Criminal Law

Sunday Funnies*
Abdul’s Comedy Act *The above link may contain material considered unsuitable for people with no sense of humor or perspective.

Friday funnies from the DC Circuit
Though not really a sentencing case, an introductory parargraph of the DC Circuit's work this morning in Hurt v. SSA, No. 06-5339 (DC Cir. Oct. 3, 2008) (available here), does mention the Eighth Amendment...

office funnies
my office door will not stay shut unless i body-check it, or shove it really hard against the door frame. this is annoying, but strangely entertaining.

Sunday (not-so) funnies concerning the death penalty
I saw a number of interesting stories in the Sunday papers around the nation dealing with various death penalty issues. Here are headlines and links: From Alaska, "Death-penalty decision delays trial" From Mississippi, "Death penalty: 2008 'banner' year?" From Texas,...

Return of the Friday Funny
I have a few small Funnies today. Mostly legal related (barely): He Couldn’t Afford Better Beer then Natural Light? The 17 year old great-grandson of Gussie Busch - founder of the Anheuser-Busch beer empire - was busted with several of his buddies for underage drinking...

Blog Funnies
By Big Tent Democrat I do not link enough to Bob Somerby. I thought this was pretty funny: This week, we emitted a low, mordant chuckle at one part of this David Sirota piece, to which we’d been linked by the person who has kidnapped Josh Marshall...