The latest buzz in the legal blogosphere is Brian Tannebaum's e-book The Truth About Hiring a Criminal Defense Lawyer. Both Mark Bennett and Scott Greenfield like it, which tells me it's pretty good advice. I'm not a lawyer, nor an expert at hiring one, but I took a quick look at this 28-page pamphlet myself, and it seems like a straightforward explanation of the types of … [Read more...] about The Truth About Hiring a Criminal Defense Lawyer
F**k the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
A Florida court recently convicted Paul "Max Hardcore" Little for distributing pornography---adult pornography, I should point out. No children were involved. I expect this sort of thing from the kind of backwards Islamic countries that punish men for shaving their beards and women for for driving cars, but I hoped our country had more of a live-and-let-live attitude by … [Read more...] about F**k the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force
The Palin-Obama Paradox
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his runningmate, one of the first things everybody noticed was that after all the talk about how inexperienced Barack Obama was, McCain's pick for Vice President---that is, his choice for President if he can't do the job---had even less experience. It seemed an odd choice, and it undercut his campaign's ability to bring up the experience … [Read more...] about The Palin-Obama Paradox
Signs That I May Have Underestimated the Badness of Our Economy
I'm beginning to think the economic crisis is worse than I thought---meaning it won't just hit Wall Street. I'm coming around for a couple of reasons: An awful lot of economists agree there's a bad problem. Most of them also think the bailout was not the solution. There's anecdotal evidence that the crisis is breaking out of the financial sector and starting to affect the real … [Read more...] about Signs That I May Have Underestimated the Badness of Our Economy
You Don’t Want to Be the Target of a Federal Criminal Investigation
The bottom line is, if you are charged with a federal crime, you are probably going to go to prison. If you have been charged with a federal crime your first thought should not be whether you are going to go to trial to prove your innocence. And if you are guilty you certainly should not risk going to trial. Your first thought should be how to keep your prison sentence to the … [Read more...] about You Don’t Want to Be the Target of a Federal Criminal Investigation