Archive for the ‘Criminal Defense’ Category

No time like the present.

A few weeks back I had the privilege of attending the 11th annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference in San Fransisco. For those who don’t know, SCJN is under the umbrella of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers which is the organization for, well, criminal defense lawyers. They put on conferences and have listservs and books and [...]

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What’ve you done in the past thirty years?

In 1979 a woman and her male companion drove into a liquor store parking lot to use the phone and buy cigarettes. They might have been listening to Sister Sledge or Floyd on the radio, depending on their taste.  Maybe they had put in an 8-track of the BeeGees, hanging on to disco with all [...]

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Man, I feel like a woman.

I did my senior thesis on the Hegelian dialectic, using Simone deBeavoir’s The Second Sex as a jumping off point.  Here’s the quick rundown on the dialectic.  There is man, (yes, it must be a man in the sense that he has male parts) he is alone in the world.  He sees a rock in his path [...]

Posted in: Criminal Defense, Lawyers, Women   |     |   5 Comments

It’s about them

I’ve been in my cocoon for quite some time.  It was warm and cozy.  Sometimes I’d turn on the television and there would be some bad thing on there and I would turn it off – out bad world, out!  My kids only needed Barney and Elmo, fuzzy blankets and the smell of lavendar.  No [...]

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In deference to Old Yeller.

Scott Greenfield was on twitter today and he accused me of being a pussy.  He asked if there was anything that moved me enough to yell. Because he yells.  And Terry Kindlon yelled.  And lots of other lawyers yell.  I don’t yell.  Not here.  And, since this is my blog where I can write what [...]

Posted in: Criminal Defense, Public Defenders   |     |   15 Comments

The Thin, Navy Blue Suit, Line

There has been some chatter in the blogger world lately about ineffective assistance of counsel. Jamison Koehler, Scott Greenfield, Gamso, Mark Bennett and Gideon have written about ineffective assistance of counsel and broken it down into its bits and pieces. I’m not one to quickly jump into the fray in these kinds of conversations. I [...]

Posted in: Criminal Defense, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Public Defenders   |     |   3 Comments

Letter to a Young(ish) Lawyer.

What you’ll read below is an email sent to me by the person I consider to be my mentor, and one of the greatest lawyers I’ve ever seen, Terry Kindlon.  Now, Terry is no joke.  He’s tried capital cases and DWI’s, if you google his name you’ll see the kinds of shit he takes on.  [...]

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