Dan Petrocelli. What a guy! Moreover, what a lawyer! This guy demonstrates everything that is good about lawyers and lawyering. Which is great, because decent lawyers were few and far between around the O.J. Simpson cases. As discussed previously, the O.J. trials had...
Art of Law
O.J. Simpson Saved Lives! (Part I: The Hidden Tapes)
I know. Crazy title. Don’t worry, I’ll get to it. The O.J. Simpson case(s) have had a huge impact on American society, particularly the legal system, and on me personally, over the past two decades. Most recently, A&E aired an excellent piece about his cases, the...
Keep it Simple, Stupid
“I’m the BEST BLOGGER EVER! Really! My blogs are so wonderful and entertaining and smart. Because why? Because I am so smart. And SUCH a great writer! Did I mention that?!? Really really really great. Dickens Great. Shakespeare Great. Heck, even Louis L’Amour Great....
Let’s Hear it for the PD’s!
Well, here I go again. Saying nice things. I know that is practically illegal to do online, but I promise to get more critical soon. Frankly, my main source for topics has previously been mainstream media, but since the only thing they seem capable of talking about...
First Thing We Do… Let’s Appreciate All the Lawyers
I know, right? It’s a take on an old lawyer joke. That oughtta attract some troll traffic. But I just can’t help it. All of the online negativity in general, and that directed at lawyers specifically, is beginning to get to me. I’ll have more on the general negativity...
Is the Supreme Court Broken?
In a word… uh, NO. I try to avoid blatant political content on this blog, for a huge number of reasons; these range from simple self-serving concerns, such as I don’t want to lose potential clients just because they disagree with me about politics, to more complex...
The Race Card
Since I am relatively new to this whole blogging thing I am still learning. I have a lot to learn. For example, until recently I thought trolls were only something you found in scary fairy tales. But I am getting lots of random nasty comments from sad people with...
A Perfect Storm of Bad Things: Tales from the Boston Bomber Trial
Well, I have resisted getting into the Boston Bomber case. However, it represents the perfect storm of many of the themes we’ve been exploring in recent posts: an impossible fact pattern, a Defendant who is universally reviled after killing or maiming a bunch of...
Questions, Questions!
People have been asking questions about the last few posts, and, of course, I can’t resist replying. The first thing I heard were questions about how I represent people when I “know” they are guilty. The answer to that is both simple and complex, as usual. The simple...
Domestic Violence, the NFL and Constitutional Rights in Criminal Cases
If you are charged with a Domestic Violence crime (or DUI, Drug Offenses, Shoplifting or Murder), you are entitled to representation by a criminal defense attorney, to have a jury trial and cross examine witnesses, and, above all, to be presumed innocent. It is with...