. Exonerating the Dead
  65. Defending the Bully
  66. Seeing, Believing, Getting It Wrong
  67. Science and the Law Don’t Mix
  68. CLE, The Career Killer
  69. Lawprof Mud Wrestling: Why Teach Crimlaw Via the Model Penal Code?
  70. My 250th Call Through Avvo!
  71. Making a Federal Case of It
  72. Capping the Filthy Rich
  73. The Lawyer Rat Exposed
  74. Things Not to Say After Verdict
  75. Value Added Blawging in the Age of Twitter (Update)
  76. Court Rejects Drunken Depraved Indifference
  77. And Charge Me for the Pleasure?
  78. Plea Agreements Online; A Troubling Conundrum
  79. An Injudicious Act? (Update)
  80. Cruelty to Children
  81. Pathetic Smear of Marc Dreier
  82. The Battle for Scraps
  83. No Harm, No Foul Is A One-Way Street
  84. New Jersey: Just Leave Herring to Us

January 2009

  1. Lawyers, Media and Twitteratti
  2. Long Island Cuts to the Tape
  3. Second Circuit Sets Up Second Amendment Showdown
  4. Why Malcolm Maims (Update)
  5. Ugly Reality Strikes the Blawgosphere
  6. The Lifecycle of Comments
  7. The Agape Scheme; Smacking the Little Guy
  8. Do Constitutional Rights Have an Expiration Date?
  9. The Oscar Grant Punch; Packratt Knew It
  10. Coach Was Wrong, But Was He Criminal?
  11. Another Bad Day at SCOTUS (Update x2)
  12. Forces Join to Attack Overcriminalization
  13. What the Government Has to Hide
  14. The Lawyer Rat (Update)
  15. First Impression of The Lextweet Reflection
  16. The Rush to Kill (Update)
  17. The System Works Just Fine, Thank You Very Much
  18. Gillibrand Takes Manhattan
  19. Joe Bruno, Politician
  20. First Night on the Rock
  21. Free Stuff
  22. The Weakest Link in the Corporate Chain of Criminal Liability
  23. Was Mommy a Terrorist, or LA Times Full of It? (Update)
  24. A Categorical Problem with Spears
  25. The Defendant’s Children
  26. When The Buck Stops With You
  27. Thanks, Geoffrey Fieger, You Jerk
  28. History Can’t Be Left to the Gravediggers
  29. Did Herring Create a New Element of Proof?
  30. The Oath: Bad and Badder (Update)
  31. Gaming the Name: What It Says About You
  32. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, Or Not
  33. Maybe Judges Are Paid Too Much?
  34. Silent Death in the Blawgosphere (Critical Update)
  35. Another Magic Bullet Misses Its Mark
  36. MLK: It’s Over But It’s Not (Update)
  37. Twitter Update: I Care Deeply About Your Lunch Meat
  38. The Wittiest Inaugrual Address Ever
  39. As If Legal Fees Aren’t High Enough
  40. Bigger Than the Constitution
  41. Lawyers and Drugs; We’re Not Special
  42. The Drug War, Summed Up
  43. What Do You Call Someone Who Forces A 13 Year Old Girl To Strip?
  44. Indictment Tossed Against Lawyer For Advising Clients (Update)
  45. Doctrine or Reality: What Does the Exclusionary Rule Do?
  46. Anything But Boring
  47. New York to Internet: Feeeeeeed Me!
  48. Chopped Herring: Is Negligence the New Loophole? (Update)
  49. The First Victim of the Victims: The Prosecution
  50. The Bricks That Build a False Confession
  51. Fat Ones, Thin Ones, Ones Who Smell Really Bad
  52. New York has a New Chief Judge
  53. School Board Learns a Lesson from Students
  54. LegalTech Dirtied by Lexis Lucre (Update)
  55. Curmudgeons Unite! Don’t Blog for Profit! (Update)
  56. Some Inside Thoughts on Madoff
  57. Nothing was Speedy, But Was It the State’s Fault?
  58. What the Trial or Plea Issue Shows About Sentencing Disparities (Update)
  59. Dean on Cheney, Or Why The President is Always Right
  60. But Is It Worth Re-Tweeting? (Update)
  61. The Politically Correct Jury
  62. The Fight Over the Fight
  63. Advice to Young Lawyers from the Big Kahuna
  64. United States to Ben Kuehne: It’s Not Over Yet
  65. If Avvo Leads, Then It Has to do Far Better
  66. Prosecutors: Some Do Right, Some Kinda
  67. Norm is Back, At Least for Now.
  68. ABA Blawg 100 Results are Official: Bennett Wins!
  69. Will Twitter’s Popularity Be its Demise?
  70. Third-Hand Junk Science Condemns Third-Hand Smoke (Update)
  71. The Devil in Metadata
  72. When It Really Is About the Children
  73. Altered Cognitive States; Happy, Smart or What?
  74. The Gray Lady and the Twinkie
  75. Stand for Something or Stand for Nothing
  76. The Two Most Loaded Words in a Courtroom
  77. Starvation in the Academy: Lawprofs Make What?
  78. When the Defense Becomes Part of the “Solution” (Update)
  79. A Masterpiece for Our Time
  80. Eliminating Plea Bargains for the Right Reasons
  81. Collateral Murder for Negligent Homeless Man
  82. ABA Blawg 100: Beaten into Submission
  83. Prep 1, Admin Convenience 0, For The Moment
  84. Sacrificing for One’s Craft
  85. A New Year’s Shelf Life
  86. Name That Tune, Biker Version
  87. The Scope of Consent
  88. The Right to Shoot, The Duty to Help
  89. “A Mere Two-Tenths of 1 Percent”

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