Criminal Law

The Schweetness

Posted on January 09, 2008
OK - the prime sweetness in my recent life: MJOA1 granted. For non-lawyers, a motion for a judgment of acquittal occurs when the state rests their case. You turn to the judge and say "this just isn't enough." As you...

Sniff. Sniff. Is that. . .respect?

Posted on January 06, 2008
Hmm. Could be. I won a Rodney for "Best Blog by a Male PD" and was the runner up for "Best Writing." That's pretty damn cool - people read the blog, and some seem to like it. And that's about...

Poem

Posted on January 01, 2008
I Burn Her Letters in an old tin bucket labeled, Flint's High Quality Axle Grease, and work my way through a box of blue-tipped kitchen matches and six Newcastles. It does no good. The 22 pager this time goes first,...

Various and Sundry

Posted on January 01, 2008
Well, time for another long rambling missive of self-memorialization, because, honestly, the lack of sleep does strange things to long term memory formation and sequencing. Hopefully it will be at least a passingly entertaining read, as I have a couple...

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Poem

Posted on December 28, 2007
My Sister of Dust and Mortars I spend a day saying your name without saying it. I arrange some keepsakes on a shelf. Stone. Pressed flower. Photograph. Photograph. Pressed flower. Stone. Each a phoneme to build You-In-Absence. As though I...

Crazy Plan First Concocted Somewhere in GA, circa 2003, Comes to Fruition

Posted on December 18, 2007
Hmm. Am I filling out an order to have an AIDS test given in jail? Or perhaps a clever Order to Grant a Motion to Vacate? Speedy Trial Demand? Transportation Order? Notice of Expiration? Motion to Dismiss? Nope - that'd...

Moving Quickly, Moving Slowly

Posted on December 13, 2007
Friends will be glad to note I have actually adhered to being on vacation - yesterday I did a pick-up century (112 miles) up, down, a bit past, and around Key Largo. I took Card Sound Road instead of Route...

Bone Tired But Pleased

Posted on December 09, 2007
Technically I'm on vacation. That means I came in on vacation day one for a true dogfight of a trial, in which the jury ended up splitting the baby. I'd say more, but, as is mostly the case, things are...

How to Survive Trial Prep

Posted on December 02, 2007
Actually I love trial prep - it's kind of perverse, I know, yet I confess that I love knocking the ideas about, hunting down leads, bringing strategies together, honing stuff. But one needs a break sometimes. Anyway, it's rare that...

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