I've been blogging about legal issues for several years now, and I've learned a lot about lawyers and law firms and legal marketing, and I've earned the trust and respect of the legal blogging community. Now it's time to leverage that for my benefit. To that end, I've joined as a silent partner on a new extreme project. Update: For those of you reading this out of context: It's … [Read more...] about My New Extreme Project
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So What If You Might Be Innocent?
I was reading Mark Bennett's account of the long and winding road that lead to the U.S. Supreme Court granting a stay of execution for Hank Skinner, a Texas man who's claiming that some untested DNA evidence might prove him innocent. It's a fascinating procedural tale, if you're into that sort of thing, which I'm not. But one thing Bennett wrote really sticks out: If the … [Read more...] about So What If You Might Be Innocent?
“We Are All Not Guilty of Something…”
As you may have noticed, I love reading criminal defense blogs, and now there's a new one I'm looking forward to. Actually it's one of the oldest crimlaw blogs on the web, but it's getting some new life to it: Mirriam Seddiq -- the no-longer-anonymous proprietress of the original Not Guilty blog -- is scraping a few rusty spots off her sword and shield as … [Read more...] about “We Are All Not Guilty of Something…”
A Lockpicking Answer
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I'm fascinated by the idea of lock picking, but I wondered if it was actually legal to own lock picks here in Illinois. So I posted a question in Avvo Answers, an online service in which lawyers give out free advice, to see if anyone could or would tell me what the law was. I wasn't spectacularly impressed with the response. Fortunately, I had … [Read more...] about A Lockpicking Answer
Explain or Clam Up?
Scott Greenfield has a couple of interesting items up over at Simple Justice. First of all, there's the case of the Jew with suspicious objects on board a plane, as originally reported in the New York Daily News: A US Airways crew panicked by a Jewish teen's prayer ritual aborted a flight from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, landing in Philadelphia amid unfounded fears of a … [Read more...] about Explain or Clam Up?