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But, Everyone Likes Cake, Don't They?

August 16, 2008 14:38

Stop me if I told you this one before. It happened a while ago, but I don't think I ever wrote about it.It was the first round of voir dire (jury selection). The courtroom is packed with almost one hundred perspective jurors, filling the audience. We start by addressing the first twelve as a...

Facebook Weirdness

August 14, 2008 00:28

So, I joined facebook a few months ago. It was all well and good until...In the past few days, I've run into a few things on facebook that just make me feel... weird. There's no other word for it. First, someone I didn't know at all added me as a friend. I checked her profile, and I went to high...

More on Defending The Guilty

August 07, 2008 23:13

Anonymous Law Student follows up on my post on how to answer the oft-asked question, "How can you represent someone when you know he's guilty?" complete with a funny video!One of the interesting things that comes out of ALS's post is:It seems to me that there was a consensus that asking a person,...

Apollo Justice? It's an Injustice!

August 06, 2008 01:03

Here's a first. My first video game review.I found myself playing this video game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. I just figured it out while "researching" for this blog post, but apparently it's a sequel to the more popular Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. In this game, I am Apollo Justice (hey,...

Cold Brewed Coffee

August 02, 2008 13:19

I guess I can get away with one more food-related post before everyone takes me off their criminal lawyer blogrolls...Today, after reading all of the publicity, I tried cold-brewed coffee. I made it myself, and it is delicious.I happened to have a french press already, so I used that. I filled it...

Hummus Talk

July 31, 2008 13:10

Somewhat random, but I wanted to mention...One thing you didn't know about me is that I love hummus. I'm a little bit of a hummus fanatic. I've been eating hummus nearly daily for about 8 years. I like to try different kinds of hummus, I like to make different kinds of hummus, I just really like...

Wool Over Your Eyes

July 28, 2008 20:59

If I ruled the world, I wouldn't let kids be prosecutors right out of law school. Or, without having some kind of prior job or career or life experience. It's not that I'm that much older than 24 (really, I'm not!), it just disturbs me to hear these 24-year-old kids, who are still living off...

Defendants on the Web

July 21, 2008 01:07

This is an interesting read: Web networking photos come back to bite defendants.The issue of myspace or facebook pages, etc., comes up more often in private practice than it does as a public defender. Matter of fact, literally just this morning I got an email invite on my work address to be a...

It's Not Perfect, But It's The Best I've Got

July 04, 2008 14:26

Let's say you were a doctor. And you had a patient. And he had AIDS. And it was totally his own fault. You know that he contracted from unprotected sex or sharing needles. Would you still treat him? But, how could you help fight AIDS when he totally did it to himself?What about a patient who...

Charitable Contributions

July 02, 2008 02:06

Some cases are clearly slam dunk winners for my clients. When those cases come along, a decision needs to be made - you can either go to the prosecutor and say, "Here's why your case is a loser..." and hope they see it your way and dismiss it, or you can sit back and wait for the trial, and win...