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...
Famous Cases
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...
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...
Parenting, Politics, and the Rule of Law
Don’t worry. This won’t be another rambler. I realize that last post was a bit tangential. There was a reason for taking that approach; it was an experiment in trying to get people to read it. As Donald Trump knows well, sometimes making yourself a target of criticism...
Was the Airstrike in Syria Legal?
All-righty then, another legal issue for us in this political nightmare we live in; one I feel that I can comment on in my goal to show how legal analysis comes up every day in regular life, even something as irregular as politics. At least it’s not controversial or...
In Like Flynn – Up to His Neck in Immunity Confusion
For the two or three people who read my blog, you may have noticed that I have been off the grid lately. If you look at the timeline on that as closely as reporters are looking at Devin Nunes’ trips to the White House in his epic performance to obscure his sources,...