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David Bowie 1947 – 2016
So David Bowie died last night. I’ve been watching the word break across Twitter. Reactions from everyone — from sex workers to Weird Al to Elon Musk. Until today, I only half-believed that #DavidBowie really existed. He made more sense as a legend weird kids made up to make us all braver. — Laurie Penny… Read more
Haiduk Steps Up On Possession
Kane County criminal defense lawyer Matt Haiduk has posted a response to my earlier post about the strangeness of the crime of possession, in which he address both of my scenarios and makes a few additional points. In response to my hypothetical stranger-hands-me-a-duffle-bag scenario, Matt has some legal advice: From a strictly legal standpoint, you… Read more
Threats Best Ignored
Over at Simple Justice, Scott wrote in the comments about receiving threats: I get “threats” regularly. The difference is grown ups don’t cry about how they’re “terrified” whenever any flaming nutjob writes something on the internets. I’ve been told that’s because I’m male and can defend myself, while they’re just fragile females, but it’s a… Read more
Criminal Defense and the Cardinality of the Client
In a tweet, criminal defense blogger Norm DeGuerre refers to an article by Michelle Alexander that asks, What would happen if thousands of people charged with crimes refused to plead out? Norm then asks Bringing the system to its knees is in your clients’ best interest. Why aren’t we doing it? And in a blog… Read more
Protests Are Not For the Police
It seems I’ve been taking a lot of shots lately at muddled thinking on the left, so I thought I’d try to balance things out. I often grab my craziest liberal nonsense from Addicting Info, and now I needed to find a similarly addled site for right-wing content. Fortunately, there’s the Conservative Tribune. The site… Read more