Public Defense

Monday Morning Jumpstart: Columbus Day v2.0

By Gideon

Good morning folks. Hope everyone is able to enjoy this long weekend. I’m taking advantage of the day off by posting a Jumpstart, after a several week hiatus. Here are the weekend’s most interesting posts and stories:

• Two law schools will now disregard the LSAT. Why didn’t this happen when I was applying to law school?
• A little judicial humor goes a long way.
• Blonde Justice shows us how jury selection is different everywhere you go.
• This piece at Co-Op talks about the viability of alternate remedies for prosecutorial misconduct impropriety, eschewing the traditional all or nothing.
• Bennett reviews the e-book “The Truth About Hiring A Criminal Defense Lawyer” and gives it three whirls of the chainsaw.
• Anne at Deliberations got her hands on the O.J. questionnaires and gently encourages us to role-play with them.
• The Dallas Morning News has this fantastic series on questionable police tactics (ID and otherwise) that put innocent men behind bars.
• The same News then follows up with this piece on the problems with “show-ups”.
• The Courant has this long and touching piece on the struggle of Beth Kerrigan - named plaintiff in the gay-marriage case.
• Michigan attempts jury reform. Juries has the details.
• Here’s a preview of the upcoming week at SCOTUS.
• The US Sentencing Commission is looking at alternatives to incarceration.
• Scott doesn’t like jailhouse lawyers asking him to lie.
• Judge Pirro isn’t very popular.

That’s all for today! Enjoy the day off.

Full post as published by A Public Defender on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).