2015

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December 2015

1. 31 DecLessons Learned From Cleveland: The Tamir Rice Shift
2. 25 DecAn SJ Holiday: Free Man In Paris (Update)
3. 24 DecDiversity’s Mediocre Answers And Non-Answers
4. 24 DecThe Long Wait For #BlackLivesMatter (Update x2)
5. 23 DecCross: Murray Newman, The Prosecution Eventually Rests
6. 23 DecThe Violence of the Computer Gangs
7. 23 DecThe Picking Of A Judge
8. 22 DecFool On The Hill
9. 22 DecOberlin: The Food Sucks (and there’s not enough of it)
10. 22 DecReasonable Suspicion Of Dude Bro
11. 21 DecMemo To Black Millennials: Grow Up
12. 21 DecCuomo’s Remarkably Inconsequential Mass Pardon
13. 21 DecBut For Video: Cop On Cop Action
14. 20 DecThe Next Fault Lines Experiment (Update: The Video)
15. 20 DecThe Eric Posner Test: Are You Stupid Enough To Believe Me?
16. 19 DecPoster Girl For A Wasted Life
17. 19 DecThe Mistake of Removing Mental Illness From The Discussion
18. 19 DecSuicide By Cop: A Shrug Is Not An Answer
19. 18 DecNo Law School For Old Men
20. 18 DecYou Bet Your Life At Occidental College
21. 18 DecMartin Shkreli and Some Bad Bets
22. 17 DecHas The Crime Lab Fiasco Been Fixed?
23. 17 DecPlacemat Politics (or how Harvard is giving Yale a run for its money)
24. 16 DecNominations are Open for the 7th Annual Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blawg Post (Closed)
25. 16 DecCross: Charles Lavine, Cleaning Up Corruption In Albany
26. 16 DecTamir Rice And The Grand Jury Scam
27. 16 DecLet No Blankenship Get Away
28. 15 DecBaby Bou Bou And The Busted Plan
29. 15 DecAbout That Race Talk We Can’t Have
30. 15 DecThe Face of Reform Looks Like Rahm Emanuel, And It’s Ugly
31. 14 DecTwitter For Idiots
32. 14 DecBad Things Can Happen At Clinton
33. 14 Dec“We’re Not Perfect” Is Not An Excuse
34. 13 DecThe Physics of Diversity
35. 13 DecCop In A Kilt: Lessons From Cops Who Don’t Kill
36. 12 DecAttack Of The Killer Shills
37. 12 DecBut Your Honor, Elie Said So On The Internet
38. 11 DecNo, You Aren’t Entitled and I’ve Had Enough
39. 11 DecWhen No Amount of Brady Will Do
40. 11 DecThe Department of Education’s Next Epidemic
41. 10 DecDogma U: Only Virgins Need Apply
42. 10 DecThe “Mismatch” Between Scalia’s Troubling Question And The Troubling Reaction
43. 9 DecCross: Orin Kerr, Because Computers Aren’t Going Away
44. 9 DecDon’t Crybullies Have Free Speech Too?
45. 9 DecConstitutionality Conflated: The Trump Dilemma
46. 8 DecA SCOTUS Non-Decision Adds To Gun Confusion (Update)
47. 8 DecFixing Chicago PD The Federal Way
48. 7 DecThe New Paper Chase
49. 7 DecA President’s Heart and Mind (Update)
50. 6 DecThe Emerging Backlash In Academia
51. 6 DecBetter No “Mens Rea” Than A Corporation Go Free?
52. 5 DecThe New York Times Puts Gun Control On A1 (Update)
53. 5 DecHunter Moore And The Black Magic Outrage
54. 4 DecKirk Nurmi’s Roll In The Jodi Arias Mud
55. 4 DecBut For Video: There’s No Walking Away Edition
56. 4 DecWhen “Suspected” Is Close Enough (Update)
57. 3 DecTerrorism As Emotional Catharsis (Update)
58. 2 DecCross: Chris Seaton: An Angry Good Ol’ Boy
59. 2 DecWhose Video Is It Anyway?
60. 2 DecThe Video That Ate Chicago
61. 1 DecShelly Silver’s Really Bad Day
62. 1 DecThe Power Of The Petty Over Privilege

November 2015

1. 30 NovThe Mindless Need For Ideological Hyperbole
2. 30 NovSystemic Racism And Yale’s Wrong Rocks
3. 29 NovSunday Morning Funnies
4. 29 NovTamir Rice: All Relevant Evidence
5. 28 NovFrom Cell Block To Voting Block
6. 28 NovWhen The Color Of Law Is Gray
7. 27 NovThe Prize Goes To Waleed Abulkhair
8. 27 NovRandall Kennedy: A Grown-Up At Harvard Law
9. 27 NovThe “Safe Space” In The Jury Room
10. 26 NovHappy Thanksgiving
11. 26 NovMens Rea And The Koch Conspiracy
12. 25 NovCross: Jeffrey Gamso, Fighting To The Death
13. 25 NovThe Demands, The Resistance
14. 25 NovFault Lines Makes The ABA Beauty Pageant, And Yet…
15. 24 NovBetter To Be Lucky Than An Imposter
16. 24 NovDEA’s Chuck Rosenberg And Reefer Madness
17. 24 NovPrinceton Without Wilson: To What End?
18. 23 NovWhen Rights Become “Incidental” To Death (Update)
19. 23 NovAfter The Gushing: Sentencing Reform Is Inadequate
20. 22 NovFem Faux Failure And The Rape Tape
21. 22 NovAffirmative Action In Execution
22. 22 NovOrleans Parish Public Defender Says “No More” (Update)
23. 21 NovStrength In Numbers: The Nassau County LAS Failure
24. 21 NovProfessional Free Speech: Lawyer Say, Lawyer Do
25. 20 NovFay Wells And The Police Response
26. 20 NovA Safe Gulag Of Their Own
27. 19 NovOrdinary Injustice, Nassau Style, Parts 1 & 2
28. 19 NovRaphael Holiday’s False Hope
29. 19 NovMatthew Chappell and the Ten Day Apology
30. 18 NovCross: Andrew Fleischman, Whether It Pleases The Court Or Not
31. 18 NovDaddy Says Everybody Is Now An Ethnic Studies Major
32. 18 Nov“Broken” Bail And Pissed-Off Judges
33. 18 NovCrowdfunding* Criminal Defense Isn’t The Answer
34. 17 Nov“Got A Warrant?” Asked The Dead Man
35. 17 NovWant To Make A Quick $100 Billion? One Word: Plastic
36. 16 NovThat Cop Who Killed You? Thank The Arbitrator
37. 16 NovWhere Is The Lash?
38. 15 NovDoes This Dress Make My Butt Look Fat?
39. 15 NovThe Supreme Court To Civil Forfeiture: Snort My Taint*
40. 14 NovSaratoga PD’s Office, A Search Warrant Too Far (Update)
41. 14 NovSafe Space In Paris
42. 13 NovIs The Washington State Experiment Committing Suicide? (Update)
43. 13 NovThe Threatened Sense of Safety
44. 12 Nov“Massive Hack” Reveals What Everybody Knew
45. 12 NovMizzou Media, Servant To The Cause
46. 11 NovCross: Ken White, The Man Beneath The Popehat
47. 11 NovTrained To Kill: Why Car Chases End In Death
48. 11 NovDara Lind: Yale Promised Paradise
49. 10 NovJack Yantis And The Bull Are Dead (Updated)
50. 10 NovMizzou: From Hotbed To Hot Mess
51. 9 NovBut For Video: Crimson Tide Edition
52. 9 NovThe “Real” Problem At Yale
53. 9 NovReinventing Boys
54. 8 NovBazelon’s Apology
55. 8 NovThe Murderer’s Two Hats
56. 8 NovProve It: Citing To Oneself
57. 7 NovThe Email That Made Yale Students Cry
58. 7 NovJeanine Pirro, Trapped In Her $5 Million Gutter
59. 7 NovNY District Attorney Cy Vance: And The Rich Get Richer
60. 6 NovRandazza Wrestled With A Pig (And This Time, The Pig Won)
61. 6 NovAcquitted: Mearkle’s Fear Was All It Took
62. 5 NovSchools Have Rules: But No Hugs. Oh, No, Not Hugs
63. 5 Nov“Love Your Lawyer Day”? Earn It
64. 4 NovSilence is Golden
65. 4 NovCross: Ken Womble, Fighting The Good Fight
66. 4 NovThe Clean Defendant
67. 3 NovFor Whom This Post Tolls
68. 3 NovYour Daughter’s Hostile High School Environment
69. 2 NovSpace For Every Idea, As Long As It’s Valuable
70. 2 NovThe Problem With Race As Proxy
71. 1 NovThe Trouble Disputing “I Can’t Recall”
72. 1 NovThe Trouble With Arbitration? Us

October 2015

1. 31 OctOwen Labrie: Maxed For Melodrama
2. 31 OctWhen There Is No Pleasing The SJWs
3. 31 OctDisagree? Sure, Why Not?
4. 30 OctThe Trial Tax: Worse Than You Thought
5. 30 OctDid Gary Ostrow Hit Bottom? Enter Patrick Zarrelli @Kidchronic32 (Update)
6. 29 OctCross: Radley Balko, The Agitator
7. 29 OctThe Hanlon’s Razor Defense
8. 29 OctSkippy, The Fairy Tale Lawyer
9. 28 OctMike George Fighting Ghosts And Phantoms
10. 28 OctApple’s EULA Gives The Government A Backdoor
11. 27 OctSchools Have Rules: Caught On Video Edition
12. 27 OctThe Nassau County Legal Aid Society Fiasco
13. 26 OctShort And Ugly: Sentencing Still Isn’t Simple
14. 26 OctPredictive Policing: A Bad Example?
15. 25 OctShrink: “To Hell With Your Feelings”
16. 25 OctThe Terror Of A Law School Demonstration
17. 25 OctDean Boland Doubles Down On Stupid (Update)
18. 24 OctThe “Future of Law” Went Fishing
19. 24 OctComey: The Ferguson Effect Lives!
20. 24 OctA Dead Cop and the Curtain Comes Down on Reform
21. 23 OctFault Lines: The Next Generation
22. 23 OctBan The Yak
23. 23 OctCriminal Justice Reform: The Clueless Atop A Soapbox
24. 22 OctFacebook Calls For A New Crime (But Only For You)
25. 22 OctReform? Just Do It
26. 21 OctCops Call For End To Mass Incarceration?
27. 21 OctCross: Matt Brown, Staying Sane on Crazy Joe Arpaio’s Turf
28. 21 OctBlood From A Rock (Update)
29. 21 OctCorey Jones’ Death Without Details
30. 20 OctAnd She Might Get Elected
31. 20 OctD’Rose, By Any Other Name
32. 19 OctThe Ethicist, The Enabler, The Busybody
33. 19 OctBut, But, But Attorneys Fees?!?
34. 18 OctWhose Voice Is At The Table Of Criminal Justice Reform
35. 18 OctWhat Are The Chances?
36. 17 OctRandom Shorts on Integrity
37. 17 OctFor A Nickel I Will
38. 17 OctWith A Jailhouse Lawyer, The Privilege Is All His
39. 16 OctA Lying Cop Convicted, But Just One
40. 16 OctWhen Sex Ed Meets High School Civics
41. 15 OctDeath Before Decision
42. 15 OctShaun King and the Hallelujah Chorus (Update)
43. 14 OctCollege “Mandatory Minimum” Vetoed. This Time
44. 14 OctA Prairie View City Councilman Gets A Lesson In Pain
45. 14 OctCross: Greg Prickett on Cop To Lawyer
46. 14 OctThe Bail Bondsman’s Fee
47. 13 OctTamir Rice: Bad Law And Worse “Law”
48. 13 OctAt UCLA, A Grown-Up Tells Children They Can’t Police Speech (Update)
49. 12 OctBody Cams, Policy And The Public’s “Right” To Know
50. 12 OctColumbus Day at the Outrage Factory
51. 11 OctAndrew McCarthy’s Fond Memories Of His Mandatory Minimum Youth
52. 11 OctTamir Rice’s Basically Reasonable Murder
53. 10 OctSo Sayeth The Code
54. 10 OctDon’t Be This Guy
55. 9 OctThe Exploitabilty of the Slackoisie
56. 9 OctOr Else
57. 8 OctFirst They Came For The College Students
58. 8 OctInto The Valley of Life Rode the 6000 Prisoners
59. 7 OctSkin Beating (Or What I Learned From Buddy Rich)
60. 7 OctCows and Cop Haters
61. 6 OctLegal Tech: Winners Don’t Whine
62. 6 OctCross: Judge Richard Kopf on Cops Who Lie
63. 6 OctTen Favs From The Bill of Rights
64. 5 OctFirst Monday, And Free Speech Heresy
65. 5 OctStockton’s Mayor At The Border
66. 4 OctPro Bono For Butthurt (Empathy Update)
67. 4 OctThe New and Improved Snitch Requirement
68. 3 OctNipped In The Bud
69. 3 OctThe Dangerous Criminal Lie
70. 2 OctTraining, Chicago Style
71. 2 OctAt The @ATLBlog Academy For Private Practice #APP
72. 2 OctWinning or Appearing To Win The “War On Police”?
73. 1 OctFor $230 Million, You Get Cameras
74. 1 OctCriminal Justice Reform, Good And Hard

September 2015

1. 30 SepThe Silence of the Lambs
2. 30 SepArthur Chu’s Top Three Reasons To Eliminate Section 230
3. 30 SepReaders Mailbag, Volume 272
4. 29 SepThe Supreme Slackers
5. 29 SepNot Even Motherhood Evokes Empathy
6. 28 SepThe Front Line, Appreciatively Finger Snapping
7. 28 SepThe “Real” Real Roots of Dead Black Men
8. 27 SepCornell’s Compelling State Interest
9. 27 SepMandatory Minimums Meet Des Moines
10. 26 SepThe DoE Office of Civil Rights Gone Rogue
11. 26 SepThe New Virtual Violence
12. 25 SepAnd Keep It To Yourself, Kids
13. 25 SepThe Difference Is Harm
14. 24 SepThe “Legal” In Continuing Legal Education
15. 24 SepSafe Spaces For Bad Scholarship
16. 24 SepWhen Liquor Touches Lips
17. 22 SepHousekeeping: Thanks, But.
18. 22 SepCowardly Silence (Update)
19. 22 SepA Highly Scientific Study Proves Women’s Feelings Prevail
20. 21 SepWashington State’s Misguided Marijuana Message
21. 21 SepEradicating A Hotbed of Sexual Assault
22. 20 SepCoddling, Or Just Sensitivity To Feelz?
23. 20 SepPay The Cashier On The Way Out
24. 20 SepForfeiting The Right To Counsel
25. 19 SepThen Came The Glitch
26. 19 SepSam’s Dilemma: How Can A Puddle Survive?
27. 18 SepWhose “Good Decisions”?
28. 18 SepThey Hate The Law Because They Hate The Law
29. 17 SepThe Starbucks Cop
30. 17 SepNYLS Hosts A Symposium On Criminalizing The Unconstitutional
31. 16 SepDiversity Is Good, But Hetero Is Bad
32. 16 SepWhen Public Relations Fails
33. 15 SepHow Did Title IX Turn Into A Rape Law?
34. 15 SepThe Solution of Firing James Frascatore
35. 14 SepThe Internet: Stupid As You Wanna Be
36. 14 SepSexting: “What’s Coming Down The Road”
37. 13 SepNot Your Grandfather’s Slight
38. 13 SepAffirmative Consent: Of Shifting Burdens and Fuzzy Analysis
39. 12 SepOT: When All You Have Is A Spatula
40. 12 SepJames Blake and His Evil Innocent Twin
41. 12 SepFeds: But It Looked Really Spy-ish
42. 11 SepA Round Of Applause for Congressman Jared Polis
43. 11 SepProsecution and Press Releases
44. 11 SepAnd Poof, It’s Gone
45. 10 SepWho’s Really Driving That Shiny Car?
46. 10 SepRetract? There’s No Law For That
47. 9 SepFault Lines: Judge Kopf Returns (and that’s not all)
48. 9 SepDiscourtesy Provoked
49. 8 SepAbout Those Past Two Decades
50. 8 SepCommon Sense: The Reason For Murders That Aren’t
51. 7 SepThe Solution Fallacy
52. 7 SepLabor Day, 2015: What More Can We Do For You?
53. 6 SepMasculinity In The First Degree
54. 6 SepParole: Absolute Power Corrupts
55. 5 SepFAMM’s Julie Stewart Makes Bill Otis Cry
56. 5 SepMaking Gideon Cry, A Public Defender’s Confession
57. 5 SepThe Grand Inquisitor (and other campus rape innovations)
58. 4 SepShifting Burdens: Prawfs Take Note of Affirmative Consent Issues
59. 4 SepAnd The Winner Is . . . Screwed
60. 3 SepBut It Seemed Like A Good Idea
61. 3 SepHumble Pie
62. 2 SepLiptak’s Cheap Shot
63. 2 SepSpreading The Lie: The Ferguson Effect
64. 1 SepDon’t Stand Too Close To [Me]
65. 1 SepThe Unforgiven

August 2015

1. 31 AugWalking With A Purpose in Des Moines
2. 31 AugDeputy Darren Goforth: No Motive, So What?
3. 30 AugExplaining The Law of Cop Killing, Well-Intended and Wrong
4. 30 AugAn Epidemic Too Far?
5. 29 AugLegal Tech Never Learns
6. 29 AugA Verdict of Acquittal, Twisted
7. 28 AugWhatever, Waco
8. 28 AugBazelon Forfeits Her Credibility (Update)
9. 27 AugThe Nasty Smell of Kiddie Porn
10. 27 AugA Modest Definition of “Now”
11. 26 AugThe Poor, Maligned Office of Civil Rights
12. 26 AugA Judge’s Lament: Not Good Enough
13. 25 AugJailhouse Lawyers, The Unicorn In The Next Cell
14. 25 AugTheir Special Bill of Rights
15. 24 AugCalifornia To The World: It’s All Our Campus
16. 24 AugA Night of Mistakes On Both Sides
17. 23 AugFault Lines: Can You Make A Difference?
18. 23 AugDisruptive Investing For Millennials: Suckers
19. 23 AugPace Law And A Second Chance
20. 22 AugBoobies on Broadway
21. 22 AugAn Unlikely Ally of Free Speech In Denver
22. 22 AugA Crash Course In Wrong Law
23. 21 AugThe Left of Privacy
24. 21 AugDumb and Dumber: Revenge of the Legal Academy
25. 20 AugThe Clown In Every Unhappy Lawyer
26. 20 AugOnly The First Two Bullets Are Free
27. 20 AugAlways Call 911 Immediately
28. 19 AugThe War of Words Over [Those People]
29. 19 AugThe Judge Did The Honorable Thing
30. 18 AugThe Tyranny of Experience
31. 18 AugToo Much Justice
32. 18 AugWhat College Kids Care About: Election Edition
33. 17 AugJury Voodoo and Racial Politics
34. 17 AugTonight, How Science Turned Out To Be 95% Wrong
35. 16 AugNick Pinto Shows Why Bail Sucks
36. 16 AugTheory, Practice and Dead Bodies
37. 16 AugThe Slippery Slope Into Charnesia Corley’s Vagina
38. 15 AugThe Train To Nowhere
39. 15 AugThe Whiniest Profession?
40. 14 AugCops, The Next Sad Victims of “Lived Experiences”
41. 14 AugThe Compromise Version of Your Rights
42. 13 AugDonate, Or Not (Barbecue Update)
43. 13 AugHas Innocence Lost Its Meaning?
44. 13 AugMencken’s Ghost: Right Problem, Wrong Solution
45. 12 AugCan Casetext Carry Collaboration? (Update)
46. 12 AugWith One Hand Tied Behind Their Back
47. 12 AugProsecutors Know Best
48. 11 AugAffirmative Consent Is Unconstitutional
49. 11 AugWe’ve Learned Nothing (A Rant)
50. 10 AugWho Wins When We’re Weary
51. 10 Aug“Sorry, Too Damn Late”
52. 9 AugDue Process On Campus: We Treated Nazi War Criminals Better
53. 9 AugWhen There’s Nothing Under The Rock To Find
54. 7 AugThe Rich Man’s Brady
55. 7 AugJon Stewart’s Gift To Us
56. 7 AugFeeling Guilty
57. 6 AugBecause It’s Not Always About Race
58. 6 AugZachary Hammond’s Autopsy: Without Video, Is It Enough?
59. 5 AugNot Only Dyslexics Believe In Dog
60. 5 AugThe Reasonable Expectations Of High Cops
61. 4 AugReinvent Law, Due Process on Campus Edition
62. 4 AugClass of 2015, Internet School of Law
63. 3 AugLewinski, The First Rule’s Best Friend
64. 3 AugThe Nastiest Part of a Prison Sentence: Rape
65. 2 AugCampus Police: Mall Cops With Guns?
66. 2 AugThe Lessons of Vampires Who Come Out of the Coffin
67. 1 AugThe Other Mob (and the hypocrites who hate it)
68. 1 AugThe Dangers of Night Knocking

July 2015

1. 31 Jul1. @Avvo . . . 4. Profit!!!
2. 31 JulThe Government, By Any Other Name (Update)
3. 31 JulObjectified in Austin
4. 30 JulBill Otis, Or Why You Can’t Have Nice Things
5. 30 JulA Little Reform On A Big Soapbox
6. 29 JulBut The Warrant Seemed So Legit
7. 29 JulThe Statistics That Weren’t, And It Won’t Matter At All
8. 28 JulFault Lines: It’s Beginning to Crawl!
9. 28 JulA Subconstitutional System
10. 28 JulBecause A New Law Will Change Everything
11. 27 JulAbout That Disease That Needed Curin’
12. 27 JulBoyz To Men (Update)
13. 26 JulThe Mentee Shortage
14. 26 JulThe “Staggering Numbers” and Anecdotes
15. 25 JulTwo Courtrooms At Once
16. 24 JulMythbusters of the Federal Persuasion (Update)
17. 24 JulNo Butts For Sandra Bland
18. 23 JulJust Say No, Forensics Edition
19. 23 JulSkin In The Game
20. 22 JulFear, Loathing, Isolation And Debt
21. 22 Jul381 Facebook Warrants, No Waiting
22. 21 JulSandra Bland: The Suicide That Can’t Be
23. 21 JulThe Unnavigable Ship of Rhetoric
24. 20 JulChanges: The Nuts and Bolts of Prisoner Re-Entry
25. 20 JulNot Just The “Non-violent” Offender
26. 19 JulBook Review: Gerry Spence’s Police State
27. 19 JulTrash Talk
28. 18 JulIn Case You Missed It, Scarlet Letter Edition
29. 18 JulThe Integrity of Prosecutorial Integrity Units
30. 18 JulA Decent Suit
31. 17 JulAny Excuse To Kill
32. 17 JulA Tiny Slice of “Yes”
33. 16 JulThe ITIF’s Confusion on Free Speech and Revenge Porn
34. 16 JulThe Second Lesson of Gardena
35. 15 JulMicroaggressions Don’t Stifle Free Speech, Asshole Says
36. 15 JulJudge Kozinski’s 13th Trope
37. 14 JulTo Fix Bail, Fix Bail
38. 14 JulJudge Joel Pressman To UC San Diego: I Got A Digit For You
39. 13 JulAn Open Letter To ACLU’s Lee Rowland: Stop Trying To Be Nice
40. 13 JulSeize It All And Let God Sort It Out Later
41. 12 JulGame, Set, Match
42. 12 Jul“It’s Title IX, Not Miranda”
43. 11 JulIt’s Exhausting Being Tired: Speech Edition
44. 11 JulThe Joys of Boilerplate
45. 10 JulJudge Kopf’s Priorities
46. 9 JulJust Your Ordinary Violent Felony
47. 9 JulKelly Siegler’s Falling Star (Update)
48. 8 JulA Competition? Oh Boy!
49. 8 JulShould Mindfulness Come With A Trigger Warning?
50. 7 JulBlack Lives Matter, But Not So Much At The Mall
51. 7 JulFeelzplainin’ and The Constitutional Right To Triggerdom
52. 6 JulThe Million Dollar Hoody
53. 6 JulAfter The Hysteria Dies Down
54. 5 Jul#RedditRevolt
55. 5 JulThe Dangerous Dilemma of Dignity
56. 5 JulReduced To Jargon
57. 4 JulBlinded By The Light: Old Justices and Executions
58. 4 JulThe Discomfort of Responsibility
59. 3 JulBig Books, Big Money
60. 3 JulWhen Bail Is Unconstitutional
61. 2 JulWhy You Can’t Talk About Race (Or Anything Else)
62. 2 JulDeer Hunting: Shooting David Sweat
63. 1 JulFor $167,000, You Too Can Call A Woman A “Chick”
64. 1 JulThe Price of Transparency in McKinney

June 2015

1. 30 JunDisrespectful, Discourteous & Annoying? Bummer
2. 29 JunFalse Rape Accusations: Is There A Consensus?
3. 29 JunStop It, For The Children
4. 28 JunGrandma In The Kitchen With A Knife
5. 28 JunWith Friends Like These
6. 27 JunA Bleg: How’s Fault Lines Doing?
7. 27 JunBut For Video: Infant Edition
8. 27 JunTo Serve Man; Not Just A Cookbook
9. 26 JunYour Money or I’ll Bratwurst You
10. 26 JunSCOTUSCare
11. 25 JunSchneiderman Fills The Gap
12. 25 JunThe Wood Revelations (Update)
13. 24 JunRevenge Porn: The Funny and The True
14. 23 JunBlinded By The Lights
15. 23 JunDefending Murder With A Side of Pizza
16. 22 JunWhen Cops Can Shoot
17. 22 JunThe Understandable Murder
18. 21 JunThe Brief and Perpetual Lifespan of Fatherhood
19. 21 JunFear of Towels
20. 20 JunJustice Thomas’ Box
21. 20 JunReason and AUSA Niketh Velamoor’s Unreasonable Reaction
22. 19 JunWho “Owns” The Charleston Murders?
23. 19 JunA Name And A Law In Need Of Fixing
24. 18 JunSex At New York’s Colleges Is Screwed
25. 18 JunMontero’s Seven Year Wait
26. 17 JunInnocence, Inc.
27. 16 JunNew College Rape Survey, Same Old Crap
28. 16 JunIt’s Not Torture If A Doctor Is In the House
29. 15 JunFaith Based Law
30. 14 JunThe Public Accommodation Formerly Known As SJ
31. 14 JunTamir Rice: The Clearest Picture Yet
32. 13 JunIn Search Of Stolen Valor
33. 13 JunKilled By Cops? Blame The Constitution
34. 12 JunThe Nobel Prize In Sexism
35. 12 JunCarry A Big Stick, But Drop It On Command
36. 11 JunHis Own Private Iowa
37. 11 JunThe Next “Crime” Down The Title IX Rabbit Hole
38. 10 JunFault Lines: This Past Week
39. 10 JunBackdoor Prosecution of Tamir Rice’s Killers
40. 9 JunWhat Part Of “Get It Right” Confuses You?
41. 9 Junun-Reason-able
42. 8 JunEntitlement Wasn’t Born Yesterday
43. 8 JunProperty Rights and Wrongs
44. 7 JunTo Fear Or Not To Fear
45. 7 JunTyranny Of The Geezers
46. 6 JunBut For Video: Why Dillon Taylor Had To Die
47. 6 JunWhat Does The Skunk Say?
48. 5 JunThe Undocumented Lawyer
49. 5 JunSentenced To A Lifetime Of Unemployment
50. 4 JunParent Of The Year
51. 4 JunUlbricht’s More Than The Minimum Sentence
52. 3 JunFault Lines: The First Three Days
53. 3 JunFirst, The Crime, Then The Tears
54. 2 JunWhat We Learned From Elonis
55. 2 JunStop & Frisk, The Summer Rerun
56. 1 JunMeet Fault Lines, And Show It Some Love
57. 1 JunThe Other White Meat: Police Unions
58. 1 JunThe Command Jermaine McBean Never Heard

May 2015

1. 31 MayAbout That Sentencing Commission
2. 31 MayLending A Hand: Participatory Defense (Update)
3. 30 MaySuicide By Cop and The Free Kill
4. 30 MayFeminism Devouring Itself
5. 29 MayOrange County District Attorney’s Office Tossed Off Murder Case
6. 29 MayFIFA And The Long Arm Of The Law
7. 28 MayBecause They All Look Alike, Right?
8. 28 MayBecause You Need A Lawyer To Request A Lawyer
9. 27 MayMindful, But For The Right Reason
10. 27 MayThe Cleveland Caveat
11. 26 MayWhen The Hammer Hits The Right Nail
12. 26 MayBut For Video: Docile Edition
13. 25 MayMemorial Day 2015
14. 25 MayBrelo: Cause and Effect (Update)
15. 24 MayThe Shame of Manhood
16. 24 MayMeta: Krugman’s Humble Weblog
17. 23 MayThe Outlaws of Waco
18. 23 MayFallibility Cannot Be Escaped
19. 22 MayBlood From A Corporation (Update)
20. 22 MayThe NYSBA Takes A Swan Dive Into The Ethics Rabbit Hole (Update)
21. 21 MayCop or Kids, Pick One
22. 21 MayThinking Is Hard
23. 20 MayTo Avoid Outrage
24. 20 MayHow To Get Rid of 1.2 Million Warrants
25. 19 MayFounder of Texas Innocence Project, Jeff Blackburn, Quits In Protest
26. 19 MayBut For Video: South Of The Border Edition
27. 19 MayThe Temporal Price
28. 18 MayAmerican Law Institute’s “Stunning Expansion of Criminalization”
29. 18 MayBreaking: Cops Lie
30. 17 MayAtomic Wedgie Gone Wrong
31. 17 MayThe “Cop Myth” Listicle, Annotated
32. 16 MayTsarnaev Gets Death
33. 16 MayThe Right To Film Cops Comes Into Focus
34. 15 MayOffense, All Around Homan Square
35. 15 MayThe Relative Value of Lawyers, Revisited
36. 14 MayIf Only Cuomo Had Sons
37. 14 MayJust Dickering Over The Price
38. 13 MayThe Twisted Lawyer (And In Other News Update)
39. 13 MayRunning On Empty
40. 12 MayWhat If There Was No Such Thing As Bail?
41. 12 MayThat Riley Moment
42. 11 MayOfficer Benjamin Blair: No Reason To Shoot
43. 11 MayUntrustworthy, But Very Useful
44. 10 MayName That Vertical, The Contest
45. 10 MaySharp Words (Oberlin Choir Update)
46. 9 MayIn Search of Loot
47. 9 MayGreta’s Big But
48. 8 MayThe Federal Grass Is Always Greener
49. 8 MayIf You See Something, Say Nothing
50. 7 MayDeath To Hate Speech
51. 7 MayRakoff: And Judges Too
52. 6 MayThe Third Party Doctrine Lives
53. 6 MayThe Brotherhood of the Knife
54. 5 MayRape Culture? Blame Grandma
55. 5 MayA Tale of Two (or more) Killings
56. 4 MayThe Blind Leading The Blind
57. 4 MayBecause Mens Rea Applies To Boys Too
58. 3 May#WhiteWorldProblems*
59. 3 MayBut For Video: Puppy Edition
60. 2 MayThe Random Asshole Dilemma
61. 2 MayFreddie Gray’s Bad Arrest And Still Dead
62. 1 MayA Cop Apologist Apologizes
63. 1 MayDe Blasio To Protestors: It’s Not Debatable

April 2015

1. 30 AprRights, Plus
2. 30 AprWhen The DEA “Exercises Discretion” With Someone Else’s Truck
3. 29 AprWe’re All Cyberbullies To Someone
4. 29 AprEven Prisoners Can’t Be Silenced
5. 28 AprFour Fires Burn In Baltimore
6. 28 AprCan They All Fail?
7. 27 AprThe Torque of Social Justice
8. 27 AprFound Facts
9. 26 AprHeavy On Bitterness
10. 25 AprWhat Really Bothers You About Free Speech?
11. 25 AprBut For Video: Very Professional Edition
12. 24 AprThe Dialogue About Dialogue, Or Why It Makes You Feel “Unsafe” (Update)
13. 24 AprThe Underbelly of Legal “Technicalities”
14. 23 AprThe Long And Winding Answer
15. 23 AprThe Pointed Gun And Mens Rea
16. 22 AprSpinal Trap
17. 22 AprVanity, Thy Name Is Blawger
18. 22 AprLeaving Nothing To The Imagination
19. 22 AprRodriguez’s Right Decision, And Now What?
20. 21 AprThe Easy Yet Impossible Solution To Junk Science (Update)
21. 20 AprDriver Killed For Cop’s Bad Choice
22. 20 AprThe Tyranny of Deferred Prosecution Agreements
23. 19 AprSave Nevada’s Anti-SLAPP Law
24. 19 AprCan’t Take A Joke
25. 18 AprBreaking The Calm Of The Hallways*
26. 18 AprWhen The Thrill Is Gone
27. 17 AprWhen Cops Invoke
28. 17 AprCrazy Force On Crazy People
29. 16 AprFast And Furious Is No Way To Run A Courthouse
30. 16 AprDavid Aylor’s Deep Hole Just Got Deeper (Video Update!)
31. 15 AprBlame The Booze, Not The Age
32. 15 AprThe Walter Scott Murder: Not Even The Stop Was “Righteous” (Update)
33. 14 AprCernovich’s Dangerous Play
34. 14 AprParents Walk On The Wild Side
35. 13 AprAn Old Man Playing Fantasy Cop With A Real Gun (Update X2)
36. 13 AprGarbage In, Garbage Out
37. 12 AprBig Fish, Small Fish and Sting Rays
38. 12 AprNew York Court of Appeals Abandons The Law
39. 11 AprBut, But, Victim!!!
40. 11 AprThe Sunshine Superman Syndrome
41. 10 AprJustified Or Avoidable: When Cops Kill
42. 10 AprBut For Video: Horse With No Name Edition
43. 9 AprWhen 99Rise Wanted To Be Heard
44. 9 AprDavid Aylor, The Other Shooter
45. 8 AprSeeing The Invisible
46. 8 AprSen. Gillibrand’s Quiet Deletion
47. 8 AprBut For Video: In The Back, Again (Update)
48. 7 AprIn The Back?
49. 7 AprAdvocate or Scholar: Pick One
50. 6 AprThe Death of Apology
51. 6 AprA Reply To Senator Franken (or lending Jim Comey a hand)
52. 6 AprHe’s Baa-aack, Again

March 2015

1. 25 MarThe Fear of Fear Isn’t Justification
2. 25 MarBut The Other Guy
3. 25 MarGone Fishing
4. 24 MarRape Culture, Finally Defined
5. 24 MarA Snapshot Of Two Proposed Laws
6. 23 MarBut For Video: Police Math Edition
7. 23 MarThe “Secret Trial” of Garner’s Killer Remains Secret
8. 22 MarJudge Jeffrey Weill: No Zealous PDs Allowed
9. 22 MarThe Return of the Happy
10. 21 MarThe Consequences of Free Speech Strike Northwestern
11. 21 MarNew Jersey’s Sensitive Victim Bias Crime Unconstitutional
12. 20 MarHot Cash And Cold Consent
13. 20 MarA Clash of Tactical Experts Over Whose Life Matters
14. 19 MarHow Does A Federal Judge Defend Himself? (Update)
15. 18 MarDurst’s Mumbled Confession
16. 18 MarLawprof To CJ Roberts: You Like Us. You Really Like Us
17. 17 MarTraffic Jams
18. 17 MarThe (kinda) Rules of the Prosecutors’ Game
19. 16 MarThe Conflicted ACLU
20. 16 MarStingRay Hits The Big Time
21. 15 MarThe Other Internet Tax
22. 15 MarFerguson: Where Everyone’s A Criminal
23. 15 MarThe Senate Feels Cassell’s Sad Tears
24. 14 MarTwo Heads And Three Generations of Imbeciles
25. 14 MarSense and Sensitivity
26. 14 MarHistory Is Written By The Victors
27. 13 MarEven Old Shields Get Some Courtesy
28. 13 MarThe Fraudster Next Door (Update)
29. 12 MarThe Bus To Lawlessness
30. 12 MarTwitter CEO: We Suck (Update)
31. 11 MarWhen Only An Expert Will Do
32. 11 MarBecause It’s Not OK
33. 10 MarMadison Police Chief Mike Koval: “I Could But I Choose Not To”
34. 10 MarOther People’s Solutions
35. 9 MarThey Sell Keyboards To Anyone
36. 9 MarDinah Won’t You Blow? (Update)
37. 8 MarA Lesson in Proportionality
38. 8 MarLinguistic Fingerprints, Feature or Light Bug?
39. 7 MarSometimes, A Joke Is Just A Joke
40. 7 MarRobert Murray In The Unofficial Reports
41. 6 MarBetween A Rock And A Hard Drive
42. 6 MarDon’t Yates Me, Bro
43. 5 MarIf It’s Wednesday, We Like the Feds (Update)
44. 5 MarDefend, But Only So Much
45. 4 MarWhy Would They Lie?
46. 4 Mar21st Century Policing: You Can’t Handle The Truth
47. 3 MarWhen The FBI Went Rogue
48. 3 MarPolitics Aside, Statutory Interpretation Matters
49. 2 MarNew At Mimesis: The Other White Meat
50. 2 MarNever A Threat
51. 2 MarAn Uncivil Defense
52. 1 MarAn Academic’s Slightly Mocking Tone
53. 1 MarThe Old Double “Oops”

February 2015

1. 28 FebService, With A Smile
2. 28 FebExhaustion in the First Degree
3. 27 FebThe Right To Go Red
4. 27 FebA Lone Voice Favoring Jail And More Jail
5. 26 FebRapist Or Innocent? Pick One, CU
6. 26 FebPenn 3L: Due Process Is For Misogynists
7. 25 FebThe Black Hole of Chicago
8. 25 FebConor Friedersdorf’s Very Fair Question (Update)
9. 25 FebThe Magistrates’ Revolt Continues: Search Protocol
10. 24 FebThe Sliding Scale
11. 24 FebBabes In Toyland (Or How Kid Prosecutors Dictate Outcomes)
12. 23 FebThe Territory
13. 23 FebBad Cops, Bad Cops, What You Gonna Do?
14. 22 FebThe Dangling Conversation
15. 22 FebLike A Rock
16. 21 FebThe Right To Disagree (No Matter How Mind-Numbingly Stupid)
17. 21 FebThe Wild Side of Statutory Interpretation
18. 20 FebThe Threat of History
19. 19 FebDid Loretta Lynch Dig Herself Into The Swartz Hole?
20. 19 FebPeace, Officer
21. 18 FebDisparity or Proportionality: Pick One
22. 18 FebThreatened By The Marketplace of Ideas
23. 18 FebChief Judge Lippman’s Solution
24. 17 FebIf Juries Had A Say
25. 17 FebHarvard Women Disinvite Bronx Defenders’ Robin Steinberg (Update x2: The Rest of Harvard Disagrees)
26. 16 FebPending The Investigation
27. 16 FebThe Flood Gates Myth
28. 15 FebTransparency, To What End?
29. 15 FebNew and Improved
30. 15 FebFirst Amendment Relativists (Update)
31. 14 FebJust Between Us Cops
32. 14 FebForever Young
33. 14 FebThe Reasonableness of Reasonableness
34. 13 FebBad Apples or Scapegoats
35. 13 FebComey and the Boyz
36. 12 FebBut For Video: He Didn’t Comply Edition
37. 12 FebDoomed If We Do, Doomed If We Don’t
38. 11 FebChief Justice Cody Has Ruled
39. 11 FebP.O. Liang Indicted For Killing Akai Gurley
40. 10 FebThanks For Your Concern, Officer
41. 10 FebExcept When You Lie To Me
42. 9 FebBut For Video: Philly Scooter Edition
43. 9 FebOf Lawyers, Jerks and Knee-Jerks (Update)
44. 8 FebStop Resisting: We’re All Felons Now
45. 8 FebNY Times Adds To The Confusion Over Campus Rape
46. 7 FebShooting The Messenger
47. 7 FebThe Pelikan Brief (Update)
48. 6 FebThe Swag Report #LTNY15
49. 6 FebAt The End, There’s A Cop
50. 6 FebGrand Jury Secrecy In The Court of Public Opinion
51. 5 FebThere Is No “Officer Safety” Exception To The Constitution.
52. 5 FebThe Bronx Defenders Get Punished
53. 4 FebBoth Sides Now: The Perfect Victim Narrative
54. 4 FebThe Rationale For Concealment
55. 3 FebSup
56. 3 FebGive A Cop The Constitution
57. 3 FebSave Bronx Defenders
58. 2 FebVote For Me and I’ll Set You Free
59. 2 FebMy John Deere Gator: Like A Boss
60. 1 FebStatistics, With Rigor
61. 1 FebThe Other Three Officers Said No

January 2015

1. 31 JanThe Myth That Won’t Die
2. 31 JanWho’s That Knocking At My Door?
3. 31 JanThe Need To Resign
4. 30 JanDid Bronx Defenders Endorse Cop Killing?
5. 30 JanA Non-Custodial Grope
6. 30 JanObstruction-Я-Us
7. 29 JanFuneral Today
8. 28 JanDirty, Dirty Brandenburg
9. 28 JanChait’s Big PC Risk
10. 27 JanMove On
11. 27 JanThings Only Bad Cops Do
12. 27 JanA Nice Young Man At Yale
13. 26 JanPhyllis Joy Greenfield, 1931 – 2015
14. 26 JanSunday Morning, When Facts Don’t Matter
15. 26 JanTeam Prosecutor
16. 25 JanScrew The Children; What About The Cops?
17. 25 Jan25 Years Worth of Creative License
18. 24 JanNot In My Court, They Don’t (Update x3)
19. 24 JanThe Core Mission of a Traffic Stop
20. 23 JanMisnavigation
21. 23 JanJust Another “Term of Art”
22. 23 JanA Bird In The Hand
23. 22 JanAn Execution in Jersey
24. 22 JanBlame It On The Greeks
25. 22 JanOrder In The Court
26. 21 JanGutting The Rules: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Update)
27. 21 JanThe Color of Heroes and Villains (Update)
28. 20 JanThe Bar For The Bar Is The Bar
29. 20 JanGertner: Rape and Enlightened Self-Interest
30. 19 JanExcept For The Bullet In The Back
31. 19 JanStupid People Tricks, Redlich Edition
32. 18 JanA Note To Swiss Watchmaker (and others) (Update)
33. 18 JanHalf Court Press
34. 18 JanA Gift, With No Strings Attached
35. 17 JanAdoption Will Be Just A Little Bit Harder
36. 17 JanIf You Liked 1 In 5, You’ll Love 1 In 3
37. 17 JanEric Brittain: A Lawyer Too Zealous
38. 16 JanThe Trouble With Listening
39. 16 JanPork and the Vagina
40. 16 JanYears Of Good Service
41. 15 JanPBA Boss Pat Lynch Runs Away From His Own
42. 15 JanBobby Kinch’s Flaming Nutjob Hater Free Speech
43. 15 JanThe Kiss of Death At Navarro College (Update)
44. 14 JanCarefully Followed Police Policy (Update)
45. 14 JanElie Mystal’s Easy Answers
46. 13 JanWhat A Maroon
47. 13 JanAdding “Violence” To The Back-End (Update)
48. 12 JanAlbuquerque Is Back, With Guns Blazing (Update)
49. 12 JanNY Mayor de Blasio: This Too Will Pass
50. 11 JanThe Academic Indulgence
51. 11 JanHalf The Human Side Of Death
52. 10 JanTo The Dersh’s Defense
53. 10 JanBratton To Top Commanders: Do What You Can
54. 9 JanThe Grown-Ups At The Charlie Hebdo Table
55. 9 JanAccidents Will Happen
56. 8 JanBalko: Just A Smooth Talking Guy (Update)
57. 8 JanNous Sommes Charlie, But Who Are You?
58. 7 JanDamaging The Social Order All By Themselves
59. 7 JanThe Other Tor
60. 6 JanMarlene Delauter’s Boy, Kirby (Update x3)
61. 6 JanPretense and Pretentiousness
62. 6 JanA Ferguson Grand Juror Speaks Out
63. 5 JanCommissioner Bratton: You Too
64. 5 JanGot Proof? The Dersh Accusation
65. 4 JanChildren, Naked, Because Rules
66. 4 JanThe Volokh Question: Why Did You Stop?
67. 4 JanThe Case Against Pettiness
68. 3 JanTsarnaev’s Inconvenient Jury (Update)
69. 2 JanNo, Crazy Is Not A Capital Offense (Update)
70. 2 JanStop The Madness
71. 1 JanCops’ Response: Shooting Blanks
72. 1 Jan2014 Jdog Memorial Best Criminal Law Blog Post