Legal

So I'm working through my feeds (I'm getting used to Feedly now that Google Reader is gone), and I see an article at In These Times titled "The Illusion of Juror Sophistication," and I know -- just know, without even looking -- that it's going to be more complaining about the outcome of the Zimmerman trial.The author, Richard Baker, says the poor jurors were bamboozled by … [Read more...] about Sophisticated Jurors Or Vigilantes

So yesterday, just because I thought it was interesting, I wrote a post about some of the science behind DUI breath testing. That's such a competitive area of law that I was pretty sure I'd attract a comment from some DUI lawyer (or his SEO stooge) linking back to his blog in a shameless act of self promotion. And sure enough, within a couple of hours, an Idaho DUI lawyer left … [Read more...] about New PD Blog: Defending Dandelions

Nathaniel Downes at the highly liberal Addicting Info thinks he's found shocking evidence of jury tampering in the Zimmerman trial: The image of a murder trial jury often times gives the image from 12 Angry Men, a group holed up, cut off from contact from the outside world, with the weight of life or death hanging over their heads as they decide the fate of the person on … [Read more...] about Horrors of the Zimmerman Jury

Scott Greenfield and Gideon have been kicking Glenn Reynolds around the schoolyard because of his ideas for combating overcharging by prosecutors who pile on charges they know they can't prove. Broadly speaking, Scott and Gid think most of Reynolds's ideas are silly or dangerous, and they are annoyed that his ideas get so much attention just because he's a well-known blogger … [Read more...] about A Modest Proposal for Preventing Prosecutors From Overcharging

It looks like the Chicago criminal law blogging scene is going to be a barren wasteland again. Marcus Schantz is hanging it up. And I'm not just talking about his blog.I first noticed Marcus Schantz's Chicago Criminal Defense blog two years ago. At the time, I praised his story-telling abilities: Then he starts telling stories. He’s the kind of lawyer who’s willing to tell … [Read more...] about There Goes the Chicago Criminal Law Blogosphere…