New Way to Subscribe

Email delivery of Defending People through Feedburner is slow — posts are sent out in a daily digest, so there might be almost a daylong lag between when I post and when subscribers receive it via email. So I’m trying something new: the Subscribe2 plugin for Wordpress. There’s an email subscription box in the sidebar; [...]

Works on Voters, Too.

The Chronicle reports that, “in a 2002 trial skills presentation in Austin, [Harris County DA candidate Kelly] Siegler’s worksheet on final arguments included, ‘Make jury afraid.’”

Mean, True, or Both?

Anonymous blogger AHCL writes a critique of my mood:

He’s darker. More angry. More morose.
. . . .
Where he starts getting mean is in the comments.

he argues that Kelly Siegler “bought” Steven Hotze’s support.
he states he thinks its “fair” for Kelly to pay for Chuck’s sins (obviously not thinking that “mere presence” applies when it comes [...]

Why We Must Keep the Church Out of Government

In my first Blog Against Theocracy 2008 post I discussed why little-r-religion — people’s religious beliefs, as opposed to big-R-Religion (the Church) — is inevitably a part of criminal justice policy.
Most churches have something to recommend them: they provide guidelines for how humans should behave in relation to each other. Don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t [...]

Subscribe to Comments

When I get a new magazine, the first thing I read is the letters to the editor. And when I find a new blog, the first thing I read is the comments. Sometimes I go to Simple Justice just to read the comments. One of the reasons I switched to WordPress was so that I [...]

Next Time, Avoid Eye Contact

From the “You Mean You’re Not Supposed to Do That?” files:
Lawyer held in contempt for simulating masturbation in court.

Why religion is Unavoidable

As my first post for Blog Against Theocracy 2008, I’d like to point out that there are implicit religious assumptions that underlie every position taken in every discussion of criminal justice policy. For example:
One of the fundamental questions of criminal justice policy is why we punish people. There are five possible reasons to do so:

To [...]

Blog Against Theocracy 2008

New York Criminal Defense Lawyer Scott Greenfield, who reads more blogs than I do, tells us about BAT08, the Blog Against Theocracy 2008 Blogswarm. The idea is to spend this Easter weekend talking about the principle “that the Government should keep out of religion, and Religion should keep out of the government.”
Regular readers know that [...]

A Pistol is What You Use . . .

. . . to fight your way to a real gun.
I got to hear a few snippets of the Heller arguments today on NPR. In the intro, the reporter described a handgun as “the easiest method of self-defense.” I expect some ignorance of firearms from Eastern intellectuals like NPR reporters and most Supreme Court justices, [...]

Changed “Who Are You?” Poll

I’ve added a “judge” category to the “Who Are You?” poll.

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