Defending People

Two posts:
Scott Greenfield, in Sex Offenders Must Have an Option, calls sex offenders “animals.”
Gideon, in Sex Offender Homelessness is not an Excuse, says (with, I suspect, more than a hint of irony) that some sex offenders are human.
We are all animals, of course. But when people call sex offenders (or any other group of people) [...]

Colin asked, in a comment to this post about criminal defense lawyers and criminal pretense lawyers,
“For those of us who aren’t lawyers, how much does a crappy defense lawyer usually cost? How much does a good defense attorney usually cost?”
There’s no good answer to those questions. The criminal pretense lawyer might ask $250 for a [...]

What non-legal blogs do you read? Most of those in my feed reader are DIY-related. One of my favorites: Cool Tools.

I wrote here about my theory that airport security measures are intended to remind us that we are in danger, and that we need the government’s protection. They are intended to convince us that the government is doing all it can to keep us safe, but that we aren’t entirely safe. The government holds out [...]

Fort Worth criminal defense lawyer Shawn Matlock blogs about “criminal defense lawyers” vs. “lawyers practicing criminal law”. It seems to me that there must be a better expression to describe the latter (I’ll try to find it as I write this) but the distinction between the lawyers who defend people because they have a passion [...]