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Eliminating prosecutions by preventing prosecutor trial postponements
Most criminal defendants do not care how they win, just as long as they win. For most criminal defendants, a case dismissal is as good as an acquittal in most respects. Here are some key differences: An acquittal prohibits the defendant from being re-prosecuted for...
Persuading in a suit, when we were once children frolicking in the sun
As I became ten years old and beyond, I noticed more often the premium that was paid for children to act more mature as they got older. Why? To have a disconnect with the power of our children within? To become easily tamed humanoids, so...
Our law firm Logo represents giving our full time, attention, and caring to each client
Somehow my September 15, 2008, blog entry about our law firm’s symbol became elusive online, so I reprint it here: At the Trial Lawyers College, the inevitable day comes when everyone is handed a paintbrush, and is told to tell an important personal story through painting,...
Fox News interviews me on non-English speakers on criminal juries
Fox News interviewed me for the third time in less than three months. on August 24 on Justice With Jeanine, about having non-English speakers on criminal juries. I came ready with many ideas, but, as is common for short interviews, the questions to me only...
Trial lawyering without exhaustion and boredom
I love my work. I serve my clients and justice, I practice the art of persuasion, and I stand up against injustice. Plenty of my work, also, involves solitary moments preparing, thinking, researching, and writing. I wake for exercise and then work when most people are sleeping, and...
When police do not arrest at a HempFest – That future is now in Washington state
Imagine a hemp festival where the music is playing, many in the crowd are smoking marijuana, the police are not interfering with their marijuana enjoyment, and the police are even handing out free bags of munchies (albeit with a label inviting a visit to a...
Obama pays lipservice about the injustice of the drug war. What will he deliver?
Why has Barack Obama, through Attorney General Holder, waited over four years after he was first elected to admit as much as Holder did yesterday (verbatim here, at the ABA conference) (which was not enough of an admission, as it stands) about the injustice of the...
Caring for one’s client is essential to winning a trial. How to care about a mass murderer?
In what looks like a promotional interview, masterful trial lawyer and persuader Gerry Spence — pictured here with me near the end of the 1995 Trial Lawyers College, when my grey hairs were few — underlines that caring for one’s client is an essential element...
My hero Judy Clarke is on the defense team of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Judy Clarke stands behind the late Bob Rose (who is wearing an eyepatch), and two people to the left of my trial law hero Steve Rench. The rest of the photo is here. (1995, Thunderhead Ranch, Dubois, Wyoming); I am pictured around four people to...
“The play’s the thing.” More on the power of storytelling
Do jurors — and judges when sitting as factfinders — want to be talked at monotonously like all the adults in Peanuts? Do they want to be whined to like George Zimmerman’s prosecutor did in closing argument? Or, do jurors and judges as factfinders want...
