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Semi-retired in southwestern Utah, originally a Floridian. Now I have more elevation change in my backyard than the entire state of Florida. I write because I enjoy it and try to avoid getting too opinionated, although sometimes I (rats!) just can't help myself. That's one of the good things about being old, I suppose, and not giving a (rat's ass)...

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My last post, I thought, was to this blog. Instead, it went to my old blog "Looserobes." I don't know if something has gone haywire or I'm just doing something wrong (don't bet against the latter).So ...
Wow, I just posted on my old blog "Looserobes." I couldn't post before. Now I have two blogs. Pretty soon I may have as many as Laura, my hero. ...
Just to explain why I haven't posted in the last few days, I'm out of town at a conference that has kept me busy.  At night I've been too tired to think about posting anything.   I read...
I can't post???!!!...
Who says Jondude doesn't spoil his cats???!!!...
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Edward Gurney was a Republican U.S. Senator from Florida in the Seventies, the first of his party to win that office since reconstruction. I had a friend in the Public Defender’s Office who ido...
Most murder cases, in real life, are not murder mysteries. The culprit is clear, the arrest takes place quickly, and the evidence is marshaled for ultimate presentation in court. Unfortunately, some o...
A downtown grocery store suffered so much theft that they hired a private security guard to wander the aisles in plain clothes and collar shoplifters. He was an older man and not well-trained for the ...
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As a new lawyer with the Public Defender’s Office, I learned more about my job from their investigator than from any lawyer. Bob was an ex-cop from Chicago who had retired down south and was gr...
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It was early 1972 and I was an intern assistant public defender defending one of my first cases. Because I was an intern, the rules required that I be accompanied by a live, licensed lawyer, in this c...