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Pro Bono for People Who Do Nothing for Others?
Posted on May 27, 2009Why is it that people who give no money or time to charity think that lawyers should give them tens-of-thousands of dollars of free service? I once asked someone who wanted a free ride: "Do you even give blood, man?" It's one thing to not give money to charity because you're broke...
Is Sotomayor's Impoverished Upbringing Relevant?
Posted on May 27, 2009So Sotomayor grew up poor. According to liberals who did not grow up poor, this matters. For some reason. Why? Supposedly it makes people more empathethic. Well, I grew up pooooooor. Not John Edwards, "My dad was a union manager making middle-class wages" poor...
Prediction Watch: Who Got the Supreme Court Nomination Wrong?
Posted on May 26, 2009All of the law professors said it would be Diane Wood or Elena Kagan. I knew it would be Sotomayor. That so many people got this wrong shows how little people understand President Barack Obama. He sees race everywhere. Race is his obsession. Was the first black President going to miss his chance to nominate the first Latina to the...
Clothing in The Courtroom
Posted on May 24, 2009The topic du jour is clothing in the courtroom. It's all over the law blogs. Some horny old male judges said that when a woman shows some cleavage and legs, the judges have to go masturbate in chambers before being able to pay attention to the woman's argument...
Has Mike Tyson Found Inner Peace?
Posted on May 24, 2009Appearing in the audience at UFC 98, Mike Tyson gave an interview to a Fox Sports reporter. Tyson seems to have some some sort of inner peace. What thing not know about Tyson is that he's an intelligent, thoughtful person. He was an example of what mental illness plus excessive testosterone does to a person...
Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
Posted on May 21, 2009I've never agonized so much over a blog review of a book. Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World had a weird effect on me. I read the book several months ago, and am only now blogging it. What gives? First, it made me very angry. These guys are at MIT, and they didn't know that if you want to...
Honest Signals: Fluency
Posted on May 21, 2009While Honest Signals itself was not a very enlightening book, it did lead to some helpful reminders. Here's a good tip from me. Fluency is an honest signal. Get a guy talking about something he knows. Notice the pace he?ll use. Each person has her own style of speaking...
Transcending Evolution: On Vanity
Posted on May 20, 2009Vanity is the unnecessary obsession with what strangers think of you. A vain person seeks the approval of strangers. In the past, the approval of members of the public may have kept you alive. In modern society, social approval is valuable only instrumentally...
Prosecutorial Misconduct Database or Wiki
Posted on May 20, 2009We really should start keeping track of unethical prosecutors. I identify unethical prosecutors in the subject title of Crime & Federalism whenever I see names, e.g., Juliet Sorensen; Suzanne Sullivan; Brenda Morris; William Sullivan; Greg Damm; Kimberly Frayn; Sean Cronin; Andrea Hoffman; etc...
Suzanne Sullivan is an Unethical Prosecutor.
Posted on May 20, 2009Oh my God. It's happening. Judges are finally doing something about prosecutorial misconduct. Years from now, the Ted Stevens prosecution might be seen as the tipping point: Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently issued an order requiring the Boston U...
Michael Hiltzik, Scumbag, Lies About California Taxes
Posted on May 20, 2009The Los Angeles Times is getting more embarrassing every day. I'll celebrate when they are bankrupt. Being biased is bad enough. But to publish outright lies? That is what Michael Hiltzik's latest column is full of. As a warm-up, Hiltzik starts with a little spin: The most onerous lie is that Californians are burdened by the highest state taxes in...
Want to Rape Children? Become a Catholic Priest
Posted on May 20, 2009When will so-called God-fearing members of the Catholic Church put an end to this? A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades - and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation...
Dolla Got Shot at the Beverly Center
Posted on May 19, 2009This fine young man depicted in this video was shot in the upscale Beverly Center. What a tragedy: Most hilarious comment? From the L.A. Times article's comment section: "hmph! well, you know, there's a recession on. i guess a dolla doesn't go as far as it used to...
Quinn Emanuel Associate Should be Fired
Posted on May 19, 2009"FIRST YEAR ASSOCIATE'S" writing is terrible. He suffers from, "Every thought that enters my head is worthy of being read" syndrome. He's also a bore. Fire him.
25 Rich Athletes Who Went Broke
Posted on May 19, 2009An interesting article on how millions get lost. Some are spendthrifts, but most lost their money in business investments. Everyone wants to be a businessperson. Most businesses fail. Take the money, put it in tax-free muni bonds, and chill out. But, no...
"Message in What We Buy, but Nobody?s Listening"
Posted on May 19, 2009Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior is getting a lot of rave reviews from people I consider smart. That's enough of an endorsement for me to buy it. The New York Times reviews the book here. Much of Spent won't surprise people who have studied sociobiology (which has since been given the more politically correct name, "evolutionary psychology")...
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Market Meltdown
Posted on May 18, 2009I am becoming increasingly bitter. It's because I've realized that almost everyone has a religion. With the Right, it's a belief in holy ghosts that are so powerful that religious people go see doctors for the latest product of rationality. With the Left, it's a belief in Political Correctness...
Are Cross-Gender Searches Unconstitutional Under the Fourth Amendment
Posted on May 18, 2009The Ninth Circuit holds that it's reasonable under the Fourth Amendment for men to strip search women; and for women to strip search men. while prisoners and detainees retain ?legitimate expectations of bodily privacy from persons of the opposite sex,? we are obligated to acknowledge that such rights are ?extremely limited...
How to Spot a Liar
Posted on May 17, 2009Spotting a liar is interesting. Empirical studies show that people cannot tell who is telling the truth. This is true even when those people are no longer people, but magically transform into jurors. It takes a lot of training to spot a liar. There are guidelines, not rules...
Marshmallow-Flavored Strippers
Posted on May 17, 2009There is no such thing as will power. How do you say, "No," to a temptation? The best advice is to avoid temptation in the first place. Yet that is not will power. That is avoidance. Will power is letting a stripper sit on your lap while you get "in the moment," embracing the experience...
New York Times on Minorities and the Market Meltdown
Posted on May 16, 2009When the housing bubble burst, many of blamed government in addition to Wall Street. Wasn't it a bad idea for the government to demand banks loans money to people with bad credit and low incomes - simply because those people were not white? We were told that asking the question was racist...
College
Posted on May 16, 2009It's true that college students are treated unbelievably well by the criminal justice system. Why? Shouldn't we treat people who are in college but screw up worse? Think about it. If a person makes it to college, the odds are that he's had some chance in life...
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
Posted on May 15, 2009[In five years of blogging, I've maybe posted maybe half a dozen press releases. When I do post a release, it's never for a fee, or as a quid pro quo for a review copy of the book.] Arbitrary Justice was just released in paperback, though, and it seems promising...
Honest Signals
Posted on May 14, 2009If you can't tell this person is lying, something is very wrong with you:
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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