Apr 12, 2013
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 ...
Apr 12, 2013
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. ...
Apr 12, 2013
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...
Feb 16, 2013
I can't post???!!!...
Feb 15, 2013
Who says Jondude doesn't spoil his cats???!!!...
Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 14, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013
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...
Feb 11, 2013
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...
Feb 10, 2013
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 ...
Feb 9, 2013
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Feb 8, 2013
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...
Feb 7, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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...