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Simple Justice: Monthly Archives for January 2009

Lawyers, Media and Twitteratti

Long Island Cuts to the Tape

Second Circuit Sets Up Second Amendment Showdown

Why Malcolm Maims (Update)

Ugly Reality Strikes the Blawgosphere

The Lifecycle of Comments

The Agape Scheme; Smacking the Little Guy

Do Constitutional Rights Have an Expiration Date?

The Oscar Grant Punch; Packratt Knew It

Coach Was Wrong, But Was He Criminal?

Another Bad Day at SCOTUS (Update x2)

Forces Join to Attack Overcriminalization

What the Government Has to Hide

The Lawyer Rat (Update)

First Impression of The Lextweet Reflection

The Rush to Kill (Update)

The System Works Just Fine, Thank You Very Much

Gillibrand Takes Manhattan

Joe Bruno, Politician

First Night on the Rock

Free Stuff

The Weakest Link in the Corporate Chain of Criminal Liability

Was Mommy a Terrorist, or LA Times Full of It? (Update)

A Categorical Problem with Spears

The Defendant's Children

When The Buck Stops With You

Thanks, Geoffrey Fieger, You Jerk

History Can't Be Left to the Gravediggers

Did Herring Create a New Element of Proof?

The Oath: Bad and Badder (Update)

Gaming the Name: What It Says About You

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, Or Not

Maybe Judges Are Paid Too Much?

Silent Death in the Blawgosphere (Critical Update)

Another Magic Bullet Misses Its Mark

MLK: It's Over But It's Not (Update)

Twitter Update: I Care Deeply About Your Lunch Meat

The Wittiest Inaugrual Address Ever

As If Legal Fees Aren't High Enough

Bigger Than the Constitution

Lawyers and Drugs; We're Not Special

The Drug War, Summed Up

What Do You Call Someone Who Forces A 13 Year Old Girl To Strip?

Indictment Tossed Against Lawyer For Advising Clients (Update)

Doctrine or Reality: What Does the Exclusionary Rule Do?

Anything But Boring

New York to Internet: Feeeeeeed Me!

Chopped Herring: Is Negligence the New Loophole? (Update)

The First Victim of the Victims: The Prosecution

The Bricks That Build a False Confession

Fat Ones, Thin Ones, Ones Who Smell Really Bad

New York has a New Chief Judge

School Board Learns a Lesson from Students

LegalTech Dirtied by Lexis Lucre (Update)

Curmudgeons Unite! Don't Blog for Profit! (Update)

Some Inside Thoughts on Madoff

Nothing was Speedy, But Was It the State's Fault?

What the Trial or Plea Issue Shows About Sentencing Disparities (Update)

Dean on Cheney, Or Why The President is Always Right

But Is It Worth Re-Tweeting? (Update)

The Politically Correct Jury

The Fight Over the Fight

Advice to Young Lawyers from the Big Kahuna

United States to Ben Kuehne: It's Not Over Yet

If Avvo Leads, Then It Has to do Far Better

Prosecutors: Some Do Right, Some Kinda

Norm is Back, At Least for Now.

ABA Blawg 100 Results are Official: Bennett Wins!

Will Twitter's Popularity Be its Demise?

Third-Hand Junk Science Condemns Third-Hand Smoke (Update)

The Devil in Metadata

When It Really Is About the Children

Altered Cognitive States; Happy, Smart or What?

The Gray Lady and the Twinkie

Stand for Something or Stand for Nothing

The Two Most Loaded Words in a Courtroom

Starvation in the Academy: Lawprofs Make What?

When the Defense Becomes Part of the "Solution" (Update)

A Masterpiece for Our Time

Eliminating Plea Bargains for the Right Reasons

Collateral Murder for Negligent Homeless Man

ABA Blawg 100: Beaten into Submission

Prep 1, Admin Convenience 0, For The Moment

Sacrificing for One's Craft

A New Year's Shelf Life

Name That Tune, Biker Version

The Scope of Consent

The Right to Shoot, The Duty to Help

"A Mere Two-Tenths of 1 Percent"