What’ve you done in the past thirty years?

Jan 8, 2011 | Cornelius Dupree, Criminal Defense, Death Penalty | 1 comment

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,...

Man, I feel like a woman.

May 6, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Lawyers, Women | 5 comments

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...

It’s about them

May 2, 2010 | Criminal Defense | 1 comment

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,...

In deference to Old Yeller.

Apr 29, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Public Defenders | 15 comments

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...

The Thin, Navy Blue Suit, Line

Apr 29, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Public Defenders | 3 comments

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....

Letter to a Young(ish) Lawyer.

Apr 27, 2010 | Criminal Defense, Lawyers | 9 comments

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...