In my state (WA), I think we are generally well served by our governor, Jay Inslee (who might have designs on higher office, and we could do a lot worse—he’s smart, has authentic liberal credentials, and he’s well spoken and telegenic to boot—if some stiff like Martin O’Malley heads the ticket in ‘20, a “centrist”…

Like unto almost all judges, she was a prosecutor. Need this public defender say more?

Pro tip: I once enjoyed a friendly relationship with a King Co. (WA) deputy sheriff who was Black. He remarked that if he was potentially ever subject to questioning or arrest, he would go home, strip naked, sit on his front steps with his fingers laced on top of his head. N.B: he didn’t choose being in uniform and…

Or Lionel Hutz. Damn Phil Hartman’s unhinged wife. May she remain in purgatory for an additional 500,000 years forced to watch “Judge” Jean Pirro on an endless loop with the volume cranked up to 11.

Word. She much resembles many of my clients who have been doing plastic bottle shake and serve meth for 10 years. That’s how she stays spun and articulate and perky.

Which raises the question—how many times would it take for him to pass a bar exam? For that matter, to pass Civ Pro? Or Evidence? And for that matter, do well enough on the LSAT to get into a good L-School? I’m guessing the Florida Intercostal Waterway Screaming Ospreys school of Grouper Fishing and Black Letter…

Which raises the question—how many times would it take for him to pass a bar exam? For that matter, to pass Civ Pro? Or Evidence? And for that matter, do well enough on the LSAT to get into a good L-School? I’m guessing the Florida Intercostal Waterway Screaming Ospreys school of Grouper Fishing and Black Letter…

Correction: RMN and Henry the K kept us in Nam for years after we could have had “peace with honor.”

This feels like the last straw. Good as Wilson is (obviously should have been the MVP—would the ‘Hawks have won 5 games without him?), and fun as he is to watch, it was the historically great D that captured my attention—their abilities, their synergy, their fire, their personalities—they were an Identity, an E…

Somewhat off topic: a former prosecutor who is now a crack public defender remarked to me: if the State charged defendants properly, it would never lose. What saith thou, colleagues?

I too am a Hoosier. Grew up outside of Evansville, closest municipality was McCutchenville, pop. 7. The crossroads were at perfect 90 degree angles on land flat as my affect. The four corners boasted: a gas station; Hoffman’s General Store (Carl Hoffman was one of my playmates—probably had the most prominent adenoids…

I think I said, “traps for the unwary,”and “increasing weary of the practice,” (increasing maybe should have an -ly stuck on it, but in Ye Olde English it would have been just fine, and to my ear approximates the depth of the speaker’s ennui more poignantly—Churchill would have said it that way.

She’ll probably get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I’ve always been enamored with supra, infra, cf. and such like. generally to express my masked contempt for judges who obviously haven’t read the briefs that I sweated over for a week. I do the same with block quotes and lots of footnotes. I despise writing briefs almost as much as oral argument, which can only…

America stands with you, Sam. You are the hero that we have hoped for! Live long and prosper!

Prof. Dershowitz’s method is to start out believing his client is guilty as hell, and then strategically organizing the defense so as to prove his client is not GAH.

If there was no right to counsel, we’d find ourselves living in a police state so fast your head would spin.

What are these “parties” of which you speak? Signatories to a contract? Something else? When the ink is dry, then is “hooting” a celebratory custom, marking the end of tedious negotiations and the relief that closure brings? Are “hooters” akin to “furries,” except everyone dresses up as an owl? I am all at sixes and…

Before today I would have said that being mean was a necessary condition for being snarky. But if this is not the case, I would be grateful if you proposed a counter-example. Then—who knows—a lively debate might ensue.

That’s because any “relevance” is a bunch of sky-blue bullshit, and you’re admirably clear of mind and eye.