Those lyrics from an old Cher song don’t convey the horror. Imagine being Alec Baldwin right now. Regardless of your opinion of the guy, you have to feel sorry for him. He killed a person and apparently had no clue the prop gun he was using was loaded. For anyone...
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Art of Law
Ignorance of the Law is… Chaos
My point in writing these ditties, in addition to shameless self-promotion, is to try to demonstrate how various issues in the news would play out in the world of lawyers. I try to give equal time to cops shooting fleeing felons and the Nunes memo. The cop piece was...
The Nunes Memo: What Does it Mean?
Last week the airwaves were a-twitter with talk of a dramatic Memo prepared by Representative Nunes, which would destroy the Mueller investigation. Then, when it was finally released on Friday, the pundits appeared to be confused. They seemed confused by their own...
Larry Nassar – the Sentencing, and the Defense
I watched with interest the TV coverage of Larry Nassar’s sentencing, the pervert doctor who sexually assaulted young female gymnasts. Allegedly. Until he entered a guilty plea. Then it was for sure. Which is why his defense attorney’s attitude may have perplexed some...
Why I Quit Blogging
Simply put, there’s such a huge number of new legal topics to pick from these days that it has become impossible to keep up. An embarrassment of riches. It used to be that interesting legal issues, worthy of comment, came up in the news every week or so. IF we were...
If Press Conferences were Trials
I grew up fantasizing about killing Nazis. In fact I did that almost every day. We called it “Playing Army”, with real WWII guns and uniforms. All of our dads had served. We all had war souvenirs in boxes in our basements. There was a bit of a rift between those of us...
Team Trump and their Legal Eagles
It’s been nearly impossible to write blogs over the past year or two. There has been such an embarrassment of riches in terms of legal subject matter in the news. And since January, as we all know if we have working brains, it has been coming so fast and furiously...
Ignorance of the Law IS a Defense? WHO KNEW?
Who knew? I’m afraid I have some serious explaining to do. Some of my former clients are probably not happy with me right now. If they follow the news, they just learned that I gave them bad advice. Until yesterday this Stanford Lawyer actually thought that ignorance...
The “Beauty Queen” Murder Case
The “Beauty Queen” Murder Case: I hate it when they call it that. It really has absolutely nothing to do with the case. But it sure sells “widgets”. It just goes to show you how hard it can be to get a fair trial when the media, especially the silly social media,...
Structure and Rules and What Happened in Montana
Structure and rules, fairly applied, hold our society together. They save us from chaos and injustice. You can have structure and rules, but without fairness it doesn’t work. Just think Nazi Germany. You can have fairness, but without structure it fails. Woodstock...