Don’t let the rules of evidence get in the way of a guilty verdict, not when...
Did I grow up on another planet? Was my education about the basics of a criminal trial, or even just the nature of plain old fairness, totally alien? Apparently so, when I read what the Texas...
View ArticleAmerica moves one step closer to gay marriage rights, and the silence from...
Today a panel of a federal appeals court in California ruled that state’s Proposition 8, an amendment to the state constitution approved by voters in 2008 to outlaw gay marriage, is an unconstitutional...
View ArticleTo accuse is not proof of the truth
The flurry of accusations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the attendant surge in the past few days of the #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport hashtags has resurfaced for me...
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Today the U.S. House of Representatives impeached the president of the United States. Even though the chances are vanishingly small that the United States Senate will remove this president from office...
View ArticleTrumpeting their true colors
On Wednesday morning, still working from home most days because of COVID-19, I saw an email from the boss a few steps above me on the food chain warning us all of some new procedures to be followed if...
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