Thinking About Amber Guyger and the Castle Doctrine
[Update: This was one of my think pieces, where I’m having trouble understanding something and try to work it out in writing. In retrospect, I think I go down the wrong path when discussing the murder charge. Sorry.] So Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder, and I’m still trying to make sense of it,… Read more
Earning Interest On Your Money
While I’m between jobs, I’ve been tinkering with the family finances, and I’ve learned a thing or two about banking. It’s nothing personal finance experts haven’t known for years, but I find it fascinating, so I thought I’d share. And while it’s not quite financial advice, you might get something useful out of it. Be… Read more
Snitches Get Disses
Eugene Volokh notes a disturbing federal case regarding 18 U.S.C. § 1513(e), part of the witness retaliation statute, which appears to criminalize retaliatory speech against witnesses: And U.S. v. Edwards, a nonprecedential decision handed down Thursday by the Sixth Circuit, read it precisely this way: Joy Edwards made numerous derogatory posts on Facebook about a… Read more
Have Keyboard, Will (not) Travel
I don’t normally blog about my day job, but I’m genuinely proud of the work I’ve been doing, and (for reasons that will become clear) this is as good a time as any to talk about it. For the last eight years, I’ve been developing legal technology for Thomson Reuters. It started when I applied… Read more
Is Chief Hopper a Perpetrator of Domestic Violence?
Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores Abernathy on Westworld, has been taking a bit of flack on Twitter for this: https://twitter.com/evanrachelwood/status/1147213677247860737 (Because I don’t trust Twitter embeds, she wrote: “You should never date a guy like the cop from #strangerthings Extreme jealousy and violent rages are not flattering or sexy like TV would have you… Read more
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