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Gaining advantage over opponents without angering them
On May 25, I wrote about Jan Diepersloot’s Warriors of Stillness, This book further says: "Both in the conduct of his life and in the methods of his teachings, Master Cai [Song Fang] epitomizes how knowing one’s own center and that of those we come in...
4th Circuit: Trial courts may not presume reasonableness of Guidelines sentences
Bill of Rights. Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit confirmed that trial courts may not presume reasonableness of Guidelines sentences: While an appellate court reviewing a sentence may presume that the sentence within a properly calculated Guidelines range is reasonable, see United States v. Go, 517 F.3d 216, 218 (4th...
Getting convicted for assault without even raising a hand or fist
In the courts where I practice criminal defense, even giving an unwanted hug is an assault. That is additional testimony to the wisdom of bowing to others to greet them, apart from the reduced risk of catching swine flu (or mucus, if the person recently...
Sentencing havoc from a speck of cocaine
DEA image in the public domain. Federal courts repeatedly impose harsh prison sentences, including with drug sentencing schemes that should not exist in a just world. Although the federal sentencing guidelines by now are advisory only, many federal judges still rely heavily on them, as...
Good luck keeping your jurors off the Internet about your case
Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) In her wonderfully compassionate way, the amazing SunWolf emphasizes that jurors generally are going to bring their usual behaviors from their daily lives into the deliberation room regardless of the judges’ warnings to tell them to change behaviors that...
Cops: Stop shredding the Constitution with hunches
Cops must stop shredding the Constitution with hunches, particularly because they are not Quasimodo. Praised be Maryland’s highest court for recognizing that the cops had no more than a hunch of criminal activity afoot when witnessing a car drive around a parking lot, and then signaling...
Attack claims of reliable and unbroken drug chain of custody
The criminal justice system is so overgrown that crime evidence is bound too often to get mixed up, misplaced, and contaminated. For drug prosecutions, the suspected drugs may pass through several hands before being tested by a chemist. Often, the seizing police officers have the...
Fighting and persuading from the center
Once again, yesterday, I learned great lessons at the Capitol Hill t’ai chi-sensing hands/push hands practice, including the following practice for sensing hands: – Move hands little and with little force. – Connect elbows with pusher. – Connect palm to pusher’s wrist. – Push against opponent’s...
When cops break the law in seeking convictions
Where do so many judges and jurors get the false notion that cops always tell the truth? Cops are but humans, so they are as prone to prevaricate as any non-cop. Praised be my fellow criminal defense brother Paul Mack — from neighboring Howard County...
Inadmissible hearsay remains inadmissible even if to explain a cop’s reasons for being on the scene
Inadmissible hearsay remains inadmissible even if to explain a cop’s reasons for being on the scene. At best for the prosecution, let the parties stipulate for the cop to testify simply that s/he was on patrol. Praised be Maryland’s highest court for unanimously getting this issue...