2014

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December 2014

1. 31 DecAnd For What?
2. 30 DecDancing In The Streets
3. 30 DecWhen The Snitch Turns
4. 30 DecNYPD Compels A Bold Political Move (Update)
5. 29 DecNothing Left To Compromise (Update)
6. 29 DecBut For Video: Why Would He Lie? Edition
7. 28 DecTurn Your Backs On Police
8. 27 DecSock Drawer Secrets
9. 27 DecWill Affirmative Consent Metastasize?
10. 26 DecThe Line Between Black and Blue
11. 26 DecA Lifestyle Choice
12. 25 DecSilent Night
13. 24 DecMerry Christmas
14. 23 DecJameis Winston Cleared, So He Must be GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!!
15. 23 DecTrusted Sources
16. 21 DecTwo Cops Dead, And Still Feeding the Crazies
17. 21 DecMeaningless Word Number 6: Annoying
18. 20 Dec2011, “They Will Be OK,” Revisited
19. 20 DecNominations are Open for the 6th Annual Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post (Closed)
20. 19 DecSchools Have Rules: When Blind Boys Go Bad
21. 19 DecLook For The (Police) Union Label
22. 18 DecThe Circular Failure Of Objectivity
23. 18 DecThe Glossy Untruth
24. 17 DecBut For Video: A Mistake of Law
25. 17 DecThe Environmental Cleanup of Toxic Academia (Update)
26. 16 DecLefty Hate
27. 16 DecHeien v. North Carolina: Close Enough
28. 15 DecTwit or Tweet (Update: The Twit Lives!)
29. 15 DecOnly Facebook Knows
30. 15 Dec“If Your Mother Cooked Meth”
31. 14 DecThe Day Physics Died (Update)
32. 14 DecBook Review: The Articulate Witness (Update)
33. 13 DecA Kinder, Gentler NFL
34. 13 DecPapercuts of Oppression
35. 12 DecBut For Video: “You A Dumb Bitch” Edition
36. 12 DecThe Marshall Project Takes A Swan Dive Into The Bidet (Update x2)
37. 12 DecThe Post ATL Was Too Afraid To Run
38. 11 DecHousekeeping: Comments Again
39. 11 DecWas This What You Meant By Rape?
40. 11 DecYou Can’t Handle The Truth (Update)
41. 10 DecRead Emily Yoffe Instead
42. 9 DecFavored Treatment: It’s Not Just For Killing (Update)
43. 9 DecThe Dangerous Line of Respect
44. 8 DecThe Nasty Little Secret of Progressive Statistics
45. 8 DecNo Threat At All
46. 7 DecFocus: The Problem With Diffusion
47. 7 DecTamir Rice: Did Rookie Cop Loehmann Have To Kill Him?
48. 6 DecWhen There Are No Men To Blame (Update)
49. 6 DecWorthy of Execution
50. 5 DecThe New Revenge Porn: Racism
51. 5 DecTrue Confessions: They Shoot Blacks, Don’t They?
52. 4 DecBut For Video: The Eric Garner Failure
53. 4 DecEric Garner’s Homicide Solved
54. 3 DecThe Revolt of the Mags Lives!
55. 3 DecWelcome To The Police Body Cam Discussion
56. 3 DecA Kinder, Gentler Twitter Echo Chamber
57. 2 DecBut What If It’s A Lie? (Update)
58. 2 DecAct Like You’ve Been There Before
59. 1 DecThe Ram Has Touched The Wall, And St. Louis Cops Are Mad About It (Update)
60. 1 DecTrue Enough Threats

November 2014

1. 30 NovYou and What Army?
2. 30 NovInquiring Minds Want To Know: Was Tamir Rice’s Postman’s Neighbor Mean? (Update)
3. 29 NovForget Super Lawyer. What about Super Blogger?
4. 29 NovPolice Shootings: The Worst Discretion Wins
5. 28 NovYou’re Ugly And You Dress Funny Too
6. 28 NovWhen Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?
7. 27 NovDead Wrong About Tamir Rice
8. 27 NovThe Ferguson Model of Grand Jury Love
9. 26 NovThe Natural, Yet Ridiculous, Next Step In Affirmative Consent
10. 26 NovThe Post-Ferguson Trade-Off: Whose Life Is Worth Saving?
11. 25 NovThe Ferguson Lie
12. 24 NovWhen There Is No Room Left For Facts
13. 24 NovWhether “Boy With Toy” Or “Black Male,” Tamir Rice Is Now Dead
14. 23 NovProvocation and Queer Fear
15. 23 NovThe Outrage of the Victim’s Rap Sheet Must End
16. 22 NovThe Killing of Akai Gurley: A Mistake, Perhaps, But No Accident (Update)
17. 22 NovCosby In Context (Update)
18. 21 NovThe Dark Tactic of Stash House Stings
19. 21 NovYour Emotional Rescue Meets Brown 25
20. 21 NovKickstart The End Of The Penalty
21. 20 NovThe Theft of Transparency
22. 20 NovJudge Buzz Arnold: No Harm, No Foul, No Chance
23. 20 NovHow And Why Lawyers Are Killing Our Profession (Update)
24. 19 NovGood News? The Cabbie Got Paid. Bad News? Everything Else
25. 19 NovThe Bright Line of Prosecutorial Discretion
26. 18 NovBecause Even Bad Law Makes For Good Warrants
27. 18 NovThe Marshall Project’s First Victim: Defense Lawyers
28. 17 NovHistory, As Written By The Losers
29. 17 NovA Safe And Orderly Protest in Ferguson (Update)
30. 16 NovThought Rape By The @NYTimes, Courtesy of Yale Law’s Jed Rubenfeld (Update x3)
31. 16 NovPrisons, Off The Hook
32. 16 NovAvvo Avarice
33. 15 NovThe Idiot’s Guide To Fixing Parole
34. 15 NovHarsh Ideas For Delicate Minds
35. 14 NovAttack of the Killer Analogies* (Update)
36. 14 NovBecause “Crazy” Hurt The Detective’s Feelings
37. 13 NovRevenge of the Poor House
38. 13 NovThe Unbearable Lightness of Deferred Corporate Prosecution
39. 13 NovThe Prison Caveat
40. 12 NovTurning A Bad Choice Into A Quasi-Criminal Event
41. 12 NovThe Price of Transparency (or any excuse will do)
42. 11 NovCan Tina Brown Make Reform Sexy?
43. 11 NovCause and Effect
44. 10 NovBill de Blasio: A Pot In Every Pot?
45. 10 NovKrugman’s Fuzzy Typo
46. 10 NovBut For Video: “Doesn’t Look Good” Edition (Update)
47. 9 NovWomen, Too Delicate For Prison
48. 9 NovBut For Video: What Tech Giveth
49. 8 NovWho’s Driving The Future Train At The ABA?
50. 8 NovIn Defense of Deceit
51. 7 NovBut For Video: Smashed Teeth Edition
52. 7 NovWAM, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am
53. 7 NovCops On The Attack: The Other Side of Free Speech
54. 6 NovNaming Names: Was Cornwell Wrong?
55. 6 NovAOL, The Snitch
56. 5 NovIn Which Harvard Law Students Prove They’re No Smarter Than Any Other Students
57. 5 NovVideo Killed The Personal Visit
58. 4 NovWhy Laws Criminalizing Hurt Feelings Must Fail
59. 4 NovHow Much Is That Jurist In The Window?
60. 3 NovThe Best (Update)
61. 3 NovJudge Jed Rakoff: Ending the Charade
62. 2 NovSensitivity Training For Crazy Joe Arpaio
63. 1 NovCome To Jesus; He’s At Drug Court
64. 1 Nov@RoomForDebate: Do We Need a Law Against Catcalling? (Updated)

October 2014

1. 31 OctBut For Video: Fear Factor Edition
2. 31 OctApple’s Cool iPhone Fingerprint ID Means You’re Screwed
3. 31 OctProof of Consent in Rape Cannot Be Shifted To The Accused
4. 30 OctYour Rights In Geek Hands
5. 30 OctAvvo’s 15 Minute Solution
6. 29 OctRestitution Follies: Heads, you win; Tales, I lose
7. 29 OctFive New York Counties Prove We’re Still Rubes
8. 29 OctLike Everything Else, Anger Is Tactical
9. 28 OctEven Paranoids Have Enemies: Seattle Times Edition
10. 28 OctThe Other New York Mafia
11. 27 OctThe Other Side of the American Rule
12. 27 OctSeized By Fear: The Ebola Quarantine (Update x2)
13. 26 OctDefending Hypocrites
14. 26 OctBut You Can Trust The Cops, Right?
15. 26 OctBlinded By The Light
16. 25 OctA Hostile Takeover of Victim, Inc.
17. 25 OctHorse-Trading Constitutional Rights
18. 24 OctFerguson and The Grand Jury Sieve
19. 24 OctThe Puddle: Why Are Lawyers So Expensive?
20. 24 OctHow To Get Elected As New York’s Attorney General
21. 23 OctWhen Any Alpaca Will Do
22. 23 OctTo Silence Mumia
23. 22 OctDeputy Matt: Forget Ferguson And Love Me
24. 22 Oct4 Out of 5 Marketers Agree
25. 22 OctDid The Federalist Society Join The Censors?
26. 21 OctNo Better Options
27. 21 OctBut There’s a Box; It Must Be Checked
28. 21 OctHow Angry Guys Explain Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing (and why they’re wrong)
29. 20 OctBeing Offensive and Getting Offended: The Edith Jones Saga
30. 19 OctThe Void
31. 18 OctFerguson: Revenge of Officer Keith Novara
32. 17 OctHow To Manage Your Practice (And Not To Be A Major Screw Up)
33. 17 OctAbuse of Legal Concepts In The First Degree
34. 17 OctTaking Advantage of Children
35. 16 OctThe Third Kind of Crime
36. 16 OctFrom Harvard, With Love (Update)
37. 15 OctRachel Rodgers: Anything For A Quick Buck?
38. 15 OctSotomayor and Kagan, An Unforgivable Denial
39. 14 OctJudge Kane Rejects Regulating Today’s “Tom Paine”
40. 14 OctDe Minimis Extensions and Frisbee Golf
41. 13 OctAs The Definitions of Rape Slide Down The Slippery Slope (Update)
42. 13 OctFerguson: Whiteness or Copness
43. 12 OctDirect Inverse Proportion: Words to Worthiness
44. 11 OctCriminalizing Creepy (Update)
45. 11 OctFalling For Technology’s Promise
46. 10 OctA Warm, Yet Disturbing, Vignette
47. 10 OctJenny Miranda Update: A Failed Plan
48. 10 OctDefying Gravity
49. 9 OctDot Lawyer
50. 9 OctDue Deference and The Vignette
51. 8 OctUniform Bar Exam?
52. 8 OctThe Blissful Solitude of a Revenge Porn Crusader (Update)
53. 7 OctLaw: Too Little, Too Late
54. 7 OctDoctrine v. Realism: Naked Mudwrestling At Its Best
55. 6 OctThe First Scary Monday In October: Heien (Update x2)
56. 6 OctThe New Model Revenge Porn Law; Better, But… (Update x2)
57. 5 OctOf Faxes, Glasses and iToy 6
58. 5 OctGoing To The Mattresses, The Parental Strategy
59. 4 OctLicense To Kill
60. 4 OctThe Economist Discovers Plea Bargaining
61. 3 OctPuppy Time At The Supreme Court
62. 3 OctChoice, Poor Choice and Then What?
63. 3 OctGov. Cuomo: New York Can Be Just As Foolish
64. 2 OctThe Fragile Remedy of Suppression
65. 2 OctJenny Miranda Keeps Trying (Update From Jenny)
66. 2 OctHans Bader: Intoxicated Is Not Incapacitated
67. 1 OctBronx Travesty, Redux
68. 1 OctBook Review: David Lat’s Supreme Ambitions

September 2014

1. 30 SepThe Slippery Slope of Risk
2. 30 SepOf Princes and Princesses Who Say “Yes!”
3. 29 SepHalf Baked
4. 29 SepSometimes, Video Doesn’t Matter
5. 28 SepRob Graham: The Best of Intentions
6. 27 SepUnblurring The Ethical Lines
7. 26 SepBut For Video: Extreme Compliance Edition
8. 26 SepAn Unobstructed View
9. 25 SepBut For Video: Black Man With Gun In Wal-Mart Edition (Update)
10. 25 SepArrested And Forgotten
11. 25 SepBelieving Is Seeing, and Video Can Make It Worse
12. 24 SepTough Farmers (Update)
13. 24 SepArizona’s “Revenge Porn” Law Challenged
14. 23 SepThat’s It? The Saga of The First Million Emails
15. 23 SepTake the Bait
16. 22 SepAn Exercise In Absolving Responsibility In One Page
17. 22 SepGiving A Haircut To Crime
18. 21 SepSex With Goats (Including Oral) and Other Questions on the Test
19. 21 SepCyclists: Tastes Like Chicken
20. 20 SepBlame the Children
21. 20 SepThe Forfeiture Curmudgeons
22. 20 SepSafety First?
23. 19 SepThis Is Your Brain On Cheetos
24. 19 SepOutlaw Apple
25. 19 SepAnd A Cop’s Murder, Too
26. 18 SepThe Capital Crime of Self Defense
27. 18 SepHe Wouldn’t Leave Guilty
28. 17 SepThings Dogs Like To Sniff
29. 17 SepUnbundling Criminal Defense
30. 16 SepGreg Lukianoff: Freedom From Speech
31. 16 SepIf Not Suppression, Then What?
32. 16 SepA Tale of Two College Rapes
33. 15 SepThe New Witnesses To Old News
34. 14 SepIf There Was No Other Way, Part 2
35. 14 SepIf There Was No Other Way, Part 1
36. 13 SepInspector General Seemed Like Such A Cool Idea
37. 13 SepA Sentence Just Isn’t Bad Enough
38. 13 SepUC Berkeley’s Dirks And The Bell Unrung
39. 12 SepA Tale of Cyber Horribles
40. 11 SepBut For Video: The Bronx Cheer
41. 11 SepThe “Mission Creep” of Domestic Violence
42. 10 SepMurder? It’s All In The Wrist
43. 10 SepA Kiss Is Just A Kiss (Update)
44. 9 SepIt Depends On Who Does The Hacking
45. 9 SepThe Virtues of Being Tone-Deaf (Update)
46. 8 SepSuch A Deal (or Snitches Get Stitches)
47. 7 SepFear and Stress Are The Lesson
48. 7 SepBerkeley Speech: We’re Being Dirked
49. 6 SepAs The Vultures Descend on the Naked Corpse of J-Law
50. 6 SepReassessing Reasonable Rights of Redistributing Relative Risks
51. 5 SepThe Wrongfully Convicted: It’s Not For The Money
52. 5 SepThe Trick of Argument by Analogy
53. 4 SepSo You Don’t Want To Win?
54. 4 SepSaved By Regulation: Verizon Meets the US Treasury Edition
55. 4 SepCampus Rape Trials: The Deep Bias of the Empirical Scholar
56. 3 SepThe Legacy of PACER
57. 3 SepSo Certain These Two Had To Die (Update)
58. 2 SepApparently, You Can Make This Stuff Up
59. 2 SepWhy No Camera?
60. 1 SepNot Only The Dead Keep Secrets
61. 1 SepWalking A Month In Her Heels (Update)

August 2014

1. 31 AugIt’s Not Personal; It’s Just Business
2. 31 AugThe Intellectually Disabled Cannot Be Cured
3. 30 AugDead, But With Official Explanation
4. 30 AugBut For Video: The Ordinariness of Force
5. 29 AugBecause The Internets Need A New Takedown Regime
6. 29 AugA Czar? Yeah, That’s The Ticket!
7. 28 AugSunshine Superman
8. 28 AugDenied, With Extreme Prejudice (Update)
9. 28 AugBroken Windows, From the My Little Pony Perspective
10. 27 AugBut For Video: Real Black Man of New Jersey Edition
11. 27 AugThe Truthy Shall Set You Free
12. 27 AugYou Can’t Appeal The Clerk
13. 26 AugThe Problem With Prisons? They’re Full of Prisoners
14. 26 AugVictims, The New Untouchables
15. 26 AugMimesis and Me, Crazy Together?
16. 25 AugThe Warning Formerly Known As Miranda
17. 25 AugClose Enough For Cops
18. 24 AugWhat It Takes To Fail
19. 24 AugThinking Like A Lawyer
20. 23 AugThe Deeply Thoughtful Discussion On Force (Yada, Yada, Yada)
21. 23 AugThe Zebra of Worst-First Thinking
22. 22 AugPSA: Stop Helping The Bad Guys, You Twitterers
23. 22 AugBecause The Government Blew It
24. 22 AugWhat’s Worse Than Anonymous Trolls?
25. 21 AugIt’s A Poor Mechanic Who Blames The Terry Stop
26. 21 AugA Test of Sorts: Kajieme Powell
27. 20 AugBeing Right Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry
28. 20 AugThe Limits of Cameras
29. 19 AugCooperate Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
30. 19 AugGetting The News Out of Ferguson
31. 18 AugOliver’s Recap
32. 18 AugThe View From Black, White and Blue
33. 18 AugAn Unfair Fight (Gratuitous Irrelevant Update)
34. 17 AugAnother Saturday Night In Ferguson
35. 17 AugThe Militarization of Movie Theaters
36. 16 AugPutting Their Life On The Line (for minimum wage)
37. 16 AugThe Constitution in Bo Burk’s Hands
38. 16 AugThe Smearing of Michael Brown (Update x2)
39. 15 AugJust Too Lenient
40. 15 AugBetter to be Sentenced by Ostrich or Pigeon? (Update)
41. 15 AugLosing Michael Brown
42. 14 AugThe Constitution? Not In This Court
43. 13 AugHow Nice That You Don’t Grasp Mental Illness (Update)
44. 13 AugShow Me, Ferguson
45. 12 AugQuestion For Judge Kopf: Why Are Some Violations of Law More Important Than Others?
46. 12 AugDogs, White Lies and Halos
47. 11 AugNumbers Don’t Lie (But People Do)
48. 11 AugMichael Brown’s Body
49. 10 AugJudge Bates Is Just Protecting Us From Ourselves
50. 10 AugBut For Video: The Best Spot For Jail Beatings
51. 9 Aug#Hackcess To Justice: Was Anyone Saved?
52. 9 AugWould It Be Crazy To Prosecute Hinckley?
53. 8 AugWar Stories and Questions
54. 8 AugShlomo, JD, LLM, Esq.
55. 8 AugThe Aaron Swartz Myth of Unquestioned Premises
56. 7 AugEMTs and the Trouble Dealing With Violent Crazies
57. 7 AugThe Right To Exist In An Echo Chamber
58. 6 AugThe Dilettantes of Science
59. 6 AugConnecticut Exceptionalism
60. 5 AugThe View From Todt Hill Road*
61. 5 AugThe Care and Feeding of College Campus Youth
62. 4 AugThe Parole Board Remains Untouchable
63. 4 AugOutflanking The Murder of Eric Garner
64. 3 AugThe Sucky Job of Adjunct
65. 3 AugThe Sentence-O-Matic 1000
66. 2 AugEight Bagels? What About The Lox?
67. 2 AugThe Broken Windows in the Courtroom
68. 2 AugHow Many Prosecutors Does It Take?
69. 1 AugLawyers Without Law School
70. 1 AugSeattle Police Officer Randy Jokela Makes His Own Law
71. 1 AugFresno Deputies and the Terrorists Hiding in Harry Drandell’s Wallet

July 2014

1. 31 Jul“Hackcess” to Delusion: Tech Won’t Do It
2. 31 JulSnitch or Suffer
3. 30 JulWhy Can’t We See It Through The Cops’ Eyes
4. 30 JulBroken Bullets, A Response To Bill Bratton
5. 29 Jul#RevengePorn: Real Numbers Show It’s Not Really A Gender Issue
6. 29 JulBratton: Democracy Is All About Showing Police Respect (Update)
7. 28 JulWhy Congress Can’t Spell Parsimony
8. 28 JulIf You Can’t Fubar, Then Why Bother?
9. 27 JulThe Gray Lady Gets High
10. 27 JulThe Silence of the Witnesses
11. 25 JulToo Great Expectations
12. 25 JulThe Police Get Their Man (and no one was harmed)
13. 24 JulIgnorance Trumps The Particularity Requirement
14. 24 JulBecause Judge Kane Did His Job
15. 23 JulEnfield Police Officer Matthew Worden: Beating “Not Significant”
16. 23 JulThe Future of Law: Prisoner Edition
17. 22 JulThe Curmudgeon’s Dilemma
18. 22 JulThe Chokehold Comes After A Lethal Move
19. 21 JulSee Something? Who Are You To Say Anything?
20. 21 JulEric Garner’s Killing: The Mindset Is The Issue
21. 20 JulFACE Time (Update x2)
22. 20 JulTeaching Law, For Real
23. 19 JulIndicting The Messenger
24. 19 JulA Voice Against Academic Hysteria
25. 18 JulNYPD Kills Eric Garner on Video (Update)
26. 18 JulThe Grand Jury As Sword
27. 18 JulNothing Stands In The CHP’s Way When It Gets Caught Dirty
28. 17 JulVoting With My Feet
29. 17 JulLeave It To The Pros
30. 17 JulButthurt Bites Bainbridge (and lawyers are laughing) (Hasen Update: What About ME!!!) (Bainbridge Update: Counting to 3)
31. 16 JulWhy Does Nashville Police Officer Michael Pyle Hate Babies?
32. 16 JulCommand Presence Doesn’t Care About The Black Robe
33. 16 JulThe Magic Bullet Isn’t Always Shiny
34. 15 JulThe Integrity To Walk Away (and the guts to do so) (Update)
35. 15 JulFrustration, Hopelessness and a Whole Lot of ‘Vettes
36. 14 JulWho’s The Boss, Albuquerque Edition
37. 14 JulThe Pendulum and the Mule
38. 13 JulCome Home Dirty and Bruised
39. 13 JulNew Smartphone Day: Be Afraid (Update)
40. 12 JulOfficer Robert Eloff’s Third Victim
41. 12 JulGaming The Record (And Welcome Back, Kopf)
42. 10 JulRound ‘Em All Up And Sort It Out Whenever
43. 10 JulThere Is No Need Greater Than Evidence
44. 10 JulWho Is More Deserving Than The District Attorney?
45. 9 JulIt Takes A Narco-Saint Expert
46. 9 JulSay What? Is It Discriminatory To Require Employees To Speak English
47. 8 JulWhen The Judge Says “Meh”
48. 8 JulJudge Kopf and the Appearance of Impropriety (Update)
49. 7 JulThe “Really, Really Guilty” Rule
50. 6 JulWith My Deepest Apologies
51. 6 JulLegal Fees Lost
52. 5 JulNew York’s Happy Workers Unite
53. 5 JulInvestigation Reveals He “Became Unresponsive”
54. 4 JulThe View From Below
55. 4 JulWe Have No Secrets
56. 3 JulAre Cop Computers Special?
57. 3 JulBut For Video: Everyone Behaving Badly Edition
58. 2 JulNY Court of Appeals Holds Cyberbullying Law Unconstitutional
59. 2 JulThoughts Aren’t Crimes. Even Really Disgusting, Cannibal Thoughts
60. 1 JulUnchained Subjective Expectations
61. 1 JulNot That Anyone Cares, But Hobby Lobby

June 2014

1. 30 JunSense and Sensitivity in Criminalizing Speech
2. 30 JunFree Range Lawyer
3. 29 JunWe’ll Never Know What’s Behind The Curtain
4. 29 JunNY Times’ Ross Douhat: What’s So Wrong With Chastity Belts Anyway?
5. 28 JunWelcome to Courtroom 14, Judge Michael Fields Presiding
6. 28 JunDigital Is Different: Cleaning Up the Doctrinal Insanity of Search and Seizure Law
7. 27 JunCrotch Watch
8. 27 JunWhen The Environment Has To Be Hostile To Someone
9. 27 JunThe Private SWATs of Massachusetts
10. 26 JunDon’t Wurie. Be Happy
11. 26 JunFlight, Not Just A Luxury of the Modern World
12. 25 JunFree Trials? A Dangerously Bad Idea
13. 25 JunBarry Scheck Revisits His Support of Jesse Friedman’s Conviction (Update)
14. 24 JunBecause Kinky Is Different (The Prostitute and the Lawprof Update)
15. 24 JunFear of Expertise
16. 24 JunCutting His Losses: Vasectomy = Five Years
17. 23 JunJudge Wilkinson’s View of The Good
18. 22 JunShe Talked Too Much
19. 22 JunHow Could Anyone Have Known About Darrion Holiwell?
20. 21 JunAnd Wearing a Fringed Buckskin Jacket Is…
21. 21 JunHow’s That Confidential Source Working For You Now, Judge?
22. 21 JunOld, Cranky and Dumber Than Dirt
23. 20 JunWithout The Coerced Confession, Adrian Thomas Acquitted
24. 20 JunA Tale of Two Settlements
25. 19 JunContest!!! Gerry Spence Never Lost A Case and You Can Too! (Update)
26. 19 JunThe JD “Advantage”
27. 19 JunEven When The First Amendment Sucks
28. 18 JunOr Why Ex Post Fails (and fails miserably)
29. 18 JunWhen Is A Threat “True”?
30. 17 JunFathers and Sons: Ain’t No Big Thing
31. 17 JunThe Rules: There Are No Rules
32. 16 JunStand Up, Sit Down, Fight, Fight, Fight
33. 15 JunA Father’s Day Tale
34. 15 JunWhen Rights Clash: Guns v. Pot Edition
35. 14 JunThe Poisoned M&M Rule
36. 14 JunThis Is Your Prosecutor On Drugs
37. 13 JunNY Senate Passes Revenge Porn Crime Bill
38. 13 JunWhat’s Two Levels Between Friends?
39. 12 JunWitness Tampering, Always
40. 12 JunThreats: Any Nutjob Can Buy A Keyboard
41. 11 JunRape: When Politics Replaces Evidence
42. 11 JunTo Catch A Cop
43. 10 JunSneakers and the Sixth Amendment
44. 10 JunHard Choices and Private Lives
45. 9 JunThe Harder To Find, The Harder They Fall
46. 9 JunCheeseboarding (Update FTW?)
47. 9 JunSafety, Maybe
48. 8 JunOnline Dispute Resolution (Or Why You Can’t Have Nice Things)
49. 8 JunDon’t Give A Damn About A Good Reputation
50. 7 JunOsinger, The Revenge Porn Holding That Wasn’t
51. 7 JunClearspire: The Poster Boy’s Collapse
52. 6 JunA Day at the Beach
53. 5 JunGet Your Law (Out Of / Into) The Bedroom
54. 4 JunThe Antidote to The Third-Party Doctrine Problem
55. 4 JunBut For Video: Veteran’s Day Goes Green
56. 4 JunThe Fear of Uncraziness
57. 3 JunKlosterman’s Cusp
58. 3 JunThe Heat of the Well (Update 1: Perspective; 2: Context)
59. 3 JunThe Moving Target of Rape at Duke
60. 2 JunTarasoff Revisited: Elliot Rodger’s Final Murder?
61. 2 JunMiriam Carey Is Still Dead
62. 1 JunA Dialogue on Gender With Nancy Leong (Update)
63. 1 JunEating Our Own

May 2014

1. 31 MayMemo To 8th Circuit: Fairly Inexplicable Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
2. 31 MayThe 800 lb. Toddler in the Room
3. 31 MayBut For Video, Sentencing Edition
4. 30 MayBlurred Lines
5. 30 MayTo Serve Man
6. 29 MayIt’s An All Or Nothing Proposition
7. 29 MayTo Sir, With Love
8. 28 MayGood To The Last Shot
9. 28 MayUS Airways Hates Violins, Makes Bach Cry
10. 27 MayBut For Video: Execution
11. 27 MayA Small Right With A Huge Loophole
12. 26 May#NotAllMen are Mass Murderers
13. 26 MayGet Lost
14. 25 MayWhen Anybody Can Practice Law
15. 25 MayHack is Wack
16. 24 MayThis Page Intentionally Left Blank
17. 24 MayIt Seems He Overreacted
18. 24 MaySensitive Sally Smacks Special Snowflake Student Silly
19. 23 MayDon’t Blame The “Good Faith Presumption”
20. 23 MayGag Reflex
21. 22 MayEnd The Lavabit Lie
22. 22 MayFBI To Record Interrogations. Finally.
23. 21 MayThe Efficacy of Message Sending
24. 21 MayWhen Drunk Becomes Rape (Because Some Profs Say So) (Update)
25. 20 MayNor Feelings of Machismo
26. 20 MayTrigger Warning: Special Little Snowflake Ahead (Update)
27. 20 MayDeputy Eric Vaughan’s Thing About A Woman’s Mouth
28. 19 MayReason Number 7 To Send A Child To College
29. 19 MaySafer By The Numbers
30. 18 MayLike Client, Like Lawyer
31. 18 MayMugshots: The Other #RevengePorn
32. 17 MayThe Forgotten 2,785
33. 17 MayThe Fallacy of Sentencing Deference (Update)
34. 17 MayBrown v. Board of Education Turns 60
35. 16 MayNet Neutrality: The Difference Between Benefit and Detriment
36. 16 MayRay Boyer and The Safest Way
37. 15 MayGood Guy, Bad Guy
38. 15 MayLaw School: It’s Shondalicious
39. 14 MayGolb Decided, and the Sockpuppet Dies
40. 14 MayThe Right To Be Left Alone, Internet Style
41. 13 MayThankfully, Section 230 Protects NBC From Its Monumental Stupidity
42. 13 MayFormer Prosecutors To Senate: Be Prosecutorish On Mandatory Minimums (Update)
43. 12 MayThe Clock Game
44. 12 MayTidbits About A Judge
45. 11 MayThe Wrong War (Update)
46. 10 MayLatitude and Longitude: The Conviction of Cecily McMillan
47. 10 MayMemo to Sam: Is This Really What You Think?
48. 10 MayMagistrate Judge Grewal: No Manifest Destiny For DoJ
49. 9 MayGet Off Your Knees
50. 9 MayEt Tu, YouTube?
51. 8 MayWatching Your Weight
52. 8 MayThe Cone Does Not Justify The Means
53. 7 MayStale Allegations and Stuffed Animals
54. 7 MayThe Battle Over Section 230 Begins (Update)
55. 7 MayGerry Spence Presents: Midday Cowboy
56. 6 MayJust Like Game of Thrones
57. 6 MayThe Fifth Screw
58. 6 MayThe Warm Glow of Tradition
59. 5 MayTime Is On My Side (yes, it is)
60. 5 MayThe Simpleton’s Guide To The Third Party Doctrine (Update)
61. 4 MayGary Ostrow Teaches Telephone Etiquette
62. 4 MayNeither Admit Nor Deny
63. 4 MayReturn of the Slackoisie
64. 3 MayThe Business Cost of the Perfect World
65. 3 MayArizona’s Revenge Porn Crime: So Much For Limits
66. 2 MayWho Needs To Be Present For The Evidence Anyway?
67. 2 MayBodine, Reinvented
68. 1 MayThe Price of Convenience at Travis County Jail
69. 1 MayWe Have A Big Problem, But What Is It?

April 2014

1. 30 AprHard Feelings In The Bowels Of The Courthouse
2. 30 AprBreaking: The Execution Failed (or did it?)
3. 29 AprThe Total Absence of “Judgment and Discretion”
4. 29 AprIn Tech They Trust
5. 28 AprA Slave to Punctuation and Precedent
6. 28 AprThe Deaf Shall Hear And The Blind Shall See
7. 27 AprCrystal Cox Petitions For Cert (Update)
8. 27 AprA Game of Chance and Crawdads
9. 26 AprWho Do You Trust? (Update)
10. 26 AprClean Up In Aisle 4
11. 25 AprThe Oh Crap App!
12. 25 AprThat’s Mr. Fido To You (Update)
13. 24 AprRocking The Cradle of Liberty
14. 24 AprThe Path To “Merciless” (Update)
15. 23 Apr“Amy” Decided, and Arbitrary Wins (Update)
16. 23 AprA Simple Rule, Slip-Slided Away
17. 23 AprSoft Money Loves An Easy Target
18. 22 AprLadies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Why Would They Do This?
19. 22 AprPSA: Pitching Innocence
20. 21 AprWhere To Find Brain Damaged Babies
21. 21 AprAnatomy of Conventional Wisdom
22. 20 Apr@Avvo, Not Just Alive
23. 20 AprIs Three A Start, A Finish, or Just Three?
24. 19 AprIncentives Revisited: Which Lying Liars Do You Favor?
25. 19 AprThe No-Fly Secrets Revealed
26. 18 AprIf You Can’t Trust Prosecutors…
27. 18 AprHonoring The Defendant’s Rights, Duct Tape Edition
28. 18 AprSWAT For Jesus
29. 17 AprJudicial Incentives: Why Judges Won’t Condemn Cops (Update)
30. 17 AprSCOTUSBlog’s Proper Place
31. 16 AprSeven Days In The Erie Can
32. 16 AprTurkewitz Sued By “Liar” Doctor, Michael Katz
33. 15 AprDeath Plus Hate
34. 15 AprDeception, Once Removed
35. 14 AprSealed With A Kiss (Update)
36. 14 AprAn Unholy Trinity
37. 13 AprLegal Advice, At $2 Per Minute
38. 13 AprGetting Along With Your Ex
39. 12 AprWeev Goes Home and So Can You (Update)
40. 12 AprToo Simple
41. 11 AprWhen The Bully Tells The Truth (Update)
42. 11 AprA Warrant Technicality
43. 10 AprRevenge Porn: Appeal To Reason or Emotion
44. 10 AprGolb Revisited: What If It Meets All The Elements?
45. 10 AprFaithful To The Story (Update x2)
46. 10 AprCameras Work (When The LAPD Wants Them To Work)
47. 9 AprThe Alibi versus The Crack Witness
48. 9 AprVictim Blaming, Victim Proofing (Update)
49. 8 AprBronx ADA Megan Teesdale: Integrity Lost
50. 8 AprIs It Crazy To Be Nuts?
51. 7 AprThe Constitution Meets A Sign, and Loses
52. 7 AprBecause No One Can Stop The Myth
53. 6 AprBrooklyn Law’s New Game
54. 6 AprEverything Old Is New Again
55. 6 AprBut For Video: Your Lying Eyes Edition
56. 5 AprDA Kathleen Rice: Shooting The Victim In The Head Justified
57. 5 AprEvil In Albuquerque
58. 4 AprNeed To Know Basis Only
59. 4 AprTime I’ll Never Get Back
60. 3 AprAnd They Care Why?
61. 3 AprMoney Talks
62. 2 AprWelcome to #LMA14!
63. 2 AprSilk Road Shows The Flaws Of The Laws (Update)
64. 1 AprBecause Fresno Hates Pot
65. 1 AprMoney Back Guarantee

March 2014

1. 31 MarIt Smells or It Stinks
2. 30 MarThe Culture of Doing Nothing
3. 30 MarThe Missing Video Presumption
4. 30 MarThe Disturbing Rubric Of The Dignity Rationale
5. 29 MarWhy Sterling Candlesticks?
6. 29 MarA Poor Choice of Dirty Old Words
7. 28 MarA Guy Has To Earn A Living, Right?
8. 28 MarA Lie Too Far
9. 27 MarDirty Lawyer, Dirty Judge, Dirty Men
10. 27 MarDisrupting Google, SWAT Teams and Tanks Edition
11. 26 MarBut For Video: An Execution in Albuquerque
12. 26 MarThe Danger of Posner’s Article III Fashion Show
13. 25 MarEven The Guiltiest
14. 25 MarWhy Gleeson Is Wrong (Or The Adoration Of The Fearful)
15. 24 MarTSA’s Billion Dollar Scam
16. 24 MarTrolled By The Big Soapbox
17. 23 MarIn Praise of Tenure
18. 23 MarNegotiation Knows No Gender
19. 22 MarSnitches, For The Win!
20. 21 MarWhen Night Court Met “Com-pu-ters”
21. 21 MarBang ’em For The Dersh
22. 21 MarThe Dumber The Prosecutor, The Guiltier The Weev (Update: OA Link)
23. 20 MarWhat Matters More Than A Great Selfie?
24. 20 MarConvicted For The American Dream in the First Degree
25. 19 MarThe Drug Warrior of Clovis North High School
26. 19 Mar385,000 Ways To End Revenge Porn
27. 18 MarPlay Ball: Who Cares If You’re Acquitted? (Update x2)
28. 18 MarIn The Defendant’s Own Words (Update)
29. 17 Mar“When You See The Muzzle Flash, It’s Too Late”
30. 17 MarWhen Prison Nation Met Greed Is Good
31. 16 MarTroll Management
32. 16 MarA Fish Out Of Water
33. 15 MarDisrupt Me
34. 15 MarThe Twinkie Teacher
35. 14 MarThe Ones Who Got Away, A New Moral Panic
36. 14 MarIs The Rocky Mountain High A Win-Win?
37. 13 MarAdvice, Unchained
38. 13 MarWhat, Me Wurie?
39. 12 MarCongressman Reichert Shows Why The Death Penalty Fails
40. 12 MarIn Praise of Honesty: A Misguided Grasp of Criminal Defense
41. 11 MarThe Real Housewives of Law
42. 11 MarNot Really A Government, Hampton Edition
43. 10 MarThe New Sexual Revolution (Update)
44. 10 MarFair and Unbalanced
45. 9 MarConfronting A Free Press, 50 Years After NY Times v. Sullivan
46. 9 MarWhy Make Losing Arguments?
47. 8 MarThe Social Utility of Suppression
48. 8 MarPassion Is Easy. Skill? Not So Much
49. 7 MarThe Arrogance of Our Peers
50. 7 MarThe Most Awesomest Ever (Until The Next One)
51. 6 MarWhy Worry About Wurie
52. 6 MarCourt to Cox: It’s Crystal Clear
53. 5 MarFreedom on the Internet, Only Safer For The Children
54. 5 MarWe Could Tell You, Judge, But Then We’d Have To…
55. 4 MarBoomers Love Watches (and you can too!)
56. 4 MarThe Political Correctness of Truthiness
57. 4 MarThe Dangerous Dance of Deference and Death (Update x2)
58. 3 MarThe Tandem Experiment
59. 3 MarA Kinder, Gentler Bust
60. 2 MarSettling For Your Rights
61. 2 MarMind If I TwitterJect?
62. 1 MarHeaven Can Wait
63. 1 MarA Fool, A Tool and A Suit (Update)

February 2014

1. 28 FebWhen One Side Decides Not To Play (Update)
2. 28 FebThe Weakest Link Approach
3. 27 FebAsk And Ye Shall Receive, Cox Edition
4. 27 FebTrusting Emanuel Roy and Peter Mayas, A Bad Idea
5. 27 FebJonathan Farley: Unhinged (Late Update)
6. 26 FebThe Day The 6th Amendment Died (Again)
7. 26 FebReview: The Death of Punishment
8. 25 FebYour Emotional Rescue
9. 25 FebOn The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re the Government
10. 25 FebThe Awkwardness of Loss
11. 24 FebBut For Video: Just Another Resisting Edition
12. 24 FebFirst Shot Taken: Apology
13. 23 FebDeus Ex Machina, Lex Edition
14. 23 FebBecause “Rape Culture” Answers The Question?
15. 22 FebFrom The Crime Report: Stupidity
16. 22 FebAdrian Thomas Wins, But What Of The Rest Of Us?
17. 21 FebDefining Down Revenge Porn
18. 21 FebSentence The Crime Or The Criminal?
19. 20 FebWhy Wii?
20. 20 FebIs The Trial Penalty A Myth?
21. 20 FebThe Painful Death Of Solitary Confinement
22. 19 FebWhat Miranda Left On The Table
23. 19 FebEducating Prisoners, A Third Of An Answer
24. 18 FebSpecial Victims, Special Rules
25. 18 FebFalling Down the Good Guy Curve
26. 17 FebThe Aaron Swartz Legacy: Do Something
27. 17 FebIrrational “Bordering on Impropriety”
28. 16 FebYelling At Deaf Guys Never Works
29. 16 FebProtecting Her Lies By Calling Others “Liar” (Update)
30. 15 FebYour Neighbor, The Grand Juror
31. 15 FebFollow The Money, Marijuana Edition
32. 15 FebFollow The Money, Revenge Porn Edition
33. 13 FebDon’t Taunt Me, Bro
34. 13 FebSealed, But Not Expunged, In The Digital Age
35. 12 FebThe Crime of Regret
36. 12 FebThe Poor Are For Practice
37. 11 FebThe Magee Message
38. 11 FebThe Marshall Project (Messiah Du Jour)
39. 10 FebA Plea Agreement With An Easy To Use Handle
40. 10 FebAll Because The Wrong Box Was Checked
41. 9 Feb“In times of war, the laws fall silent.”
42. 9 FebGary Ostrow Faces The Narcissist’s Dilemma
43. 8 FebBook Review: The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
44. 8 Feb#ReinventLaw NYC: A Survivor’s Tale
45. 7 Feb#ReinventLaw NYC: Taking A Bullet For You
46. 7 FebNSA Wiretapping: The Shocking Sound of Your Own Voice
47. 6 FebThe Care and Handling of Children
48. 6 FebThe Tyranny of the Anecdote
49. 5 FebOnly The Harm
50. 4 FebNobody In Suffolk Likes Them Anyway
51. 4 FebWhat Drives Volokh? (Update x3)
52. 4 FebComrade Lawyer
53. 3 FebCar Alone
54. 3 FebNot For Attribution
55. 2 FebMike Grieco Is Available For Comment
56. 2 FebSeven Minutes in Heaven
57. 2 FebThane’s Defense of Hurt Feelings: Criminalize Bad Words (Update)
58. 1 FebThe Great Prosecutor Revolt of 2014 (Update x3)
59. 1 FebA Failure To Communicate
60. 1 FebThe Gerry Spence 2014 World Tour: Be There

January 2014

1. 31 JanThe “New Day in New York” Meets The Old Cops
2. 31 JanMemphis ADA Thomas Henderson’s Painful Wrist
3. 30 JanWhen Judge Lamberth Smacks, The DOJ Hides
4. 29 JanSafety First: Digital Citations Eliminate All Risk (and make moolah, too)
5. 29 JanUntil Further Order Of The Court (Update)
6. 28 JanFriendly Fire Still Kills
7. 28 JanThe Empty Glass
8. 27 JanIt’s Not Just A Formatting Thing
9. 27 JanThe Persuasiveness of Raw Anger and Hatred
10. 26 JanStuff You Should Know, 1928 Edition
11. 26 JanBiglaw Envy
12. 26 JanHunter Moore Arrested: Who’s Next?
13. 25 JanRight Problem, Wrong Solution
14. 25 JanAwkward At Best
15. 24 JanWhen “Hands Up” Is The Last Thing You Do
16. 24 JanSorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
17. 23 JanAmy, The Argument
18. 23 JanExigency Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
19. 22 JanCarl David Ceder: Libel, Libel Libel!!! (Update: Equal Time)
20. 22 JanWhen Volokh Met Bezos
21. 22 JanGut Instincts In A Sea of Data
22. 21 JanCarl David Ceder Triples Down
23. 21 JanAaron Smith: Just Because You’re A Lawyer Doesn’t Mean You Should Sue
24. 21 JanAre You Happy Yet? (Update)
25. 20 JanThe Content of Their Character
26. 20 JanThe Circle of Crazy Goes ‘Round and ‘Round
27. 19 Jan2d Circuit: Aw, Come On. That Can’t Be True
28. 19 JanDon’t Hand Me No Lines And Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Update)
29. 18 JanThe Outrage of the Kelly Thomas Cops’ Acquittal
30. 18 Jan2d Circuit: Even The Guilty Have Constitutional Rights
31. 17 JanIn Jail? Please Hold For The Next Available Legal Ninja
32. 17 JanNo Podium For Weenies
33. 17 JanDallas Cops Fight For the First Rule of Policing
34. 16 JanUnder Pressure
35. 16 JanA Matter of Privilege
36. 15 JanNot With A Bang, But A Whimper
37. 15 JanOn The Bad Side Of The Curve
38. 14 JanA System of Your Own (Update)
39. 14 JanThe Rhyming Irrelevance of Rap
40. 13 JanA Voice of Reason
41. 13 JanSchools Have Rules: Disparate Impact Edition
42. 12 Jan#ReinventLaw: A Caricature Debates A Strawman
43. 12 JanCriminalizing Political Speech
44. 11 JanMoney Makes The World Go ‘Round (Vol. 2)
45. 11 JanWhen Tech Fails
46. 10 JanWhat Does The Cop Say
47. 10 JanLicense to Steal
48. 9 JanMeet The New Boss. Same As The Old Boss
49. 9 Jan$30 Booking Fee Upheld in Moronic 7th Circuit Opinion
50. 8 JanThe Con
51. 8 JanWill Choice “Improve” Indigent Defense?
52. 7 JanThe Death of Modesty
53. 7 JanWhen Time Isn’t On Your Side (Update)
54. 6 JanThe @NYTimes Discovers Kozinski
55. 6 JanPolice Unions Fill The Void
56. 5 JanNice Fence, Mr. Chesterton
57. 5 JanSnakes on a Plane, The Cellphone Question
58. 4 JanMorozov Redux
59. 4 JanThe Path of the Cool Kids
60. 3 JanPissing Off A Shark
61. 3 JanNo Better Than The Most Ignorant Agent
62. 2 JanThe Kool-Aid of Reasonable Suspicion
63. 2 JanThe Judge Has Left The (Virtual) Bench
64. 1 JanBest Criminal Law Blawg Post, 2013