“Making a Murderer”. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. It has been tough getting into the swing of things after the holidays. It’s not because there is nothing to talk about; quite the contrary. With Affluenza Teens and Bill Cosby and stand-offs on Federal Land it’s an...
Famous Cases
Au Revoir to ISIS
Paris. Je t’adore. I love Paris. When the news broke I was lost. Lost in this crazy lost world. A world that has lost its friggin’ mind. Paris? Seriously? Even the stoner guy checking me out at the QFC, the one who was unable to follow directions to find a restaurant...
The Unsung Hero of the OJ Trials (Part III, or The Anatomy of a Trial)
[If you missed the first part of this series, it would be good to start at the beginning HERE. I had to cut it in half to make it more manageable, but there are just so many aspects to Petrocelli’s excellent trial work that I couldn’t leave any of this stuff out. Here...
The Unsung Hero of the OJ Trials (Part II: Or, Petrocelli Goes to Work.)
I know the criminal guys got all of the attention on OJ, which is part of the reason I am focusing here on the civil lawyer, Dan Petrocelli; the one who sued OJ for Wrongful Death and won. But the main reason to focus on him is that his approach to this case...
The Unsung Hero of the O.J. Trials (Part I)
Dan Petrocelli. What a guy! Moreover, what a lawyer! This guy demonstrates everything that is good about lawyers and lawyering. Which is great, because decent lawyers were few and far between around the O.J. Simpson cases. As discussed previously, the O.J. trials had...
OJ Simpson Saved Lives! (Part II: Extreme Cases)
As we shall see, the O.J. Simpson criminal murder trial turned out to be a complete circus. From the “Dancing Ito’s” on Jay Leno to the wall-to-wall coverage of the ten million defense attorneys, all vying for attention in front of the cameras. It was a joke. But the...
O.J. Simpson Saved Lives! (Part I: The Hidden Tapes)
I know. Crazy title. Don’t worry, I’ll get to it. The O.J. Simpson case(s) have had a huge impact on American society, particularly the legal system, and on me personally, over the past two decades. Most recently, A&E aired an excellent piece about his cases, the...
The Curious Caper of the Clock-Bomb, Texas Racism, and a Boy Called Mohamed
“Can you say Racial Profiling? Strike that. Can you say Blatant Racism??” This was my original thought for an intro to a post about what happened to that high school kid in Texas, Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested for possessing a clock. Actually, it was worse than...
Cops Gone Wild! …Again!!
I’ve had it. For some reason that video, the one with idiot cops screaming about blowing a hole in the poor guy’s head, got to me. No, the victim wasn’t black. And no, he was not actually shot and killed. But maybe that’s the issue. There was nothing else going on...
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Supreme Court Believe in the First Amendment??
I wrote this piece some time ago but never got around to posting it. However, given the fact that so many people were interested in the workings of the Supreme Court when I blogged about that last week, it seemed especially relevant. Lots of people apparently want and...