Blogging Criminally For Over Ten Years
9/28/2007
US Supreme Court: Even More Moore
You'll recall that this is the case wherein the officers made an arrest which was not allowed under Virginia law and in the search subsequent found drugs. The trial court relied on Atwater and found that the arrest was illegal but not unconstitutional and therefore the search was constitutional. A three judge panel in the Virginia Court of Appeals overturned the trial judge relying on Knowles and saying that since there was no legally allowable arrest this was like a citation and therefore the search subsequent was unconstitutional. En banc, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that Atwater applied and the fact that the arrest was illegal but not unconstitutional meant that the search was constitutional. The Virginia Supreme Court took the appeal and ruled, 7-0, that the arrest was forbidden and the summons required was subject to the same rules as a citation per Knowles.
The federal supreme court accepted cert (06-1082).
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The difficulty here is that their is a continuum of activities which an officer can be allowed or required to do. As I see it, the continuum is something like this:
Citation - Required Summons - Discretionary Summons / Arrest - Required Arrest
Citations cannot give rise to a search incident. Arrests always give rise to the search incident. Summons aren't really a citation because the charge on the summons can lead to imprisonment (at least in Virginia). Summons aren't arrests because the officer does not take the offender into continuing custody (there is some custody in any involuntary police encounter - including those resolved with a citation).
I think I'm going to have to go back and reread the Virginia Supreme Court's decision in this matter. If the Va SCt found as a matter of State law that a summons under Virginia's statutory scheme is the same as a citation then cert may have been granted improvidently.
I'm reading the briefs for and against granting cert right now, so I hope to have more comment on this in the future - but probably not until after Monday because of a jury trial.
9/28/2007
Here Are the Previous Posts on Moore (and Atwater)
Reprecussions When Law Enforcement Breaks State Law
A Surprise From The Virginia Court of Appeals
Atwater 01
Atwater 02
More Moore
9/26/2007
I am Evil Incarnate
"I DON'T LIKE YOU!!"
9/25/2007
The Nine
Book rating scale:5: Touched by God - a work which makes Shakespeare look infantile
4: Amazing - Instantly began rereading it and quoting it to friends
3: Worth Every Penny - a solid, interesting read, inspiring some thought and discussion with people who share similar interests
2: I Paid For It So I Finished Reading It - Some interesting parts but if I lose the book I'm not buying another copy
1: Couldn't Force My Way Thru and Burnt the Book in order to send it to the Hell it deserves
I rate The Nine a 3: it is a well written but ideologically slanted look at the recent history of the federal supreme court.
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I almost didn't write this review because of the 3 rules which govern this site.1 However, upon further consideration I thought I'd give it the old college try.
It is well written and an easy read. The narrative has something of a gossipy quality to it and I found myself often wondering if the author wasn't engaging in some creative attempts at mind reading. Perhaps he was trusting the statements of others (most likely clerks) who were themselves engaging in some inferring (inferation, inferment?) as to their Justice's feelings. It's impossible to know for certain as the author interviewed unspecified Justices and clerks and wrote without attributing anything to them (by design).
There are clearly good guys and bad guys in this book and they are defined by where they fall on the ideological spectrum. As you read The Nine you cannot help but notice this. However, it is so blatantly obvious where the author stands that, if you have a smidgen of sense and a little bit of a stiff upper lip, even if you are of a different viewpoint than the author you can still find the book an interesting read. If you are of the same viewpoint as the author it will all be a no brainer and solid book.
Nevertheless, do not walk into this thinking there will be important revelations. There's not much of that here. There's no indepth review of competing legal philosophies and the portrayal of the justices is far from complete.2 This is a book claiming to (and trying) to outline the decisions of justices in the court and their interactions as they make the decisions. It has a kind of shallow and newspaperish tone wherein the opinions are not discussed with subtlety and the ideals in which each Justice believes are distilled to left or right. Opinions delivered by the court are either A or Z, there's not a whole lot of room for the possibilities between. Judges may migrate one way or the other on the left-right spectrum, but they aren't seen as having a particular jurisprudence which cuts across both (as the reality often is). However, I'm not sure if the author could do these things without publishing a 9 tome history of the modern court. It's probably too much to ask of an author trying to write a popular book.
All-in-All, it's a good book, worth a read and an interesting spark for a discussion on the modern court. It's not going to become a must have book for those who want to understand the court; it's not The Brethren or Closed Chambers. Still, if you have an interest in the court you will find this book interesting.
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1 1) No politics. 2) Civility. 3) No politics.
2 Noting what seems to be a lack of information about certain Justices, I suspect that he got frozen out in certain quarters.
9/24/2007
Bully for Arizona!
9/24/2007
Dumb Criminals of the Month
9/24/2007
What Can a Man Do?
9/24/2007
Should You Buy the Hype?
9/24/2007
The Pot Rebellion: Santa Cruz
9/24/2007
Nine Inch Nails
9/24/2007
India: Supreme Court Overturns Contempt Charge
9/24/2007
Australia: Murdered Often Have Drugs & Alcohol in Their Systems
9/24/2007
Things Are Different on the Other Side of the Pond
9/24/2007
Geez, Rich People Are Spoiled
9/24/2007
DUH!
9/24/2007
Priests are Sinners Too
9/24/2007
No Parole For You!!!
9/24/2007
No Parole For You!!!
9/24/2007
Law Trumps Doctors
9/24/2007
If you get on a bus and tell your daughter to fight another girl . . .
9/24/2007
Is It Enough for a Mistrial?
9/24/2007
Fake Bomb at Airport: Art or Stupidity?
9/24/2007
239 Page "Brief"
9/24/2007
Polling
9/21/2007
KL: KrimLaw?
Hmmm . . .
Naw, too late now.
9/20/2007
Death by Rodrigo
Book rating scale:5: Touched by God - a work which makes Shakespeare look infantile
4: Amazing - Instantly began rereading it and quoting it to friends
3: Worth Every Penny - a solid, interesting read, inspiring some thought and discussion with people who share similar interests
2: I Paid For It So I Finished Reading It - Some interesting parts but if I lose the book I'm not buying another copy
1: Couldn't Force My Way Thru and Burnt the Book in order to send it to the Hell it deserves
I rate Death by Rodrigo a 1.8: it had a core story which could have gotten very interesting if it had been explored - instead it concentrated on peripheral clutter and the story died.
The story is about two lawyers who get themselves in trouble when they agree to represent a foreign drug dealer in federal court, basically taking a lot of money on the promise that they would get him a bond. They can't and credible death threats follow. They also have a local client whom they represent who has his entire criminal enterprise rolled up and is extremely interested in keeping them alive.
At its core, this is a very interesting concept. The problem is that it ends up being an excuse. The focus is on the dysfunctional attorneys. We spend far, far too much time being told of the homosexual lifestyle problems of the primary attorney. I kept wanting to scream "I don't care, get back to something pertinent to the story!" We spend nearly as much time reading about the other attorney's relationships with women. The way the lawyers are described was offensive - one failed the bar twice, the other only failed it once and neither of them bother to keep tabs on the law or write their own briefs (and these were attorneys who looked down their noses at the court appointed attorneys). What they're good at is manipulating the judge. The ads for this book talk about how funny it is, so I guess this stuff was supposed to be caricaturized and bigger than life to add humor to the book It did not work.
I think that this is supposed to be the first book in a series. Hopefully, in the future the author will back away from the descriptions of the characters' lives and concentrate on the story at the core. I kept waiting for it to happen in this book. I knew that, as in all books of this type, I was going to have to wade thru some setup as the characters were introduced. I almost didn't make it, but I kept looking forward tot he moment the story would actually break thru and I'd be reading about the dealer who has threatened to kill them and the local crime lord who is trying to keep them alive and how all that would play out (especially with a smart crime lord who gets an ace in the hole). Had this book been edited to throw out about half the personal stuff and the author been pushed to elaborate on the drama at the core it could have been very good.
9/17/2007
Ever Wonder What it Takes To Become a Bounty Hunter?
9/17/2007
You expect this at a place with a name that ends in Mart
9/17/2007
Ever Wanted to Know How Much You Are Worth?
9/17/2007
You Can't Make 14 Year Olds Marry and Have Sex
9/14/2007
Email Request for Help
Hi KenMy answer:
I came across your blog today in researching reckless driving, specifically the charge: 46.2-852.
Do you know how I can research case law on overturned or dismissed reckless driving cases for this Virginia code section? What I did was not reckless driving and I would like to argue this myself. I just don't have the funds to pay for an attorney to defend me on this.
I know I want to read Powers v Commonwealth and Kennedy v Commonwealth, but do you know how I can find more cases to help me build a defense?
Sincerely
John Smith
John,
Please be advised that I am now a prosecutor and you should take anything I take with a grain of salt. Also, (I have to say this) THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, I have neither done any research nor spoken to anyone about the facts which will be determinative in your case. This is entirely off the cuff and you may want to ask a defense lawyer before you proceed.
That said, if your county has one, I'd advise going to your local law library and getting a look at one of the books containing statutes (or maybe a law school library). They usually have short synopses of cases after the statute which give information about how courts have done things in the past. If you don't have a law library near, you might look through Virginia's free listing of cases (which can be found thru FindLaw) or you might try one of the online legal services. WestLaw and LexisNexis are probably too expensive (might as well hire a lawyer) but I think that a service like Versuslaw might be affordable (the only reason I site it by name is because I used it when in private practice, there are others which might be better, I don't know); you would probably have to search for "reckless driving" and spend time slogging through a whole bunch of cases. Personally, I would recommend going to a library if at all possible.
If you cannot afford a lawyer, you may want to ask for a court appointed attorney. The advantage there is that he knows the law and the judge and the prosecutor. He'll know if the argument you want to make has been tried 17 times and shot down by the judge each and every time, or if the judge has kicked out 3 cases in the last week for the exact same reason as you think yours should be thrown out. That kind of knowledge can't be gained through research, you just have to be the person who's in court every day.
ken
9/12/2007
Found on Craigslist
I have 420 shrubs for sale. They are from Arizona and have a very nice pungent smell and citrus like flower to them. Available by the quarter acre plot for 60, half acre plot for 100 and whole acre plot for 180. Also would consider BARTERING for finer shrubs. No phone. Please email.
Thank you
Juan
Four twenty, four twenty
Location: near Trenton, NJ
Why not just put an ad in saying "Please come arrest me." Police can read and use the internet, y'know.
9/12/2007
We're in Good Company
9/12/2007
Botswana: Looking forward to 2016 . . .
9/12/2007
$2,000,000,000,000 in Organized Crime
9/12/2007
Northern Ireland Stops Jury Trials
9/12/2007
They're Rewriting the Iowa Criminal Code
9/11/2007
Infinite Creativity
9/11/2007
So, I Killed My Husband . . .
9/11/2007
Street Cameras
9/11/2007
Religion in the Jury Room
9/11/2007
Confession is Privileged
9/11/2007
Accidently Poisoning an Officer
I don't know if it's provable, but we all know why the officer arrested her. Officers and criminal attorneys get paranoid about where they eat. As recently as yesterday I was warned not to get food from restaurant X and last week I stopped going to my favorite breakfast place because of one person now employed there (the same sort of thing used to happen when I was a defense attorney). If you ask around, I pretty much guarantee that you can scare up stories about offender Smith working at restaurant X and putting stuff in food meant for an officer or attorney.
9/11/2007
Officer/Thief - Thief/Officer
9/11/2007
Copper Theft
9/11/2007
It Takes More Than Tats
9/11/2007
Don't sleep in your car . . .
9/11/2007
A Unique Bounty
9/11/2007
When you make your getaway . . .
9/11/2007
We Didn't Know It Was Pot, Officer
Yeah . . . Riiiiigghht.
9/11/2007
Overruling the Jury: Federal Sentencing for Not Guilty Offenses
9/11/2007
Hmmm . . . Don't Judges Have Sovran Immunity?
9/11/2007
Stones
9/11/2007
NY Governor on the Lam
9/11/2007
5 Elderly Chicago Mobsters Convicted
9/11/2007
Recent Meme: It's too expensive to punish those who break the law
9/11/2007
Thief With a Conscience
9/10/2007
FREEZE!!! You're Under Arrest! (oops, our bad)
9/10/2007
No Religion in Prison
Hmmmm . . . Is that a prohibition on "the free exercise thereof?"
9/10/2007
Can't Order People to Go To AA
9/10/2007
Taping Attorney-Client Conversations
Gotta say that the remedy I see here is a special prosecutor, not a dismissal.
9/07/2007
Judge Humphreys is da Man!
Despite its moniker, this statute criminalizes more than just burglary tools. It was a most annoying statute because it also criminalized tools, implements, and outfits used in a larceny. Consequently, every shoplifter who stuck a shirt in a plastic bag got charge with both the larceny and possession of a burglarious tool (the plastic bag). Although the majority of burglarious tools charges were bargained away fairly quickly by the prosecutors, I can remember arguing (back when I was a defense attorney) several times that the statute didn't apply to items of general use (such as a shopping bag), but items of specific purpose (such as a screw driver). Usually, the prosecutor would point to the one case from the court of appeals in which an offender was convicted of burglarious tools because of his pants. I would point out that the pants were specifically altered and that's the reason for the conviction. I lost every time. Unfortunately, I was never able to get that statute before an appellate court on appeal.
Jay did. And he convinced Judge Humphreys, who wrote an amazing opinion which is spot on.1 It was almost the exact same argument I made over and over in court, except the portion about legislative history. That part was pretty obscure and a good catch by whoever found it.2
1 Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be happy about this now that I'm a prosecutor, but you have no idea how much the application of this statute annoyed me. Anyway, nobody out here uses it, so we're not losing a common charge like we did when obstruction of justice was gutted in Jordan.
2 No, I'm not saying I now agree with legislative intent arguments (which is what a legislative history argument basically is). I just think that somebody through through hard work or luck - probably a little of both - made a good catch which strengthened the textual argument.
9/06/2007
I know real doctors try to bill courts and lawyers for fees they're not entitled to . . .
via Magistrate's Blog
9/06/2007
Ah, the Joy of a Happy Client
9/06/2007
Civil Remedial Fees
9/06/2007
UK: DNA Them All, Let God Sort Them Out
Or do you?
9/06/2007
HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?
9/06/2007
8th Circuit: Self Defense is a Defense to Illegal Use of a Firearm
9/06/2007
Federal Judge: No Retroactive Application of Ohio's Sex Offender Restrictions
9/06/2007
Japanese Girls Can Take Care of Themselves
9/06/2007
Barney Fife Commits a Crime
9/06/2007
Simple Justice is Upset
9/06/2007
UK: Anonymous Witnesses
9/06/2007
Stealing Pot From a Cop's Car
9/06/2007
A Map of Death Penalty States
9/06/2007
Calling All Con Artists
9/06/2007
How Many Incarcerated in Britain and Wales?
9/06/2007
DC Swamped with Criminals
9/06/2007
Court to Feds: You WIll Play Nice
9/06/2007
Sex Offenders
Mark talks about how all this has caused an irrational - and probably unhealthy - shift in the way children are taught to deal with men and men learn to behave toward children. He blames this, at least in part, on a misperception of what a male is.
I have a hard time judging all this. I know that my experience in criminal law has colored the way I view the world. Personally, I used to love to babysit and play with kids; now, I still love playing with kids, but I don't feel comfortable being left alone without at least one (preferably two) adult witnesses nearby.
9/06/2007
Use of the Internet Does Not Automatically Mean It was Interstate
I guess it's possible that information packets only traveled within the State. Highly, incredibly unlikely, but possible.
9/06/2007
Craigslist Lets Officers Bag More Prostitutes
9/06/2007
You leave your drug junk around to be found and chewed on by a toddler . . .
9/06/2007
Crack Users Hooked for a Decade
9/06/2007
Blind Quadriplegic Murderer
9/06/2007
Forget My SUV, I want Rover back
9/06/2007
UK: Man Avoids Prison: Newspaper Doesn't Make it Clear Why
Anybody know why? Had an SOL run?
9/06/2007
Ear Thieves
9/05/2007
Grand Jury Mistakes = Case Dismissals
The mistakes?
[The prosecutor] rushed the grand jurors by saying that, while there are no time limits, grand jury deliberations generally take "anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes." Berk also improperly implied that prosecutors might have damaging evidence against defendants that the grand jury was not hearing and said that defendants were not given immunity in the grand jury because "these are people who our office has made a decision have committed some wrongdoing."
9/05/2007
The Mounties May Have Found Your Pot
9/05/2007
The Handcuffs Should Have Been a Clue
9/05/2007
Copper Theft Gets 5 Years
9/05/2007
Pony Theft
If it's a pony are we only supposed to hang-em half way?
9/05/2007
Catnapping Extortion
9/05/2007
You Mean the Spam Drug Offers I Get Every Day Aren't Real?
9/05/2007
Suckered: $180 and the Informant Didn't Get Drugs
9/05/2007
Thieves Get a $10,000 Bicycle
For $10,000 a bike had best pedal itself and make the owner irresistible to the opposite sex.
9/05/2007
The BLADE MENACE
What happens when they take away the knives? The "Stick Situation" replaces the blade menace.
What happens when they take away the sticks? "Ferocious Fists."
Et cetera
9/05/2007
Assault by Client
I must say I admire that, but wonder if it doesn't set up a perfect habeas.
9/05/2007
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9/05/2007
Fighting over cheap wine and bad beer
9/05/2007
Ummm . . . Smooth Move Slick
9/05/2007
Copper Theft
9/05/2007
Belgians want to Illegalize Scientology
9/05/2007
Preacher Robbed
9/05/2007
Another PD Locked Up
9/05/2007
Breathalyzer Software Turned Over
9/05/2007
Powerless Felons and Their Community
9/05/2007
APD not equal ADA
9/04/2007
They're Upset That these Idiots Confessed on YouTube?
9/04/2007
It's Like a Illegal Substance Drug Market
9/04/2007
No More "Missing Staple" Appeals
9/04/2007
Crime Up in Ireland
9/04/2007
If you are making drugs in your house . . .
9/04/2007
DNA Clears Death Penalty Convicts
9/04/2007
Fourth Amendment.com
Corroborating non-illegal details is not enough to say that the illegal part of a statement is true - search warrant bad.
If you put the person you are questioning in the police car it becomes an arrest.
Can't search someone when you are only able to issue a civil citation.
9/04/2007
What Happens When You Cause Trouble in Snap's Jail?
9/04/2007
Nude Dancing and Booze, Together Again
9/04/2007
A Man Who Loves His Wine
9/04/2007
Keep Me in Jail - PLEASE
9/04/2007
The Kidnapping, Rape, & Baby Sale Business
9/04/2007
Metal Theft
9/04/2007
Al Gore and Car Breakins
9/04/2007
Fake Robberies . . .
9/04/2007
Yard Sign: My Neighbor Deals Drugs
9/04/2007
Underwear Gnomes
9/04/2007
Grand Theft Bird
9/04/2007
Return Address Adress
9/04/2007
Persistence Doesn't Pay Off
9/04/2007
Texas: Loosening the Law, but Maybe Not Enforcement
9/04/2007
The Pot Rebellion Continues
The governor is not happy.
9/04/2007
Not Terribly Shocking: Murder Victims Usually Have Records
9/04/2007
Figure the odds of ever seeing this as the first line of an article in a US paper
Holy crud! Not so fond of the police in Australia.
9/04/2007
Australia: Prisoners Can Vote
9/04/2007
Brazil: The Courts Are a Little Different Here
9/04/2007
Fingerprints were his, but the cocaine was his brother's
9/04/2007
Drunk, Tavern Hopping, Hearse Theft
9/04/2007
Donated Phone and 911 Crank
9/04/2007
Double Jeopardy and the Hung Jury
9/04/2007
Sue the Guy in Prison
ZDo you think the lawyer is working for a percentage? Probably not much money there.
Ambush in Bartlette
Chapters 1 - 13
Chapters 1 - 13
Law & Theory
- LAWS
- Va.'s Versions of Mayhem (malicious wounding et al): 4 In One Statute ~ Graphic
- Aggravated Malicious Wounding
- The Moped Exception
- Rape by Lie: 1 ~ 2 ~ 3
- No Intent Needed
- Arresting in a House
- Common Law Trespass
- Certificate of Analysis Introduction
- Probable Cause: Car Passengers
- Obstruction of Justice Limited
- Stealing Electronic Items
- Stolen Value: Price Tags
- Stolen Value: No Price Tags
- Stolen Value: Electronic Items
- No Weekend Jail on Felonies
- Obstruction of Justice Limited
- No Trifurcation
- No More Beer at the Barbeque
- Respondeat Superior
- DUI & Reckless Driving
- Can You Steal From the Dead?
- Outlawry Outlawed
- Felony 2d Degree Murder
- Banishment
- Computer Fraud
- Insta-Deputy
- PROCEDURE
- Using Statements Made During Plea Negotiations: 1 ~ 2a ~ 2b ~ 2c
- Invoking Right to Attorney in Virginia
- Who Prosecutes Misdemeanors?
- Expungement
- Surrebuttal
- Virginia's Reasonable Doubt
- Reasonable Doubt II
- Instruction: Right to Arm
- Virginia Castle Doctrine1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~
- Dismissed with Prejudice
- SENTENCING
- I. Limitations on Right of Judge to Alter a Sentence
- II. Limitations on Right of Judge to Alter a Sentence
- III. Limitations on Right of Judge to Alter a Sentence
- Probation & Suspended Time
- Advisement in Virginia
- Jury v. Judge (sentencing roles)
- Limits on Evidence Presentable to a Jury
- Jury Sentencing Possibilities
- &CETERA
- Witnesses & Writ of Actual Innocence
- Domestic Battery & Firearm Possession
- Domestic Battery & Testimony I
- Domestic Battery & Testimony II
- Domestic Battery & Testimony III
- Domestic Battery & Testimony IV
- Shall Doesn't Mean Shall
- Just Following Orders
- Lycurgus Not Welcome in Virginia
Practice Tips
Specific Cases
- Jones:Trespass = Search
- Shatzer:4th Amendment Expiration Date
- Gant: Limiting Car Searches
- Montejo: No more 6th Amendment Protections
- Padilla & the Prosecutor
- Ventris: Allowing Unconstitutional Questioning
- Carroll Doctrine
Legal Theory
- Best Way to Choose a Judge
- What's a Prosecutor?
- Defense Attorney Purpose
- Plea Agreement Actualities
- The Big 4: Why I can't Go To Jail: 1 ~ 2
- Liquor Use Laws
- How to Fix Va.'s Court of Appeals
- Punishment Scale
- Punishment Scale Explained
- Punishment: There but for the Grace of God
- Heavy Sentences (1)
- Heavy Sentences (2)
- Probation
- Change Felonies to Misdemeanors
- Do Justice?
- Kentucky v. Virginia
- Must Prosecutors Disprove Affirmative Defenses?
- Drug Schedules & Punishment
- Defendants & Situational Sincerity
- 1) Immorality in Pleading Not Guilty
- 2) Immorality of Pleading Not Guilty
- Posner v. Hart & Strict Liability
- More Posner & Strict Liability
- Pre-Stare Decisis
- Let Juries Find People Innocent
- Tell Jury Elements Pretrial
- Falsity of Malum Prohibitum (1)
- Falsity of Malum Prohibitum (2)
- Falsity of Malum Prohibitum (3)
- Brady
- Writ of Spite & Hatred
- Various Riot Acts
- Tazers
- Finding of Innocent
- No Appellate Oral Arguments
- CrimJustice Purpose
- Pro Se Defendants
- Misdirecting the Police
- Stress Seekers?
- Plea Agreement
- Faking Probable Cause I
- Faking Probable Cause II
- Faking Probable Cause III
- Faking Probable Cause IV
- Legalese: Name Changes
- How Could We Best Select a Judge
- RICO & Bin Laden
- Requirement of Defense Attorneys
- Should Lawyers Make Clients Confess?
- Crummy Hired Defense Attorneys
- Noble Defense?
Back When I was a Defense Attorney
FEB03
Jury
Jury
JUN03
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
JUL03
A Week in the Life
OCT03
A Week in the Life
DEC03
A Week in the Life
JAN04
5 Events
A Needed Sign
A Week in the Life
Trial Desperation
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
Quick Panic
FEB04
Supress Motion
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
MAR04
A Week in the Life
Closing Argument
APR04
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
MAY04
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
A Week in the Life
JUN04
Chocolate Chip Marijuana
A Week in the Life
High School Critique
JUL04
A Week in the Life
Cripple v. Cop
01 Long Week
02 Long Week
03 Long Week
04 Long Week
05 Long Week
I'm a Narc
AUG04
Frustrating Day
Damn Yankee Defense
A Week in the Life
SEP04
Angry Relative
01 Long Week
OCT04
01 Long Week
02 Long Week
03 Long Week
04 Long Week
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01 Long Week
02 Long Week
03 Long Week
NOV04
Client Families
DEC04
01 Long Week
02 Long Week
03 Long Week
04 Long Week
05 Long Week
06 Long Week
Surprise at Prelim
Confronted
JAN05
A Sentencing Hearing
Sales Lady Visits
FEB05
Purse Search Brief
Violent Insane Client
MAR05
Affidavit of Truthfulness
Juvenile Detention Visit
Moments in the Life
Fail to Visit
APR05
Trial of the Century
MAY05
Transcript: Court Argument I Won
A Day in Court
Moments in the Life
Angry Jury Day
Angry Jury 02
JUN05
Eureka Sentencing Moment
My Own PI
Innovative Jail Phone Call
A Moment in Court
A Moment in Court
JUL05
Huh?
Raccoon Attack
AUG05
Picking on a Prosecutor Intern
Moments in the Life
SEP05
Victory by Speedy Trial
OCT05
Kicking Myself
A Day in the Life
Insane Client & 15 Deputies
Torture by Judge
A Federal Habeas
NOV05
Invisolawyer
Petition Freak Out
Moments in the Life
Moments in the Life
State Habeas
DEC05
Moments in the Life
JAN06
Jury Trial Fizzle
FEB06
A Bench Trial
Bittersweet "Victories"
A Prosecutor Tries to do Right
MAR06
What Just Happened?
Va. Worse than Conn.
Illness as a Defense Attorney
Failed Prison Visit
APR06
Heard in a Courthouse
Appellate Court Argument 01
Va. Court of Appeals
MAY06
Heard in Court
JUN06
Bad Press
Entire History of a Trial
Bad Press 02
JUL06
I Must be too Good
AUG06
Announce Becoming Prosecutor
The Last Life in a Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Client Communication
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CYA Letter: Felony Client
CYA Letter: Appeal
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Dear Mr. Jailhouse LawyerConversation between Inmates about Lawyers
Innocent Client Pleads Guilty
Client Parents
Time as a Prosecutor
JAN07
The New Office
FEB07
Different Court Diferent Behavior
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MAR07
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