Scott Greenfield has an interesting post about how much computerized data the government is allowed to seize when serving a warrant. Current practice is to seize it all and do whatever they want with it. Orin Kerr had proposed allowing the government to continue to seize all the data but putting restrictions on the use of that data so that only data responsive to the warrant … [Read more...] about Better Data Seizure in the Digital World
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 post, Mark Bennett gives the standard response that every … [Read more...] about Criminal Defense and the Cardinality of the Client
A Brief and Admittedly Petulant Note to IFC Films and [redacted]
[Update: This caught me in a bad mood, and it was showing up as a top search result for the person who sent it, so at their request I have removed their name because, really, it's not that big a deal.]I just got an email that has begins with the following text in large centered print (only the last few lines matter for this post):IFC Films and The Fortune … [Read more...] about A Brief and Admittedly Petulant Note to IFC Films and [redacted]
Say No To (Too Much) Shakespeare
In the Washington Post, high school English teacher Dana Dusbiber explains why she doesn't want to teach Shakespeare any more: I am not supposed to dislike Shakespeare. But I do. And not only do I dislike Shakespeare because of my own personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate, but also because … [Read more...] about Say No To (Too Much) Shakespeare
Congratulations to the Happy Couples
I'm still playing catch-up on news and blogging from being on vacation for almost two weeks, but I just had to say something about gay marriage, and that something is "Congratulations!"I was born too late to see the great civil rights movement of the 1960s, but it's been a privilege to watch the growth of the gay rights movement. To misuse an old saying, progress seems to … [Read more...] about Congratulations to the Happy Couples