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A site for non-lawyers (especially students) where issues in law are discussed. Focus on Criminal and Family law. Has a libertarian bent.

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What is Manly?

Posted on March 06, 2009

Lessons I Learned This Month: Eat Less Calories ,Exercise More, Doodle When You Can, and Don't Mess Around With Pres. Obama!

Posted on March 02, 2009

Open Letter to Agape World Inc "Investors"

Posted on February 01, 2009
Readers, I have been attempting to communicate with Agape World Inc. investors who have been talking trash as well as debating the issues of whether the President of Agape World Inc. was able to run an alleged "Ponzi scheme" by himself or if others knew what he was doing...

Maybe You Are Wondering Where I Am.

Posted on January 29, 2009
I have not posted for nearly 10 days. I have a bad habit of going on "walkabout". I get the urge to write and then after a month or so, it goes away, I have little new to say or too little time to say it well. I am in the second phase now. I have too little time to say what I want to say well...

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The Start of a New World, The Week The Dream Comes True : Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Hussein Obama

Posted on January 19, 2009
I have so little to add to all that is being said on the air, in the main stream media and in all the blogs. This is the start of a new world. A world that I am sure many in my lifetime feared, and many more doubted. A world, where finally the promise that any man woman or child can be President of the United States is fulfilled...

Our Sister Blog "Long Island (Criminal) Trial Law" : Why Wall Street White Collar Defendants Need Main Street Criminal Defense Lawyers

Posted on January 19, 2009
With the new administration, and the recent Drier and Madoff scandals leading the way, White Collar Prosecutions are sure to be on the rise. Over at Long Island (Criminal) Trial Law, we are discussing how Main Street Criminal Defense Lawyers are the right solution to Wall Street White Collar Defendant's problems.

Man Bites Dog: Victim Seeks Dismissal of Statutory Rape Charges Against Director Roman Polanski. Should It Matter?

Posted on January 13, 2009
The alleged victim in the Roman Polanski Statutory Rape case, joins with Polanski in seeking dismissal of the charges against him. Filing a separate affidavit, the victim accuses the former Judge and Prosecutor in her case of failures and misdeeds. She also claims that the prosecutors in the case now are seeking to cover up those misdeeds and that their failures are causing her unnecessary grief and embarrassment...

Govenor Palin Attacks Katie Couric: Sarah Still Doesn't Get Why She Cost McCain the Election.

Posted on January 09, 2009
Sarah Palin is the main subject of an upcoming documentary about the election. It is a documentary by John Zeigler, a Neo-conservative film maker who, from what I can see on the YouTube outtake from the movie, was tossing Palin softballs to hit out of the stadium...

Police Use GPS and Google to Find a Kidnapped Child.

Posted on January 08, 2009
I spend a lot of time on this blog criticizing police and Prosecutors. It isn't that I don't like them. It is that I think that since they represent the "people" I think they need to be held to a higher standard of conduct than any individual person. When they "get it right" (and they do get it right far more often than not) however, I think they deserve to be acknowledged...

Public Hypocrite #1: Sen.Arlen Spector Wants a Attorney General Who Can Say No To The President.

Posted on January 08, 2009
This is rich. Arlen Spector, Republican Senator from Pa. and former Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee has announced that although Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder has excellent academic and professional credentials he is "concerned" that Holder may not be able to say no to the President...

Four Blog Posts You Should Read: An interesting Day in the Blogosphere

Posted on January 06, 2009
Some days the quality of posting is just really good. Check these out:Love and Marriage is not for the Funky Brown Chick. Interesting comments.Note to self...don't sarcastically ask if after a day of yelling and fighting with your toddler is it ok to smother her, at least not on Twitter...

Where the Hell is the Change Barack??? : Cabinet Choices are all Clinton Retreads

Posted on January 05, 2009
Short post:Is it me or is the "Change President" who promised to bring new faces and ideas to Washington just bringing back the same old Democrats we tossed out for 8 years of Bushies (who were just old retreads of his father's failed administration. Let's see we have Eric Holder for Attorney General, deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration...

Tony(c) Award for Best Criminal Law Blog for 2008 and an Honor: Professor Doug Berman Sentencing Law and Policy Blog

Posted on January 01, 2009
Thinking of words and phrases to describe out Tony(c) award winning Best Criminal Law Blog is easy: Informative, cutting edge, authoritative, well written, incisive, thought-provoking. The one I like the most is consistant.The 2008 Tony(c)Award for Best Criminal Law Blog is Professor Doug Berman's Sentencing Law and Policy Blog...

Tony(c) Award Best New Voice: Sharon And Her Blog Red Shoe Ramblings

Posted on December 31, 2008
The Tony(c) Award Winner for Best New Voice in the legal Blogoshpere goes to Red Shoe Rambling and its vivacious and energetic author Sharon. I met Sharon through her Twitter persona No Reins Girl. Her tweets were sassy and filled with positive statement...

Free Ride Home For HS Students IN SYOSSET-WOODBURY, PLAINVIEW/OLD BETHPAGE , or JERICHO SCHOOLS Stranded on New Year's Eve: NO DWI'S TONIGHT!!

Posted on December 31, 2008
This New Year's Eve I am offering any High School Student at any High School located in the Plainview/Old Bethpage, Syosset-Woodbury or Jericho-Brookville School Districts, a free ride home from a party, bar or Train Station (Hicksville or Syosset stations) in those school district boundries, if:1...

Tony(c) Award For Best NY Blawgger: JaneAnne Murray for NY Federal Criminal Practice Blog

Posted on December 30, 2008
The Tony(c) Award for the "Best NY Blawgger" (that is a writer who blogs about legal topics in NY) goes to JaneAnne Murray for her blog "NY Federal Criminal Practice Blog." JaneAnne's writing is crisp and understandable. The Blog reads like a law schoolstudent's recitation brief on a casebook case...

Tony(c) Award for Best PD Blog :Gideon at A Public Defender

Posted on December 30, 2008
Being a Public Defender (and in that I am also including members of the Legal Aid Society) is difficult work. Usually thankless work they get the hardest of the cases & clients. Public Defenders have the worst working conditions, carrying big case loads and the pay is...

Let's Stop Lying to the Jury: The Case for Warning Jurors About Acquitted Conduct

Posted on December 28, 2008
Earlier this year US District Court Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of NY, one of the most reviled and respected judges on the US District Court Bench, issued a Magnum Opus of a decision. The 288 page tome has been roundly criticized by academics, politicians and prosecutors (as if there was really a difference) as a waste of judicial assets and paper...

The Tony(c) Award for Best Law Practice Management Blog Goes To: My Shingle

Posted on December 26, 2008
Law Practice Management for the Solo and Small Practitioner is the difference between demise and survival. Network marketing, hiring staff, CLE, SEO, M.O.U.S.E. (that one is a joke understood best by those who are baby boomers) and others skills are not taught but are expected of a solo or small firm lawyer...

Merry Christmas: A Dad Fable

Posted on December 25, 2008
Every writer, blogger, priest and politician hopes to come up with something profound to write tonight. Something that will help people take the spirit of the birth of the Christ child into the new year, and make this spirit part of their daily lives...

Around the Blogosphere the Week of 12/14/08-12/20/08:Part II- Law Office Management

Posted on December 21, 2008
Continuing my trip around the blogosphere with you, we move on to the Second Part of our Journey Law Office Management and Tech posts.1. Cornell Univ. Legal Information Institute is a really great service providing case law and statutory law for no cost (but you should donate)to users...

Around the Blogosphere the Week of 12/14/08-12/20/08: Part I- Twitter Posts

Posted on December 21, 2008
Here is the deal: This was a pretty good week for blawggers. We had the Madoff thing, the Blago thing, and well, lots of things. We have bloggers finishing their year off with ideas for next year, and we have best of lists for this year (including my Tony(c) Awards)...

Around the Blogosphere the Week of 12/14/08-12/20/08: Part III- In and Around NY and Long Island

Posted on December 21, 2008
IN part III of this trip around the Blogosphere I found myself looking at some of the things happening in legal life around "here." ("Here" is Long Island and the five boroughs of NYC)br /br /1. In the News on Long Island; Freaky Driving stories:br /br /A...

Stupid Cops Are As Big a Threat To Kids as Stranger Pedophiles: Two Cases of Keystone Kops Actions That Will Scar Innocent Children For Life

Posted on December 20, 2008
My first civil rights case, was on behalf of a Haitian kid who had the temerity to cut his grandfather's lawn while being black and wearing dreads... no joke.br /br /Three dolt cops were looking for a car with the license plate WTZ 469 my client had a plate, WZT 469...

Tony(c) Award for Best Legal Technology Blog: Dennis Kennedy His Blog Get an Award and an Honor

Posted on December 19, 2008
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That Lawyer Dude to my Anonymous Grammarian: Good Grammer Ain't My Goal

Posted on December 19, 2008
In a comment on the last post a poster posted:br /br /blockquoteAnonymous said... br /br /Uh, why do you capitalize words that needn't be so? Why do you you write run-on sentences? br /br /As an attorney you really should know proper grammar. This is kind of disturbing to read--for the crimes against written English, not for the content...

Why I Support Sex Worker's Rights: Part I My Introduction to "Patty"

Posted on December 17, 2008
I couldn't wait for my first case. I was a brand new "Lawyer" in Hofstra University's brand new Criminal Defense Clinic (we hadn't taken the bar yet but we worked under a student practice order while supervised by an admitted attorney). I was getting a case load, a client or two that I could "help"...

Happy 50th Birthday Dr. David Leach of the Tampa Eye Clinic.

Posted on December 15, 2008
On my drive up to Albany NY yesterday, I received a strange text message on my cell phone. It said "Hello. We have not heard from Fred. Any word on whether his cell is operational?I noted the area code number and wondered who I knew named Fred. I only know one person, my son's roommate at College...

This Week Around the Blogosphere: Good Trial Technique Suggestions and the Case of Julie Amero.

Posted on December 15, 2008
I know I am supposed to get this out on Sundays but with the Tony(c) awards and the Giants and Jets both in first place in their divisions and my weekly haul up to Albany to handle Depositions in a Civil Rights cases there, I am a little behind. So lets get to them...

Tony(c) Award for Best Relationship and Sex Blog: Sex, Lies and Dating in the City

Posted on December 14, 2008
I had such a huge boost in readers after announcing that The Agitator was my favorite News Blog. If you are still reading me after visiting from Radley's blog welcome. Stay around and let me know what you think.Today I am announcing my Favorite Relationship and Sex blog...

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