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In that San Francisco dispute between the DA and the judge who issued a stinging ruling about the crime lab, the DA moved to DQ the judge and now the judge has responded.       . . . . .       Here's an article from the Kyiv Post on the development of a new generation of biglaw lawyers in Ukraine.       . . . . .       Some lawyers in North Carolina are opposing adoption of an ethics rule that would forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.       . . . . .       A Nevada prosecutor won't face sanctions but is criticized for saying that guilty verdicts are better than sex, following a rape-murder case the prosecutor successfully prosecuted.  The judge said that the comment undermines public confidence in the legal system.      . . . . .        Who knew?  Astronauts have a Code of Professional Responsibility.       . . . . .       According to this LA Times article, the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility is looking into the decision to drop the voting intimidation case against three of the four defendants in the Black Panther matter.  (The DOJ won defaults against all four, but then successfully had three of the four vacated.)  I post about this because the news suggests that the issue isn't going away, not because I've taken sides.  I have yet to hear a compelling case that the national organization and the head of the party should have been charged in the first place.  OTOH, I haven't seen any explanation of why the DOJ should have voided the judgment it obtained against the second man on the scene.       . . . . .        Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was a juvenile when detained, has fired his lawyers.  In a related vein, this post at the partisan but knowledgeable Fire Dog Lake has a round-up of what it sees as developments in holding people accountable for alleged torture.       . . . . .       I hope that the depth of legitimate coverage in this post absolves me for yesterday's post on Lindsay Lohan.  (But nothing could excuse that post, by a co-blogger, on LeBron James.)

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