Blog Posts in February, 2014
Posted on Feb 26, 2014 By
SENTENCING TRENDS IN FEDERAL COURT It’s long been suspected that the politics and gender of the federal sentencing judge had a profound impact on the sentence imposed in a criminal case. Now, ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2014 By
COPS LIE UNDER OATH, REALLY! When I was starting out in this business almost 30 years ago, a very wise man told me that the first thing you’ll learn as a lawyer is cops lie and the second is ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2014 By
HOW NOT TO ALLOCUTE! On January 29th, I posted a blog as to whether the Penguin (Megan Rice) and her Plowshares Movement cohorts (Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli) should be imprisoned for their ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2014 By
MENTION “SERIAL KILLER” AND “SATANIC CULT” IN THE MEDIA, AND MAYBE WE CAN OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT BARBOUR ASKED FOR AN ATTORNEY MULTIPLE TIMES IN POLICE INTERVIEW This story is ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2014 By
THE ORIGIN, THE AL CAPONE TWIST, AND A YUMMY RECIPE IN ONE ARTICLE? The origin of Valentine’s day and the tradition of exchanging notes to loved ones on February 14th stretches back to Father ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2014 By
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE PASSES SMARTER SENTENCING ACT (SSA) On January 30th, by a vote of 13-5, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the SSA, which is the first time since Tricky Dick was president that ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2014 By
“DYING AIN’T MUCH OF A LIVING” Remember the movie The Outlaw of Josey Wales (1976) when Clint Eastwood is being pursued by a bounty hunter. After Eastwood is cornered, he asks his ...
Continue reading "Firing Squad, Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber, a la Carte" »