Legal

Jury Duty is over. The trial is finished. I made some notes at the end of each day, and I'm going to develop those into a three-day series about the whole experience. I'll post the first one on Monday, and run them in one-week-delayed real time. I know criminal lawyers often like to hear about the mysterious process of jury deliberation, so if any of you our there are … [Read more...] about Jury Done

I woke up around 6:30 am and got ready for my day of jury duty. After showering, I started to prepare myself for the security checkpoint. As I mentioned yesterday, I normally have a lot of stuff in my pockets and I wanted to thin it out. So I just took my keys, my wallet, a couple of pens, some medication, and a baggie full of change. (I put the change in a baggie so I … [Read more...] about Jury Duty (continued)

I have been called to serve as a juror in Cook County, Illinois. I'm self-employed, so I don't have an employer to pay me for jury service, but the good news is that we have a one day/one trial policy which means I will be stuck there for only a day unless I get assigned to a trial. The bad news is that the court system is a government operation, which means they have little … [Read more...] about Jury Duty

KipEsquire gets the NSA wiretapping decision exactly right. And he got it right back in January too. … [Read more...] about “It’s the warrantless, stupid!”

Have Opinion, Will Travel posts a rather succinct notice of appeal by someone acting pro se. I hope I never have to file a criminal appeal. But if I ever have to sue someone I'm going to use this line in the complaint: You have been hereby served notice you're not getting away with this shit that easy. (Hat tip: Crimlaw) … [Read more...] about Some Very Succinct Legal Writing