Criminal Law

Notes

Posted on March 19, 2008
Observation: if you are part of a crew of prostitutes, perhaps it would be not a very fine idea to show up (with friends) dressed as prostitutes in support of your friend who is charged with prostitution - let alone...

Even Though

Posted on March 12, 2008
this blog's author is not one of the Hard Drinking Librarians (tm) of which the Scoplaw was a founding member back in our days of yore, I think they make the cut. Therefore, the link. Which is both recommendation and...

In News of the Weird

Posted on March 12, 2008
a prosecutor asked me if he could read my hallway interview notes with the officers from our impending (as in one hour away) trial case, because, you know, it was really busy this morning and he didn't have a chance...

Cough-cough

Posted on March 10, 2008
Another jury win. Cough.

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Walking Wounded

Posted on March 06, 2008
Another week, another trial, another win. (Yea!) But I'm sick again. Meh. Thank god the jury came back early - I have felt a little delirious since 6pm. Seems I'm being treated to round two of the the high fever,...

Greatest Hits

Posted on March 03, 2008
A few people have randomly asked me about poetry lately. I think my fav. publication credit is one in which I did not appear with Bill Knott.

Reason #1342 in my Dislike of Fossil Fuel Driven Transportation

Posted on March 02, 2008
Alternative titles to this post could have been: Another Day, Another Grease Tat Why I Shave My Legs Pavement Surfing 101 But, anyway, reason 1342 would be oil, on the road, literally. Which'd result in a drop-'n-slide and yet another...

(pause)

Posted on February 27, 2008
I think this is mid-week or something. I've been in trial 3 days running (basically 12+hr days) and tomorrow is a trial day. We lost the first, which was disappointing on many levels, but there's an appeal there - so...

New Addition to my Neighborhood

Posted on February 21, 2008
A fishbowl.

Roman Holiday

Posted on February 14, 2008
We're in that rare group of PDs who actively hope for trial. Didn't happen this week, but in our cases set for trial, no one took anything worse than credit-time-served. At one point we were down to two clients whom...

New Highs and Lows

Posted on February 11, 2008
Appointed as back-up counsel to a pro se defendant today. It was painful - I could have done so much with it instead of grinding my teeth and muttering most of the time. All in all our pro se didn't...

Posting Frenzy

Posted on February 10, 2008
Yes, it's time for another westlaw break. I'm singing badly along with Texas, thinking of Glasgow and Columbia. So it's a far-traveling pause. The muse of caselaw still smiles on me though. Should be an interesting week. Although I'm not...

To PD or not to PD?

Posted on February 10, 2008
Heard an interesting argument for IDing yourself as a PD to a jury. Assume that juries think criminal defense attorneys are liars, but PDs are simply incompetent (perhaps not even lawyers). You can prove yourself competent to a jury by...

Favorite Cover Songs

Posted on February 10, 2008
I was asked about cover songs and appropriation of lyrics/lines. Yeah, we can go all high lit. on this issue, but I'm more curious about reader's fav. cover songs (e-mails welcome for all you shy ones.) What are they? Why...

Friends Don't Let Friends Go Pro Se

Posted on February 10, 2008
Because, as rumor has it, these are some of the legal strategies lurking out there, waiting to be sprung on unsuspecting judges and prosecutors. . . Oral Motion to Dismiss at arraignment because This is Some Fucked Up Shit Yo....

Bad Art - even fine wine isn't enough to counter it.

Posted on February 09, 2008
Yes, it's the second Sat. of the month - so I'll again be strolling about the design district for the local galleries "art-walk." Both halves of that final word word must be construed liberally. Still, there's usually dollar beers and...

And that's what we call the Bill of Rights. . .

Posted on February 05, 2008
Got the 4th motion today - the state promptly nolle prossed the case, so no jury trial. Either I'm more tired than I thought or the state's argument didn't make any sense. I mean, usually I can frame the state's...

Meh.

Posted on February 04, 2008
Today I *almost* got a 4th amendment suppression motion granted on our only trial case that remained. The judge has reserved ruling pending some further research. (It's actually a very interesting issue, which I will surely fail to elucidate here,...

Situated

Posted on February 03, 2008
The PD's office here gives a month's paid leave for those of us who need to take the winter bar exam (I don't). Which is pretty awesome. Unfortunately, it also means people getting shuffled about to fill gaps. Well, I...

Yeah, this is me.

Posted on January 27, 2008
I am newly in love with a very bad film, Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. Find it. Watch it. Seriously. But not all that Seriously. As Wiki says, this film deals with Jesus' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa,...

Confusion or Clarity?

Posted on January 27, 2008
Interesting week/weekend thusfar. My brain feels full. I just got back from a poetry festival ? I saw, but ultimately missed (as in did not meet up with) several old faces, the director of the festival excepted. With the beard...

Peter (Alleged Victim) and Paul (possible Co-Defendant)

Posted on January 23, 2008
I loved my free Monday - I went into work (but not court) and got a lot of things in order. Yes, it says a lot about my life or relative lack of one, I know. Still, there's probably not...

Shorthand

Posted on January 21, 2008
A lot of people have asked what living in Miami is like. Here's my advice. Fast forward through a few episodes of Miami Vice with the sound off. Then watch a few episodes of Dexter - which is surprisingly right...

Getting Away From It All

Posted on January 20, 2008
The great thing about living in Miami is that after a kind of stressful week, I can just hop on my bike and be on the beach in a half hour. Or less if I'm just chilling on the bay....

And on. . .

Posted on January 15, 2008
Second NG jury trial tonight - that's 2 in 24hrs. And tomorrow is a trial day. More when I surface for air. I did get a nice compliment though. The state attorney said I make his heart race every time...

The Trial Wheel

Posted on January 14, 2008
Got to go with my old clinic partner who was pressed into service following our slightly nutso setting of 61 cases for trial and the splintering of our division to judges who could take our trial cases. (We literally had...

Supposed to be working late tonight. . .

Posted on January 13, 2008
but an old friend sent me a new song he wrote. I've played it about 12 times now. Echoes of everything - but mostly humid nights in Providence. Which is doubly appropriate as the TLF and I had dinner on...

Body, following Mind, shuts down. Or is it the other way?

Posted on January 13, 2008
Shutting down. This sort of thing has happened to me in the past - last week, as soon as I heard my second trial case was not going to go for lack of a jury, I got very very sleepy....

Teddy bears, candy canes, and all that shit.

Posted on January 13, 2008
Tonight I'm just filled, more so than usual, with my own particular helpless rage. It's the kind of rage that stems from a strong suspicion that something bad is going down and that someone I love is being made a...

Lawer-talkin (schweetness the second)

Posted on January 09, 2008
I got an iPhone for a holiday gift. And then I talked my way out of my Verizon contract and its termination fee. Yep. It can be done. (Pause for applause) I'd like to thank Gary Peller and his first...

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