Criminal Law

The Original Sins of Originalism

Posted on February 07, 2012
Stanley Fish writes in the Times about, well, nothing much. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/politics-in-the-academy-the-same-old-song/ Some of the article is tongue-in-cheek of course, rather like the title of this post, but there?s a large problem underlying the entire enterprise...

The Fine Art of Compromise

Posted on January 27, 2012
There?s been some national coverage about the Cranston High School West (R.I.) prayer banner. Here is a link to the NY Times article. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/rhode-island-city-enraged-over-school-prayer-lawsuit.html?_r=1 The crux of the issue is that the High School has a fairly innocuous prayer, written...

MLK day and neither the NY Times

Posted on January 16, 2012
MLK day and neither the NY Times nor the Boston Globe have anything remotely concerning MLK in the headlines of their web pages. Although the Globe has a very prominent link to an article on Golden Globe fashion issues. Clearly...

Why I Love Robert Heinlein

Posted on January 04, 2012
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Ships in the Night

Posted on December 30, 2011
Well, that was a busy stretch (and one not quite done). Scopwife and I continue to settle into NYC, a process that is, I think, almost complete. Since my last entry, I?ve finished setting up the new law firm, had...

What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Posted on December 13, 2011
I apologize to old friends and the idly curious for not posting in quite awhile. Much has happened since I last wrote, and I'm not sure if I should recap some of it in my future posts, or begin anew...

Slowing Down

Posted on October 22, 2009
Sheesh. That was an oddly intense week. After the funeral, I found out that CT was looking at snow with accumulation, which just isn't something that mixes well with motorcycles. So I left asap, motoring south. I got as far...

Random Beauty and Death

Posted on October 16, 2009
This may be one of the strangest visits to New England that I've ever had. In the good news category, I finally (finally) visited an old friend after too many years and met her husband. They seem to be doing...

Looking Scruffy While Mountain Biking at Valley Falls

Posted on October 13, 2009
 

Turning

Posted on October 13, 2009
Well, everything is changed about. I had planned to take a vacation in Miami - maybe chill out, do some small projects, hang out with some local folks whom I never see (for no good reason). Instead I got a...

Poem

Posted on September 29, 2009
Fireworks Acrid, aflame, again, air all back bark, billowing black blooms, bottle bulbs, burn burst but cheer: clear cold come cores dark down; dozen drifting, each encouraging. Fall feeds fiery flash from growing hastily, hiss holds ignite in in into...

Poem

Posted on September 29, 2009
Blue Sestina Yes Mmmm yes Oh Ah God God Yes Ah Mmmm Oh yes yes God Oh Yes Mmmm Ah Ah yes Mmmm God Yes Oh Oh Ah Yes yes God Mmmm Mmmm Oh God Ah yes Yes Mmmm Ah...

Itchy

Posted on September 03, 2009
Some months you just feel like you're spoiling for a fight. Anyway, to flesh out my facebook updates with the blog, on the same day as my last post, I did indeed go to one of the jails. It was...

Busy Busy

Posted on August 16, 2009
Well, my transition from my old felony division to the new is done, although not as smoothly as I'd have liked - the 14hr days trying to cover two divisions with full caseloads, only one of which I knew anything...

A small break

Posted on August 07, 2009
I took two days off because I sorely needed a break. Which is good, because there has been much wackiness associated with work. Since then it's been interesting. I went to a fund raising dance party. I also went to...

Relic Reliquary - A randomly sent link.

Posted on August 02, 2009
17 Relics. That's awesome! Thank you random e-mailer! Yeah, I was an alternative music college DJ - how cliche. Never fined by the FCC though (a fucking Miracle, I assure you - though 'sword and I probably put some gray...

The Week in Review

Posted on August 01, 2009
Sorta kinda. The days blend nowadays - and last night I ended up blended, at a local yuppie bar with some friends from work. There's something to be said for head-clearing fun. Actually quite a lot. This morning finds me...

And the Trials keep coming. . .

Posted on July 26, 2009
Well, after spending my first couple of months bitching about no-trial-dom, I am now swamped. Officially. Early on, I could have pulled the trigger on one case, but made the right call to depose a witness I had not yet...

Thwarted

Posted on July 26, 2009
I like to think of myself as a thwarter, not a thwartee. An important philosophical distinction, I think. In this case though, trash on the roadways got the best of me in the form of a punctured rear tire at...

Window into the human

Posted on July 26, 2009
Yep. It really does say something about us. This link Not Safe For Work takes you to the latest 50 images posted to Live Journal. http://www.fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php Or maybe it just says something about Live Journal. Still. It's worth pondering.

Denial, Perspective, Jail House Lawyering

Posted on July 18, 2009
This is not so much a complaint about my clients, but rather, an observation. I'm continually struck by how many people think the criminal justice system is an equity court. That means people think that things go "on the whole"...

Working the Weekend

Posted on July 18, 2009
Whew. That was a week. Although for the first time in two months I didn't actually have to be in court for two of the four days I'm pretty much categorically not supposed to be in court (ugh - parse...

New Lows?

Posted on July 16, 2009
Today I got the number of a very attractive lady - in the county jail.

Poem

Posted on July 12, 2009
Advocating the Use of the English Language as a Vehicle for Poetic Expression The days? awash in catchy lyrics ? snippets of song, the well-turned-whichever about which we know nothing, but that we can graft it onto ourselves. Though not...

Achin' to be

Posted on July 11, 2009
Today is a day of nothing much at all. Yea!! I really can't be pulled into projects as they're all waiting on this or that thing. So, it's me, grits, eggs, salt, pepper, coffee. There's also El Gato Perfecto and....

"You are truly an evil legal genius."

Posted on July 07, 2009
Or so claims a more Sr. attorney following an MJOA win on our latest trial case. This one was kind of interesting. It featured a witness disclosed just before trial, a mid voir dire deposition, a most completely boneheaded sidebar...

4th (july/post-hiatus-post)

Posted on July 04, 2009
Well, the July 4th weekend has arrived, and thusfar it's been quite nice - dinner with The Mayor and family, unexpected work productivity (yeah, yeah) and a hike/ride, sadly gatorless, in the 'glades. Also, excellent random conversations with a jeweler...

Well, that was interesting.

Posted on June 30, 2009
Got pulled into a trial, last minute, as the second chair when another APD was not able to be there. I was tagged with the Voir Dire, which, of course, I love to do. Except it was on a life...

Whiter the Blog Goeth. . .

Posted on June 28, 2009
Well, what can I say? I haven't been blogging. It's been so long, the TypePad interface has completely changed from the last time I logged in. And the reason I'm back? Oh, a combination of guilt and boredom, I'd say....

It's good to ride a Vulcan.

Posted on April 12, 2009
Friend sent me this - I seldom if ever repost stuff, but I thought this was funny. Top Ten Reasons Why Harley Riders Don't Wave Back 10. Afraid it will invalidate warranty. 9. Leather and studs make it too heavy...

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