Public Defense

Monday Morning Jumpstart: President?s Day Edition

By Gideon

It has been rather busy here in Gideonland, but early this week I may finally be caught up with work and ready to resume my blogging duties. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention, though. These are stories that I read and I think are worth sharing. Enjoy the day off, if you have it, if not, I’m sorry. Get a state job.

• It took several years and three (at least) courts to finally sort out that “I plead the 5th” is a valid invocation of a Miranda right.
• Norm Pattis forgoes closing statements and wonders whether lawyers actually make a difference during trial.
• The CrimePsych blog brings us a limited time link to international homicide studies.
• The AZ Supreme Court ruled that jury trials are required for convictions that could lead to sex offender registration.
• Scott rightly complains about the weak “out” that an issue has not been preserved for appellate review.
• The WSJ Law Blog brings horror stories of document review and reminds me of how happy I am that I didn’t go to BigLaw.
• Sex Crimes wonders if an originalist view would not be fatal to the petitioner in Louisiana v. Kennedy.
• The Underblawg is a little disppointed with the law.
• There is a new blawg on juries on the scene: Juries.
• Dan Solove at Co-op has made his book “The Future of Reputations” available for free download under a CC License. Good for him. I’ll go read it now.

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Full post as published by A Public Defender on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).