Legal

It's beginning to look like Alberto Gonzales—our torture-loving, porn-hating, civil-rights-destroying, due-process-ignoring, medical-marijuana-prosecuting Attorney General—is on his way out the door. Soon, President Bush will have to try to find a replacement. There is only one logical choice. Ken Lammers has been a criminal lawyer in Virginia for several years … [Read more...] about One Obvious Choice for Attorney General

Think you know your rights during a police encounter? Then the folks at Flex Your Rights would like you to take this quiz. I scored a perfect 8 out of 8. How well do you do? … [Read more...] about Flex Your Rights Quiz

When I reviewed Barry Cooper's Never Get Busted Again video about how to travel with illegal drugs in your car, I said the most controversial part was his advice to never refuse a police request to search your car. That goes against all the legal advice I've ever read. Criminal defense lawyers always advise against consenting to any search. I've often felt that such advice … [Read more...] about On Refusing a Search of Your Vehicle

Eugene Volokh points out that Washington state has some really strict laws about the relationships between healthcare providers and their patients. The usual rationale behind these laws is that an exploitive power relationship exists between a doctor and his patients, but I don't understand how that works. Perhaps in some (possibly mythical) past era doctors were viewed as … [Read more...] about Power and Relationships

The American Bar Association's eReport for this week has an article about blogging jurors. After a conviction, a New Hampshire juror was found to have blogged some opinions before the trial that might have revealed a pro-prosecution bias. However, the state's Supreme Court did not throw out the guilty verdict. "It’s very hard, once there’s a verdict, to go back and show … [Read more...] about The ABA On Blogging Jurors