Public Defense

Monday Morning Jumpstart: When?s the next long weekend edition

By Gideon

photo credit: Tero Heino

I’m not asking about the next long weekend because I want an extra day off or anything, but simply because this long weekend produced a lot of posts and stories worth reading. Here are some of them:

• The most disturbing is this story out of Florida, where the new elected public defender fired 10 of the most experienced lawyers. Bobby G and Hit and Run tell you why it’s a problem.
• A fired public defender’s lawsuit against the State reaches the CA Supreme Court.
• The LA Times has this first of three stories on a lawyer who has been married for 25 years to one of the most dangerous men in CA’s prisons.
• This blog is giving out free legal advice (”free consultations”).
• Again from the LA Times, a new report concludes that the “war on drugs” is a flop.
• A cop testifies in a Chicago corruption trial that they bribed judges and planted drugs.
• What exactly does “dope” mean anyway? asks Blonde Justice.
• The Courant has a nice piece on Ann Stanback, director of Love Makes a Family, who spearheaded the gay-marriage campaign.
• You’re going to have a juror who has a facebook account, if you haven’t already, so read Anne Reed’s post on what to do.
• An appellate court can confuse refreshing recollection and past recollection recorded, too. So don’t feel bad for getting a C- in evidence in law school.
• EvidenceProf (again) has an interesting follow up post on the revolving jury trial.
• The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week that a life sentence for failure to register as a sex offender constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• I’m not sure why anyone would bother to ban fortune-telling, but for the clairvoyant amongst you, you’ll be happy to know that it’s protected by the First Amendment.
• This week’s Blawg Review is up.
• Finally, according to the Typealyzer, this blog is, like, a thinker, or something. w00t.

Full post as published by A Public Defender on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).