The Daily Journal, a newspaper for the professedly-legal profession, reports that complaints about judges hit two records last year. I can’t link it, because it’s behind a paywall that even some attorneys cannot afford to pay.
Many of you know
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The Tracks We Leave
My work is hard, but at least often-enough rewarding. I work at leaving good tracks as I walk with the people who have hired me.
And every path is different. Because every person is different. The charges against them and
Another Exoneration
An article I was reading yesterday mentioned that from 1989 until the time the article was written in 2018, there were more than 2,000 exonerations. Aliza B. Kaplan and Janis C. Puracal, “It’s Not a Match: Why the Law Can’t
Deepfake Ethics
The Daily Journal is an erstwhile “newspaper” for attorneys who either have more money than G-d, or (like me) feel they have no choice but to go without necessary medications sometimes in order to pay for it.
That said, I
In Praise of Futile Fights
I arrive at the end of another year. Another year of futilely fighting for a true justice system. I fight not for the kind of system that requires scare quotes around the word “justice” — because we, and particularly our
Finding the Time to Care
Lately, my practice pins me between a rock and a hard place. Perhaps more accurately, it pins me between a rock and my clients. The consequences of this are often delays, and distractions, that make it harder to do what
Too Much Meta Data
Normally, I don’t blog about something that isn’t strictly related to criminal defense. However, a story in The Daily Journal caught my eye today partly because of claims that Meta — the parent company of Facebook — is accused of
Beyond a Reasonable Accusation
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post on The Presumption of Guilt. Scott Greenfield’s blog sparked my fire that day. And I’ll be damned if another Simple Justice post didn’t rekindle it. And then, before I could finish
Pretrial Release Denied
State and federal Constitutions make it illegal to keep someone in pretrial custody just because they cannot afford to pay for bail. Yet, for many, many years — at least all that I’ve been practicing criminal defense — instead of
The SCCOTUS Crusades
For the second time in as many court days, what was formerly the United States Supreme Court, has reversed decades of legal precedent to reinforce Catholic doctrine. Thus, I propose that we no longer refer to that erstwhile court as